Harlow Was Here Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/28/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Who would have thought there could be an airport and a castle in the same little town? If you’ve been to the Faux Palace (GCWNAR) on the other side of Alhambra, then come on down to this side of Alhambra.

Alhambra Airport was dedicated in 1930, located south of Valley Blvd. between New Ave. and Almansor St. It boasted of the largest airplane hangar in the world in 1930—a giant hexagonal building . The passenger terminal was a four-story building.
Many Hollywood movies were shot on location here.
After the airline business moved to Glendale in 1931…the airport was seemingly doomed.
The California Naval Reserve sought to base operations here, but Alhambra was tired of the noise and hazard of aircraft buzzing overhead and public protests appeared in the press in 1937.
War clouds over Europe gave Alhambra Airport a new lease on life at the end of 1938 when it became the official shipping station for vast military airplane orders from Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
First thoughts of the abandonment of Alhambra Airport came in 1940 with lawsuits seeking to rid the area of “hazardous flying”.

The airport refused to die, but nothing came of the many suits to stop and plans to revitalize it. In 1945, Harlow Aircraft Company purchased it and began the manufacture of the Harlow PJC-2, a 4-place metal monoplane that had been designed as a class project at Pasadena Junior College.”(PJC)” see link (visit link)
There was always the suspicion that the Japanese “ZERO” was copied from a set of class notes taken by a student when he returned home to Japan.

Motlah’s Uncle Bud, a retired Air Force pilot, bought himself a PJC-2 in 1960. It was only 1 of 11 built, serial number 7, one of 5 remaining and one of 3 still airworthy. She had the pleasure of a short flight with her Dad and Uncle Bud shortly before they both passed in the last few years. Her cousin Matt now owns and flies this rare airplane. See link (visit link)
The airport was eventually sold off to real estate developers (hmmm, where have we heard that line before?). The property was subdivided, residential properties and a large shopping center built.
The land that had helped to spawn Southern California’s vast aircraft industry would forever more be put to a more prosaic use.

Cache is log only...pencil there for now.
THERE IS NO NEED TO OPEN "BOXES" OR CLIMB WALLS!

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