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Jack Morath sends this memory - My picture below shows the TCA office building on the North Side of the London Heathrow airport (LHR) during the 1950's. |
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It was alongside the Bath Road with the Air Hostess pub almost opposite. The Air Hostess was situated on Bath Road. This pub was previously known as The Brickmakers Arms. It was demolished in the late 1980's; a branch of McDonald's now stands on the site. (Source: |
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The Three Magpies pub was nearer to the office. (Source: tripadvisor.ca/Restaurant_Review) |
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Larry Harris shares this memory with us - "Parka Misidentification." In February 1974, the main runway at Terrace BC (YXT) was experiencing an early spring breakup. It was damaged by frost heaves, broken asphalt and major cracks. CP Air decided it was too rough to take the B-737 into there so they contracted Pacific Western to run a CV640 to and from Vancouver. I don't know why they didn't use CP staff to operate the flight, but PWA had to also supply the agents. Myself and Al Tonn out of Kelowna went into Terrace to be the agents. One Friday night after work we decided to go for a beer. It was cold and snowing so we wore our airline parkas. The only difference between airline parkas and RCMP parkas was that the RCMP had shoulder patches identifying them as RCMP. The first pub we went to was called Lakelse. The room was packed with the younger crowd and they were not smoking regular cigarettes. You couldn't see five feet in front of you as the smoke was so thick. As soon as we walked in, the room went deathly silent. We walked through and as we could not find a table decided to go to the Terrace hotel. As soon as we left the Lakelse the noise level increased to a deafening level. When we got to Terrace hotel pub there was plenty of seating so we sat in a corner with our backs to a wall. The server came over and rather than take our order told us we better get out. After asking him why, he told us that they don't serve "Narc's", short for undercover drug police officers. It took a little while to convince him that we were not "Narc's" but were actually airline agents. As a result of that we never bought another beer for the remaining 2 months we were there. I don't know who paid the bill, but we drank a lot of beer, and never wore our parkas anywhere other than the airport. |
