Voter registration and political afflilation of Los Angeles County voters in each city and political district.
Photo from the LA Examiner Negatives Collection at USC Library.
1951. A newer Los Angeles International Airport control tower that replaced an older repurposed U.S. Forest Service lookout tower. In 1928, then known as Mines Field, the site was selected to become the municipal airport for Los Angeles. At the time, it consisted of little more than dirt runways and lacked any permanent structures. Two years later, in 1930, the airfield officially became Los Angeles Municipal Airport and saw the completion of its first permanent building, Hangar One. Also constructed that year was a double-hangar facility featuring the airport’s first observation tower, located between the two hangars.
Because most aircraft of the era were not equipped with radios, takeoffs and landings were generally coordinated by ground personnel who signaled pilots using red and white flags. During World War II, the U.S. military assumed control of the airport and installed a repurposed 54-foot U.S. Forest Service lookout tower built with an open steel-frame design.
After the airport returned to city control in 1946 and was renamed Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in 1949, a taller 80-foot open steel-frame control tower was erected in 1951. Air traffic controllers still had to climb stairs to reach the operating platform at the top.
In 1961, LAX replaced the open-frame tower with a modern, enclosed control tower rising 162 feet and 12 stories above the airfield. The structure served the airport for 35 years before being replaced in 1996 by the current 277-foot control tower, whose distinctive design was intended to evoke the image of a palm tree. Today, the decommissioned 1961 tower continues to serve as office space for Los Angeles World Airports.
Crime labs today are a common feature in crime stories and television investigative shows. America's crime labs go back about one hundred years, starting in Los Angeles.
