Interesting
Tourmaline...good job in eyeing the Singer Midgets billboard. (I thought that one sign said "Frozen Steam")
-nice collection of photographs.
If only this amazing monument had been built!
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"A huge monument to commemorate the start of the army's
round-the-world flight in 1924 from Clover Field, Santa Monica Calif., and serve as a beacon to guide flyers
to the field, is being projected by Geoffrey F. Morgan, and has enthusiastic backing. The model of the monument, to rival the Statue of Liberty, was completed by
Murrell(?) Gage....and daughter are showing."
I wonder where the beacon (the actual light) would have been located...atop the globe?..or perhaps within the globe if the globe was glass (so cool).
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While driving the perimeter of Santa Monica/Clover Field Airport in the google-mobile, I came across this
'mystery' structure in the southwestern corner of the airport.
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a closer look
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Is it an old radar installation? or perhaps old support beams, from what used to be a gas tank?
Or how about an abandoned foundation for an over-sized monument to rival the Statue of Liberty?
(I'm kidding)
Here's an aerial.
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If you look closely there appears to be a single line (a path?) connecting it to the rectangular building on the right.
Maybe
HossC (or someone) can dig up some old aerials of the airport.
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