UNITED AIRLINES 1950s HAWAII TRAVELOGUE DC-7 MAINLINER " HOLIDAY IN HAWAII " 74852
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Dating to the 1950s, this United Airlines travelogue shows a HOLIDAY IN HAWAII. The aircraft featured is a DC-7, that could make the trip from the U.S. West Coast in 8 "short hours". The film features stunning images of Hawaii in the age before jet air travel transformed the islands, with terrific images of Waikiki Beach, Diamond Head, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, surfing (9:00 mark) and many other sights in Honolulu and beyond. The film also contains great footage of the Honolulu airport with hula girls and blue skies, and the incredible in-flight service on the DC-7. Also seen in the film is the DC-6B aircraft.
Incidentally the N6322C DC-7 seen in this film was scrapped in 1965, roughly 12 years after it made its maiden voyage, as the jet age dawned.
An Aloha Airlines DC-3 and Hawaiian Airlines aircraft are also seen in the film, making a flight to Kauai from Oahu.
The Douglas DC-7 is a transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1953 to 1958. It was the last major piston engine-powered transport made by Douglas, being developed shortly after the earliest jet airliner - the de Havilland Comet - entered service and only a few years before the jet-powered Douglas DC-8 first flew.
Early DC-7s were purchased only by U.S. carriers. European carriers could not take advantage of the small range-increase of the early DC-7, so Douglas released an extended-range variant, the DC-7C (Seven Seas) in 1956. Two 5 ft (1.5 m) wingroot inserts added fuel capacity, reduced interference drag, and made the cabin quieter by moving the engines farther outboard; all DC-7Cs had the nacelle fuel tanks previously seen on Pan American's and South African's DC-7Bs. The fuselage, which had been extended over the DC-6B's with a 40 in (100 cm) plug behind the wing for the DC-7 and −7B, was lengthened with a 40-inch plug ahead of the wing to give the DC-7C a total length of 112 ft 3 in (34.21 m).
Since the late 1940s Pan Am and other airlines had scheduled a few nonstop flights from New York to Europe, but westward nonstops against the prevailing wind were rarely possible with an economic payload. The L1049G and DC-7B that appeared in 1955 could occasionally make the westward trip, but in summer 1956 Pan Am's DC-7C finally started doing it fairly reliably. BOAC was forced to respond by purchasing DC-7Cs rather than wait on the delivery of the Bristol Britannia. The DC-7C found its way into several other overseas airlines' fleets, including SAS, which used them on cross-polar flights to North America and Asia. The DC-7C sold better than its rival, the Lockheed L-1649A Starliner, which entered service a year later, but sales were cut short by the arrival of Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 jets in 1958-60.
Starting in 1959 Douglas began converting DC-7s and DC-7Cs into DC-7F freighters to extend their useful lives. The airframes were fitted with large forward and rear freight doors and some cabin windows were removed.
The predecessor DC-6, especially the DC-6B, established a reputation for straightforward engineering and reliability. Pratt & Whitney, manufacturer of the DC-6's Double Wasp engines, did not offer an effective larger engine apart from the Wasp Major, which had a reputation for poor reliability.[citation needed] Douglas turned to Wright Aeronautical for a more powerful engine. The Duplex-Cyclone had reliability issues of its own, and this affected the DC-7's service record. Carriers who had both DC-6s and DC-7s in their fleets usually replaced the newer DC-7s first once jets started to arrive. Some airlines retired their DC-7s after little more than five years of service, whereas most DC-6s lasted longer and sold more readily on the secondhand market.
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Thank you for sharing this. I came to Hawaii to teach school from the Midwest in 1956,just out of college, and had never been west of Lake Michigan. This document truly captured the beautiful island people and Polynesian culture back then. It brings back fond memories .Now some sixty years later and tho Hawaii has drastically changed , it still is a state of mind and to me Hawaii still Calls and that is a little play on words as back in the ‘50s there was a wonderful radio program broadcasted to the Mainland from the beach terrace of the Moana Hotel and that enchanting program was named “Hawaii Calls.”
What a treat, the mom gets to cook and clean on vacation, sounds awesome!
