The early days of passenger aviation

Coffee, tea or earplugs: Organist Nan Bergin serenaded luxury-class passengers aboard Northwest Airlines’ New York-Chicago-Minneapolis-St. Paul flight in November 1959. (Associated Press photo)

The "Yesterday's News" feature of the Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune featured a story about the first stewardesses for Northwest Airlines (in 1939). They worked in a "new Douglas DC-3, 21-passenger skyliner, placed in service by Northwest Airlines on its Chicago-Twin Cities run."

Blogged in part for my mom, who was in the first graduating class of stewardesses for American Airlines (based in Chicago), but mostly for the astonishing photo above (from 1959) of an organist playing for "luxury-class" passengers.  Incredible!