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Restoring the flying field

24 July 1939

Newspaper clipping: Martinez Aviators Begin Work Of Restoring City’s Flying Field. Charles Beattie and Sam Calicura dragging a runway on city fill, July 24 1939. Hand-marked Tribune 1939 — July 24, 1939. The Tribune, as the scrapbook marked it. Charles Beattie and Sam Calicura discing and dragging a runway on filled land belonging to the city. Moral support, no money. Ricks would not object to hangars and would not build them. The paper spells Beattie with two t’s. This book has used Beatie.Beatie family collection · Zoom to read the handwriting

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Newspaper clipping: Martinez Aviators Begin Work Of Restoring City’s Flying Field. Charles Beattie and Sam Calicura dragging a runway on city fill, July 24 1939. Hand-marked Tribune 1939

In the book

Chapter 2The Strip by the Tracks

Also

More of Charles Beatie in the footlocker
More of Sam Calicura Jr. in the footlocker

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Beatie Family Collection. Restoring the flying field, 24 July 1939. The Spirit of Martinez.

https://www.spiritofmartinez.com/archive/tribune1939

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