Press
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Air Hollywood p. +1.818.890.0444 fly@panamexperience.com Recent press coverage of The Pan Am Experience:
April 18, 2015
By Avishay Artsy April 18, 2015 Original Story Want to relive the golden years of aviation? In a warehouse miles from Hollywood, you’ll find a high-class tribute to the beloved airline Pan Am. Every other Saturday night, customers line up outside a warehouse in Pacoima to relive a nostalgic experience. As a small boy, said Anthony Toth, “I started collecting airplane models, and small things like timetables and luggage tags. But as I got older, the desire to have more and more aircraft things became greater and greater.” So much so that Toth visited so-called airport graveyards in the deserts that sold larger pieces of fuselage … “sidewall panels, and overhead bins, and galley modules and seats. And as I […]
May 3, 2015
By Caroline Ku May 3, 2015 Original Story Twenty-four years after the demise of the legendary airline, Pan American World Airways is still riding on the coattails of Jet Age nostalgia. PAN AM VIRTUAL MUSEUM Everything Pan Am is a virtual museum run by Kelly Cusack, who started at the airline as a baggage handler and made his way up to the executive level. Cusack owns more than 5,000 items of Pan Am memorabilia, and his website painstakingly archives any aircraft object, group, or piece of history associated with Pan Am. PAN AM EXPERIENCE The Pan Am Experience by Air Hollywood reenacts every aspect of what it was like to travel as a Pan Am passenger — except for the […]
May 6, 2015
By Caroline Ku May 6, 2015 Original Story Mike Kelley was perusing the Internet when he learned about a guy who had spent two decades of his life collecting Pan Am paraphernalia to replicate the airline’s 747 cabin that was sitting in his garage. As someone who finds himself “browsing the web at 2 a.m. looking up articles on aviation and aviation history,” he was intrigued. “That is what I have to shoot,” he recalls in a video interview. As an architecture and interiors photographer whose work is featured in magazines like Real Simple and Dwell, Kelley planned to shoot the mock cabin the way he photographs houses and apartments, but Anthony Toth, owner of the Pan Am Experience by […]
May 6, 2015
By Tim Walker May 6, 2015 Original Story Tim Walker checks in and checks out a four-hour journey with a difference. The flight is on time, the seats are capacious, the drinks are free and plentiful. The stewardesses are beautiful and beautifully dressed. The in-flight meal is a perfectly pink-centred chateaubriand. This probably doesn’t sound like any commercial flight you’ve ever been on – or, at least, not in the past 35 years. That’s because the Pan Am Experience is a first-class trip to the 1970s. Yes, nostalgia is in the air – or rather, on the ground – at Air Hollywood, a studio in Los Angeles that specialises in aircraft sets. This is where the famous in-flight scenes from […]