1936 newspaper w photos Early United Air AIRLINE STEWARDESSES SEENas SEX SYMBOLS

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1936 newspaper with photos Early United Air AIRLINE STEWARDESSES are seen as SEX SYMBOLS
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inv # 8S-315
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Wyoming State Tribune
(Cheyenne) dated Apr 12, 1936.
This newspaper contains a front page heading and 3 photos with a long report on the early female airline flight attendants (known then as STEWARDESSES), casting them in a sex symbol way (this report would be considered "politically incorrect" in 2021).
Ah these were the days of flying in comfort with plenty of leg and seat room and beautiful unmarried stewardesses attending to your every need !!
The role of a flight attendant (or STEWARDESS as they used to be called) derives from that of similar positions on passenger ships or
passenger trains
, but it has more direct involvement with passengers because of the confined quarters on
aircraft
. Additionally, the job of a flight attendant revolves around safety to a much greater extent than those of similar staff on other forms of transportation. Flight attendants on board a flight collectively form a
cabin crew
, as distinguished from
pilots
and
engineers
in the
cockpit
.
The first female flight attendant was a 25-year-old
registered nurse
named
Ellen Church
. Hired by
United Airlines
in 1930, she also first envisioned
nurses
on aircraft. Other airlines followed suit, hiring nurses to serve as flight attendants, then called "stewardesses" or "air hostesses", on most of their flights. In the United States, the job was one of only a few in the 1930s to permit women, which, coupled with the
Great Depression
, led to large numbers of applicants for the few positions available. Two thousand women applied for just 43 positions offered by
Transcontinental and Western Airlines
in December 1935.
In the United States, they were required to be unmarried and were fired if they decided to wed.
The requirement to be a
registered nurse
on an American airline was relaxed as more women were hired, and it disappeared almost entirely during
World War II
as many nurses enlisted in the
armed forces
.
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