I also remembered going up on the roof at Idlewild airpot. I also remember when the TWA terminal was actually a terminal, and as I recall, the American Airlines terminal was like all colored mosaic tiles on the front. My mom worked at the International Hotel, which was the only hotel actually on airport property, but now just an empty shell, as a waitress. She actually served the Beatles there. At the international arrivals building you could look down at the passengers going through customs, from above.
The Pan Am "worldport" - man was that style ! I hoped as a child that's what the new lunar port would look like in a few years. What a disappointment the "future" became. Except for Concorde, and that's gone too.
Yeah...wouldda made the lyrics to the theme of "Car 54 Where Are You???" totally different....non baby-boomer gots NO IDEE who the HADES Khruschev was either...or what Communisn was (or STILL IS)
My late brother, Tim, was one of those Ireland orphans adopted to American families in the 50s...we picked him up ay Idlewild in Nov ofr Dec of '54 when he was 2 1/2 years old...That's prolly WHY that airport holds such a special place in my memory...the image in my mind's eye of my dad carrying him to our car on his shoulder....the car was a '51 (IIRC) blue Dodge Coronet...with the old split windshield
Oh yeah, Idlewild lost in time! I remember that episode of The Twilight Zone. When they tried to land, the place was covered in dinosaurs. Starring John Anderson.
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That is cool! What were her impressions, if you recall?
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