After a Thanksgiving dinner on Pan Am airliner, 1949. [Colorized]
3 days ago by SSTF to c/historyphotos
He died while many never truly live.
He died a week before Christmas. I hope he doesn't have a family because that's a hard way to end one year and meet a new one.
Batter it, shove a stick in there and deep fry it.
Don't need a knife that way.
I have to imagine they carved up the turkey for the whole cabin and thought it'd be funny to pose the carcass with this beefy king.
Probably. Airline food was high end for a long time. We flew across the Atlantic in late 70s, and everyone had Filet Mignon, and dessert was a strawberry mousse in a chocolate edible bowl.
Now it's some $18 stale sandwich. Or crackers and hummous for $15 lol
Seems probable. At the time, this guy would be remarkable.
That is an insane amount of orange(?) slices
It’s a lot of turkey.
Fair point. Counter point: those slices don't taper to smaller rings, so that's like, at least 20-80 oranges right there.
I wonder if they're actually lemons and it's seasoned lemon pepper style. That's a bit more typical, although who knows-- it's both a long time ago and on a fucking airline. Still a gluttonous amount regardless of the citrus fruit.
That’s insane. So wasteful.
1949 was right in the middle of what historians refer to as the Golden Age of the Doughy Guy.
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The caption on the original says:
This PDF of a New York death index from the same year lists two entries for Charles Black, one of whom was 44 and died on 19 December 1949 -- roughly a month after this photo was taken.
Coincidence? Probably. Charles Black doesn't seem like a unique name.
Orrrrrr... this man died a month later, presumably from complications related to eating a whole fucking turkey on a commercial flight.
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