El Segundo Flight Path Museum offers trip back to early So. Cal air travel
PSA was known for short flights and short flight attendant outfits. Photo courtesy of The Flight Path Museum The Flight Path Museum and Learning Center, on the southwest side of Los Angeles International Airport is home to a vast collection from the Golden Age of Flying. According to Smithsonian.com, this is the only facility dedicated to preserving the history of Southern California aviation and encouraging youth through education and scholarships to pursue a career in this industry. The museum is inside the West Imperial Terminal, which at one time was home to host of charter and novelty carriers such as Freddie Laker Airlines, World Airways and MGM Grand. The refurbished structure offers visitors a self guided tour of airline uniforms, posters, and aircraft models in rooms dedicated to airlines that have long vanished the South Bay skies. Among the more familiar names are TWA, Braniff, Pan Am, and Flying Tigers. LAX historian, and museum guide Ethel Pattinson, of Manhattan Beach Resident Ethel Pattinson, is the longest serving employee at the airport. Pattinson began working for United Airlines as a flight attendant In 1951. “I flew the DC 4s, 6s and 7’son the…
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