I, the owner of this very Blog; do not like, and can not tolerate one of the two Commercial Airports serving the vicinity of Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) capitalizing on modern Airliner travel and young, radical patrons rather than focusing on it’s illustrious past.

The original portion of Los Angeles International Airport being built in 1928 in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westchester, originally as Mines Field; on what are now the corners of Imperial Highway and Aviation Boulevard, construction on Hangar Number One consisting of Spanish Mission-style Architecture being completed a year later in 1929, was renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport in June, 1930; the Airport Designation Code of this Airport being changed from ‘LA’ to ‘LAX’ in 1946 as a result of the skyrocketing increase in Air Travel following WWII, the “temporary” terminals that were constructed immediately following WWII and were put to use in December, 1946; being given it’s current name ‘Los Angeles International Airport’ in 1949, construction on this Airport’s first Jet Age Terminals being completed by 1961, the second-level roadway being added by 1983 in anticipation of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games that were held in Los Angeles, the construction of the Tom Bradley International Terminal (named for the onetime Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley) being complete by June, 1984; and the Playa del Rey and Palisades del Rey subdivisions on the west of what would come to be the property of the ever-expanding Airport that had consisted of beautiful modest Homes and Mansions that were built in the 1920’s, and were leveled entirely by the way of the City of Los Angeles exercising eminent domain in the 1970’s, only for the City of Los Angeles; until they decide to build additional Airport Facilities and/or Roads on this land, for the foreseeable future, to utilize this land as a sanctuary for Butterflies; are all more important than Los Angeles International Airport keeping it’s eye on the future, appealing to young, radical patrons, featuring strange Stores such as Hudson Nonstop locations that include humanless operations, cashless, ‘Pay with Card’ operations that open gates to allow patrons to enter these stores; and sensors that monitor items the patron picks up, and simply walks out of the Store with (evoking the action of shoplifting), supposedly charging the patron’s Charge Card in the process-all courtesy of the Internet Retailer Amazon; and also featuring strange eateries such as the so-called “Built Custom Burger” instead of, say; additional McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, and Chick-Fil-A locations in additional Terminals throughout this Airport.

More information about the history of Los Angeles International Airport can be found in this Document compiled and transcribed jointly by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2001:

Click to access draft-eis-eir_appendix_i_lr.pdf

Wally Rodammer, several other employees of WXYZ-TV; and several other employees of ABC’s other owned and operated Television Stations: WABC-TV in New York City, WLS-TV in Chicago, and KGO-TV in San Francisco each flying into Los Angeles International Airport to help contribute to; and employees of KABC-TV in Los Angeles each contributing to the ABC Television Network’s (including ABC’s Sports and News Departments, both headed by Roone Arledge as of this time) telecast(s) of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games that were held in Los Angeles, and ABC giving their owned and operated Television Stations (including WXYZ-TV) equipment that was used in the Network’s Telecast of these Olympic Games, such as Reel-to-Reel Video Players and Editors, and In-Studio Cameras as a reward for their contributions to the Network’s Telecast of these Olympic Games; are also more important than Los Angeles International Airport capitalizing on modern Airliner travel and young, radical patrons.

Websites pertaining to the Playa del Rey and Palisades del Rey subdivisions in Los Angeles that were razed vis a vis eminent domain in the 1970’s:

https://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-board-track-opened-at-los-angeles.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20120831202039/http://launfd.com/2012/08/28/los-angeles-ghost-town/

https://dvn61.blogspot.com/2020/07/palisades-del-rey.html

https://exhibits.stanford.edu/ruderman/catalog/bb097rg6912

A photograph taken in 1956 within the Playa del Rey and Palisades subdivisions:

This was called the Surfridge Estates …. 1956 before LAX expansion took over. And a sweeet '55 T-Bird.
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