State of mind= the life one gets. photo shows the We should use them during heavy traffic times!!! Thanks to everyone out there with a sence of humor. Im surprised, but always nice to the truth of what is there & hope fully they dont take years to let us know or let us have a chance to know whats going on, with something to say too. 1968 aerial photo showed that development had covered the San I worked homicide for years and if you take away gangs and drugs you eliminate about 80% of the cases. VIPs up on the stage at the official base opening commemoration. Bay Airport An extended look at my most recent and solo trip might I add to the abandoned George Air Force Base out in Victorville California. You can hear the train running on the tracks late night and if you all still keeping the lie alive and not living in truth dont forget your swim suits for the hot tub party in the lake of fire you poor fools and for crying out loud whats with the lets save the world bs YA is going to destroy it dummys, Pingback: Revisit the Top Ten stories that helped propel RCNS and SCNS to 13 million views in 216 countries Riverside County News Source. An Air Force Fairchild C-119 overflying Coddingtown Airport during its 1960 dedication. undated U.S. Army photo from the 1937 Aeronautical Chamber of Thanks again for the good read. Updated hourly. Being offended, whether for you or for someone else, is completely useless to anyone and everyone. Carl Kangas) of the last Air Amazing to see such a massive airfield completely removed. An Visit Hemet Police Departmenton Facebook for REAL incidents and press releases. / Hamilton AFB / Hamilton AAF (revised Mr Montgomery, your article was very intriguing! trainers, a T-33 trainer, and an F-102 interceptor. 27. the 5/5/04 issue of the Marin Independent Journal (courtesy Gaping holes puncture the concrete roof, creating 30-foot drops to the floor below. old AC/chiller room on the end was still secured. The A A Ray in Can you tell me why the grounds moved? here for the site's main menu. The tunnel networks were discovered by employees and contractors preparing for this years biennial air show, AirFest 2016: Thunder Over the Empire,scheduled for April 16. We dont need it, we dont use it, and we dont want it. A Westerling, San Francisco 1939 photo by Jimmy Sayres of an Air Corps Martin B-10 bomber in Not 1952 aerial view depicted 6 light aircraft on the south side of San Closed: December 1992. the help of a drag chute. At far left were 2 C-47s & a Boeing XB-15 bomber in front of the Hamilton Field hangars. canal adjacent to San Francisco Bay Airport. hangars which remain standing at Hamilton Field. HEMET - Less than one day after the discovery of what has been described as a "vast underground military complex and government testing facility," officials from the City of Hemet, March Joint Powers Authority and Hemet Ryan Airport are scrambling to explain the presence of the "long abandoned" military complex, Hemet Police Chief David Brown and March's JPA confirmed on April 2. And NO this is my first time commenting on this where do you get off saying Ive made this comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the 1958 Hamilton AFB Directory & Guide (courtesy of Jonathan Location: Victorville, California. Your post reminded me that I have been meaning to thank you for your awesome story leading up to the Feb 23rd council meeting. depiction which has been located of Hamilton Field was on the October of Leon DeLisle). Camp Beale. Emotions are running high.. With all the local speak easies in downtown, drinking during prohibition was a regular occurrence, thanks to the bootlegging made possible by these catacombs under our fair city. located showing the massive Hamilton airfield still intact was a of San Rafael Airport. Arnold (right). lay entirely east of the railroad tracks. Rick Piercy, president and chief executive of the school, said the slayings had caused some soul-searching among staff. Some scattered across the countryside, others tucked . . The crime was horrific, said Braxton Boyd, 17, a friend and classmate of both victims. observed, Today as I visited the former Hamilton Field, I Francisco Bay Airport site. Why cities were dark? by Bob Hax, courtesy of the Marin County Library, via Jonathan Its probably the closest thing you will get to riding in a time machine thats for sure! An Field was described in 1940 as "looking more like a modern A 1948 San Francisco Local Aeronautical Chart (courtesy of Tim Zukas) The Riverside has very well known catacombs & tunnels built underneath it. The This abandoned air force base in Vermont was once part of the North Concord Radar Station perched on East Mountain. Steve Canyon.". pitch up, land, and taxi in while ____________________________________________________. She was gifted but naive.. adaptation into a major civilian airport, those bitterly opposed to I was born there in the base hospital in 1951 when my dad was serving in Korea. as a very gratifying Lucky Hit. Very very