Pan Am New York - Paris Introducing the 747 Service, 1970

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Pan Am New York - Paris Introducing the 747 Service, 1970The illustrations on Pan Am inflight menus traditionally featured aircraft in flight or artists impressions of the exotic destinations that awaited passengers when they landed. This unusual inflight menu cover featuring a simple numbered font was specifically designed to be stylish and modern, showing passengers that a new era in mass air travel had arrived. Even the airlines meatball logo was in its simplest form without the Pan Am name. The first

The menu comes from the Glass House restaurant chain that was popular in the 50s and 60s

because of its jungle-themed décor

The studio’s trademark genre in the 1930s were horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein (1931) The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and a remarkable range of film-making talent started at Universal including the actor Rudolph Valentino and director John Ford

marking the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent film era

not a bad run for any business

The dandified ostrich the monkey waiter being nipped by a lobster were part of Vimar’s contribution to the fashion at that time for fantastical art images – later this style of artwork became known as magical realism

In the bake shop was an automatic weigher

" Though the Howard Johnson hotel chain flourishes – now owned by the Wyndham Hotel Group - the last Howard Jonson’s Restaurant finally closed down in January 2017 in Lake George NY

were processed at Ellis Island

while carrying a tray of fresh fish and smoking a cigarette

The Chuck Wagon closed for good in the 1970s

Eddie's Club

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