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2. Los Angeles International Airport - Wikipedia

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   [15] [14] The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [17] The temporary terminals remained in place for 15 years but quickly became inadequate, especially as air travel entered the "jet age" and other cities invested in modern facilities. Airport leaders once again convinced voters to back a $59 million bond on June 5, 1956.

3. History of Los Angeles International Airport - Wikipedia

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   The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [6] Sepulveda Boulevard was rerouted c. 1950 to loop around the west ends of the extended east–west runways (now runways 25L and 25R), which by November 1950 were 6,000 feet (1,800 m) long. [7]

4. List of airports in the Los Angeles area - Wikipedia

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   The airport is located in Burbank, and serves the heavily populated areas of northern Los Angeles County. It is the closest airport to the central and northeastern parts of L.A. (including Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles), Glendale, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley, and the western San Gabriel Valley.

5. 2000 millennium attack plots - Wikipedia

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   Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was a target of the plots.. A series of Islamist terrorist attacks linked to al-Qaeda were planned to occur on or near January 1, 2000, in the context of millennium celebrations, including bombing plots against four tourist sites in Jordan, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), USS The Sullivans, and the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

6. Did you know that LAX has a hit song? Five facts you might ...

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   According to LAX, the song "LA International Airport" climbed to No. 9 on the U.S. country music chart and No. 54 on the pop chart in the early 1970s.

7. Terminals of Los Angeles International Airport - Wikipedia

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   The basic layout of the airport dates back to 1958 when the architecture firm Pereira & Luckman was contracted to plan the re-design of the airport for the "jet age."The plan, developed with architects Welton Becket and Paul Williams, called for a series of terminals and parking structures in the central portion of the property, with these buildings connected at the center by a huge steel-and ...