Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/10/2018 at 09:15 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Ooh, look! The Pan Am Building!

someassemblyrequired > ttyymmnn 05/10/2018 at 09:49

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Those bastards at MetLife need to change their name to Pan Am so that things can be right again.

You’d probably enjoy photos of brochure from the 1973 expansion of the Worldport I found over on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/PanAmWorldport/photos/?tab=album&album_id=474223785934557&ref=page_internal

Here’s the terminal map from it (both images from the Remembering the Pan Am Worldport page):

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > ttyymmnn 05/10/2018 at 09:56

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Speaking of Pan Am, I read this interesting article today

https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb

fintail > ttyymmnn 05/10/2018 at 10:02

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Pano Amo?

Looks like maybe a ~69 or so Charger up there with brake lights on. NYC street scenes of this period remind me of “Marathon Man” or maybe “The French Connection”.

facw > someassemblyrequired 05/10/2018 at 10:17

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They are especially greedy given that they already have their own landmark building (though they moved out of it):

ttyymmnn > fintail 05/10/2018 at 10:22

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https://www.vintag.es/2018/05/new-york-in-the-early-1970s.html

Ever see The Seven-Ups ?

ttyymmnn > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 05/10/2018 at 10:23

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That looks like a great read. Thanks!

ttyymmnn > someassemblyrequired 05/10/2018 at 10:26

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Ah yes, in the days before metal detectors and security screening. Now it takes two hours.

Thanks for the link!

fintail > ttyymmnn 05/10/2018 at 10:32

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Ah yeah forgot about that one, where the Ventura has the unfortunate run-in with a semi trailer. I used to think it was a GTO, but the small one wasn’t until the 1974 model year.

Manhattan was a lot more interesting before it became the home of the rich and super-rich alike.