What was 1960s and 1970s stewardess style in the sky like?
The stewardess was born in 1930 when Boeing Air Transport hired eight nurses to add a feeling of safety for concerned fliers. Since the newly minted airline hostess’s primary role 
was to give reassurance to the passengers, their uniforms were drab gray and looked like nurses outfits.
Fast forward to the burgeoning Jet Age travel trends in the mid-60s and 70s, which saw a rise of air travel, combined with the Space Race. Jet travel’s rapid speed and cultural change opened a new path for a fashion designer to moonlight as uniform designers, bringing a distinct look to the skies.
And here are some of these designers’ creations.
American Airlines
Air France
Braniff
Icelandic
Pan Am
United Airlines
Lufthansa
And….
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the Deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—novels of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer. Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him.
