i heard that brac closed em. but what are they doing with em these days? got sent there summer of 85....was there a whole week before i knew that the brown smog in the distance was actually a mountain! lol
El Toro closed years ago... plans were to make it into a giant park....I think it is progressing but not sure of its current status... great memories there.... a few searches will turn up the latest..
Originally posted by sandidge: hey bob, are those huge hangers still standing or did they demo em?
If you mean the big hangars at El Toro that were occupied (in 1965 at least) by MWSG-37 and WMGR-352
I don't know if they are gone or not. If you do a search on 'el toro great park', all types of articles come up that indicate some things are happening with the base.
As far as Tustin, CHC posted alot of recent pics a few months back... still showed some of the big hangars
I was told when out there - (66-67 and then bck from Nam in 69) that Tusin and Hazelhurst New Jersey were the only places that could hold /service the Goodyear blimp. Wonder what they do now?
I know Akron, Ohio has at least one large hanger where a blimp would fit into, and I suspect there are a few others around the country, but I haven't researched it.
Originally posted by 8351020: Jersey were the only places that could hold /service the Goodyear blimp. Wonder what they do now?
Goodyear has their own hangers, in Akron and somewhere in Calif. if I'm not mistaken.
Hanger One: originally built for the Graf Zepplin-- Hindenberg, is still standing at NAS Lakeurst. But I don't think any civilian airships have been in it for a very long time.
When I was at Lakehurst in '73, there was a scale replica of a carrier deck inside for training the arresting gear students, and a few Army Reserve Huey Squadrons are in there too.
I was just discussing MCAS Tustin with my dad a couple of days ago. He was with H&MS-16 and was in charge of the Imrl Shop back in the 80s.
I live just down the street from the old base. The hangers are still there, but all other base housing and barracks have been demolished. They recently made the base into what is now known as "The District". They have a Target, Best Buy, AMC Theater, Costco and several other shops there. They also have about 20 different restaurants in there. The place is definately different than I'm sure you all remember it.
When I joined HMR-362 in May of 1957 the Hangars were roofed with tar paper. When it rained we'd go outside to dry off. Hangar One and Two had new roofs of Reynolds Aluminum put on about 1958. As I recall the story that was going around supposedly by the insurance people said, "there would be six deaths during the roofing process." Glad to report there were none.
