View Single Post
  #50404  
Old Posted Jan 27, 2019, 6:49 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,354
Thanks for the information TMSeele!
Quote:
Originally Posted by TMSteele View Post
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.
undated

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.

_

Last edited by ethereal_reality; Jan 27, 2019 at 7:28 PM.
Reply With Quote