Archiving Angeles (AA): The Graf Zeppelin

By Jason Burns
March 28th, 2008 @ 12:44 PM History

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She was the finest airship ever built. She would circle the globe in 12 days, with a trip from Friedrichshaften, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey. She would make a stop at Mines Field, now known as LAX.

She was the Graf Zeppelin. She arrived in Los Angeles 8 years before the Hindenburg disaster.

The year was 1929.

Photo from USC Digital Archives

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4 Comments so far

  1. Bert Green (bertwgreen) on March 28th, 2008 @ 1:03 pm

    Cool Photo.

    There is a show of zeppelin paintings up at my gallery right now by Michael Rosenfeld:

    http://www.bgfa.us
    http://www.bgfa.us/artists/rosenfeld


  2. Jason Burns (jasonburns) on March 28th, 2008 @ 1:22 pm

    Thanks for the tip, Bert. That looks like a very cool series!


  3. militantangeleno on March 28th, 2008 @ 1:29 pm

    The Militant sure dug Graf Zeppelin. Especially the guitar work of Jimmy Blage, the drumming of John Lonham, the bass playing of John Paul James and the vocal stylings of Robert Slant.


  4. Jason Burns (jasonburns) on March 28th, 2008 @ 1:33 pm

    Great. Only 1:30 in the afternoon, and the Militant is drinking again.



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