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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Dom Draper would be proud

Check this old ad for American Airlines from 1965.


The headlines: "People keep stealing our stewardesses."

And the body copy reads: "Within two years, most of our stewardesses will leave us for other men. This isn't surprising. A girl who can smile for 5 1/2 hours is hard to find. Not to mention a wife who can remember what 124 people want for dinner. (And tell you all about meteorology and jets, if that's what you're looking for in a woman.) But these are not the things that brought on our problem. It's the kind of girl we hire. Being beautiful isn't just enough. (We don't mean it isn't important. We just mean it isn't enough.) So if there's one thing we look for, it's girls who like people. And you can't do that and then tell them not to like people too much. All you can do is put a new wing on your stewardess college to keep up with the demand."

Ohhhh, those silly '60s . . .

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