My father, William, was a famous photographer and had a huge job at the
Stanford Medical School in the 1950's.

http://tinyurl.com/6vgpo

He had to travel from Portland Oregon to Stanford twice a month for seven
years.

United Airlines knew him well. The normal airplane on that route was a
Convair of some sort. I can remember one time we took him out to PDX, but he
was late for the flight. It was already taxiing out to the runway. United
operations called the flight and the Convair turned around and came back to
the terminal to pick him up.

He also once talked the crew into flying low over our house on the ridge in
Sylvan. We were prepared, and had a bed sheet that we waived to the flight
on it's way to California.

Times HAVE changed!

Karl


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:u38nd.50065$V41.15106@attbi_s52...
Jay, Try this site... http://www.ozarkairlines.com/

Thanks, Gig -- great site with lots of information.

What a great era that was -- imagine, catching an airliner at a handy
airport, and being provided with great customer service!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"