{"id":7699,"date":"2013-04-20T06:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T13:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2013-04-20T06:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T13:29:34","slug":"old-and-new-los-angeles-international-airport-old-computers-and-the-lion-that-roared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7699","title":{"rendered":"Old and New: Los Angeles International Airport, Old Computers, and the Lion that Roared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5024\" alt=\"userpic=psa-smile\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicpsa-smile.jpg\" width=\"98\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Today&#8217;s news chum brings together three articles all related to history and old things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Old Airports<\/strong>. Someone or something brought to my attention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsouthwest.com\/blog\/flashback-fridays-los-angeles-international-southwest-airlines\">a wonderful old blog post about the &#8220;Interim&#8221; Los Angeles International Airport<\/a>. I&#8217;m referring here not to the current LAX that is W of Sepulveda Blvd, nor the original &#8220;Mines Field&#8221; terminal off of Imperial Hwy, but the airport that used to be located where Airport Blvd met Century Blvd. The blog post uses a wonderful series of postcards to illustrate the old facility (which you can still see traces off as you taxi out for takeoff). Two ancillary articles related to this: (1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burbankleader.com\/the818now\/tn-gnp-0405-restoration-plan-takes-flight,0,7203514.story\">The original air terminal for Los Angeles, Grand Central in Glendale, will be getting a makeover from Disney, who currently owns the buildings<\/a>. (2) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/04\/18\/terminal-illness-readers-best-and-worst-airports\/\">Freakanomics has an article about the best and worst airports&#8230; and LAX is down near the bottom<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Old Computers<\/strong>. PC World has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/249951\/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html?page=0\">a real interesting article on old computers still in use today<\/a>.\u00a0 These range from people still using old Apple computers and Tandy computers to even older machines. My favorite is the company still using a IBM 402 Tabulator for regular payroll!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Old Lions<\/strong>. The MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas once had a lion exhibit. They closed it down a few years ago. The lions didn&#8217;t go to the buffet or a zoo, but were retired uncerimoniously to the desert. The LA Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-nn-vegas-lion-ranch-20130415,0,923326.story\">an interesting article on the Lion Sanctuary, and how it is open for visitors (but gets few)<\/a>. This is something we might go visit when we go to Vegas in a few weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s news chum brings together three articles all related to history and old things: Old Airports. Someone or something brought to my attention a wonderful old blog post about the &#8220;Interim&#8221; Los Angeles International Airport. I&#8217;m referring here not to the current LAX that is W of Sepulveda Blvd, nor the original &#8220;Mines Field&#8221; terminal <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7699\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,56],"tags":[119,72,118],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news-chum","tag-airplanes","tag-compusaur","tag-las-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7709,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions\/7709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}