First US stewardesses, paper dresses and flight attendants a go go

According to a San Francisco Chronicle, it was May 15, 1930, when a group of young nurses assembled beside an old Boeing transport, ready to make aviation history as the first airline stewardesses. About 35,000 stewardesses, no longer required to be registered nurses, flew for U.S. domestic airlines by 1970, the year the article was published. . These women were Margaret Arnott, Inez Keller, Cornelia Peterman, Harriet Iden, Jessie Carter, Ella Crawford, Ellen Church and Alva Johnson. They can be seen in the first two photos in the gallery. They flew the San Francisco to Chicago route, on Unite Airlines.