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While I am now sure that Googies appears in the movie, it is in another part of the movie... In the shot of the trucks coming towards the camera, you can clearly make out Googies and the awning of the San Carlos Hotel: https://i.imgur.com/dED6ICF.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SD6P0by.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ufaKZqu.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/w12dqm.jpghttps://plus.google.com/wm/trollface...explore/googie ... but if this is so, then I don't think the first photo in this post shows Fifth and Olive... the two intersections appear quite different in the movie: https://i.imgur.com/QGbHcUc.gif |
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I just realized that one of the unidentified photos (top left) is literally across the street from one of the other photos... both of the two top video shots were taken at 6th and Olive:
https://i.imgur.com/Bq8bGkD.png That means that the following two spots are the only ones in the movie not yet identified: https://i.imgur.com/0dD1BfN.jpg This one seems easy to figure out, but I just can't put my finger on it: https://i.imgur.com/5h5fdNZ.jpg |
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..but I wonder if 'Fletcher Field' was ever actualized? There is almost no documentation on it. (except for the photograph I found on eBay) The aerial below was taken sometime between 1925/26 (when Slate Aircraft Corp. built their dirigible hanger) and before 1928 (when the Grand Central Air Terminal was built. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/I93eFu.jpg abandonedairfields __________________________________________________________ Quote:
Here is Thomas Benton Slate with his prototype for his rigid dirigible https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Lz0g2K.jpg i.pinimg And here you see the Slate Aircraft Corp. dirigible hanger under construction. (1925/26) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/kMACCN.jpg i.pinimg Voila! The hanger is finished. ....(I like how D I R I G I B L E is spelled out between the hanger windows) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/Gruc6z.jpg Slate's prototype appears to be growing. And, finally, here is a fantastic aerial. ...(I believe this was taken the day Slate's dirigible, City of Glendale, blew its rivets).....Dec. 19, 1929. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/D7vuqs.jpg tropicostation The airship hangar with the L.A. River in the background. Fletcher Field, if it was ever completed, would be at upper left, between the wing of the plane and the river. |
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E.R. - The Abandoned and Little Known Airfields website is pretty extensive. I could not find a mention of Fletcher Field. I think if it was ever built, there would have been an article and photos. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA.htm |
I did find a Fletcher Airport.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/jmio1A.jpg And as you can see, the surrounding area is vaguely like the area around 'Fletcher Field'...but instead of the the L.A. River there is the Rio Hondo Channel. When I realized this wasn't Fletcher Field I didn't bother to jot down the location. DUH! . |
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E.R. - We are looking at the El Monte area here. South of the San Bernardino (10) Freeway and east of Rosemead Blvd (Highway 19). I think part of the old airport is still vacant land. (brown spot on the map) https://i.postimg.cc/6qkc2PfZ/Capture.png Google Maps The area looks like a big gravel pit, or something. https://i.postimg.cc/85CtqMC7/Capture1.png Google Street View |
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Googie's was on the NW corner of 5th and Olive. This view looks E on 5th St. apparently with considerable telephoto distortion accentuating the steepness of the hill and narrowing the width of Olive St. |
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My family lived a few blocks north of here (across what's now the freeway) during 1950-54. The short version of the history is that the airfield supported some aeronautical and later aerospace manufacturing facilities (notably Aerojet-General), and these gradually took over the airport itself by the mid-/late 1950s. Beginning in the late 1960s or so, the area was re-redeveloped into the office and commercial space currently extant. The vacant land shown in the aerial view apparently was supposed to be developed into a multistory complex, but it seems to have been delayed. More here: https://www.ci.el-monte.ca.us/Docume...pecific-Plan?b |
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Here is a current Google Maps Aerial of the location https://i.postimg.cc/rwk8jHHk/Screen...0-39-41-AM.png Google Maps |
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But as the eBay aerial show....there were no houses at that exact spot in 1940. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/4ZfDz3.jpg Taken on Dec. 07, 1940. (DATE: Upper left corner) . |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/LQWQnP.jpg abandoned airfields I am judging by the curve in the river. (shown in the 1940 aerial) . |
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