https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCnWLR28pfE
Note train at 14:00
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Silly me, I thought of something else!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Thanks Balt!
Man, American was really hungry for the business, weren't they? And working hard to get it too! And I just love those old Curtiss "Condor" airliners! Wouldn't mind going for a ride in one myself!
Still, flying was expensive. Only those who were well-heeled and who had to be there yesterday flew. Those neat airborne amenities still couldn't compete with the likes of the 20th Century, as Becky's post shows.
Couldn't compete with the "Broadway Limited" either.
Couple of things...
Imagine "lighting up" on an airliner nowadays! And anyone catch that bombshell of a line at 4:40? Oh, brother...
Well, it was another time.
See the plugs for Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg? Part of the 'industrial empire' that included American at this point...
Oh yeah Mod-man, I was diggin' the cars too!
I don't know if you're old enough to remember this one, but around 1960 or so there was a TV series called "The Roaring Twenties." I always watched it.
Now at seven years old it goes without saying I didn't understand everything going on in the show, but I DID watch it because I loved the cool old cars!
I wonder why the American movie only showed and discussed the AT-32 variant with seats, when the aircraft was designed as a 12-berth sleeper cruising at twice the speed of the Twentieth Century at its fastest...
For those not inclined to wait for the Condor restoration
this is waiting under the ice for you...
Why didn't they show the sleeper variant? Well, I suppose they had to show something. Possibly there weren't any sleepers available, or maybe American figured "Let's get 'em on the planes first, then we'll pitch the sleepers!"
Great shot of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition! I didn't know they had a Condor. I definately knew about the Ford Trimotor and the single engine Fairchild. The Fairchild was displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum until the museum closed several years ago. Don't know where it is now.
OK. did some further checking. That shot's from Byrds Third Expedition from 1939 to 1941.
Here's "The Roaring Twenties..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep92_vMCzgc
And until someone restores a Condor (there were only 45 built) we'll just have to go with this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU8qC24c-74
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