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It is difficult to describe any decade in just a few lines. And for the seventies it is almost impossible. No lack of events, but nothing that could be called typically seventies. Maybe people are looking at life differently from the way they did in previous decades. The watchword is diversity. On one hand a strong peace on earth ideology still held sway (late sixties), while on the other hand they were beginning to realize the practical improbability of such ideas. |
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1972 - Terrorist attack at the Munich Olympic Games |
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1975 - American & Russian spacecraft link up |
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1977 - Air disaster in Tenerife: collision between KLM & Pan planes |
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1979 - Mother Theresa receives Nobel Peace Prize |
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Rapid growth in the late sixties means it's time to enlarge Schiphol's Central terminal. Work started in 1971 almost doubles the space available. On 2 July 1971 the first jumbo jet lands at Schiphol: A PanAm 747, a daily flight between Amsterdam & New York. On 20 September 1970 Frans and Marie Kappé celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.
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Kappé continues to grow - at the same rate as Schiphol infact. Until 1973, the year of Frans Kappé's death on 9 October. On 31 January, 1975 Kappé celebrates it's 25th anniversary in the Spiegelzaal in Amsterdam's Amstel Hotel, where the staff was treated to a splendid buffet dinner. Jacques Parson joins the company in the same year. He has worked there |
part-time while studying economics. In 1975 the duty-free shopping center is expanded and Schiphol also becomes accessible by train. The first stretch of the Schiphol Line is completed on 20 December. |
