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Photo taken at Flight Path Museum at the south end of Los Angeles International Airport, covering the history of aviation, especially as it pertains to LAX. Part of a showcase on Continental Airlines, whose home base was located on the grounds of LAX between 1962 and 1984. The scale models depict a Boeing 747-100 and a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10, while the painting depicts a Boeing 727. Continental was an early operator of the 747, taking advantage of its upper deck as a swanky passenger lounge; when the oil shock made such services unprofitable, Continental switched to a fleet of DC-10s for trunk routes and Boeing 727s for lighter routes. The 747 and the 727 are seen wearing the 1968 livery, which lasted until 1990. The 1968 livery, officially named the Jetstream but referred by most people as the Meatball, was a Saul Bass design, just like the 1974 United Tulip; the Meatball was originally black (as seen here) but changed to red in 1985. 1990 saw the Meatball replaced by a new livery, officially known as the Globe but popularly known as the Disco Ball, seen on the DC-10, as Continental dealt with its second bankruptcy in the wake of mismanagement by Texas Air. Continental had been founded in 1935 as Varney Speed Lines by Walter Varney. His previous airline enterprise was Varney Air Lines of 1926, which had been merged into United Airlines in 1931. In 2010, Continental and United merged, bringing the two Varney airlines together at last, and while the new airline is called United, its branding, management, and reservation system are those of Continental. And that means Continental's disco ball, in addition to having replaced Saul Bass's Meatball back in the day, now also replaces Saul Bass's other airline symbol, the United Tulip. |
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| Author | InSapphoWeTrust from Los Angeles, California, USA |
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