Thank you for the flashback to my past. It was so easy flying anywhere without the TSA screening. Flying was more expensive but service was great and passengers were civilized.
I remember playing in the international rotunda as a kid. Imagining i was in a large flying saucer. That's when you could come right up to the gate to see family and friends off.
I likely flew on a few of these birds, especially the Pan Am 707's. I lived in Europe in the 1960's as a boy. My brother and I would stand and watch the planes at Paris-Orly and Frankfurt International. It was the Golden Age of aviation then but we didn't know that. I was an "avgeek" decades before the term came into use. In 1972 I bought, in London, a book which listed all the tail numbers, model numbers and nicknames of a whole host of international jets. I would write down in the book where and when I saw each one. Or if I flew on one. I still have this book today. I would also keep track of accidents, in that book. The headmaster of my school in Paris died in the 1965 Rome TWA 707 crash. Plane spotting in the 1960's was really the Golden Age, when it was all still glamorous. I recall seeing Caravelles in Europe, Tridents, and smoky Electras and Vicounts (the last three SO noisy, truly ear-splitting). This was when people misbehaving on airplanes or around airplanes was a movie/tv thing. The scenes on this with 737's must have been 1968 or later. I don't see any 747's in this so this is truly a 1960's view of things.
The 747s didn't enter into commercial service until the early 1970s, I think. Same with the Concordes although they never served SFO because of the sonic booms they generate. Nonetheless, I miss these old silver birds like the Concordes, the BAC 1-11s, the 727s,.......... The first two were, indeed, extremely deafening to hear when they take off. But I still miss them. They had character.
The thing I remember most was the outdoor observation deck at the base of the air traffic control tower. It offered an unmatched opportunity to observe all of the aircraft coming and going from all points of the globe. I was most fond of the Pan Am 747 Clippers that would come in.
1) Took that helicopter between OAK and SFO. Was great not needing to make that drive up the Nimitz Fwy, across the Bay Bridge and down the 101. 2) The central terminal had a lounge with huge picture windows that looked out over the runways, the Bay and the Oakland hills beyond. It also had a steakhouse with that same view + the best prime rib in the Bay Area (Yes, better than house of Prime Rib!). The food the wine and the views were all amazing.
Finally! There is a brief shot of a Western Airlines Boeing 720 in the "Winnebago" livery taking off. Thanks for that! I believe that I also saw an even briefer shot of a United 720 taxying. The Boeing 720 was an interesting but short-lived aircraft.
Flew on one 1978 LAX to CLE when in college...dinner menu in coach with Salsbury steak mashed potatoes and salad and cake for dessert...roomy coach seats ...wonderful right before airlines deregulation. And end of the good service era
I REMEMBER FLYING FROM PHOENIX SKY HARBOR AIRPORT TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 1965 ON AN AMERICAN AIRLINES BOEING 727...WHEN LANDING IN SAN FRANCISCO WE CAME IN LOW OVER THE WATER BECAUSE THE RUNWAY STRETCHED OUT INTO A BAY...I REMEMBER LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW 🪟 & THINKING WE MIGHT WIND UP IN THE WATER 💧
I seem to recall a cool movie scene from the late 60's that featured a chase through San Francisco airport ...that movie was really cool ...it was called " Bullit" with famed actor Steve McQueen...
The United plane has two jetways to let passengers board or disembark ! I’ve only seen more than one jetway used with a large aircraft like an Airbus 380.
