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Old Apr 18, 2020 | 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Seat 2A
Back in the 1960s, Eastern Airlines used to offer a First Class service called Famous Restaurant Flights. This menu is from a Philadelphia to San Juan flight featuring cuisine from Philadelphia's Old Original Bookbinder's Restaurant. Imagine having settled into your plush First Class seat aboard an Eastern DC-8-61 and, after having gratefully accepted a welcome aboard cocktail, are presented with this menu for the three hour and twenty minute flight. Life aloft was much nicer back then...

E A S T E R N . A I R L I N E S
Philadelphia to San Juan
Great for such a short flight but the food from restaurants idea lives still today (or still a few weeks ago).
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