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Fun Fact – My Aunt Virginia was a Stewardess for Western Air Lines

I always knew that she had been a stewardess for Western Air Lines, but today I found a newspaper article with two photos of her. [1] It describes the hassles that she and another stewardess, Jessie Bathgate, had to put up with from male passengers. [2] Both women were interviewed and gave their tips on how to deal with passengers. The paper described my aunt as a honey blonde who had been flying with Western Air Lines for two years. I learned some information about the plane, a Convair ’49, and that there were 40 passengers aboard. They printed two photos of her, one on board the plane helping a male passenger and the other in her apartment listening to jazz records. The funniest fact: when asked for their phone number, they gave the number of the zoo. #52 Ancestors-Week 29: Fun Fact -- My Aunt Virginia was a Stewardess for Western Air Lines This is my fifth year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow ( https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/ ) at Generations Cafe....