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Capital used its company name as a territorial signifier to identify with the capital city. In 1961, Capital was absorbed by United Air Lines. #DefunctThursday #CapitalAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 10, 2022.
Cast your mind far, far back to the days before cell phones... When travelling internationally, how would you make a phone call? United Airlines offered pre-paid phone cards through their mileage reward programs. Do you remember using phone cards? #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 25, 2018.
Celebrate the 747 in "Flying #TheMainLine: A History of United Airlines", on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/l3SGXBPfhd This tweet was posted on November 07, 2017.
Check out this amazing photo from 1929, depicting passengers next to a United Air Lines Boeing 80 A. This tweet was posted on January 09, 2016.
Cheers to a happy Valentine’s Day! This beverage menu from United Air Lines from the 1960s features a Special Very Dry Martini-on-the-Rocks (Gin or Vodka). Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day? #UnitedAirLines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 14, 2023.
Created to be an easily viewable, three-dimensional presentation of the Jet Mainliner in miniature, the cutaway model contains a highly detailed cockpit and cabin interior with minute features that accurately replicate the actual United DC-8 as launched in 1959. #aircraftmodels This tweet was posted on May 10, 2022.
Daughter & mother, Effie and Avis Hotchkiss were the first women to ride across the United States on a #motorcycle. In 1915, with Avis in the sidecar of a Harley-Davidson 11-F, they departed Brooklyn for San Francisco on a 2 month, 9,000-mile journey. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on August 13, 2021.
Daylight savings time just ended in the United States, signaling the beginning of winter. Where has your favorite winter getaway been? #TravelTuesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 06, 2018.
Did you get it right? The answer was Miami Sands! This 1968 United Airlines uniform was also offered in Hawaiian Sunset and Maliblue. See more flight attendant uniforms in "#FlightPatterns" on display in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 or online at: https://t.co/hPoLHA3zf2 https://t.co/u8ckgd8E40 This tweet was posted on March 02, 2022.
Did you get it right? The answer was Wonder Bread! This 1973 United Air Lines uniform was reminiscent of the spotted packaging of Wonder Bread! See more flight attendant uniforms in "#FlightPatterns" on display in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 or online at: https://t.co/FbC47meGtH https://t.co/1s08yxlD11 This tweet was posted on March 04, 2022.
Did you know that in Skylounge configuration, United Air Lines’ Douglas DC-3 Mailiners had seats that were able to rotate? This illustration from the late 1930s shows the interior of a United Air Lines Douglas DC-3 with passengers socializing and playing games. #52Objects This tweet was posted on June 20, 2023.
Dubbed the “Friend Ship” when first introduced by United, the wide-body 747 provided an entirely new level of passenger comfort and service. #avgeek This tweet was posted on November 07, 2022.
During her career, Madam C. J. Walker traveled tirelessly around the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean, delivering lectures, conducting demonstrations, and recruiting and training thousands of agents to sell and administer her products. #madamcjwalkerphoto This tweet was posted on August 05, 2021.
During the 1950s, high-volume hairstyles created a greater demand for hairspray, and by the mid-1960s, hairspray became the top selling beauty product in the United States. #HairStyle #hair #beauty #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on January 14, 2021.
During the 1960s folk music revival, #BigMamaThornton made several records with Arhoolie and performed at a number of festivals in the United States and Europe. #storyofarhoolie #arhoolie @Folkways @ArhoolieFdn This tweet was posted on October 12, 2018.
During the 1990s, #Mexicana took over some of AeroMexico's routes to Canada and South America and introduced the Airbus A320. In 2010, after nearly 85 years of operation, the company filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Mexico and ceased operations. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on May 19, 2022.
During the Vietnam War, commercial airliners along with their crews were chartered to fly US troops into combat zones. Soldiers no longer deployed to the war zone with their units, but as individuals or in groups for distribution upon arrival. #FreedomBird #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on May 15, 2020.
Early color photographs of #SFO are rare, so we’re excited to share a recent gift to our collection. This photo from 1947 shows a United Air Lines aircraft in front of the Airport’s 1937 terminal building along with 3 of the original airplane hangars built in 1927/8. #TBT #avgeek This tweet was posted on June 13, 2019.
Ellen Church, 1st female flight attendant, poses on an @united plane in 1930: http://t.co/TyemjcB8rM We love the cape! #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 19, 2013.
Exciting news from @united! #avgeek https://t.co/5fuCMUcNEu This tweet was posted on April 24, 2019.
Following the peak of their popularity in the West during the 1880s, Japanese designs continued to provide inspiration to the Art Nouveau movement at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe and the United States. #Japonisme This tweet was posted on November 28, 2022.
For Men Only- United's mid-1950s "Chicago Executive" route encouraged pipe smoking & served a steak dinner: http://t.co/tYmTnPyX This tweet was posted on August 17, 2012.
For United Air Lines' 40th anniversary, flight attendants dressed in uniforms from 1930 and 1967. #WomenInAviation This tweet was posted on May 26, 2016.
For inflight meal service, Jean Louis created this serving smock in a vivid geometric pattern with the letter U for #United worn from 1970 until 1972.#avgeek #crewlife This tweet was posted on August 10, 2018.
For more than ninety years, United Airlines personnel have filled the dozens of positions needed to sustain the operations of a global organization. #TheMainLine This tweet was posted on December 29, 2017.
For over five years (2013–2018), photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating “To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults.” #ToSurviveOnThisShore #TDOV This tweet was posted on March 31, 2023.
Formed in 1931 from the merger and acquisition of several airlines, United Air Lines grew and prospered as one of the leading U.S. coast-to-coast carriers during the ensuing decades. #AirlineMealSets #AvGeek This tweet was posted on December 05, 2022.
Founded #onthisday in 1926, United Airlines was formed by a merger of four companies. National Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, and Varney Air Lines were organized in 1931 under United Air Lines, Inc. #AvGeek #UnitedAirlines This tweet was posted on April 06, 2022.
Founded as Inter-Island Airways #onthisday in 1929, Hawaiian Airlines is one of the oldest airlines still in operation in the United States. Have you ever flown on #HawaiianAirlines? #TravelTuesday This tweet was posted on January 30, 2018.
Founded in July 1928, the Universal Airlines Corporation was a short-lived airline that acquired several different small airlines in the United States before being acquired itself by Aviation Corporation in 1929. This tweet was posted on November 28, 2017.
Frequent United fliers may have noticed that the oversized model aircraft twenty-five feet above the Terminal 3 hub have been removed. Learn about the deinstallation process in our latest blog post: https://t.co/baBRXkFKFE This tweet was posted on June 17, 2021.
From the 19th century, in both Britain and the United States, fashionable homes in the Aesthetic Movement style featured interiors with tripartite walls that displayed a dado, a fill pattern, and a frieze. #VictorianPaperedWall #wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on October 26, 2022.
Getting ready for "Flying #theMainLine: A History of #United Air Lines", coming soon to Terminal 3! #behindthescenes #sneakpeek This tweet was posted on June 10, 2017.
Ground crew have also shown up to bid the queen farewell! #UA747Farewell @flySFO @united This tweet was posted on November 07, 2017.
Happy 100th birthday, @NatlParkService! Half Dome in Yosemite is featured on this 1950s @United postcard. #NPS100 This tweet was posted on August 25, 2016.
Happy 90th Birthday @united! United acquired Varney Air Lines, which launched mail service on April 6, 1926. This tweet was posted on April 06, 2016.