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My father ... it was like a vintage train car inside, with curtains and table lamps and dark wood paneling. He also said the stewardesses were ugly as sin, with thighs as thick as tree trunks.
I've found a 1957 photo of an Aeroflot Tu104 interior, complete with curtains (which remind me of what was still in a Convair 580 in the 1980s) and stewardess.
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...57/su57-02.jpg
Looking at that flight attendant uniform, I'm sure your mother would have wanted to know just HOW he discovered about the thighs