Museum's Boeing 727 Gets New, Old Makeover

The revamped exhibit opened Thursday at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Informational and interactive panels at the newly updated Boeing 727 exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, which opened Thursday. I Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Sit back in one of the tangerine cloth seats, let yourself be seduced by the exotica sounds of Les Baxter — and you can almost imagine it’s 1964 again, the year this particular United Airlines 727 first took flight.

The re-imagined galley has a United menu from the mid-1960s that offered lobster cocktail, cream of celery soup and roast prime rib of beef — and it wasn’t even first class.

 

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The cockpit of the newly updated Boeing 727 exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. I Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
Gerry Molyneux and her husband, Gary Kovitz, from Grand Rapids, Mich., remember what it was like to fly during the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Industry’s re-imagined Boeing 727 exhibit helped stir up some of those memories Thursday. I Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
Eion Jiongco (from left), Sandi Jiongco and Jennifer Cody, play with on of the interactive screens at the newly updated Boeing 727 exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. I Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
The newly updated Boeing 727 exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry reopened on Thursday. I Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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