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Flashback Photos: Delta marks 85 years in Atlanta
Delta Air Lines began passenger service to Atlanta on June 12, 1930, eventually making the city its corporate headquarters in 1941.
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Delta Air Lines began passenger service to Atlanta on June 12, 1930, eventually making the city its corporate headquarters in 1941. Delta and Atlanta have been synonymous for 85 years now. Here's a look back through the AJC photo archives at Atlanta's hometown airline, starting with this 1945 photo of nine of Delta's stewardesses shown beside a big transport on the apron of the Atlanta Airport. From left to right: Isabel Sanders, Martha Watkins, Josephine Pate, Alberta Cason, Frances Cooper, Christine Ferguson, Hedy Swindel, Nora Walsh and Virginia Lewis.
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