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Old Dec 5, 2019, 11:33 am
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Originally Posted by GregoryGardner
You picked up your land-line telephone, and you called your local travel agent, and they figured it out. Then you paid the travel agent a shocking amount of money, and they give you a big stack of paper tickets each with many carbon copies.
Or walked into the travel agency office, which were almost as common as an insurance agent's office. If it was a simple ticket, they might issue it then. Anything else and you'd come back in a couple days. And the price and routing was pretty much this is it, unless you knew what to ask for.

And the memories of walking past the smokers to use the aft lavs once on board.
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