A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.
One of the wings of the Hughes Flying Boat is seen being transported by truck on a narrow road in the country, on its way towards the Los Angeles Harbor in June 1946.
From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). "The wide dirt road is Charleston Blvd. Stretching east to Sunrise Mountain. The subdivision in the center of the photograph is Carol Lombard's "Huntridge" just after the last homes were built.
Color image of Hoover Dam looking upstream and showing the white water of the Colorado River below the spillway tunnel outlets. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.