Mom & Pop made good use of the travel benefits from her pioneering work in real-time data processing at Pan American World Airways. They vacationed in Nassau, then Barcelona and Paris, and visited our former Astoria neighbors Chet & Regina Barion in Cologne, Germany, where Chet was promoted to head the Ford Motor Company in Europe. Then on to Rome and Venice.
PanAm was first with commercial jet planes. Mom & Pop were usually upgraded to first class by PanAm’s airport managers and flew to
Paris again for some shopping. A stopover in Hawaii then on to visit friends in Hong Kong: Maria Lee in their family estate, and other
good family friends in their villas and homes on Victoria Peak. On to Tokyo to see Mom’s IBM World Trade colleague, Jack Adjami, and a
Geisha house visit. Family shopping trip to Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and London. We still enjoy the Swan Chairs we bought in Denmark.
Celebrated Christmas and the New Year in South America. In Rio De Janeiro, the Pan Am City Manager lent us his car and driver for our
stay, taking us to see the Corcovado statue On our way out of the Leme Palace for sightseeing, we were asked to be cosmopolitan extras in
a Janet Leigh movie Grand Slam being filmed in the lobby. Sightseeing in Buenos Aires, “the Paris of South America” and on to Montevideo,
where we were guests of the Chinese Ambassador and his family for the Uruguayan Chinese community’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
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