Didn’t win yesterday?
We’re doing it again! Free luggage tags to our most creative responses at 6pm EST. Tell your friends. Go!
Think you can sport one of these luggage tags? PROVE IT! Just write which tag you’d like on our page and we’ll award our most creative responses with their pick!
Take a closer look at: http://tinyurl.com/flapjacktags
We’ll be giving a handful of tags away all this week at 6pm EST so stay tuned. Feel free to tell friends or re-enter daily until 8.28.10
Vintage Thursday from the archives of Flight 001’s Headquarters:
Vintage 70’s Jetliner Hard Shell Cosmetic Case.
When a bag gets lost the airport or airplane will store it for a while and try to find the owner.
If they can’t identify the owner of the case they send it to be auctioned off with the profit going to charity.
I go to these auctions and buy the cases so I can photograph them for my weird voyeuristic passion.
The reason for the web site? I would really like to try to find the people who own my suitcases, so if you have any friends who have lost a case please get them to have a look.
Samson — sculpture by Brian Goggin
Located at SMF
Here are some of our favorites from Tom Schifanella’s collection of luggage labels. Take a long look at his incredible flickr stream.
Description from his profile:
Luggage labels are fascinating bits of hotel history from the golden age of travel, roughly the 1900’s to 1960’s. During this time these labels were used by hotels as advertising and eagerly applied to steamer trunks, suitcases and all sorts of luggage by hotel staff, mainly bellhops.
It’s almost hard to believe there was a time when travel looked this good. Let’s revive the golden age!
