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39 Retro Photos That Reveal What It Was Like To Be A Flight Attendant Throughout The Years

10. Navy WAVE (United States Naval Women’s Reserve) Betty M. Chaffee serves as a stewardess on a Navy Transport Squadron flight crew in 1951. She brings coffee to the pilots of the transcontinental flight, Lieutenant Junior Grade L.K. Shay (left) and Lieutenant Junior Grade J.R. Keegan (right).

National Museum of the U.S. Navy/Flickr

11. Flight attendants take a break at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam in 1962.

Nationaal Archief/Flickr

12. Passengers use a typewriter and read on a 1965 Northwest Airlines flight, as a flight attendant works in the background

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections/Flickr

13. Austrian Airlines flight attendants pose in front of a Douglas DC-9s at Vienna International Airport.

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14. A flight attendant and two pilots pose outside of an aircraft. The image comes from an album belonging to Charles rector, a pilot who worked in Hollywood and flew for Mick Jagger.

SDASM Archives/Flickr

15. A Royal Dutch Airlines purser welcomes a passenger and points out her seat.

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16. Dutch flight attendants disembark in Istanbul in 1959.

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17. Air Micronesia stewardesses pose with a pilot.

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18. A flight attendant poses in front of a turbine.

SDASM Archives/Flickr

19. Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) stewardesses pose on the tarmac.

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