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SAS City Portraits
(original series)

The legendary original series of SAS city guides was published from 1958 until the mid-1960s.
Each guide was re-issued at intervals with updates and sometimes slight changes in cover design.
The series grew over the years with newly-added cities to the SAS network plus some off-line cities.
Later series, with entirely different designs, were published into the 1980s.

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Click each city to view a larger image as well as a part of the interior.

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Promoting the City Portraits - From a c. 1967 SAS Route Atlas (WC)
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WC Amsterdam (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Amsterdam guide w/another map . . .	BL Ankara (c. 1961) . . . . . .	WC Athens (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Athens guide w/another map . . .	WC Bangkok (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1963 Bangkok guide (in Swedish) w/another map * Click to view a 1963 Thai International Bangkok guide .	WC Barcelona (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Barcelona guide w/another map . . .
WC Beirut (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Beirut guide w/another map .	BL Bergen (1959) * Click to view a 1965 Bergen guide w/another map . .	BL Berlin (1959) . . . .	WC Brussels (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Brussels guide w/another map .	BL Budapest (1959) . . . .
BL Buenos Aires (1959 - in Swedish) Click for larger view of the front and back covers and inside map * Click to view a 1965 Buenos Aires guide (in English) w/another map * Click to view a 1960 Swissair Buenos Aires guide based on the SAS City Portrait (in German - complete) .	WC Cairo (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Cairo guide w/another map . . . .	WC Calcutta (1959) * Click to view a c. 1961 Calcutta guide w/another map * Click to view a 1963 Calcutta guide w/another cover photo . . .	BL Chicago (1964) . . . . . . .	WC Copenhagen (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1964 Copenhagen guide w/another cover photo and map . . .
BL Damascus (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1962 Damascus guide w/another map .	BL Dusseldorf (1959) . . . .	BL Frankfurt (1958) . . . .	BL Geneva (1958) (complete brochure) . . .	WC Glasgow and Edinburgh (1959) . . . .
BL Gothenburg (1958) * Click to view a 1964 Gothenburg guide w/another cover photo . . .	WC Hamburg (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Hamburg guide w/another cover photo and map .	BL Hanover (1959) . . . . .	WC Helsinki (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Helsinki guide w/another map . .	WC Hong Kong (c. 1960) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 SAS/Thai Int'l Hong Kong guide (in Swedish) . .
WC Istanbul (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Istanbul guide w/another map .	BL Jakarta (1959) (complete brochure) . . .	BL Jerusalem (c. 1962) . . . .	WC Johannesburg (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Johannesburg guide .	WC Karachi (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Karachi guide w/another cover photo and map .
WC SAS/Thai International Kuala Lumpur (c. 1963) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Kuala Lumpur guide .	BL Lisbon (1964) . . . . .	WC London (1960) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 London guide w/another map . .	BL Los Angeles (1963) . . . . .	WC Madrid (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Madrid guide w/another cover photo and map .
WC Manila (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Manila guide (in Swedish) .	BL Mexico City (c. 1961) . . . .	BL Miami and Miami Beach (1963) . . . .	WC Milan (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1962 Milan guide w/another map .	BL Montreal (1964) . . . .
WC Moscow (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Moscow guide w/another map .	WC Munich (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Munich guide w/another map .	WC Nairobi (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Nairobi guide w/another cover photo and map .	WC New York (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1959 New York guide (in Swedish - complete) .	WC Nice and the French Riviera (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Nice guide w/another cover photo and map .
WC Oslo (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Oslo guide w/another map . . .	WC Paris (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Paris guide w/another map . . .	WC Prague (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Prague guide w/another map . . .	BL Rio de Janeiro (1958) (complete brochure) . . . . .	BL Rome (c. 1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Rome guide w/another map * Click to view other Rome guides of the original series .
BL San Francisco (1964) . . . .	BL Santiago (1960) . . . .	BL São Paulo (1960) * Click to view a 1958 São Paulo guide (complete) . .	WC Seattle (1967 - in German) (complete brochure) . . .	WC Stockholm (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Stockholm guide w/another map .
WC Tehran (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1963 Tehran guide w/another cover photo and map .	BL Tel Aviv (1963) (complete brochure) . . .	WC Tokyo (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a 1962 Tokyo guide w/another map .	WC Vienna (1958) (complete brochure) * Click to view a later 1958 Vienna guide w/another cover photo .	WC Warsaw (1959) (complete brochure) * Click to view a c. 1961 Warsaw guide w/another map .
	BL Washington (1964) .		BL Zurich (c. 1961) .

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Examples of later series of city guides:

BL Amsterdam (1967) View more guides of the late 1960s series. . .

BL Frankfurt / Stuttgart (1977) View more guides of the 1970s series. . .

BL Moscow / Leningrad (1980) View more guides of the late 1970s/early 1980s series. . .

BL New York (1983) View more guides of the 1980s series. . .

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All brochures are from the collections of Björn Larsson or Wassim Chemaitilly, marked either BL or WC in the lower right corners.

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View many more City Portraits of all series on Odd Arnestad's SAS City Portraits website.

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This page last updated September 17, 2024.