90-YEAR-OLD CELEBRATES 70 YEARS OF FEMALE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS

90-YEAR-OLD CELEBRATES 70 YEARS OF FEMALE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS

CHICAGO (Wireless Flash) -- Next Monday (May 15) marks an important date in the women's movement: It's the 70th anniversary of the date the very first female flight attendant started work. On May 15, 1930, Ellen Church officially became the world's first stewardess when she flew from Oakland, California, to Cheyenne, Wyoming. One former flight attendant who will be celebrating is 90-year-old Agnes Hinks, who became a flight attendant in 1933. Agnes says back then all flight attendants had to be professional nurses, weigh less than 110 pounds and be no taller than 5-foot-3. Although the in-flight food was much better back then, she says the airlines didn't permit any booze, so many passengers snuck liquor aboard in cough syrup bottles.