Museum's Boeing 727 Gets New, Old Makeover

The revamped exhibit opened Thursday at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Jun 2, 2021 11:35 AM ET

Originally published by the Chicago Sun Times

Sit back in one of the tangerine cloth seats, let yourself be seduced by the exotica sounds of Les Baxter — and you can almost imagine it’s 1964 again, the year this particular United Airlines 727 first took flight.

The re-imagined galley has a United menu from the mid-1960s that offered lobster cocktail, cream of celery soup and roast prime rib of beef — and it wasn’t even first class.

 

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