The blogger (Travels West) known only as M2 appreciates the historical context of his new digs in Studio City. After looking at a lot of typically ugly L.A. dumps, I found the ideal place quite by chance. It's in Studio City, my favorite 'hood in the Valley. On the corner of Vineland and Fruitland (don't start!), the building was built...

Brian J. Terwilliger has shot a short film about Van Nuys Airport and its history. It's due to be finished in fall 2004 and made available on DVD. In the meantime, he has put together a great website, OneSixRight.com (named for the main runway), that has a good dozen historic photos of the airfield and surrounding area. Another rich source...

One Six Right, the documentary about Van Nuys Airport that was mentioned here before, is getting a week-long theatrical release in Los Angeles August 12-18, 2005. It will screen at 2 p.m. each day at the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex on Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles. Here's the film's website, which has many historical photos of the airfield....

Here's a website that collects info and available photos of the small airports that used to be sprinkled across the Valley. It includes the Wilson and Lloyd's fields that were in North Hollywood just west of today's Bob Hope (or Burbank) Airport, and San Fernando Airport....

Brian J. Terwilliger has shot a short film about Van Nuys Airport and its history. It's due to be finished in fall 2004 and made available on DVD. In the meantime, he has put together a great website, OneSixRight.com (named for the main runway), that has a good dozen historic photos of the airfield and surrounding area. Another rich source...

For a time, Thomas Benton Slate seemed poised to make Glendale the airship capital of the West. In 1926, he began to build his pride and joy, the City of Glendale dirigible, at Grand Central Airport. Slate invited fathers to bring their kids and watch him assemble the innvoative design: corrugated sheet metal riveted together into a rigid skin. Tens...

Aviation pioneer Waldo Waterman was a pilot and innovator of some repute in California in the 1920s. In 1928, he came to the Valley as the first manager of Metropolitan Field, a 394-acre, sod-runway airport opened on bean fields at Woodley Avenue and Saticoy Street. In those days, two grass runways intersected. A single hangar that faced on the...

Airplanes and the people who created and flew them, from Howard Hughes and Kelly Johnson to Amelia Earhart and Pancho Barnes, played formative roles in the Valley's story. These are some snippets of that important past. More will be added as time allows, so check back often. Also, see these other sources of information below. Aviation history of SFV Burbank...