There was something so pure ...so wholesome...about those years ..that's reflected in this footage...like the world was full of exciting days waiting ahead ...now it's just boringly dreadful ...technology is pointless and in the hands of the haughty ....look at how advanced it all looked even though today it's " supposedly" better
"Joe Patroni" flashback here..😂 Great to see and hear all the 4 and 3 holers..When engines made real noise and didn.t burn that clean.. Still seeing some 707 with the JT3C turbojets. If you produce that amount of smoketrails these days those envirenmental groupies will hunt you down😂 great to see a very early United 737-200 without thrustreversers on it.s JT8d engines. ( they were implemented latter on). Great video,s,keep them coming!😊
In the movie Bullitt with Steve Mcqueen, I believe that they filmed him running in the same space without the Pan American 707...and then filmed the 707 after and then combined the two films to make it look like he ran in front of it and threw himself on the ground as the airplane passes over him with full take off thrust... That is the magic of Hollywood film making.... and it looks very real. They would never allow anyone..not an actor nor a stuntman actually run right up to and underneath a huge 100 ton Boeing 707 with its engines on full blast take off power. Why? Because it would be suicidal......if he slips, he will be run over... and anybody anywhere near those jet engines at full blast take off power would be instantly sucked into one of the jet engines . If you don't read too much into it though and suspend disbelief, it is genius the way it was done..... extremely entertaining!!!
Wow, back in those days jet engines were so dirty, loud and primitive they belched out so much black smoke. Nowadays you never see these black, toxic, plane-dirtying, aircraft smoke EVER. I've flown dozens and dozens of times since the late 80s and I'm honestly surprised by how filthy, primitive and toxic these old jet engines used to be. Clearly aircraft engineers have been doing something right in recent decades because now it's soooo different.
There is a China Airlines at 4:14, still around. Back then it was the only airline from either of the "two Chinas" at SFO, now there are a bunch of them from both Taiwan and Mainland.
Is this more Kino Library stuff like you posted the other day after blocking out their logos? Seems like this channel is just ripping a bunch of content off without credit.
You are free to look at all the poorly, uneven, discolored, over exposed, underexposed, grainy Kino Library footage til your heart's content, My generation, that being the Original Jet Generation, is fading just as these jets have. Those of us still here deserve and have every right to see - again..the very images that rekindle the what brought us into aviation. This upload and several others are not monetized, they are products of my time, energy ans effort to do what I know many want to see - again. It's my dedication to the original jets - and any moving image I can obtain ..along with my own, will be polished up and found here. Kino Library did not shoot one inch of footage, I shoot mine. And I'm happy to clean theirs up and ADD sound, they are collectors just as I am. And most of theirs is via donations.
@@Starboard76 my guy, that TW 741 video at LHR is just lifted from another video…the image flipped and the contrast blown out. Just be honest about it.
Thank you for the flashback to my past. It was so easy flying anywhere without the TSA screening. Flying was more expensive but service was great and passengers were civilized.
Man, that smokey take-off at 5:10 was a favorite sight at SFO airport when I was a small child.
I remember playing in the international rotunda as a kid. Imagining i was in a large flying saucer. That's when you could come right up to the gate to see family and friends off.
Fantastic footage! Thank you! The 707's, the DC-8's, the tri-jets (relatively new 727's) in all of their old, stinking livery!
Striking livery?
I likely flew on a few of these birds, especially the Pan Am 707's. I lived in Europe in the 1960's as a boy. My brother and I would stand and watch the planes at Paris-Orly and Frankfurt International. It was the Golden Age of aviation then but we didn't know that. I was an "avgeek" decades before the term came into use. In 1972 I bought, in London, a book which listed all the tail numbers, model numbers and nicknames of a whole host of international jets. I would write down in the book where and when I saw each one. Or if I flew on one. I still have this book today. I would also keep track of accidents, in that book. The headmaster of my school in Paris died in the 1965 Rome TWA 707 crash. Plane spotting in the 1960's was really the Golden Age, when it was all still glamorous. I recall seeing Caravelles in Europe, Tridents, and smoky Electras and Vicounts (the last three SO noisy, truly ear-splitting). This was when people misbehaving on airplanes or around airplanes was a movie/tv thing. The scenes on this with 737's must have been 1968 or later. I don't see any 747's in this so this is truly a 1960's view of things.
