This sure must have been a sight to see: the transportation of the fuselage of Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose—oops, sorry Howard: the H-4 Hercules to Long Beach Harbor on June 11th, 1946. It can’t have been a fast moving convoy so there would have been plenty of opportunity to take pictures as it wound its route. It started out at Hughes Airport in Playa Vista, along Sepulveda Blvd to Imperial Hwy to Crenshaw Blvd to Rosecrans Blvd to San Pedro St to Avalon Blvd. Between stopping traffic and uncoupling overhead power lines, the logistics must have been a nightmare!
Thanks for providing the route that the Spruce Goose took from Culver City to the port of Los Angeles.
I just got back from McMinnville Oregon seeing the Goose in their museum!
My Dad, my uncle and my grandfather all worked building that plane. I have about a dozen photographs that my Aunt took that day when it was moved on June 11th 1946. My Aunt and Uncle lived in Lennox CA and my Mom and Dad and Grandfather all lived in Inglewood CA at that time.