La Guardia Airport

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Paul Talbert and Ross Mashawn, two WNYC staffers, finishing up work choose to take a trip to LaGuardia Airport. They take a bus to La Guardia Airport from midtown past the new Flushing Meadows Park at the site of the World's Fair.

They enter the terminal and discuss the history of the Laguardia Airport. Before its creation, people flying into New York had to go through Newark. There is a flashback to La Guardia deciding that he should build an airport in the Flushing Swamps after a frustrating flight to Newark. They tour the rest of the airport, remarking on its grandeur and reasonable prices. They then speak to the pilot of an incoming flight. After a long digression about the Andes mountains, the pilot praises the La Guardia Airport, where all the planes are "devoted to peace." Paul and Ross then decide to go to get dinner.

Next week's tour is of WNYC itself.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 150143
Municipal archives id: LT5414