Friday, November 30, 2007 – Aviation Nostalgia

No one visits El Segundo – only sixteen thousand residents, a giant oil refinery, a giant waste treatment plant, and all the corporate headquarters from Mattel to the major aerospace companies.  It's squeezed between the LAX airport to the north and fancy Manhattan Beach to the south, where all the sports stars live, with the Pacific on the west, with tankers full of crude oil at anchor.  It's definitely not a beach town, as you can tell from the city's website.  But it has its charms.

The Aviation Mural on the south side of Main, between Franklin and Grand, in El Segundo, California ...

The flag next door at the utilitarian 1957 post office, Main and Franklin

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Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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