The commercial development of the area surrounding Los Angeles International Airport exploded in the 1950s as the airport itself grew and changed. Commercial passenger airlines didn’t begin operating at LAX until 1946, and the burgeoning airport didn’t even get its official name until 1949. The airport’s facilities were makeshift for its first few years, butContinue reading “El Segundo’s Thunderbird Hotel made quite a splash when it opened in 1959”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
