| On the final day of the Aviation Meet, promoters staged a tableau of transportation that included an airplane and Ezra Meeker’s wagon, drawn by oxen.
In the twilight of the last day, balloonists set an altitude record of 11,000 feet, and come crashing down in Hollywood, knocking off the chimney of the Luther M. Ober home near what is now Virginia Avenue and St. Andrews Place. With the basket of the balloon hanging on the side of the house, the two passengers climbed into the home through a second-story window. |
| Jan. 21, 1910 — The Times says: "America's first aviation meet closed with a grand flourish yesterday. The wrecking crews will probably start tearing down the tribunes today and the great open-air theater will resume operations as a placid barley field.
"The success of the meeting has amazed even the businessmen by whom it was instigated. Showmen consider it astonishing that a city no larger than Los Angeles could supply a continuous succession of audiences running into tens of thousands daily." The Times added: "One of the most significant events of the meet was an accident that occurred high in the air yesterday. The whole world has been asking the question, 'What would happen if an engine broke down?' Aviator Hamilton showed that nothing would happen except that the flying machine would glide gently to the ground." |
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