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Travel Thursday!

Where to this week? We’re going to Greece!

Why Greece? I’ve been enjoying a relatively new podcast, “The Delicious Legacy”, about the history of food in the ancient world. (If you want to give it a try, I recommend the episode “The Orthodox Easter Food Traditions“.) So why not?

From TWA: “Superjet to Greece”. Speaking of food:

Drinks were served in Swedish crystal tumblers and meals on Rosenthal China. A typical TWA “Royal Ambassador” flight to Paris featured dinner with fresh Malossol caviar in copious portions and a bewildering assortment of the best French hors d’oeuvres. On the liquid side as many Martinis, Manhattans, and single malt scotches as thought suitable. Then on to a choice of five entrees from Roast Sirloin of Beef (carved at your seat), to Coq au vin . All washed down with the best wines and champagnes. Then to guard against hunger prior to arrival a buffet of sandwiches, hamburgers, hot dogs with Sangria and cold beer.

Now I’m hungry.

Bonus video: since I don’t really have any place else to put this, “Across the World in 3 Seconds”, a short film about Pan Am’s communications and computer systems.

The PANAMAC, Pan American’s first worldwide airline reservation management system, was installed in 1964, and used the IBM 7080 Data Processing System. PANAMAC linked hundreds of agent sets throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean with the Pan American computing center in New York City. The IBM 1006 Terminal Interchange was part of the networked system shown in this graphic from the PANAMAC manual. Using teleprocessors networked to the computing center, agents could access Pan Am flight information and book reservations almost instantly. While this is now commonplace, at the time it was an innovative and successful system.

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