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Martinez Airport from the air

c. 1940

Aerial view of Martinez Airport: a dirt strip on filled ground beside railroad tracks, a hangar lettered MARTINEZ AIRPORT, light aircraft and cars — The strip by the tracks. Filled ground along the Southern Pacific, a hangar lettered MARTINEZ AIRPORT, the wires Sam Calicura Jr. spent years trying to get moved. Two men dragged this runway into city fill. One of them taught his brothers to fly on it.Beatie family collection · Zoom to read the handwriting

Aerial view of Martinez Airport: a dirt strip on filled ground beside railroad tracks, a hangar lettered MARTINEZ AIRPORT, light aircraft and cars — The strip by the tracks. Filled ground along the Southern Pacific, a hangar lettered MARTINEZ AIRPORT, the wires Sam Calicura Jr. spent years trying to get moved. Two men dragged this runway into city fill. One of them taught his brothers to fly on it.Beatie family collection · Zoom to read the handwriting

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Aerial view of Martinez Airport: a dirt strip on filled ground beside railroad tracks, a hangar lettered MARTINEZ AIRPORT, light aircraft and cars

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Chapter 2The Strip by the Tracks

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More of Sam Calicura Jr. in the footlocker

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Beatie Family Collection. Martinez Airport from the air, c. 1940. The Spirit of Martinez.

https://www.spiritofmartinez.com/archive/airfield

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