Ummm. Why laugh. Ever heard of that popular vacation using a little known thing called AIRBNB. Which is usually an apartment or home that …… you COOK for many of your meals.
So amazing to see the Diamond Head & other areas 'pristine' before hotel row‼️
I have never been in Havaii. But being at home fore more than a month because of coronavirus made me depressed and today I thought about watching something positive. Usually watching videos from 50-s makes me happy. So I decided to watch a video about how people spent holidays in such a picturesque place and now I feel like I visited a fairytale. Thank you so much for sharing this marvellous video. Pardon my probable mistakes in English. Love, from Russia.
Best wishes and very nice English.
Aloha from Maui Hawai’i!!
I like to watch these as I’m still in Hawaii, born and raised. It lets me see how things was and how much I wish was still that way long ago! One day you will come here! Aloha!!! And stay safe!!
@@charlesm.9858 thank you do much! I hope that one day I will see your paradise land with my own eyes!
Hope you’re able to come here one day!
Yes, films like these make me feel so much better. It's a nice escape from our present day reality. I certainly hope that someday you will be able to visit Hawaii. That is something to look forward to. 🤗❤🛫🙏🌎
I love these vintage airline promo videos. Thanks
As a crew member Hawaii was my favorite layover. Flying between SFO, HNL, KOA, OGG and LIH was the highlight of my career. Aloha! !
love these vintage videos, thank you for sharing!
Such a great memory of the travelogues of yesteryear, a time always remembered, but never forgotten.
Im fortunate to live in Hawaii, and after 2yrs of caution, i finally took a staycation in Waikiki! I forgot how beautiful it is, with the palm tress swaying and the ocean so clean...
I enjoyed seeing this again. I posted a few years ago here regarding my 1963 trip and then it dawned on me as a smaller child, I went with my Dad on another business trip and that was around 1956-57 and I seem to remember flying on the big Stratocruiser because I can remember going up and down the stairs to the lounge where my Dad would take me when he went for a drink of some kind. I wish I could remember that trip better but I was only about 5 or so. Glad these videos are available regarding that time...
Back when air travel was enjoyable not like today's travel. It's like being on a packed Greyhound bus.
Greyhound has more leg room
You are right. Inhumane, really.
I vastly prefer long distance bus travel to being abused by the airlines and airports. Far less stress and much nicer people - employees and passengers.
Yes, there was definitely more room for passengers then. On the other hand: 1) people were actually encouraged to smoke, so the interior of the plane was constantly smoky; 2) flying was considerably less safe in the 1950s than it is today and there were far more crashes and fatalities; 3) air travel was a great deal more expensive then, so the average person never even considered going on a plane trip, and 4) propeller planes like these were a lot noisier and vibrated a lot more.
Packed into a sardine can, more like. . .
Loved to have lived back then, beats the hell out of the 21st Century, thats for sure, boy....!
Providing you were white & middle class
@@franciscoinc2658 Well those Hawaiians who nailed those white chicks would say different !
What about 2020🤔😥
@@franciscoinc2658 You mad? You sound mad 🤣🤣😂😂 it was a wonderful time. Sorry you couldn’t partake in life...
You did notice that everyone on this holliday is 80 years old, this was not a holliday for you boi. :)
It all looked so new and clean.
Loved this. Before the mile high club ( maybe), and people dressed nicely and acted appropriately. Flying nowadays is like being on the Jerry Springer show. Ha.
The fish tank in the beginning is hilarious. Why not some ocean fish ?
I love the way this narrator talks, always leaving you to wanting to know more, this is the way it was back then. I miss these days badly, vacation, why, to enjoy life and have fun! What happened to those days, do they not exist anymore? No politics here.....why should there be? I miss this time..... how we used to be! Now we all fight and hate like politicians.... of which we are not! Puppets...
I will watch this video more than once, count on it!
Wonderful video ... Hawaii the paradise!!!
Maravilloso el video del paraiso Hawaiano!!
Grazi Mauricio! I’m Italian-Swiss and have lived here for 39 years, married a local boy and I say, “Ciaoloha!”🌺🌴🌈 🤙🏽
Someone from the heavens sent us a clip.