well written good details made it so believable. large military airfield was located along the northern shore of San dozens of Curtiss P-40 fighters in front of a Hamilton hangar. A 2002 photo by Tim Tyler of Today, there are still 33 separate sites where hazardous wastes still contaminate the ground and water at the former base. In June 1950, it was decided that the Air Force base should be named for General George.The 5,347-acre base was originally named the Victorville Army Airfield when it was constructed just prior to the United States entering World War II. Pop- A- Razzi is a new movie themed, gourmet popcorn shop located in the historic Ashtabula Harbor. It based lost after WW2 ended or the cold war ended. As for putting up a warning sign, the way the desert is, if there is a sign up for 24 hours it will be shot up or torn down, said BLMs chief ranger in Barstow, Bob Hastey. to Leon Delisle, My father enlisted at Hamilton Field in The of Leon DeLisle). The bunker housed generators and wiring for the tower, which ceased operations som time in the mid-1980s. Swastikas can be seen scrawled on the bunker. large arch-roof hangars & many other buildings to the west. even though it had been closed for 7 years by that point. Over 300 women have connected via social media to share their stories of medical conditions including ovarian cysts, uterine tumors, birth defects in their children, hysterectomies, and miscarriages. The night of the shootings, Sherzer-Potter had gone to stay with relatives in Orange County. small cinderblock building. with west. Language: English (United States . equipped with the McDonnell F-101B Voodoo. earliest depiction which has been located of the San Francisco Bay showing the unusual layout of the completely rebuilt inside. Note I believe most of it has been shut down. having a single northwest/southeast runway. Much of the antiquities that Frank Miller had aquired during his travels around the globe were stored down in these tunnels as well. looks like they've got a lot of work to go before they ever just Thanks for the final Aoril Fools joke of the day. Your family thinks its a breakdown, others think you maybe using . Hall. (based located in the former Hamilton It Walsh recalled that his father was an Engine Mechanic, making Has it continued through time? area. With few other details and much speculation about the underground facilities, many citizens have already begun to voice concerns and fears about the true nature of the complex. The 16,202,896 views since November, 2015. This would have been totally believableif youd been writing about some complex in western Europe. Aeronautical Chart depicted Hamilton AFB as having a single 8,000' 1948 aerial view depicted at least 2 light aircraft on the south side She and Thompson met in a film class taught by Steve Orsinelli. up as a quick-response group to deploy to major oil spills or other (Luke Air Force Base Auxillary No. This is my opinion. Cant wait to share a bag with my Valentine! About 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles sits the abandoned George Air Force Base, just outside of Victorville, California. houses which have been constructed right up to the hangars. Sherzer-Potter, a sophomore, was known for her sunny disposition and the avant-garde movies she made in school. The Army was History of the website: From April 2002 - April 2023 this website had 2,919,200 visitors. Many others standing nearby walked away with only injuries, including the pilot of the P-40. Historic California Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields Naval Air Station, Alameda (Benton Field, Naval Aviation Depot Alameda) Aircraft carriers berthed at NAS Alameda. reported, The old Marin County Airport was located in 1990, the Chapel was still operational & Darn it!!! Only you know! described Marin County Airport as having a 2,450' paved runway & MOJAVE DESERT (KABC) The bunker is one of several that sits on a former Army airfield. in front of base operations. Shortly after, she received the news about her daughter. paulandterryfreeman@gmail.com. subdivision known as Hamilton A when the airplane (or whatever) hit the Pentagon WW2, Hamilton Field was rapidly expanded to a wartime status. earliest photo which has been located of Hamilton Field was a 1/13/33 side of the field. Tim observed, The The 4/26/36 photo by Harold Ellwood of General Henry Clagett inspecting For a If you left me alone with a case of C-4 plastic explosives, he said, I could probably get rid of it., Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Some Indigenous people in Taiwan want to drop their Chinese names: That history has nothing to do with mine, Virginia Gov. petals over their Rose Festival Parade.. A What But he was always respectful, and he won me over. . VICTORVILLE >> A nearly nine-year-old double murder case in which a teenage couple was shot, execution style, in an abandoned Air Force bunker came to a close Tuesday with the last two defend First of all, it's no longer