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Thursday, 2 August 2018

Revellers could also see a wooden bridge, cabins and live monkeys at the elaborate al fresco theater after it opened in 1896

Pan Am’s marine air terminal in Miami at Dinner Key, pictured in 1932, was privately built by the airline and on most days, eager spectators vastly outnumbered the actual passengers

Pan Am was the launch customer of the Boeing 707, pictured in 1960 - the first jetliner in history to be commercially successful

Pan Am to run commercial flights between the United States and Asia successfully, landing rights in Shanghai - pictured under a Pan Am Douglas DC-2 in 1936

Jimmy Carter, Age 18

Lyndon Johnson, Age 18

James Garfield, Age 16

In the late 60s as colour television became the ultimate status symbol for aspirational consumers and movie theatres offered an appealing alternative to drive-ins

Herbert Hoover, Age 25

Harry Truman, Age 22 And 33

Gerald Ford, Age 18 And 20

George W. Bush, Age 21

George W. Bush, Age 19

George H. W. Bush, Age 18

From its inception in 1927, Pan American Airways single-handedly revolutionized air travel and pioneered a new era of commercial flight. Pictured, one of its Boeing 377s photographed in 1949

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