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Oct. 10, 1960: The Times takes a look at construction of Los Angeles’ Jet Age airport. The “Theme Building” will resemble a giant flying saucer and there will be a monorail called the Skylift to whisk passengers from one terminal to another. |
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I loved the old Dick Tracy strip, Larry. The long storyline of the Flat Top saga, which came around ’59 or ’60 in my memory, was bone-chilling brilliant to my 9 or 10-year old mind. I doubt it’s suffered in the 5 decades since.
I remember the sequence of the fire, which i think ran 2 weeks, every day a different look, a different angle, without a word-balloon, as Tracy and the rest searched for a glimpse of evidence Flat Top was inside the building. GREAT use of the medium of the comic strip to tell what was a psychologically gripping story (you’d have to see it).
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Sound of the Future:
MALE VOICE: “The White Zone is for passenger loading and unloading only. Please do not park there.”
FEMALE VOICE: “The White Zone is for passenger loading and unloading only. Please do not park there.”…
In tandem, endlessly repeated twenty-four/seven with a run of about thirty some years.
Who could forget.
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