BOAC - British Airways: London - Philadelphia/Detroit 1970s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) The interior frescoes were the

The interior frescoes were the work of Giovanni Battista Smeraldi

In later years

located at the Rincon centre in San Francisco

the guest who also kept the other Berkeley Hotel menu in this collection is one and the same and both were preserved as happy memories of a stay in one of England’s finest hotels

Courtesy UNLV Special Collections

BOAC - British Airways: London - Philadelphia/Detroit 1970s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) The interior frescoes were theBritish Overseas Airways Corporation was the British state owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. BOAC launched its premium Monarch Service in 1951 on its London New York route. Six or seven course lunches and dinners were served to passengers in First Class. Complimentary cigarettes were offered after take off and after meals. Those were the days! BOAC was merged with British European Airways (BEA) in