Southwest has been operating from Love Field since June 18, 1971, and in these weekly posts, we have looked at some of our early operations at our home airport.  I thought it might be fun to take a look back at Love before Southwest, by using some postcards in my collection.  So let’s start with the terminal that was located off of Lemmon Avenue during the 1940s and 1950s.  This terminal

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Graves this weekend.  I first noticed his career when he played the father on Fury, and then in Mission Impossible as Jim Phelps.  But, when I first saw Airplane at the Fox Theater in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 1980, I knew I was watching a classic American movie.  I would wager that at least three out of

When your Founder and Chairman Emeritus (Herb Kelleher) and President Emeritus (Colleen Barrett) are Irish, and your CEO, President, and Chairman has Kelly as his last name, the luck of the Irish is bound to be with your Company.  Is it any wonder that St. Patrick’s Day is a big event at Southwest?  And, it’s been that way for a long time.  We even began our service to St.

I love historical aerial photos because they not only freeze an object in time, they place the object in the context of its surroundings.  For example, I wrote an article for Trains magazine about Dallas Union Station, and in the Dallas Public Library’s photo collection, I found an aerial view of the terminal from the late 1940s.  The photo was a perfect companion to the article

As promised, here is another look at some more interim liveries used here at Southwest.  As I mentioned in an earlier Flashback Friday post, airlines sometimes operate aircraft in the color scheme of their previous carrier, but with modified titles.  This can happen in a merger or during a shortterm lease.  For