A flight attendant holding a coffee pot and cup stands just inside the door of a Ford-Maddux tri-motor airplane in 1929. “Passenger flights catered to the wealthy during the roaring ’20s. Transcontinental Air Transport specialized in first-class service; a one-way cross-country ticket cost $350. Ten days after this photo was taken. the stock market crashed and the Great Depression replaced scenes of luxury with hardship. The airline was bankrupt within a year.”
(via Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and LA Times)
(Source: hdl.huntington.org)
