This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original 1950s advertisement illustrated by renowned commercial poster artist Stan Galli, for United Airlines’ service to Southern California. The image features a woman vacationing at a resort reminiscent of Los Angeles, with palm trees and mountains in the background.
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13"x19" and 24”x36” formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online. The 24”x36” poser has a 1” white border.
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
HISTORY OF UNITED AIRLINES & STAN GALLI
STAN GALLI
Stan Galli (1912- 2009) was a renowned American commercial artist, famous for his realistic and faithful representations of his given subject. His works are full of his unique style and fun, and his iconic images are some of the finest representations of commercial art during the high-powered advertising era of the 1950s and 60s.
Galli was born in San Francisco in 1912, and he showed talent from a young age. His art education was delayed by the Great Depression, and during those lean years, he worked a wide variety of jobs in the Western United States. Stan Galli saved enough money to attend the California Art Institute in San Francisco, where he trained as a commercial artist. He was hired right out of school in 1940, and he gained the necessary experience to make a name for himself in the commercial art world.
During WWII, Stan Galli created ads for a wide variety of companies, as well as instructional manuals for the Navy. He gained notoriety for his United Airlines travel posters that enticed tourists with inviting scenes that featured iconic American vacation spots.
UNITED AIRLINES
United Airlines traces its roots to Varney Air Lines (VAL), which Walter Varney founded in 1926 in Boise, Idaho. Continental Airlines is the successor to Speed Lanes, which Varney had founded by 1932 and whose name changed to Varney Speed Lines in 1934. VAL flew the first privately contracted air mail flight in the U.S. on April 6, 1926.
After World War II, United gained from a boom in customer demand for air travel, with its revenue per passenger-miles jumping five-fold in the 1950s, and continued growth occurring through the next two decades. From 1953 until 1970 United offered "men only" flights which forbade children and women (with the exception of two female flight attendants per flight). The airline allowed passengers to smoke and offered complementary cigars as well as drinks, and a steak dinner.
In 1954, United Airlines became the first airline to purchase modern flight simulators which had visual, sound, and motion cues for training pilots. Purchased for US$3 million (1954) from Curtiss-Wright, these were the first of today's modern flight simulators for training of commercial passenger aircraft pilots.
United merged with Capital Airlines in 1961, which helped United to regain its position as the "number one airline" in the U.S. In 1968, United Airlines became a subsidiary of the UAL Corporation. United experienced several periods of labor unrest during the 1970s, and the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 forced United to scale down its operations to remain profitable.
In 1982, United became the first carrier to operate the Boeing 767, taking its first delivery of 767-200s on August 19. In May 1985, the airline underwent a 29-day pilot strike over management's proposed "B-scale" pilot pay rates.
The aftermath of the Gulf War and increased competition from low-cost carriers led to losses in 1991 and 1992. In 1994, United's pilots, machinists, baggage handlers, and non-contract employees agreed to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), acquiring 55 percent of company stock in exchange for 15–25 percent salary concessions. This made the carrier the largest employee-owned corporation in the world. United also launched low-cost subsidiary Shuttle by United in 1994, which was a high frequency, west coast-based carrier that remained in operation until 2001.
