Plus video of “La Perla” the most colorful ghetto in the world squeezed between old castle walls. Also San Juan, Rincon, Isabela, Bayamon, Carolina, Rio Piedras, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico 2011.
Flying used to be only for rich people… but Juan Trippe, the founder of PAN AM, managed to find one route where the aviation cartel at the time could not thwart him: New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pan Am’s one-way fare was $75, and the flights were packed. Trippe says in his biography that Puertorricans had an important part in the history of air travel. People in Puerto Rico use to call the PAN AM planes the flying buses. Finally, in 1952, all airlines had to accept the inevitability of tourist class. But by then his vision had taken off for its next destination. Flying the oceans was still mostly for the rich and famous. For millions of others, it was just a dream or a once-in-a-lifetime binge. Trippe saw that the jets being introduced by Boeing and Douglas could mark the end of that, and he ordered plenty of them. In October 1958, a Pan Am Boeing 707 left New York for its first scheduled flight to Paris…and Puerto Rico, and to destinations around the world.
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