AviationGeeks.com - Flight Attendant for a Day

I first met Customer Mary at the baggage carousel as she anxiously waited for her daughter, Susan, to pick her up.  It took a little time, so I waited with her and discovered that Mary had come to West Palm Beach to celebrate her upcoming 90th birthday!  She definitely doesn’t look her age!  Mary also shared the fact that the Flight Attendants had been great on the flight.

The next little “tidbit” she told me was that she was one of the original Pan American Airways Stewardesses waaay back in 1946! She had started as an Executive Secretary at their headquarters in New York and decided to “go for it” and became a Stewardess.  She traveled in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and met her future husband, Dean, who was a Captain with Pan American.  After two years, they were married, so Mary’s career ended—you couldn’t be married as a Stewardess in those days.  I was so in awe of all that she told me.

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