OTHER RESOURCES
Very readable volumes about the Grand Central Air Terminal are these books:
Underwood, John. 1984. Madcaps, Millionaires and 'Mose'. Heritage Press, Glendale, CA. 144pp.
And...
Underwood, John. 2007. Grand Central Air Terminal. Arcadia Publishing. Charleston, SC. 127pp.
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A very readable, and brief, online history of the Grand Central Air Terminal by Ron DIckson is at the link.
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LOS ANGELES AREA AIRPORTS
DURING THE GOLDEN AGE
If someone was "flying to Los Angeles" during the Golden Age, they needed to clarify exactly where. Below is an image I found at the terrific Web site called Abandoned & LIttle-Known Airfields (AA). The link to central Los Angeles displays this image, which was originally pubiished in a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce brochure “Los Angeles County Spreads Her Wings, History of National Air Races, 1928.”
It pinpoints 55 airfields that were established and operating at the time. The Glendale Municipal Airport, which would become formally dedicated as the Grand Central Air Terminal (GCAT) in 1929, a year after this map was published, was number 22 at center in the upper third of the illustration. |
That said, some of the local, Los Angeles airfields specified as destinations by Register pilots are listed in the table, below, with links to further information about them. If there is no link, I haven't had time to write about it yet.
LOS ANGELES AREA AIRPORTS
The table below lists many of the Los Angeles area airports that were cited by pilots during the cumulative period of the airport Registers (approximately 1925-1942). Click the red links to see what I know.
| Santa Barbara | Burnley Field, Pomona | |
| Riverside Airport and March Field |
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Alhambra |
Tri-City (San Bernardino) |
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| Catalina Island | Compton |
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| San Gabriel | Santa Ana | |
| Mines Field (now LAX) | Fullerton | |
| LA Metropolitan ("Metro" now Van Nuys) | Glendale (Grand Central Air Terminal) | |
| Burbank (now Bob Hope Airport) | Griffith Park | |
| Clover Field (now Santa Monica Municipal) | Hollywood | |
| Long Beach | Irvine |
I'm looking for photographs and information on all the Los Angeles area airfields, including the ones tabulated above. Please use this FORM to share what you know.
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