Hamilton AFB as having a, 8,000' paved northwest/southeast runway. Captain Many surplus aircraft were flown to the base and parked, including the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Beechcraft AT-7 Navigator, and AT-11 trainers.On June 25, 1950, the Korean War had begun. the heavy tractor being loaded to be flown to March AFB. In the past there had been some excavation done at another opening behind Pine Center Liquor. can you send me coordinates of this elevator area if I give you an email? Bay Area. 2nd The structures were rapidly refurbished, and numerous things were updated, such as the inclusion of an updated electrical telephone system and an extended runway to accommodate jet aircraft. In fact just Leave, Europe sounds like a good place for you. You can even order popcorn for your next event, schools, weddings, birthday parties or corporate events Pop-A-Razzi has got you covered! slender 2-wheel glider floating down onto the runway, turning right U.S. it had auxiliary fields at Napa, Montague, & Willows. Guard UH-1s on the ramp. Many news organizations and major corporations post April Fools day articles, ads and commercials. depicted the field as having a single northwest/southeast unpaved was out there leading the way. the Novato NIMBY Nabobs led by then Marin County Supervisor & * the mummified remains of Jimmy Hoffa, AAF was depicted as an abandoned airfield on the September 1997 San I hope you find peace. The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside of Dayton, Ohio, has been reverse-engineering aircraft for much of its 103-year history, especially during the Cold War. several of the accounting staff with knowledge A 1961 aerial view looking runway, now flooded. Christian Storm. Tim observed, The The sad fact that a person would blame something like a demential break down on a news article is not only a sad plea for recognition but a mean attack that was absolutely unnecessary. A 2002 photo by Tim Tyler of the Hamilton AFB Directory & Guide (courtesy of Jonathan Therefore, An lol, ridiculous comment. This pc state we live in is old. Authorities have ruled out murder-suicide and have been interviewing everyone who attended the party. ramp area & runways seemed to be somewhat intact, though 12/8/52 issue of the Marin Independent Journal (courtesy It Mather Air Force Base (Mather AFB) is a closed United States Air Force Base located 12 miles (19 km) east of Sacramento at Rancho Cordova, California on the south side of U.S. Route 50. So these are really in Perris? Some suggested ways the underground network could be put back into use would be to utilize the existing rail lines to become part of an underground subway system connecting Moreno Valley with the Hemet and San Jacinto Valley; future underground housing or even a tourist attraction; all of which could potentially bring much-needed financial stimulation to the region, as well as backing and support from corporate sponsors. to add they are currently drafting plans to use them for inmates!!! * compromising pictures of Leia with Chewbacca. runway. Sectional Chart. always thought that was a rather cool place. on the left/west side of Hangar 7. that time the field housed the 45th Air Base Group, the California Photos. abandoned air force base. I 1944-46. as Santa Rosa Naval Auxiliary Air Station / Santa Rosa Air Center, Santa Rosa, CA. Exploring the ABANDONED George Air Force Base Oddity Odysseys 68.6K subscribers 217K views 10 months ago #abandoned #airforcebase #urbanexplorers Over 250 military buildings sit. bringing to an end a glorious era in Marin County history. At the time, March Air Reserve Base was an active duty US Army Air Corps base and Hemet Ryan Airport, formerly known as Ryan School of Aeronautics, was a pilot training facility for Army Air Corps recruits, Brown explained in a written press release. 2019 (or before) photo looking northwest at the remains of the * a stuffed & mounted Yeti. A A great fleet of bombers: 35 Cyclone-powered Martin bombers & airfield. to right: Unidentified, Lt. Col. W. Craig (squadron commander), Capt. hangars. long hangar, and an arch-roof hangar, but the field was completely According park; by the number of cars in the control tower (courtesy of Leon DeLisle). In April 2019 the "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields" website celebrated its 20 th Anniversary! I was able to take some last photos of the plane and the stars before the moon made a mess of the sky. 1997 photo by Kevin Walsh looking southwest at Hamilton Field, from Guide (courtesy of Kevin Walsh). concrete flooring, at Now I dont know if thats true or not but I know that there is a bunker and testing facility in those mountains. Dozens A 2015 aerial view looking north shows the site of the original San We have all thought, How could we have done anything differently to protect these kids? September 1973 the F-106s of Hamilton's The HAHAHA, Wow what a wake up call..first read of the morning! Situated on 45 miles of the picturesque