Really?
I forgot!
I know that we went to El Toro by driving up Santa Ana/Red Hill blvd., and turning right at the gates, and somehow I thought I remembered the blimp hangars being on that same property..
Sheesh, oh well, I graduated from Newport Harbor in '75 and haven't been back to Orange County for decades, but I'm still surprised my memory is that fallible!
Thanks,
Ed
P.S. I gotta' say my childhood in Orange County was the golden years. Hiking in Back Bay, picking oranges and avocados at all the stands, hiking in Silverado Canyon, body surfing the groins, watching foreign films at the Balboa Cinema, listening to jazz at the Studio Cafe, watching John Wayne throw candy to the kids at the Pavilion during the Parade of Lights, from his converted minesweeper, going into the channel on The Fury II from Scripps, buying fish from the Dory Fisherman at the foot of the Newport Pier, having big cookouts on the beach when the grunion were running, calling the Surf Report every morning to see if it was a green flag, yellow flag or red flag.
Course, my Mom's memories go back further...listening to Les Brown, Lionel Hampton and the Dorseys at the Balboa Ballroom, dancing at the Avalon Pavilion, taking the red cars to Watts and listening to good blues and swing.
Course, there was also the Zoot Suit Riots and working as a Rosie the Riveter at Lockheed in Long Beach.
She graduated from Newport Harbor High in 1923!
I gotta' go back to Newport one of these days.
Did you mean Douglas Aircraft?
Let us know when you do, OK? We'll all get together.