ERA | INTO THE JET AGE
Pan Am North Stars Steel Band: Tony Williams, master of steel pan music, top Steel Band in the Caribbean, combined forces with Pan Am.
An Interview by Michael Manning with Al Topping & the Pan Am story, "Wings of Freedom." Link to a chapter from the book & purchase options.
Worldport Models. Pan American Airlines, Long Island City. 1957 Mar. 6. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress.
The Pan American World Airways Building, NYC: Images from a variety of perspectives showing its dramatic edifice on Park Avenue.
Mary Lou Bigelow's first-person account: When she was a Pan American World Airways stewardess she documented Pan Am's history in films.
PANAMAC: Pan Am’s Game Changing Computer System, by Taegan Obermeyer-Loder. It revolutionized the way the airline handled data.
Saving Pan Am's Incomparable Ads: Peter Leslie's trip to Portugal in 2018, to support tile billboard preservation efforts around Portugal.
6-1/2 Magic Hours. Film produced by Pan American World Airways, Inc. on jet age flights. American History TV, C-Span, transcript.
Pan Am's Worldport Design, in 1960, a slideshow of architectural drawings and images of the Jet Age from the Pan Am Historical Foundation archives.
The Junius Kellogg story: " The Man Who Saved Basketball." Junius A. Kellogg and the Pan Am Jets wheelchair basketball team, by Bruce Wolk.
Stewardess Hope Ryden & Pan Am's first jet Inaugural flight, NY-Paris October 1958 on a Boeing 707 (Photo: 1983 anniversary reenactment). PDF
A Day of "Firsts": First hijacking of a wide-body jet to Cuba, August 2, 1970 (Image by John T. McCoy, Courtesy SFO Museum, Gift of PAHF).
