Just saw that and if someone could post a pic it would make my mom smile as she has a pair deep in storage...of course she is up there in age now..I assume that Amtrak was trying to win back male buisness passengers in the Mad Men era in the 70s from the Airlines.
I assure you that the hot pants were far more memorable than the boots.
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hbu.h-cdn.co/assets/17/03/amtrak-uniforms-and-turbo-1972_guardian.jpg?resize=768:*
Ever see the goose-step performed with go-go boots?
No, it's not going to be who you think it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X3Vyhm56Eo
Overmod I assure you that the hot pants were far more memorable than the boots. https://hips.hearstapps.com/hbu.h-cdn.co/assets/17/03/amtrak-uniforms-and-turbo-1972_guardian.jpg?resize=768:*
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Yeah, that.
Never seen the Pointless Arrow used so creatively!
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Yes but could u imagine working a 12 or more hours on a long distance train wearing those boots and outfit...expecily in a era were the ac in heritage cars worked 50% of the time...my feet would be crying for flip flopps
Remarkable view of the "future" from the 1970s.
The crew member is wearing shiny polyester, the "jet-age" United Aircraft Turbo train is featured, but the driver is still leaning with head and arm outside the side window -- one still couldn't get a clear view out the front windows on this advanced technology jet-turbine train?
If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?
Paul Milenkovic the driver is still leaning with head and arm outside the side window
Probably one of the last of the old steam hands. The old ways die hard, don't ya' know?
That's the successor to Bob Butterfield leaning out of the cockpit, perhaps the same person who piloted the train to the North American powered-wheel speed record that year. It reminds me of a picture in a Playboy article about the 'convoy' craze a few years later in the double-nickel years, the driver dressed in WWI flyer's helmet, goggles, and scarf.
Regrettably we never had the brave tradition of the German railways during the age of fast steam, which provided actual pilot's goggles for the class 05 crews... who were, in fact, often at flying speeds.
Somebody cue the Disco music
That was years before Disco.
Still classic and prog rock. And maybe Betty White for that attitude... the real Betty, not the top-40...
To me that picture is still the high-water mark of what the early Amtrak (not the one waiting out the end of the American passenger train; the one taking over 'making it happen') was poised to become.
(Now that you remind me, though, there was a disco light show and sound system built into the ceilings of the proposed Amfleet diners I was developing circa 1976, for nighttime use with the tables folded down... )
DISCO...SUPERTRAIN..TV SHOW BUCK RODGERS 1970s!!!
But late Seventies. 1970 was still a culture going to the Moon and developing SSTs, still very much aware of the HSGT work in the preceding 5 years. It was just seeing the Metroliners come into regular service.
We didn't even have the Philadelphia Sound until 1976... extra points if you know what that Philadelphia Freedom was.
Battlestar Garlictica, Supertrain, and Buck Rogers were the very end of the Seventies. All that roller crap was '79 or later... I don't know if the low-water mark was the roller ballet in Buck Rogers or any scene from Starlight Express... but those were '80s. And you'll excuse me if I withhold comment on the '80s.
OvermodThat's the successor to Bob Butterfield leaning out of the cockpit,
Or maybe Harvey Springstead?
https://www.allaboardwaldwick.org/harvey-springstead
OvermodWe didn't even have the Philadelphia Sound until 1976..
THE Philadelphia Sound originated with the city's Orchestra back in the reign of Stokowski and really dominated under Eugene Ormandy starting in 1936.
charlie hebdo Overmod We didn't even have the Philadelphia Sound until 1976..
Overmod We didn't even have the Philadelphia Sound until 1976..
July 12 will be the 42nd anniversary of the Veecks' Disco Demolition Night. Too bad Hot Pants Burning Night didn't follow.
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rixflix aka Captain Video. Blessed be Jean Shepherd and all His works!!! Hooray for 1939, the all time movie year!!! I took that ride on the Reading but my Baby caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride.
Flintlock76Or maybe Harvey Springstead?
http://unpub.wpb.tam.us.siteprotect.com/var/m_b/b3/b3f/27182/518073-April2005_Eries%20Top%20Notch%20Engineer.pdf
But I get the impression he was a careful runner, not a tremendously fast one.
well Eastern Air (EAL) Flight attendants used to wear green hot pants . Believe remembering seeing a Captain hanging out the indow with line up of F/As. ? Who stole from whom or maybe same ad agency ?
That is instructing engineer Steve Herrington on the United Aircraft Turbo Train in Grand Central Terminal.
Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) also had their F/A's in hot pants in the early 1970's - I was a regular flyer on PSA from 1972 to '78. Souhwest started out with their F/A's in hot pants as well in 1971.
Nancy Sinatra...somebody cue up Boots are made for walking..and that awesome bass..oh yeah and her Playboy cover way back in 1990 something...Classy woman that u don't find these days
ronrunnerNancy Sinatra...somebody cue up Boots are made for walking..and that awesome bass..oh yeah and her Playboy cover way back in 1990 something...Classy woman that u don't find these days
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Overmod Yes that music that i would here in car chase scends.blue movies and as Muzak in discount department stores in the 1970s like Gold Circle and Zaryes. But late Seventies. 1970 was still a culture going to the Moon and developing SSTs, still very much aware of the HSGT work in the preceding 5 years. It was just seeing the Metroliners come into regular service. We didn't even have the Philadelphia Sound until 1976... extra points if you know what that Philadelphia Freedom was. Battlestar Garlictica, Supertrain, and Buck Rogers were the very end of the Seventies. All that roller crap was '79 or later... I don't know if the low-water mark was the roller ballet in Buck Rogers or any scene from Starlight Express... but those were '80s. And you'll excuse me if I withhold comment on the '80s.
Matter of fact I have some old railfan videos on beta that use that 70s sound as background music or was it VHS?
Flintlock76Flintlock76 wrote the following post 5 days ago: Paul Milenkovic the driver is still leaning with head and arm outside the side window Probably one of the last of the old steam hands. The old ways die hard, don't ya' know?
It is not just "old head" engineers who make use of the side window:
https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-happens-when-a-pilot-opens-an-airliner-windo-1847222625
I'm a long-time railfan, retired and now living in Trieste, Italy. "Go-Go Boots?" I haven't heard that term for 50 years. Over here they're just called boots. My wife has two pair, but at 74, she doen't wear them anymore.....not too dificult to put on as there's a long zipper along the inner side, but at our age we don't get out much. It can get quite chilly here in the winter, and as fashion concious as Italians are, boots are common in the winter, and by one very un-scientific study I did one afternoon waiting outside for my wife to buy something, I determined by count, that 50% of the women wore boots. Some were short at about 6" above the ancle, but most were knee high, with a wide spread of ages -- from small girls to 70+ year old matrons. Unlike in the US, people walk here, so having 100+ women pass in front of me didn't take that long. For me, it was fun because I like seeing women in boots.
GN_Fan as fashion concious as Italians are, boots are common in the winter
I've seen the trend come and go a lot in the past fifty years, and for the past several years it's been back. Many young ladies like the riding boots style, whether they ride horses or not. At least during the temperate or cold weather months.
Then as soon as it warms up the boots come off and the sandals go on.
For some reason, here in Toronto rubber galoshes on women were popular. Generally called "wellies" they are perfect for mucking out stables, working in a brewery or car wash but many young women walking down the street had them. I've long ago given up on figuring out women's fashion choices.
Italians do know boots expecily when the whole country is shaped like one
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