Let's go surfing
Planes just looks nicer than modern A320NEO’s
OMG, I just took one from Kona to the West Coast. I didn't know I need a portable screen and also download their app.
20:54 - The site described by the narrator as "the famous Orchid Pool" was actually called Warm Springs. It was destroyed by a lava flow on January 18, 1960.
thank you. I was wondering where that might have been
Now here in 2021, type in 'Hawaii' in TH-cam and all of the vid 'thumbnails' say "Stay Away", and, "Reasons NOT to visit Hawaii". Sad modern times. I need a "WayBack Machine".
I spent the summer in Kaui and Oahu 2 years ago. I got the F you haole go home speech at least once a week. One time from an old Hawaiian lady because I drove "the wrong way" down a road to a beach. Im not going back.
Real Paradise!!!!
!953 is when I left Hawaii for a college transfer. The hotel boom started by then because when I returned in 1955, Waikiki was inundated by high rise hotels. Hawaii was not the same plus Hawaii had no aircraft companies like Douglas, Lockheed, North America and Northrup in Los Angeles, where I can have better use of my engineering degree. I wisely chose to live in LA during its Golden Age.
Our family flew on a DC-7 from Toronto to Chicago in 1960, and on to Denver...Switched to a DC-6 after a landing gear issue....and that DC-6 felt more like an econ-car, compared to the DC-7...The Wright 3350's on the DC-7 had many more issues than the P/W 2800's on the DC-6...no wonder when the jet era came, costs could be controlled. Same dynamic when Diesel Electrics came into railroads, as compared to Steam. thanks.
Thank you for sharing.
Geepers! That looks swell! Hey gang, what say we ALL go have a nifty time in Hawai'i! I"m game, are you??
Nice video. Went with my Dad back in 1963. Was only 12 and we were only there for 3 days because this was a business trip for my dad so I stayed with relatives in Honolulu and went to the beach there. It was beautiful then and this video reminds me of that time before so many hotels and attractions skyrocketed in Honolulu in the later 60s & 70s. I would like to visit again but this time, I would like to include the other islands.
I really liked watching this. Kinda strange realizing that most of these young people allready have deceased.
My dad is 86..
My dad is now 88. He was in his 20s when this was made
People don't understand that air-travel in those days are not catered for the middle but upper-class. That's why it has to be fanciful and luxurious.
The middle-class simply could not afford long distance, overseas holiday.
At the 7:20 mark reminded me that I still have the matching shirt and long dress my parents purchased when we and my brother vacationed in Hawaiian 🌺 I also have the long dress and bathing suit I got while there. I don’t imagine Much looks the same now unfortunately.
This was Great , Thank you for Posting , Liked , Shared :) QC
Very nostalgic
Simpler times.
8 hours?! Wow! Aviation came a long way. Now we can fly to Hawaii around 4-5 hours now.
My family arrived by ship in 1960.
Had a 10 year holiday !
"Cow-eye"? Yo, Les, it's Kah-why. Love all the men wearing suits on the DC-7 United flight. One of them is probably carrying a pistol too like in he movie "The High and the Mighty" I have a bumper sticker on my car that says "I brake for Menehune"
Whenever my wife or I misplace something, we blame the Menehune of hiding it from us. BTW, where, oh where did you find the bumper sticker?
I've lived here in Hawaii for the last 40 years. This is practically a historical documentary. Its nothing like this now. Mostly poverty or low class living for us locals as most of the jobs are low paying tourist industry. Sad. They make it look glamorous....unless your rich...its difficult here.
That's what Democrats want for us all
In this documental I don’t see not white people.
Very different from now. Part of my family from there, the native Hawaiians have not fared well over time.
Man. I been in Hawaii for over 3yrs now. I wanna go to the 1950's Hawaii...this NEW HAWAII is for suckers. Aloha~~ from Hawaii~~ 🤙🤙
This was filmed in 1955-1956.
Without the native motif shows for the tourists; it’s doubtful that any Hawaiian traditions would have survived to this day. Including the Hula.
Now this is the honolulu we alll know and love :) The honolulu we see right now is still invaded with homelessness and rail is slowly killing the state :(
Sure beats the Pan Am travelogue I watched earlier...
