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ROOM 391
Ellen´s husband
Frank de Crescenzo (ex Mantus)
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A Lovely Couple!
Recent photo of Ellen Orros-
DeCrescenzo with husband Frank.
Frank is famed star with
MANTUS!
October 1968, Milan, Italy.
In front of Duomo.
NEW YORK
AIRWAYS INC
Taken at the West 30th Street
Heliport, N6676D is hooked to a
Ford Mustang for publicity stunt.
The Mustang was flown around
Manhattan by the Vertol 107-II.
October 1968, Milan, Italy.
Ellen Orros (me, notice the gloves!)
October 1968, Milan, Italy.
Fellow stew Leil Lowndes.
July-August 1968,
Hawaii, Maui
July-August 1968, Hawaii,
fellow stews (Donna Peck
is in the middle?
Mary Sweeny on left?)
June 1968
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ELLEN ORROS-DECRESCENZO
Ellen was hired
as a stewardess with
ONA on April 15th 1968
HEY LOOK US OVER!
Leil Lowndes and Ellen had composed a
graduation song for their ONA class of
May 15, 1968.
The whole class sang it during the class
ceremonies. It goes to the tune of
Broadway play musical, "Hey Look Me Over".
Hey look us over ...
We're gonna fly!
Straight out of training ...
headed for the sky!
Old stews look-out now ...
we're coming through!
What ONA has done for us ...
they could not do for you!
So... captains prepare boys,
we want to see ...
How big the world is ...
big enough for me ...?
Fasten your seat belts ...
we want to go ...
"UP..UP AND AWAAAAAAY...
(This part changes to the TWA
commercial tune of that time)
With ONA!!!
May-June 1968, DC-9.
June 1968, Ellen Orros (me)
and fellow stew.
I have always lived in Astoria Heights,
being able to commute either to the city
or the airports. I have moved into a newly
built home thinking it would be better to
have it built and not have to do too much!
Ha, wrong, wrong, wrong! Always something
to do, change or add! Never ends!
After leaving ONA, I worked for New York
Airways Inc. as a flight-attendant.
(During this time my name was Pafitis.)
At the time the fleet included two Boeing
Vertol 107-11, then upgrading to
Sikorsky S-61L, plus two De Havilland
Canada DHC-6 twin otters. It was fun,
great group of co-workers, but I sure
missed flying the big birds!
In 1993, I was hired with Tower airlines as
a flight-attendant. I lasted close to a year.
It was great traveling, adored the cock-pit
crew, but just a handful of flight-attendants.
Tower Air Boeing 747
ONA was the best experience yet. We did have
the best crews and flight-attendants. Every
flight was exciting; meeting new crews and new
places kept us all in sinc!
I tried again in 1996, being hired with United
Airlines as a flight-attendant ...the oldest
one in the class at almost 50! Finally my age
was a +...got first dibs on relocation!
Well, to make a long story short, in the middle
of training (which was the United training
center in sub-zero Chicago, the coldest place
on earth), I had a severe attack of food
poisoning, ending up in hospital!
Hilton Chicago O´Hare AP Hotel
The training was intense, and I was too weak to
continue, so I high-tailed home as soon as my
legs got me out of bed! The staff at United
were very nice and told me to take my time
getting better as they will put me in the next
class. At this point in my life, I knew I needed
to slow down, so I had to bow out.....
In between airlines, I either managed or was
head receptionist in Manhattans' beauty salons.
Gerard Bollei Salon, New York
As I use to say in interviews, it's either
'AIR or HAIR'!
With Love, Ellen-Orros De Crescenzo
September 1968, Athens, Greece, hotel balcony.
Hotel Cristoforo Colombo,
Milan, Italy
October 1968, Leil Lowndes with
regulation coffee cup hat and
fellow stew!
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