Burbank Airport in the San Fernando Valley isn’t a huge facility, but I have never there when it hasn’t been bustling with passengers and traffic. So it came as a shock to see this photo taken in 1931, a year after it opened, so clean and clear, and with such beautiful lines—who knew the terminal was originally Spanish revival? Nothing of that remains anymore.
Interior shot:
The airport has had a succession of names over the years:
They can call it what they want but it’ll always be the Bob Hope airport to me.