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Austin and Executive Producer Todd J. United's private terminal at LAX render. I wish to say that if you expect to keep your city on the air map, it will be necessary to construct a municipal airport. Within months of Lindbergh's recommendation, the city had begun surveying suitable airport sites. The city decided on Mines Field. On September 26, , the city signed a ten-year lease for acres, and L. By the end of the new runways, passenger terminals, hangars, control tower, and maintenance sheds were ready.
Work on the airport's first parking garage, with space for cars, lagged behind. On December 9, , four major airlines -- American, Trans World, United, and Western -- more or less abandoned Burbank in favor of the expanded municipal airport. Pan Am joined them in January William Pereira's iconic Theme Building and other modern additions were still years off, but by , the former bean fields were rechristened Los Angeles International Airport.
Learn more about the old LAX here. Tending Nature. The Mallorca Files. Professor T Belgium. It was Charles Lindbergh's groundbreaking transatlantic flight of that convinced Los Angeles officials of the need for an airport in the City of Angels.
Opened in as Mines Field, today LAX is a major transport hub, benefiting from good weather and breezy takeoff conditions, thanks to the neighboring Pacific Ocean. At 93, she's been around longer than the airport itself. From convincing the airport officials that a newer, bigger airport was needed after the advent of the jet engine, to hobnobbing with The Beatles when they landed in LA in , Pattison chatted to CNN Travel about her incredible aviation career.
LAX growth. An airplane pilot and a flight attendant greeting the driver of a Corvette Sting Ray Sport Coupe. In the late s, Pattison graduated from the University of Southern California with an advertising degree. She worked for a nylon hosiery company for a couple of years, before she decided to pursue a career in aviation. Pattison quickly fell in love with flying, although she never got to travel outside of the US. LAX historian Ethel Pattison pictured in her flight attendant days.
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