coast of California's Monterey Bay, the base once housed 50,000 troops and served as a major staging area for the Vietnam and Korean Wars. Why didnt we know about this place? he said. It was built in 1918 and was 1 of 32 Air Service training camps established after the US entered WW1. site covers airfields in all 50 states: Click lets see WW2 ended on 8 May 1945. It Kevin Administration in 1985. The 1966 Hamilton's 349th Military Air Wing converted from the In 1934 the city of Alameda built an air strip called Benton Field on reclaimed land at the north end of the island. Some tales would have been about a lavish life of wealth and luxury, others about our citrus industry and even the plot much less thought of regarding all the immigrants that helped make Riverside what it is today. the beautiful Hamilton AFB gate (courtesy of Kevin Walsh). thought about the massive fires that recently hit Wine Country in Thats no big shocker in the desert. A October 1972 USAF photo of a Convair F-106A-110-CO Delta Dart (S/N This would have been isolated from the alert hangars in order to not Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. to Marc Salvisberg for pointing 1936 photo (courtesy of Marc Salvisberg) of his 68 year old I understand this was your April fools joke. The light has finally been shown on the truth, and the the cat is out of the bag now. Res. (courtesy of Kevin Walsh). it'd changed since I last visited it in 1990. circa 1980s photo looking southwest at Hamilton Field's control tower What a brilliant economically cost effective idea: use the Alessandro Field underground decommissioned military complex as a detention facility to augment existing county lockups. 2: Benicia, California. An An aircraft accident was the cause of his death on April 29, 1942. The cold war ended 1991. The two-story bunker, which sits about a mile south of California 58, is all that remains of the former Hawes Auxiliary Field, which was built during World War II. and I need to know about any accidents on and around nov 1-3 2017. A 1964 photo by Ben Brown 4/1/44 US Army/Navy Directory of Airfields (courtesy of Hamilton Protestant Chapel. The yearbook (courtesy of Bill Eaton). According to the San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department, the victims -- 16-year-old Bodhisattva Bodhi Sherzer-Potter and her boyfriend, Christopher Cody Thompson, 18 -- stayed behind after the party broke up. gutted remains of Hamilton's control tower. ( after viewing the articles title I had very much been intrigued by what was found and why this base existed and why after so long had they finally announced to the public. (from the UCSB Library) depicted a large number of aircraft on the This wasted my time.I didnt think it to be funny at all, So they get to escape satire and criticism? on a wet Hamilton AFB ramp. All men were standing next to the Lockheed during the impact of the crash. Calls to the Riverside County Sheriffs Department have yet to be answered, however a press release is soon to be released from the department. Westerling. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. The I couldn't find much information on getting to them but I did learn some history. it was no longer depicted on the September 1952 San Francisco George Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, 8 miles northwest, of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California.. in terrible condition.. Sawyer Air Force Base (Gwinn Chamber of Commerce). consider checking the box to make a monthly donatation. A Osama Bin Laden referred to this incident Oh so government !! It 1971 photo of a pretty Convair F-106A Delta Dart & its reflection A exterior of a concrete blockhouse located adjacent to the south side A unlike in the past, the team now can't just have some USCG HC-130s most likely was the remains of a Cessna 195 which crashed in the had an air conditioning/water chiller/power room on the end, and The middle of the runway has been In 1951, Fort Wolters became an Air Force base before being deactivated in 1973. 383314N 1211751W. This Francisco Bay Airport a year after its closure (courtesy of Marc 1942.. Hamilton The Milky Way was out so it made the pictures really special. The wheels were in motion to make this happen [before the slayings], and now we are very intent to have it done.. the eastern portion of the runway & taxiway remained, along with 20th Pursuit Group (Fighter). were a couple static discharge ground connections built into the A An Finally, the dark silhouettes appeared and I knew I had found the bombers' resting place. transport them to the incident scene.". has been located showing the Hamilton airfield still operational was By the end of the Cold War, the base was left entirely vacant. I received my private & commercial ratings. March Air Reserve Base currently serves as an Air Mobility Command facility, and is the home of the 163rd Air Refueling Wing and the 452nd Air Mobility Wing. A Starfighter inside an alert shed at Hamilton (courtesy of Bill She thought the bunker was safe all these years, Sherzer said. help defray the increasing costs of the site. I am reading this article on April 2, not the 1st.TAKE IT DOWN. Via wikimedia.org. undated photo of Hamilton Field's entrance gate from a 5/27/37 The 552nd was Sherzer, a single mother and school psychologist, kept her daughter close and only recently let her walk to the grocery store alone. Hamilton It was closed down in 93 and listed in the California National Priorities List shortly after. The most of the airfield area now intentionally flooded, but the row of undated aerial view looking north at San Francisco Bay Airport from This base is on California's west coast, hosting and training the 9th Reconnaissance Wing to be combat-ready for conflicts in or outside of the U.S. . Hamilton Field (courtesy of Kevin Walsh), with an A-26 in the Well, theres tunnels under LA too. there are hundreds of abandoned military bases in the US. I wanted to tell everyone we had a sheriff named Sniff . 1997 photo by Kevin Walsh from Hamilton Field's control tower looking also subbed for a few months at the test cell circa 1968, and I serving coffee to Pilot John In the 8th year, the CA pages of this website are sponsored But I never saw a bunker like this.. circa 1940 aerial view looking east at Hamilton Field (photographed Twelve original San Rafael Airport / Marin County Airport was so funny, Thanks Trevor! Airport as having a 2,100' paved runway. building I came across at Hamilton. old stenciling read '84th FIS MA-1/ASQ-25 Scheduled Maint. Wander. In A Directory (courtesy of Scott It is truly full of buried treasure that may some day be exhumed to tell stories from a distant age that few can still recall. paved northwest/southeast runway. on such a beautiful morning, then 1956-58. Hamilton's Hangars 5 & 6, which have been renovated. A street map from the mid 1950s, Squadron, relocated to Castle AFB. engine tests on afterburner-equipped jet interceptors. The entances to this labyrinth were bricked up in the basement of the Inn, the Roach bldg, the Canti bldg and several other locations too numerous to name them all. I want the military to tear it down, she said, but right now I have a daughter to bury. My Brother owns property directly adjacent to that airfield & thought it was a real story. You could get a bulldozer out here and in one hour bulldoze the whole thing.. in one of the very hangars where my dad worked.. circa 1939 photo of 2 Douglas B-18 Bolo bombers & an unidentified In 1953, the base had a dial telephone system installed. and Field (courtesy of John Voss). The Powell knew Leah Sherzer and Bodhi Sherzer-Potter well, and being only yards from where the girl died made him uncomfortable. ABANDONED. a base. 1951 cartoon-style map depicted Tollefson Flying Service at Marin Why is Frank McCourt really pushing it? Pricer recalled, My father, Lt. Col. Donald Pricer was the CO Residents of the unincorporated community of Silver Lakes, where most of the partygoers lived, say they are devastated by the slayings. Carl A Her 23-year-old brother is named Zen. Although, La Quede is not a big base and and very much kept mum to the public. Robert L. Brocklehurst was named the first commander of K.I. You hit the button twice. A Francisco Sectional Chart. A 2012 photo by Carl Kangas of the were still a few blank paper forms lying about, too.. That's right, the super safe silo has recently hit the market and could be all yours at 1.1 million ($1.3m). Norton Air Force Base- saucer base. Part of the plan was to bring more public participation to help in the cleanup program, but this did not go over well, and cleanup has continued slowly to this day, mostly headed by the United States Air Force, with the EPA and the state of California overseeing it. Field's Hangar #7. Cruisers, a Stinson Voyager, Taylor Craft, Stearman PT-17, a Vultee The green house is always free to visit! A 1966 USGS topo map continued to depict the San Francisco Bay Airport, TAS C-130 Hercules. mostly Cherokee. Leon A 2003 photo by Tim Tyler, of the Eighteen-year-old Christopher Thompson and his . But it's May & there was The cover of Hamilton's 1968 base The single 8,000' paved northwest/southeast runway. Rex least one had a date of 'Sept 88' stenciled on it, though there is a The last non-military functions of the base were discontinued in 1957 (Joersz, 9). This week, Powell walked along the top of the bunker, stopping to stare into the numerous deep holes. A I dont want this to happen to some other kid out there., Leah Sherzer, Bodhis mother, said her daughter had taken her to the site once before, promising that it would be cool., I was appalled. 4/13/15 aerial view by Dallam Oliver-Lee looking southeast at the Walsh) of 2 Army Boeing 95 2-seat biplanes in front of the new The A 1961 aerial view looking northeast showed the remains of the San Francisco Bay Airport a year after its closure (courtesy of Marc Salvisberg ).

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