TWA 1960's Hotel, Air Crew Uniforms and 1960's Advertising Posters

Ever wanted to time travel? To walk back into the swinging 60s? Well, follow me. Because you might never find this New York gem without help. Hidden in the corner of the Arrivals Lounge, on JFK Terminal 5 in Queens, is a time machine. Step inside and press that button that will take you back to the 1960s. The time tunnel begins here. And if you walk back into 1960s Hotel TWA at JFK, you can check in any time. But you may never get back. It's definitely one of the top 10 must-see sites in New York. This union-built and union-operated hotel is a LEED Gold Certified and has Connie. Let me introduce you to Connie. The 1958 Lockheed Constellation L1649A plane is nicknamed Connie. She has been around. Before she became a cocktail bar here, she stopped the traffic in Times Square. I'll show you Connie later. The 1960s TWA Hotel is the only on-airport, air-train accessible hotel at JFK. Perfect for the casual visitor. And like Ellis Island, and there is a video of that on this channel, please subscribe. The hotel is a living museum. But this is of the swinging 60s. The TWA Flight Center was built in the 1960s as an airport terminal for TWA Airlines at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Opened on May 15, 2019, the 1960s TWA Hotel reignited the magic of Eero Saarinen's landmark 1962 TWA Flight Center. The design, the decker, the constant 60s music all evoke the 1960s. The check-in desks are just that. The check-in desks for the hotel. The unforgettable click-clacking of the authentic original mechanical operation of the classic Solari split-flat message board adds to the atmosphere. It has 512 ultra-quiet guest rooms with exhilarating views of JFK's runways. And here is Connie, parked outside, brought here, decommissioned, and turned into what many say is one of the best hotel cocktail bars in the world. Sense the Beatles arriving in America. Feel the wave of Motown. The Connie Lounge is located inside the Star of America. The Paris Café, the Sunken Lounge, and the Food Hall are all inside this building. Terminal 5 is now the JetBlue Lounge, and you could be whizzing away to your favourite Caribbean island without even knowing this existed downstairs, hidden behind that corner door. So if you have time, do visit this TWA hotel. If you have more time, then do join us on this site that you've just found because we normally film those Caribbean islands and we have forts and towns all over the Caribbean on our site with guides and what to see. So, TWA, JetBlue, to the Caribbean. But while we're here in this 60s museum, down, basking in front of Connie, it's not just the planes and the check-in desks. Look at the old phones. Remember when you had phones on every street corner? The hairdressers when flying was special and you had your hair done just to fly somewhere. And all of those old packs and tins. Hairspray and Twister, the game of the 60s. So what else do you do in an airport lounge? Hey, hey, the uniforms are up on the first floor. Now look at this, the historic collection of jackets, scarves and hats. The way the crew used to dress, incredible. This is something you just do not see and it's hidden in the basement of Terminal 5. I tell you what I love is the little cases they carried, the tiny cases because people didn't have very many clothes. It reminded me of Ellis Island and the museum that's out there in the Hudson, which we also have a film of. Look at them, beautiful. I bet your case is much bigger than that. Now if you're off to the Caribbean, do remember that this channel, Gene Cruises at Doris Visits, films all of those places where you go on holiday. Here on this channel you will find Iceland, Rio, the whole of the Caribbean. You'll find guides for the Mediterranean, for everywhere from Africa to Asia. This lounge is definitely in my top 10 places to see in New York along with Central Station and all of those other iconic buildings because this is iconic, the 60s, the clothing, that aura when the Beatles came to visit, Howard Hughes, style and class. Also here, which is extra special and let's face it, at airports we do have many hours to spend as well as the little rooms they kept for dignitaries like the Pope, the President and MPs. The rooms that were just special where they would be served champagne, no, some people don't drink champagne, but you know what I mean, as well as all of this sort of 60s glamour, there is the advertising posters, poster after poster after poster because it's hard to imagine that this was in fact the beginning of exploration. It was the beginning of the time when ordinary people began to explore the world, began to fly and go abroad and the advertising and the posters that began to pop up in shops and travel agents tried to get you to venture to all of these foreign places. So do get down here, Terminal 5, the Blue Jet Lounge and come downstairs and remember TWA from the 60s and if you weren't around in the 60s, it will certainly take you back there because everything from the letters, the posters, the typewriters and everything on show is just a classic exhibition of things you won't see elsewhere. Hey, you may even be staying here in one of the 512 extra quiet rooms. If it's the summer, you may get on the roof but if not, you can look at the pictures. I hope you've enjoyed this look back at TWA, the Beatles arriving in America in 1965, all of the things that have gone past, that no longer are here except to see in places like this which people take the time and effort to recreate. Thanks for watching. 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