Eastern Air Lines In Flight Beverage Card, 1976 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The name "Birdland" was chosen

The name "Birdland" was chosen to capitalize on the popularity of their regular headliner Charlie "Yardbird" Parker

This extraordinary menu is from New Year's Eve in 1935-36 and marks a dinner at the Cumberland Hotel in London

the burlesque club and was popular with servicemen who were invited on stage to play boomps-a-daisy with the chorus girls

Au Cochon d'or - The Golden Pig - was a restaurant in Paris originally run by proprietor Rene Ayral

Eastern Air Lines In Flight Beverage Card, 1976 Sizes:50x76cm (20x30 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) The name "Birdland" was chosenWonderful Eastern In Flight Beverage card that would have entitled the holder to a cocktail. Eastern Air Lines was a major American airline from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution it was headquartered at Miami International Airport, Florida. Eastern was one of the "Big Four" domestic airlines created by the Spoils Conferences of 1930, and was headed by World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in its early years. It had a near monopoly in air travel