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Before the age of cell phones and seat-back entertainment systems, inflight entertainment was generally low tech and relied on games that passengers brought themselves or those distributed by the airlines. This game scorer, distributed by Pan American World Airways in the mid-1940s, could be used to keep track of a variety of games with columns for "we" and "they" on interior pages. game scorer: Pan American World Airways; c. 1947 Gift of Constance Ogilvie 2002.073.002 a h https://bit.ly/3C2FEP5
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