Title supplied by cataloger. Built in 1924 as the entrance to Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, the 75-foot Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is a Spanish/Mission Revival style monument and burial site for 13 pioneers of aviation. It was dedicated in 1953 as a final resting place for pilots, mechanics and other pioneers of flight. Spectators gather around the wreckage of a Navajo-Piper aircraft scattered at the base of the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in Burbank. The twin-engine plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Hollywood-Burbank Airport. Photograph dated July 21, 1969.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Air pilots--Monuments--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Piper airplanes Aircraft accidents--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Cemeteries--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Architecture--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Spanish influences Debris--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Monuments & memorials--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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