GLAMOROUS AIR HOSTESSES, EXOTIC ADS AND AMERICA’S EARLIEST PLANES: Captivating images trace Pan Am’s 60-year history from glory to crushing bankruptcy.

I’m very happy that deregulation has made flying affordable, but the loss of glamour shown in the above photos is something to be missed. Or as James Lileks wrote a decade ago, “I tell today’s Younger Generation about the old days, when you could smoke on a plane and eat a steak with a knife, and it’s like describing life aboard a zeppelin.”