The 747s didn't enter into commercial service until the early 1970s, I think. Same with the Concordes although they never served SFO because of the sonic booms they generate. Nonetheless, I miss these old silver birds like the Concordes, the BAC 1-11s, the 727s,.......... The first two were, indeed, extremely deafening to hear when they take off. But I still miss them. They had character.
The thing I remember most was the outdoor observation deck at the base of the air traffic control tower. It offered an unmatched opportunity to observe all of the aircraft coming and going from all points of the globe. I was most fond of the Pan Am 747 Clippers that would come in.
Great video....the music is most appropriate for this era, I remember it well!
Lloyd Bridges was in a show called San Francisco International in the early 70's. It rotated with 4 other shows each week.
I think you're thinking of Clu Gulager.
1.46 Beautiful CP Air B 737-200 !!! Great video !!
1) Took that helicopter between OAK and SFO. Was great not needing to make that drive up the Nimitz Fwy, across the Bay Bridge and down the 101.
2) The central terminal had a lounge with huge picture windows that looked out over the runways, the Bay and the Oakland hills beyond. It also had a steakhouse with that same view + the best prime rib in the Bay Area (Yes, better than house of Prime Rib!). The food the wine and the views were all amazing.
The 60's and 70's was the true golden jet age and OG jet jockey's....
Excellent. Great to see footage of the Superbay during construction!
Remember flying in an American airlines 707 from New Jersey to Puerto Rico in 1972.
Finally! There is a brief shot of a Western Airlines Boeing 720 in the "Winnebago" livery taking off. Thanks for that! I believe that I also saw an even briefer shot of a United 720 taxying. The Boeing 720 was an interesting but short-lived aircraft.
Great memory of the once Great SFO. Glad to be employed there. 1976 till 1993. When real aircraft few there!
Amazing footage! Thank you!
I don't ever remember seeing an AA 707 in my lifetime. They must have retired them by the time I grew up. Loved the JAL DC-8 at the end!
You are younger. I was a teenager in 1972.😁
They flew until about 1981 I think. My last one was 1980.
Thanks!😁😁
Flew on one 1978 LAX to CLE when in college...dinner menu in coach with Salsbury steak mashed potatoes and salad and cake for dessert...roomy coach seats ...wonderful right before airlines deregulation. And end of the good service era
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Yes, I often remember my meals too! Goes with the territory. AA was much better then than now, I think.
I love the drone shot at 0:38! ; )
McMillian and Wife w Rock Hudson was frequently set at SFO, w an episode w similar scenes running on foot ❤ around airplanes
Very very good. Very very good.
I REMEMBER FLYING FROM PHOENIX SKY HARBOR AIRPORT TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 1965 ON AN AMERICAN AIRLINES BOEING 727...WHEN LANDING IN SAN FRANCISCO WE CAME IN LOW OVER THE WATER BECAUSE THE RUNWAY STRETCHED OUT INTO A BAY...I REMEMBER LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW 🪟 & THINKING WE MIGHT WIND UP IN THE WATER 💧
Remember when there was Helicopter service between downtown SF and SFO! Woot
Me too. Helicopter went to OAK, Marin County, Buchanan, and Lafayette.
Raw aviation. Smoky and loud.
I seem to recall a cool movie scene from the late 60's that featured a chase through San Francisco airport ...that movie was really cool ...it was called " Bullit" with famed actor Steve McQueen...
So much smoke 😁
😮All the Pollution Spewing from the jet engines☠️
Uh…hello, it was the late 1960’s, EPA was formed in 70. And it would still be awhile before regulations would include commercial aircraft!
Laying here in bed wearing a saturated Depends watching this great footage!
The United plane has two jetways to let passengers board or disembark ! I’ve only seen more than one jetway used with a large aircraft like an Airbus 380.
That was a real LUXURY then!
Awesome video, love those coal-burners!!👍👍
The PSA 727 shots had to be from the 70s. They didn’t have the smile livery until the mid 70s.
