The Golden Ticket

ID: 2261
This file appears in: The 1934 Pan-American Air Races

Tickets for the Pan-American Air Races went on sale on December 31, 1933.

Item courtesy of the Abe L. Shushan Collection, Earl K. Long Library, Photo taken by author.

This file appears in: The 1934 Pan-American Air Races

By Teresa Thessen
On February 9, 1934, the first Mardi Gras after Prohibition was repealed, hundreds of people crowded around the airport to see the Pan-American Air Races. Abraham Shushan, the Henderson brothers (air…