"Save Amelia"

Bronzing Project

July 25, 2002

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NOTICE!!

Amelia will be back and dedicated on December 16, 2003, just in time for the Centennial of Flight. Welcome home Amelia.

The Amelia Earhart statue is (was) at the corner of Magnolia Blvd. and Tujunga Ave. in North Hollywood, CA

The statue will be removed tonight (July 25, 2002) to be refurbished and cast in bronze.

It is to be rededicated on Amelias birthday, July 24, 2003, during the year of the Centennial of Manned Flight

For more information on this important project please see:

http://www.noho.org/visit/amelia_earhart.htm

Amelia Earhart lived in North Hollywood from 1928 until 1937, when she left on her last flight and disappeared with Fred Noonan in the Pacific.

She lived in North Hollywood and worked at the Pacific Telephone Company on Magnolia Blvd. She bought her first airplane from Bert Kinner who built aircraft at the Grand Central airport in Glendale, CA. She moved to Toluca Lake with her husband George Putnam and her house still exists on Valley Spring Lane. She worked with Paul Mantz and honed her flying skills at Burbank Airport.

She made her home here because the best aircraft in the world were being designed and built at the Lockheed plant in Burbank, a tradition that includes Vega, Constellation, SR-71, F-117 Stealth Fighter and design of the F-22 Raptor.

Also, the San Fernando Valley was, in those days, a bucolic and restful area sought out by Hollywood stars for homes and by movie studios for their productions. The Valley has changed a bit, hey?