The Snapshots in Time Collection

Employee Parking Lot and Campus Bungalows, Aircraft Company Grounds, Early 1950s

Employee Parking Lot and Campus Bungalows, Aircraft Company Grounds, Early 1950s

This photograph offers a wide view of an aerospace company's campus grounds in the early 1950s, showing rows of employee automobiles parked before a row of Spanish/Mission Revival-style bungalows. Such campus architecture, common to Southern California aircraft manufacturers of the era, reflected an effort to soften the industrial character of wartime-built aviation plants with landscaped, residential-style surroundings for staff. Project: 218586