Boy, I would have loved to been around then and experience this ...
On this day in history; April 28th 1937 – The first commercial flight across the Pacific is made as a Pan-American Boeing 314 Clipper seaplane arrives in Hong Kong.
Pan Am's "Clippers" were built for "one-class" luxury air travel, a necessity given the long duration of transoceanic flights. The seats could be converted into 36 bunks for overnight accommodation; with a cruise speed of only 188 miles per hour, Pan Am's scheduled flight time for San Francisco to Honolulu was 19 hours.
The 314s had a lounge and dining area, and the galleys were crewed by chefs from four-star hotels. Men and women were provided with separate dressing rooms, and white-coated stewards served five and six-course meals with gleaming silver service.
Sadly, none of the Boeing 314s survived beyond the year 1951, with all being scrapped, scuttled, fired upon, cannibalized for parts, or otherwise written off...
(Sierra Hotel Aeronautics)
