Tallmantz Aviation, Book Baron & Milford Zornes

Aero Vintage Books has posted some information about Tallmantz Aviation and the Orange County Airport on their website. Today's photo shows the old Orange County Airport terminal (distant left) and the hangar for the Martin School of Aviation (near right), probably in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
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Much to my chagrin, I forgot about the postcard show in Glendale this weekend. (Doh!) It's such a great way to collect old images of local sites. At least Phil brought me back a 1973 Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade program. (Thanks!)

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Doris Walker will discuss and sign her new book, Images of America: Dana Point, at the next Dana Point Historical Society meeting, this Wednesday, 7pm, at the South Shores Church Community Room, 32712 Crown Valley Pkwy.

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Book Baron in Anaheim is still clearing out their inventory and are down to 60% off everything in the store. It's so sad to see this great O.C. institution closing its doors.

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I was cheered up slightly by the fact that I left the store yesterday with a stack of books I might not otherwise have afforded, including Marion Speer's Western Trails (1932), which is the only imprint by the Huntington Beach News that I'm aware of. [Speer was also the founder of the Western Trails Museum, which began in Liberty Park (now part of Huntington Beach) and which now resides in Ghost Town at Knott's Berry Farm.]

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19th St. West Gallery in Costa Mesa will hold a closing reception for their current show of paintings by Milford Zornes on Oct. 20, 6pm-9pm. Hopefully, Zornes will make an appearance. He is now 99 and probably the last of the original wave of influential California Watercolor artists. If you're interested in art or local art history, you should try to attend.