Seaplanes and Flying Boats

I dunno why, but I have quite a fascination with flying boats. In fact, my home is mostly decorated with vintage travel posters for the Pan Am Flying Clippers from the 30's...like this one.














Anyhoo, while casting around to find some daytrip destinations around my fair burg, I discovered there was a seaplane base out in Long Beach, which led me to this super great site for amphibious planes that went from L.A. to Catalina Island (which is...I dunno 15 or 20 miles off the Southern California coast) back in the day. Some really neat stuff over there if you like the old-timey glamour of air travel.

Here's some extra shots of a Pan Am Clipper I found somwhere on the webmonster a while ago, and then forgot I had until just now.