CHICAGO — Remember when Eastern Airlines frequented O'Hare International Airport? How about Trans World Airlines?
The two now-defunct airlines (Eastern ceased operations in 1991; Trans World in 2001 when it was acquired by American Airlines) can be seen in their former colorful glory in a Chicago Film Archives home movie from 1961.
The four-minute home movie shows O'Hare as it was in the process of becoming the world's busiest airport. It also features planes from American Airlines, United Airlines and a helicopter.
The movie was shot inside O'Hare's new terminal, which was fully completed later that year. Also in 1961, a 5,000-car parking lot was finished at O'Hare. By 1962, 10 million passengers were coming through O'Hare, making it the world's most-traveled airport.
Travelers also around that time had an easier way to get from O'Hare to the city by then after the Kennedy Expressway opened in 1960.
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