"Red-Eye Special"

[Laurence Horn]

Ah, that takes me back.  I was a grad student at UCLA during those same years, and I fondly remember the good old days when "PSA" evoked Pacific Southwest Airlines rather than Prostate-Specific Antigen (tests).

LH

On Jan 15, 2014, at 1:21 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:

> There used to be a PSA flight San Francisco - L.A. (and L.A. - San
> Francisco) that was called the red eye. Was at about midnight and cost 10
> bucks. This was 1967-69. Also, my girlfriend at that time was a junior
> stewardess for Continental and she used red eye regularly to refer to the
> midnight or wee-hours flights.
> DAD
>
>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:08 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: "Red-Eye Special"
> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      "Red-Eye Special"
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> I first heard this in 1972 or '73.
>
> Since then it's become so common as to be routinely shortened to "the
> red-eye."
>
> 1963 _Plain Dealer_ (Cleveland) (June 12) 24: Some 15 or 20 of the Centaur
> scientists  and engineers board what they have nicknamed the "Red-Eye
> Special," which flies them all night and lands them at Cleveland-Hopkins in
> time to go to work in the morning.
>
> JL
>
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