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Los Angeles Municipal Airport on Army Day, c. 1931. The next year, the dirt runway was replaced with oiled decomposed granite which could be used year-round and two more hangars, a restaurant, office space, and a control tower were built. On June 7, 1930, the facility was dedicated and renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport. [3]
IBM headquarters, Los Angeles; Los Angeles International Airport; Physical Plant Building B, University of Southern California; Robinson's department store, Palm Springs, California; Signal Oil headquarters, Los Angeles; Union Oil Center, Los Angeles (now Los Angeles Center Studios) [5] Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Van Nuys, California
[15] [14] The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [17] The temporary terminals remained in place for 15 years but quickly became inadequate, especially as air travel entered the "jet age" and other cities invested in modern facilities. Airport leaders once again convinced voters to back a $59 million bond on June 5, 1956.
The Theme Building is a structure at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), considered an architectural example of the Space Age design style. Influenced by "Populuxe" architecture, it is an example of the Mid-century modern design movement, later to become known as "Googie". [2]
World War II enlistment commences in the Bay Area (San Francisco recruiting office pictured) A two-masted schooner, Benicia, built in Tahiti by a shipwright who had worked in Matthew Turner's Benicia shipyard, arrives in San Francisco under the French flag; The Xerces blue butterfly is last observed in San Francisco either this year, or in 1943
San Francisco: 1791 Church Oldest building in City of San Francisco. The original chapel, built in 1771, was rebuilt out of adobe from 1782 to 1791. Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo: Monterey: 1791-94 Cathedral: Part of the Presidio of Monterey. Oldest stone building in California and the second oldest extant cathedral in the United States ...
The airport is located in Burbank, and serves the heavily populated areas of northern Los Angeles County. It is the closest airport to the central and northeastern parts of L.A. (including Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles), Glendale, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley, and the western San Gabriel Valley.
San Francisco purchased the property and the surrounding area expanding the site to 1,112 acres (450 ha) beginning in August 1930. [6] The airport's name was officially changed to San Francisco Airport in 1931 upon the purchase of the land. "International" was added at the end of World War II as overseas service rapidly expanded. [citation needed]