After I learned to fly and put in a stint with TWA as a hostess, in 1963,1 met, fell in love with, and went to work for Ebby Lunken in multiple roles for his new Midwest Airways. Our office and counter were in this building, right where the old American Airlines counters had been from the 1930s until 1946. The Sky Galley Restaurant opened when the terminal was built in 1937, as American Airlines' first Sky Chef. I always felt a real sense of history standing behind that counter but, despite our work and hopes and dreams, Ebby (a wonderful pilot) wasn't a businessman and eventually the little airline failed. The big carriers had abandoned Lunken (KLUK) shortly after World War Ⅱ for a former military field called Boone County-later the Greater Cincinnati Air- port (KCVG) located across the Ohio River in Kentucky. It was inevitable; Lunken's runways weren't adequate for higher performance post-war aircraft, there was little room for expansion, and it wasn't called "Sunken Lunken" for nothing. Surrounded on three sides by hills at the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers, it was on a flyway for birds and subject to dense ground fog on many mornings.
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