Day 4370: California town with no ? & The North Hangar, Tustin.

  

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California town with no street addresses?

Homes in Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif., are identified by name as the city does not use addresses.

No one in this wealthy California community known for its white-sand beaches and storybook charm has a street address. But unlike the houses in Carmel-By-The-Sea, those days may soon be numbered.

After more than a century of address-free living, this seaside tourist destination where Clint Eastwood once presided as mayor is moving ahead with a plan to assign street numbers to homes and businesses.

Many long-time residents aren’t happy about it. The city’s residents and visitors must navigate a woodsy, 1-square-mile (2.5-square-kilometer) landscape where houses, stores, restaurants and other buildings don’t have numbers. It’s even more difficult at night because the town has few street lights.

When asked for their address, residents describe their homes’ color or style, nearby landmarks like cypress trees and fire hydrants or their location relative to the nearest cross street. Many houses have signs with whimsical names like Neverland, Dreamcatcher and Pinch Me or descriptors such as “San Antonio 3 SE of 9th.” There is no mail delivery service, so residents must pick up up their mail at the U.S. post office, the only building with an official address.

Sharon, left, and Chip Clarke walk their dogs along Scenic Road, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif. 

In 1953, Carmel threatened to secede from California over proposed state legislation requiring house numbers. The bill didn’t pass. The issue reemerged as a hot-button issue during the pandemic, when in-person interactions were curtailed and more residents wanted to have packages and meals delivered to their homes. Local law enforcement and fire officials spoke out in support of addresses at the July 9 council meeting, noting the lack of street numbers violates fire and building codes.

A UPS worker delivers packages to the United States Post Office in Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif.

Some longtime residents worry street numbers will take away from Carmel’s quaintness. “I’ve lived here so long, I’ve kind of forgotten what it’s like to have mail delivered, so it doesn’t bother me,” resident Virginia Crapo said. “I think it’s more communal when you have to come down to the post office to get your mail because you can see your neighbors. Even after homes receive street addresses, the post office will remain open and there will be no delivery mail service to residences.

Missing the Hangar

November 17, 2023 The cavernous WWII-era North Hangar burns in Tustin, destroying a relic of Orange County’s military past.

For more than 80 years, two massive domed hangars loomed over Tustin’s southern edge, a relic of Orange County’s military history hemmed in by an expanding suburban landscape that replaced orange groves and lima bean fields with shopping centers and tract homes.

Reaching 17 stories high, more than 1,000 feet long and nearly 300 feet wide, the cavernous wooden structures at the now-defunct Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin once housed military helicopters and blimps armed with machine guns and bombs, so dwarfed by the buildings they looked like toys sitting inside.

Worldwide Aeros Corp.Tustin hangars to build a blimp–like cargo aircraft for military, shown in 2012.

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The north hangar, near Valencia Avenue and Armstrong Road, caught fire just before 1 a.m. Flames chewed through the historic building throughout the day, collapsing section after section. What remains of the structure will eventually be demolished, fire officials said. The structures are so large that it would have been possible to play a basketball game, a football game and a soccer match in one building simultaneously. Their huge wooden doors, which have six leaves that weigh 26 tons to 39 tons each, fold open on steel rails like an accordion, powered by electric motors at each end. Giant concrete pylons anchor each corner. The hangars were built mostly from Oregon Douglas fir, 2 million board-feet of wood that was treated with metallic salts as a fire retardant. But the size and construction of the structure made fighting the blaze a challenge. Seventy OCFA firefighters on 11 engines and five fire trucks responded to the fire, which was so large and complex that officials deployed helicopters, including a Chinook used in wildfires, to drop water on the huge structure. But because of the “dynamic nature of the fire, and the imminent danger of collapse,” firefighters planned to allow the mostly wooden hangar to fall on its own before crews move in to extinguish the fire, Fennessy said. Officials estimated the structure could burn for several hours, if not days. 

August, 2024

So all that is left is the four corners of the North Hanger skeleton.

August, 2024

I still look and miss its majesty in a memory since I was a child. I do appreciate that we still have the South Hangar, as how could you describe it to future generations.

 

  

 

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