Thanks for the information
TMSeele!
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Originally Posted by TMSteele
Hughes moved The Spruce Goose to Los Alamitos in Nov to test drive his creation.
Unfortunately, [I]Marina Del Rey was an inadequate port because it was not begun to be built until 1954.
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Article found
HERE
The following photographs are from the
Marina Del Rey Historical Society
Let the dredging begin!
Marina Del Rey Historical Society
Marina Del Rey Historical Society
A closer look at one of the dredgers.
Pacific Dredging Co.
Marina Del Rey Historical Society
For the larger rocks, Connolly-Pacific was hired. (a division of Pacific Dredging?)
Marina Del Rey Historical Society
hmmmm...
I am surprised Howard Hughes didn't have some equity in this massive endeavor.
His company...as shown by
Handsome Stranger's
photograph...was literally
next door.
Somewhere in my files I have the 1954 master plan for Marina Del Rey. I'll try to find them.
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