Due to CAB regulation, and the political power of Pan Am's Juan Trippe and the fact that United's president was born in Hawaii, those airlines had a duopoly until 1972. Cheaper charter flights were also available, often on these older propeller planes after the jets took over mainline service.
Jim David I hate monopolies but, I would undeniably prefer monopolies like this.
As long as it’s ran by the employees not shareholders
@@abandonedchannel281 Rehan...the stock holders are the reason companies succeed, not when "misappropriated' by wrong-thinking employees. thanks.
Incorrect. Pan Am had Hawaii all to itself from 1936 to 1947, when both United and Northwest Orient were authorized to fly there. In the late 1960s, Continental and American joined in.
#freehawaii
That junior pilot at the beginning looked heavily medicated. Perfect for a pilot in command a few years later, eh?
Came here to get an idea of what fallout Hawaii could look like
Back then looks so modern. present 2020 so many tourists crowded on one rock with new city's new powerlines most sugar cane has been excavated on oahu.
Im so glad i got to see the coco palms hotel in Kawaii ( where they filmed BLUE HAWAII) before it was gone. 🥲
Welcome to the 1950's, where personal security is more of a suggestion than a consideration.
Back when people were civilised.
. . . and one could smoke on an airplane. Imagine that!
Good old days when locals knew there place and haoles ruled.
“We have to go back!” TND
Remember what they took from us! 😢 Notice the one demographic missing from this and how peaceful and polite everything was.
Did they really come off the flight in HNL wearing those heavy coats?
They took them off during the flight, and either folded them up and put them in the overhead rack (which in those days was an open trough) or the stewardesses hung them up on the closet. Before landing, they retrieved them and often found it easier to put them on rather than carrying them off the plane.
United Airlines has done so much for Hawaii and Senator Inoye wouldn’t let United fly inter island when United wanted to do that .. Inoye was a terrible politician ! 👎 .
This was before the world went stupid.
Flying when people were well dressed and well manners. Fast forward to cattle calls, drunks, fights and the ill mannered. Better times years ago.
Everyone is skinny
2:39 Letter to a friend? Hadn't they ever heard texting or email? And how freaky, writing with her right hand.
What a strange comment.
I used to go to Hawaii for a month every year I stopped going becouse the residents of Hawaii are no longer welcoming tourism
Yeah we only can cater so much
LOL so that family goes on vacation BUT they make the mom work for them, POOR MOM, does she ever get a break?
No because that's her job..
Sadly the jet age brought in a cattle car policy in travel.
Maybe so, but United would introduce the Douglas DC-8 a few years after this film was made. The DC-8 was designed primarily for passenger use so it really combined comfort and speed.
"...a staunch downeast conservative...".
Ha ha.
A video like this carries an entirely different weight when you understand how America strategically and illegally stole Hawai'i from its already well-established monarchy. This video was made only 63 years after the Queen of Hawai'i was imprisoned and threatened at gun point to relinquish her power by American Businessmen. Promoting a "dream" getaway to a land that was stolen is propaganda and manipulation of the American fantasy all for the sake of money. Meanwhile, the cost of living for Native Hawaiians have skyrocketed, forcing locals to be on the street, or give up their homes they've had for generations.
Yeah, and so what? Where do you live? If you live anywhere in the US, and I mean anywhere your ass is sitting on what was once tribal land for some group of indigenous people. A tribe. Where you work or go to school is too. You ready to give all that up and hand it back over to tribes? I didn't think so, lol.
@@HillTrekkerSarge I'm from and live in Hawaii. What an arrogant mentality some of you visitors carry.
If we did not take it, england ,russia,China, etc., would have.
@@christianprattxYou can't change the past, you can choose to be a miserable person, like yourself.
@@jaddy540 www.hawaiiankingdom.org/treaties.shtml
We were established as a country not only in the eyes of Great Britain, but with countries all over the globe. America's intrusion with Hawaii was as immoral as it was illegal.
Oahu was run by Republicans then.
For the last 35 years it’s been run by Democrats.
See the difference?
i hate when people spoil the ending lol