Amtrak Female Attendents wore GO-GO boots as part of their uniform in the 1970s

[Erik_Mag]

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) also had their F/A’s in hot pants in the early 1970’s - I was a regular flyer on PSA from 1972 to '78. Souhwest started out with their F/A’s in hot pants as well in 1971.

[ronrunner]

Nancy Sinatra…somebody cue up Boots are made for walking…and that awesome bass…oh yeah and her Playboy cover way back in 1990 something[:D][:P]…Classy woman that u don’t find these days

[BaltACD]

Nancy Sinatra…somebody cue up Boots are made for walking…and that awesome bass…oh yeah and her Playboy cover way back in 1990 something…Classy woman that u don’t find these days

[ronrunner]

Yes that music that i would here in car chase scends.blue movies and as Muzak in discount department stores in the 1970s like Gold Circle and Zaryes.

But late Seventies. 1970 was still a culture going to the Moon and developing SSTs, still very much aware of the HSGT work in the preceding 5 years. It was just seeing the Metroliners come into regular service.

We didn’t even have the Philadelphia Sound until 1976… extra points if you know what that Philadelphia Freedom was.

Battlestar Garlictica, Supertrain, and Buck Rogers were the very end of the Seventies. All that roller crap was '79 or later… I don’t know if the low-water mark was the roller ballet in Buck Rogers or any scene from Starlight Express… but those were '80s. And you’ll excuse me if I withhold comment on the '80s.

[ronrunner]

Matter of fact I have some old railfan videos on beta that use that 70s sound as background music or was it VHS?

[ORNHOO]

Flintlock76 wrote the following post 5 days ago: Paul Milenkovic the driver is still leaning with head and arm outside the side window Probably one of the last of the old steam hands. The old ways die hard, don’t ya’ know?

It is not just “old head” engineers who make use of the side window:

https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-happens-when-a-pilot-opens-an-airliner-windo-1847222625

[GN_Fan1]

I’m a long-time railfan, retired and now living in Trieste, Italy. “Go-Go Boots?” I haven’t heard that term for 50 years. Over here they’re just called boots. My wife has two pair, but at 74, she doen’t wear them anymore…not too dificult to put on as there’s a long zipper along the inner side, but at our age we don’t get out much. It can get quite chilly here in the winter, and as fashion concious as Italians are, boots are common in the winter, and by one very un-scientific study I did one afternoon waiting outside for my wife to buy something, I determined by count, that 50% of the women wore boots. Some were short at about 6" above the ancle, but most were knee high, with a wide spread of ages – from small girls to 70+ year old matrons. Unlike in the US, people walk here, so having 100+ women pass in front of me didn’t take that long. For me, it was fun because I like seeing women in boots.

[Flintlock76]

as fashion concious as Italians are, boots are common in the winter

I’ve seen the trend come and go a lot in the past fifty years, and for the past several years it’s been back. Many young ladies like the riding boots style, whether they ride horses or not. At least during the temperate or cold weather months.

Then as soon as it warms up the boots come off and the sandals go on.

[54light15]

For some reason, here in Toronto rubber galoshes on women were popular. Generally called “wellies” they are perfect for mucking out stables, working in a brewery or car wash but many young women walking down the street had them. I’ve long ago given up on figuring out women’s fashion choices.

[ronrunner]

Italians do know boots expecily when the whole country is shaped like one