Another day, another update. I realize it’s been way to long, so I once against apologize.
But I wanted to have a link to the University of Missouri-Kanas City’s Index of TWA Skyliner magazines.
This, of course, being the in-house newspaper of what was going on around Trans World Airlines.
The school has so far scanned the 2000’s, and the 1990’s issues. They’re slowly working their way back.
It’s a great resource, and it’s very interesting!
Yes. It has been too long, and for that, I apologize.
I am working on updates, but in the meantime, I had to share an email I received about this post. Specifically, the TWA jeep that we had a picture of:
A Mr. Ron Greene wrote me to say:
The red Jeep looks like the one that the TWA LAX fire extinguisher
inspector used to drive around in to do his/her rounds checking the weight
of fire extinguishers and bringing them in for servicing. The last fire
inspector that I knew before I was laid off for the last time in 1992 was
Yvonne Horn, who was a guard before that and a plane cleaner and Dining
Unit worker before that. The fire inspector job was a pretty plum job as I
recall. I used to see the Jeep parked around the Building
Maintenance/Garage area at LAX when I worked there as an Plant Maint
electrician.Good times dont last forever,
Ron Greene
Very true, Ron, very true. Well, that answers the question about the jeep!
..sorry about that.
Once again, it’s been busy around the twahistory.com home-base. Projects around the house, projects for the wife, and projects for work.
I’m working on getting an update out toward the end of this week.
never fear, I’ll be updating later this week.
With getting everything ready for Christmas, to the busy time at work, to moving my website to a new ISP, it’s been pretty busy here.
I’ll have another update later this week.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and traveled safely on airlines other than TWA. 
Let’s take a look at some email I’ve received lately.
First off is Andre at TriSta500.net, a great website dedicated to the L1011-500. Even though he doesn’t have any TWA-specific info, he sends along the TWA L-1011 Cabin Plan from an old issue of the OAG: (Click for larger version.)
Thanks, Andre for sending that along! And check out his great website.
Up next is Pete asking about a jeep. Here’s his email:
Howdy,
I am buying this jeep from a fella in Woodland Hills. I would like to research where it might have come from or where it was used. Rumor has it Mr. Hughes had ordered three of these. Do you have any thoughts as to where I could start checking?
Extremely Rare 2 wheel drive Red Fire Inspector TWA / AA CJ Jeep. Has only driver’s seat and a special gas tank in the interior. Very low miles, under 30,000 and under 350 hours on a four cylinder engine. Running condition. Special heavy duty rear suspension and airport rear wheels and tires. 1969 CJ No top
And here is the picture he sent along:
Well, Pete, I’m not sure on that one. If it’s a 1969 Jeep, as in your description, that was 8 years after Howard Hughes left TWA, so I don’t think that’s it.
If anyone has information, send it to comments@twahistory.com and I’ll forward it on to Pete.
Finally, we have S.M.D. who asks:
I would love to hear the late ’60s commercial “Up, Up & Away…T-W-A” based upon the 5th Dimension song. I used to work on the TWA computer processing account at that time and I loved that commercial. Any chance that you could find a copy and upload it to your website? That would be much appreciated.
Well, S.M.D., I don’t have it, but hopefully someone out there does.
Keep those letters coming! If you have a question, or even has some TWA memorabilia you would love to share with others, send me an email!
Just posted that last entry, and noticed that it has been a year now since I started TWAhistory.com!
Just wanted to say thanks to all the readers! It’s great the number of people that find us by searching for the history of TWA, and I’m proud to continue a small part of it!
In the past year, I’ve posted 72 entries, and I hope to post another 72 and more.
I’d like to once again say if anyone out there has any TWA items they’d like to share with other enthusiasts, please send me an email to comments@twahistory.com.
Thanks for reading us!
Well, we’re back from Southern California, and had a great time. Got to hang out with the wife for our 7th wedding anniversary, went to Disneyland to ride the new Finding Nemo Submarine Ride, went deep-sea fishing, and also went to the LA Airline Memorabilia show.
I did pick up a few TWA items. Mostly schedules, though. They did have some nice TWA models, though. I had my eye on a TWA L1011, and even had purchase authority from the wife, but really wouldn’t have space to display it in my current office, so it will just have to wait until I have a bigger house.
Today’s update is TWA’s schedule from May 1992. The major news in this one is TWA’s announced service to Moscow, via Brussels. Not sure how successful this was, though, since it didn’t seem to stay around too long. According to a TWA Skyliner issue I have talking about it, it was using a 727-232.
I’ve included the handy-dandy gate maps that they included in the back of this schedule.
As always, click for a larger image.
and boy, are my arms tired. Okay, stupid joke.
The wife and I arrived today in Los Angeles. We’re actually going to be staying by Disneyland until Monday, doing the LA thing: Disneyland, deep sea fishing, and eating at some great restaurants.
Just wanted to give a shout-out if anyone else is going to be going to the Los Angeles Airline Memorabilia Show on June 9th. Still hoping to pick up some more TWA schedules there, and see what else I can find.
If anyone else is going to be there, leave a comment and maybe we can say “Hey!”
(With a little nod to Peabody’s Improbable History.)
If you haven’t visited the website archive.org, you need to. It’s pretty amazing to be able to visit websites the way they were years ago, before Java and Flash took over sites. Just see here what Apple’s website looked like on October 22, 1996, or to see what CNN’s website looked like on that tragic day, September 11th, 2001. It’s a great site.
At the same time, you can see what TWA.com looked like, back in the day. For example, here is the earliest home page you can see, from July of 1997: (Click image for larger version):
It’s amazing how web pages have changed, isn’t it?
Someone even registered twahistory.com back in July of 2001, a few months after TWA and American Airlines announced the merger. Weird, eh? They never did anything with it, though.
I invite you to poke around the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. It’s very interesting! If you find anything cool, post a link in the comments section.
Sorry for the delay’s in getting an update out. It’s been busy around the household, and haven’t had time to update my websites lately.
Next week I will be out of town in beautiful Flagstaff, AZ. So I won’t be able to update until late next week.