I was very fortunate to have grown up in the town of Westchester, the “Home of LAX: Los Angeles International Airport”; four wonderful marine-layered miles from the beach. My neighborhood bordered approximately fifty acres of open triangular-shaped land owned by Howard Hughes. The other two sides bordering the property were Sepulveda Boulevard on the west and the railroad tracks and Centinela Boulevard (and after the mid-sixties, the 405) on the north. The Airport Boulevard dead-end “entrance” to the Hughes “bean fields” was at the bottom of the hill of t more...
