This Time Travel Time Machine Vol 2 is from 1960 to 1964 and continues a visual time
travel through the golden age of air travel, using rare Kodachrome slides taken by everyday
travellers during the 1960s, when flying was new, glamorous, and reserved for the few.
Collected over more than 30 years, these spontaneous images preserve lost airlines, aircraft,
airports, and onboard experiences that can never be recreated and are now almost forgotten.
This Volume 2 from 1960 -1964 picks where the now sold-out Volume 1 (1940s and 1950s)
left off, as we continue our time travel look back at the formative and early days of air travel.
The author spent the past thirty plus years sourcing random traveller Kodachrome slides
depicting air travel when it was new and exciting, the domain of affluent, when most
people on the planet had not yet travelled by air. These were random colour slides taken by
people whilst documenting their holidays, or meeting relatives at the airport, sometimes
whilst marking a special travel occasion.
The images presented in these books were taken by air travellers who carried personal 35mm
SLR cameras loaded with high quality 35mm colour Kodachrome slide film, and they
snapped spontaneous images during all aspects of their air travel journeys in the 1960s.
By the 2020s, these old slides were obsolete. Most people under the age of 35 will have no
idea what a Kodachrome slide is. These old slides are now largely buried deep in long lost
and long forgotten family slide collections around the world, and in many cases such
Kodachrome slide images are simply discarded to the sands of time as estates are liquidated
when older family members passed on. The author made one of his life callings to seek out,
preserve and celebrate these amazing travels Kodachromes in these unique books. It takes
ages to find these old slides, and no amount of money or budget can create such images to
quickly produce another one of these books in quick order. It is impossible.
This volume No 2 features all colour images taken all around the world from airport
observation decks, inside airport terminal buildings, boarding and deplaning airliners, on
board showing the passenger cabins and cabin service and travel comforts of the day, wing
views of airliners that were retired half a century ago, featuring the iconic airline branding
and logos of many of the now defunct great airlines, that for most people are long forgotten.
It did not make sense to squeeze all these fabulous 1960s Kodachrome travel images into one
book, to do them all justice. It was a much better idea to present the decade of the 1960s
across 2 volumes, which allowed for many images to be full page bleed. Reader comments
from Volume 1 frequently expressed the joy and time spent examining the background details
of the amazing images. Therefore, by presenting the images as large as possible in these two
volumes of 1960 – 1964 and 1965 - 1970, readers can soak up the details in all their glorious
splendour. Page after page, readers will relive their wonderful travel memories from more
than half a century ago. This unique book series will transport the reader back in time like no
other book ever published in the annals of aviation history.
Do not delay your purchase as this is a very limited production publication.
Once it is sold out, it will be sold out forever.
Title: Air Travel Time Machine Volume 2.
1960 – 1964 Kodachrome Memories
Author(s): Henry Tenby
ISBN: 9781926714059
RRP: £40.00
Format: hardback
Dimensions: h22.5cm x 29cm x 2.5cm Weight: 1680g
Pages: 264. Photos 290
Illustrations: over 600 colour, b/w.
Editor(s): Henry Tenby