I found a complete set of blue prints for the terminal 2 extension in a dumpster once.
Like how they used to passenger tunnels to unload passengers from United's 707
*2 of them!
There was something so pure ...so wholesome...about those years ..that's reflected in this footage...like the world was full of exciting days waiting ahead ...now it's just boringly dreadful ...technology is pointless and in the hands of the haughty ....look at how advanced it all looked even though today it's " supposedly" better
That’s when Boeing made good planes and didn’t have to worry about missing bolts!
"Joe Patroni" flashback here..😂 Great to see and hear all the 4 and 3 holers..When engines made real noise and didn.t burn that clean.. Still seeing some 707 with the JT3C turbojets. If you produce that amount of smoketrails these days those envirenmental groupies will hunt you down😂 great to see a very early United 737-200 without thrustreversers on it.s JT8d engines. ( they were implemented latter on). Great video,s,keep them coming!😊
The glory days of SFO ...the glory days of aviation.
Love the video, do you have any videos with Braniff in them 😁👍
Plenty within my channel and much more coming!
Great can’t wait 😁👍
you keep switching between 60s and 70s going by the airline liveries
In the movie Bullitt with Steve Mcqueen, I believe that they filmed him running in the same space without the Pan American 707...and then filmed the 707 after and then combined the two films to make it look like he ran in front of it and threw himself on the ground as the airplane passes over him with full take off thrust...
That is the magic of Hollywood film making.... and it looks very real.
They would never allow anyone..not an actor nor a stuntman actually run right up to and underneath a huge 100 ton Boeing 707 with its engines on full blast take off power.
Why?
Because it would be suicidal......if he slips, he will be run over... and anybody anywhere near those jet engines at full blast take off power would be instantly sucked into one of the jet engines .
If you don't read too much into it though and suspend disbelief, it is genius the way it was done..... extremely entertaining!!!
Too old for me but amazing
The JAL flight must have been the inaugural since they were flying the US/Japan flags.
Did you see Frank Bullitt running around on the runways with his gun drawn?
Wow, back in those days jet engines were so dirty, loud and primitive they belched out so much black smoke. Nowadays you never see these black, toxic, plane-dirtying, aircraft smoke EVER. I've flown dozens and dozens of times since the late 80s and I'm honestly surprised by how filthy, primitive and toxic these old jet engines used to be. Clearly aircraft engineers have been doing something right in recent decades because now it's soooo different.
is this some 70s also because AA didnt have that 1 scheme and neither did CP Air
True some 70s tossed in to brighten things up a bit...good eye!
Most of those airlines don't exist now (just Delta, American, United and Japan)
There is a China Airlines at 4:14, still around. Back then it was the only airline from either of the "two Chinas" at SFO, now there are a bunch of them from both Taiwan and Mainland.
Is this more Kino Library stuff like you posted the other day after blocking out their logos? Seems like this channel is just ripping a bunch of content off without credit.
USA! USA! 😃
It’s his own content. Leave him alone.
You are free to look at all the poorly, uneven, discolored, over exposed, underexposed, grainy Kino Library footage til your heart's content,
My generation, that being the Original Jet Generation, is fading just as these jets have.
Those of us still here deserve and have every right to see - again..the very images that rekindle the what brought us into aviation.
This upload and several others are not monetized, they are products of my time, energy ans effort to do what I know many want to see - again.
It's my dedication to the original jets - and any moving image I can obtain ..along with my own, will be polished up and found here.
Kino Library did not shoot one inch of footage, I shoot mine.
And I'm happy to clean theirs up and ADD sound, they are collectors just as I am.
And most of theirs is via donations.
@@Starboard76 my guy, that TW 741 video at LHR is just lifted from another video…the image flipped and the contrast blown out. Just be honest about it.
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Wow good video .thanks. where are Korean airline??not launched in 70s??
I think you are correct, they most likely started service with 707s in the early 1970s. I'd love to come across a KAL 707 on the move at SFO!