Abandoned Little Known Airfields California. Abandoned. Little Known Airfields California Western Los Angeles Area 2. Paul Freeman. Revised 92. This. site covers airfields in all 5. Click. here for the sites main menu. Please. Baker. Airport Culver City Airportrevised. Brown. Ranch Airfieldrevised. Burdette Airport Dycer Airportrevised. The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' title='The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' />Airport Universal Airport Gotchs Airport Western Avenue. Airport Gardena Valley Airportrevised. Gardena Airportrevised. Airship Factoryrevised. Hughes Airportrevised. Angeles Motordromerevised. Rogers Airportrevised. Monica Island Airportadded. Santa. Monica Island Airport, Santa Monica, CA3. West of Los Angeles, CAA. Color-Space-menu-item.jpg?resize=750%2C521&ssl=1' alt='The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' title='The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' />Donald Jaye of the planned but never. Santa Monica Island Airport courtesy of Kevin Walsh,showing the hinged nose of a. U. S. SST at top right. This is an. example of an airport which was planned but abandoned before ever. During the. 1. 96. U. S. Supersonic Transport SST caused many city. SSTs,in addition to. SSTs. In Los Angeles. Pacific coast of Los Angeles,immediately off. Los Angeles International Airport. The caption of. a 31. Donald Jaye read Drawing. Los Angeles International Airport. The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' title='The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' />Drawing shows a. Radar Chaos Full Version. Santa Monica Island with a subway connecting to the airports. The island will. have provisions for the SST, with two 1. The island will. also have its own commercial area, hotels, art center, trade center amp. A. 41. 26. 8 artists conception by Donald Jaye of the planned but never. Santa Monica Island Airport,showing it to have two 1. Los Angeles International Airport. The. U. S. SST program was canceled in 1. Pro-and-Con.jpg?resize=750%2C414&ssl=1' alt='The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' title='The Longest Day Colorized Adobe' />Santa Monica Island its airport. Thanks to Kevin. Walsh for pointing out this facility. Los. Angeles Motordrome, Playa Del Rey, CA3. Northwest of Los Angeles, CAA 1. LA Motordrome. The Los Angeles. The following tip on getting digital images to look like Lomo Images was submitted by DPS reader Frank Lazaro. You can see his photography at his Flickr page and. Since this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown tremendously. If the total quantity of material on this site is to continue to grow. Package deal An agreement or offer covering more than one item at the same time, or making acceptance of one item contingent on acceptance of another. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. High Performance and High Efficiency. The MESeries electric water heater from Vaughn combines timeproven technologies with our Hydrastone cement lining for the. Motordrome was a circular 1 mile wood board automobile race track. Construction. began on 13. Seating was. provided for 4. The opening. event at the Motordrome was a 9 day series of races exhibitions. A circa 1. 91. 0 postcard image of the. LA Motordrome. Plans to. Frederick Moskovics inviting the Aero Club of Americaand aircraft. Wright Brothers Glenn Curtiss, to. Motordromes facility for experimentation amp. The Aero Club of California. Motordrome, large enough to hold 1. A. 1. 91. 0 photo of a glider piloted by Jack Cannon being towed aloft by an. Motordrome. An. advertisement for the 1. Senational Aviation Meet. LA Motordrome. Later in 1. Glen Curtiss moved to California from NY set. Motordrome,and used the. San Diego. On 81. Motordromes race track. Though the. facility was not fully destroyed, the owners elected not to rebuild. The last depiction which has been. LA Motordrome was on the 1. USGS topo map. Curiously the 1. Motordrome, but the building itself was no. In a 1. 93. 7 aerial view looking east. Kevin Walsh, the trace of the LA Motordrome was still. Motordromes circular layout. A. 2. 01. 