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    Blogger Minnesotastan describes commercial air travel in the early forties when his mother was a stewardess.Non-stop flights were well in the future. Chicago-to-New York meant a first leg from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana, followed by stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Stewardesses had time to actually cook dinner for the 21 passengers, who had time to read entire books. Pilots communicated with passengers with notes that were passed around the cabin. Minnesotastan’ mother saved one that told passengers that Germany had declared war on the U.S.

    Blogger Minnesotastan describes commercial air travel in the early forties when his mother was a stewardess.

    Non-stop flights were well in the future. Chicago-to-New York meant a first leg from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana, followed by stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Stewardesses had time to actually cook dinner for the 21 passengers, who had time to read entire books.
    Pilots communicated with passengers with notes that were passed around the cabin. Minnesotastan’ mother saved one that told passengers that Germany had declared war on the U.S.