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The iconic flight bag. In the 1940s, airlines offered small bags for carry-on items emblazoned with their logos and services. Foreseeing a great potential market, manufacturers secured rights to produce airline branded bags in large numbers. By the late 1950s, the “flight bag” was featured in airline advertising and promotions. This new type of hand luggage, with its vivid graphics, became a chic and desirable status symbol that identified its user as a member of the new globe-trotting jet set. Which of these bags do you like best? Image: Boeing advertisement, Sunset magazine, 1962. SFO Museum Collection. 2017.112.041 . . . #avgeek #flightbags #boeing #graphicdesign #magazine #advertisement

By the early 1950s, Southern California shapers were creating thin, rounded boards with side profiles that were curved upward at the nose and tail. These easy-riding Malibu Chip boards were perfectly suited for the smaller surf that is common at places like San Onofre and Malibu. In the 1960s, lightweight and cost-effective polyurethane foam and fiberglass surfboards revolutionized the surfing industry. Hermosa Beach surfer-shaper Dudley “Hap” Jacobs (b. 1930), who partnered with Dale Velzy (1927–2005) in the mid-1950s to make balsa boards, manufactured high-quality surfboards from polyurethane foam. Jacobs’ shaping talent and acute business sense made his business one of the most successful and influential of the booming 1960s longboard era. "Reflections in Wood — Surfboards and Shapers" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal! http://bit.ly/SurfboardsAndShapers . . . #SurfboardsandShapers #surfers #shapers #surf #surfing #surflife #surfer #Surfboards #Surfboard #socal #southerncalifornia #malibu #balsaboards #balsa #longboard

This photo from 1959 shows a group of stewardesses in front of United Air Lines' training center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They're wearing a new uniform, released that same year, designed by Raymond Loewy as part of his complete re-branding of United's identity for the jet age. Image: United Air Lines stewardesses with Susan F. Robbins, 2nd from right, 1959. Gift of Eric Barclay. 2016.028.006 . . . #avgeek #unitedairlines #unitedair #united #Cheyenne #stewardess #FA #crewlife #uniform

Air Jamaica was the national airline of Jamaica from 1969 to 2015. On April 1, 1969, the airline established service from Kingston—Jamaica's capital—to New York and Miami. Did you ever fly on Air Jamaica? Image: Air Jamaica postcard, Douglas DC-9, c. 1970. Mark F. Adams Collection. 2001.106.222 . . . #avgeek #TravelTuesday #Jamaica #AirJamaica #Kingston #postcard #dc9

In her ongoing series, "City Space", Chicago-based artist Clarissa Bonet explores the urban landscape from a pedestrian perspective, producing dramatic images that draw focus both on the surface of the city and the psychological resonance of the architecture within it. As part of her working process, Bonet roams the city, observing the idiosyncrasies of the urban environment and taking note of chance encounters and interactions between strangers and their surroundings. Bonet later restages these moments during ideal weather and lighting conditions to produce striking photographs that evoke the almost contradictory sensation of solitude one often feels amidst the towering buildings and anonymous crowds of the city. Transformed by the artist’s use of deep shadow, striking light, and muted color, routine moments become elevated and hyper-real, offering an opportunity for us to reflect upon our own relationship with the urban environment. See "City Space" by Clarissa Bonet on display, pre-security, in Terminal 2. http://bit.ly/2StQZlZ . . . #photography #cityspace #city #builtenvironment #urbanphotography @ClarissaBonet

Who doesn't enjoy a quick, quiet cat nap? These sleeping cat figurines made in Japan in the late 19th to early 20th century look so cute and cozy. A very special thank you to Sandy Lerner for making this exhibition possible. See "Caticons: The Cat in Art" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. http://bit.ly/Caticons . . . #caticons #catsofinstagram #cats #mewseum #caticon #cat #ceramics #kutani #caturday