Back in the late 1960s, I lived in Hawthorne, California, about four miles from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
The airport was close enough for my friends and I to ride our bicycles there. We would take Aviation Blvd. to Imperial Highway to Sepulveda Blvd. to get to the main terminals. Once there, we would ride our bikes around the terminals and park them and wander around a terminal on foot. One can't do that anymore. These were the days before TSA security restrictions.
A Hawthorne-oriented Facebook page posted a bunch of photos of LAX (by Jerry Miles) while it was under construction in the 1950s and 1960s and they reminded me of those fun times. We got plenty of exercise bike-riding.
The terminal area roadway had a second deck added just before the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Compared to other big city airports with enormous terminals areas that need trams and monorails, LAX is still an easy airport to navigate around without causing one to have a heart attack or stroke.
Here's the photos that reminded me of those bike rides:
The Theme Building
1 comment:
Thanks for the pictures Armand, I worked at LAX for just under 5 years . Cashiered in Satellite 6 in the cafeteria type restaurant.Back then it was a fun & interesting job.Im a people person so meetin people from every corner of the world was really interesting.Was a great place to work then but it's probably one of the last places I'd care to work at now.Ive only been there once since they built the upper level.
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