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Old Feb 20, 2018, 1:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Bluehen1
I was actually thinking the same thing. Then read on a bit and thought that they hadn't been in the same airport that I had been flying through for years. While I always did like the check-in areas, the concourses always felt closed in and dark.
BTW - while true that the concourses are dark, they are truly cool in a retro way. You just don't see concourses that are narrow then widen with each boarding area. Most airports used to look like that.

I'm now saying it makes sense today. But nostalgia took hold of my heart. Here are additional photos I took of the gates, right down to the plastic signage for my flight - signage you just don't see in these days of computer screens.


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