The Golden Age of Travel: Gordon’s Jet Flight
Posted by John Brownlee
A delightful look back at the golden age of air travel…
Gordon’s Jet Flight, a children’s book from 1961, took me back to a golden age of plane travel, when passengers in coach got to eat steak, kids were allowed to visit the pilots in their cockpit, and Homeland Security didn’t give my teddy bear a cavity search.
Meanwhile, on my last flight, I spent 13 hours with the slopping body fat of a morbidly obese Turk pouring onto my lap. Through out the flight, he gasped, panted and mopped sweat from his brow as if the very act of sitting were, for him, a task of Herculean caloric expenditure. He couldn’t speak any English except for the word “BAFROOM!” which he moistly shouted into my ear every time I drifted off to sleep. His voice was both the sound and the smell of a thousand farts. The floor smelled like a porn theater, and the stewardesses fed us only crushed saltines and a shake made of protein powder and water of semen-like consistency.
Gordon’s Jet Flight [Mike Lynch Cartoons] : Quote from Eye of the Goof
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Posted at 10:51 am on October 9, 2007
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[…] Golden Age, Golden Books: Travel back in time through the power of kids’ books Children’s book protagonist Gordon experiences the magic of 1961 air travel: “Gordon ate steak and baked potatoes and lots of dessert — the things he liked best. ‘Food tastes good when you’re high in the sky,’ he said.” Cut to 2007, and little Gordon is a bitter man who can’t get an upgrade, but insists on calling the flight attendant “stewardess.” (Thanks, Brownlee!) […]
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