"Red-Eye Special"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The _Plain Dealer_ article refers to flights originating on the West
Coast.- presumably like the term)

JL


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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).
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> LH
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> On Jan 15, 2014, at 1:21 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:
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> > 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
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> > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 4:08 PM
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> > 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.
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> > Since then it's become so common as to be routinely shortened to "the
> > red-eye."
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> > 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.
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> > JL
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