If you lived on the West Coast and watched television in the 1960s and 1970s, you couldn’t miss the Wally Bird commercials.
By the mid-1930s, Western was using a new twin-engine Boeing 247 aircraft, the plane that led to rival Douglas, building the very successful Douglas DC-3 for American Airlines and TWA. In 1937 ...
with Western’s then-current Douglas DC-3. (Courtesy of Pomona Public Library) If you lived on the West Coast and watched television in the 1960s and 1970s, you couldn’t miss the Wally Bird ...