Saturday, April 30, 2011

Timetables and other information I own

Airline schedules/route guides/maps I own (as of April 30, 2011):

1) American Airlines system map, 1961

2) BEA (British European Airways) "About Your Flight" brochure, with maps and information, from June 1961 or a bit later (no date given, but there is a reference to June 1961 on the back-cover map)

3) BOAC (British Overseas Airway Corporation) timetable, with routes/fares/information, effective August 1, 1962*

4) Nothwest Orient Airlines flight schedules, with fares and maps, September 24, 1961*

5) Pan Am Hawaiian Holiday brochure, with sample air fares from mainland cities to Honolulu, published in September 1960 for the 1961 calendar year

6) TDI (Transportation Displays, Inc.) combined schedules for all airlines flying into New York City-area airports, effective June 1 through June 30, 1961

7) TWA Air Routes in the United States map, showing TWA's domestic routes, and, in an inset, its international routes, 1961

8) United Air Lines flight timetable/route map/fare finder, effective July 1, 1961

And,

9) I also have a French-language Cunard Line ship schedule from February 1961, with a timetable and fares for Atlantic crossings between Europe and North America.

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* I realize that the entries marked with an asterisk were published post-Obama's birth (August 4, 1961). I'm limited both by what is available on eBay and my own discretionary income, so it is what it is. Even though it's a very good bet, in the rush of early Jet Age expansion, that timetables published in each successive year from 1961 will show more frequent and comprehensive air routes than existed in mid-1961, for now my research will have to rely on a leap of faith that any routes listed, say, in BOAC's August 1962 timetable, which is the one I happen to own, were also already in existence in mid-1961.

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