Featured Video: Pan Am TV Commercial (1959)

Before it was transportation affordable to the masses, air travel was apparently really swanky. In this 1959 promo for the Pan Am 707, travelers read complimentary issues of Life magazine, enjoy fine dining, play chess, unwind in the spacious lounge and repair to the clean bathrooms. Today the best you can hope for is that there’s no Midwestern couple doing it in the can when you have to go and that no one has a bomb in their underpants.