6 aerial view showed a faint trace still remaining of the. Motordromes circular layout,with. Motordrome burned down. The site of the. LA Motordrome is located at the intersection of Culver Boulevard amp. Jefferson Boulevard,only a. Howard Hughes. Thanks to Greg. Mosholder for pointing out this facility. Brown. Ranch Airfield, Calabasas, CA3. Northwest of Los Angeles, CAAn undated circa 1. Brown Ranch Airfield courtesy of. John Hazlet,showing some very challenging. In 1. 92. 6, razor. King Camp Gillette commissioned Wallace Neff to build him a. Southern California. The result was. a stunning 2. Spanish Colonial Revival. Style whose beauty supposedly brought Gillette to tears. Gillette died. in 1. Clarence Brown in 1. Brown regularly. hosted large parties for well known Hollywood personalities here,and made. According to a. CA State map, the airfield was installed by Brown circa 1. The Brown Ranch. Airfield was not depicted on the 1. LA Sectional. Aeronautical Charts,USGS topo maps. LA. Local Aeronautical Chart courtesy of Tim Zukas. The earliest depictions which have. Brown Ranch Airfield were several undated circa. Brown. Ranch courtesy of John Hazlet. An undated circa 1. John Hazlet originally captioned, Clarence. Browns Plane in Front of Hangar. John Hazlet observed, The. Gillette Ranch it looks like. Beech 3. 5 Bonanza with a composite propeller. The earliest dated depiction of. Brown Ranch was on the 1. USGS topo map,which depicted a single 2,1. Aitstrip,adjacent to the east side of the. Brown Ranch. A 1. Brown Ranch Airfield as a single. USGS topo map,which depicted. Brown Ranch. A single small. Brown sold the. property to the Claretian Order of the Catholic Church in 1. A CA State map depicted Gillette. Ranch Historic Conditions 1. Airstrip. installed by Brown circa 1. An 82. 25. 6 aerial view from the. UCSB Library depicted the Brown Ranch Airfield runway, but it was. A 1. 95. 9 aerial. The Brown Ranch. Airfield continued to be depicted on the 1. USGS topo map,but was no. USGS topo map. A 1. The Claretians. subsequently sold the ranch property to Elizabeth Clair Prophets. Church Universal Triumphant in 1. Soka University of American in 1. In 2. 00. 7, Soka. National Park Service. The 5. 88 acre. King Gillette Ranch opened to the public as a park on 63. A 52. 50. 9 aerial view showed no. Brown Ranch Airfield. A. 1. 081. 2 photo by John Hazlet of the site of the Brown Ranch Airfield. John. reported the photo is looking approximately east from the west. No. trace remains of the runway or the pad upon which the hangar sat. The site of. Brown Ranch Airfield is located southeast of the intersection of. Mulholland Highway Las Virgenes Road. Thanks to John. Hazlet for pointing out this airfield. Goodyear Airship Factory. Huntington Park, CA3. East of Los Angeles International Airport, CAThe Good Year Rubber Co. Kevin Walsh. This facility. Los Angeles was a large manufacturing complex where the. Goodyear company manufactured airships blimps. The date of. establishment of the Goodyear facility has not been determined. The earliest. depiction which has been located of the Goodyear facility was on a. Kevin Walsh. It depicted the. Good Year Rubber Co. The. earliest topo map depiction which has been located of the Goodyear. USGS topo map. It. A. 1. 94. 0 Shell street map courtesy of Gary Alexander labeled airport. Goodyear Airship Base. According. to Charles Irvin, The main building faced Central Avenue,and. I can recall from my childhood, the only hangars I knew ofwere. The. southwest one had Goodyear painted across the rooftop along with. Harbor Freeway that. I. can remember the one hangar, I can remember the administration. I think were sheet metal but again, huge. A 1. Fairchild Aerial Surveys courtesy of Robert Pope,showed the Goodyear Airship. One large building had Goodyear. Los Angeles painted on the roof. The. date of at which airship operations came to an end at the L. A. facility has not been determined. It. was subsequently reused by Goodyear for tire manufacturing. A 1. 98. 0 aerial view showed that the. Goodyear Airship plant was not much changed compared to as. Goodyear Los Angeles. According. to Charles Irvin, There was a LOT of bad blood over this. L. A. When. it was time to demolish buildings, several groups tried to get at.