ZigZagMarquis 8 #176 December 29, 2010 All, I've been spending time while off for Christmas / New Year's scanning in A LOT of old Cal City East / West and Apple Valley Skydive photos. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do with them all. I'd like to post them somewhere or do a web-site or blog to share them so folks can see them and maybe reconnect, but in the mean time, here's a few from Cal City... so old that color photography hadn't yet been invented... Enjoy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #177 December 29, 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/zigzagmarquis/sets/72157625701764898/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #178 December 31, 2010 I drove by the old place yesterday and snapped this photo. I don't know if there's anyting going on inside. I could have wandered over to see, but just didn't feel like it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rapter 0 #179 February 2, 2011 Here some photos of the hanger at Cal-City on the first day and the last, Only the good die young, so I have found immortality, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #180 February 4, 2011 Cool pictures Cary. How many folks are in the first and last photos? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #181 March 18, 2011 I imagine she might have I cannot find her listed anymore? Anybody know?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #182 March 31, 2011 Ol' Yong doing AFF eval dives recently at Snore... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LweF_IkvW14&feature=related Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 3 #183 March 31, 2011 I believe she's gone to Crosskeys in NJ. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rapter 0 #184 March 31, 2011 No, she's at Elsinroe Only the good die young, so I have found immortality, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #185 March 31, 2011 You went low on the conversation there Cary... I think HW was talking about 1PM maybe going to X-Keys, not Yong. Yong is at Snore, not 1PM, but maybe Youg will go to X-Keys at somepoint, if she hasn't already been there... ... okay, now I'm confused... DOH! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rapter 0 #186 April 1, 2011 If I did it was because the conversation floated on me,............ Only the good die young, so I have found immortality, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #187 April 1, 2011 I heard today that 1PM sold to some tandem factory in Florida. So who knows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 3 #188 April 1, 2011 Still betting on CrossKeys. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #189 April 2, 2011 QuoteStill betting on CrossKeys. HW That would be cool. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #190 April 15, 2011 http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=121PM&x=15&y=15 CrossKeys? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 3 #191 April 15, 2011 Yup. Sad. I'd like to jump it again but won't go to CK. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #192 April 15, 2011 What's the matter with CK? Are you part of the "forever" club there? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 3 #193 April 15, 2011 I've never jumped there., but I've been there. I'm told by People In The Know that it's become a tandem mill. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #194 April 24, 2011 Found this old (not mine) video from Cal City on YouTube. The person that posted it says it was shot circa 1993. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr49go3GxW0 Anyone else spot riggerrob or Mr. Bunny in the video? 93 was around the time I started, but I don't remember the King Air or Sky Van (Casa? or was it the Scare-a-boo?) at Cal City around that time although a King Air and some sort of tail-gate appears in this video... along with N121PM and what looks to be N3927G? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #195 April 24, 2011 Some old and really old Cal City stuff found on the internet... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #196 June 28, 2011 I was listening to the Mark and Brian show this morning before work and Brian was still talking about skydiving out at Cal City, drinking beers afterwards and going out into the desert to shoot guns... Geeze, its been what? 20ish years since the Above and Below Show? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 3 #197 June 28, 2011 Quote I was listening to the Mark and Brian show this morning before work and Brian was still talking about skydiving out at Cal City, drinking beers afterwards and going out into the desert to shoot guns... Geeze, its been what? 20ish years since the Above and Below Show? 1990 or 1991. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #198 August 2, 2011 Bored... obsessed... well, yeah... what ever... Anyway, was having some fun with Google Earth and going through what historical imagery I could find there. Attached are some aerial photos of Cal City courtesy of Google Earth circa 1994, a couple from 2004, 2006 and 2008. I'm not 100% sure if I buy the "imagery date" associated with each. 27 May 1994 was a Friday, it was the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend that year, but still seems a lot of cars in the parking lot. No jumps in my log book as this was during a brief hiatus for me between starting and finishing student status. Maybe someone else will happen by and check this date in their log book. 16 February 2004 was a Monday, President's Day. I would have been off of work that day, but couldn't find a jump in my log book for that day. 31 December 2004 was a Friday, New Year's Eve, but I couldn't find any jumps logged that day either. 29 April 2006 was a Saturday and I do have 6 jumps logged that day at Cal City. The last pic, from 31 March 2008 was about 4 months after the DZ closed up. Anyway, reportedly the city has rented the ol' skydiving hangar to a company that overhauls Gulfstreams. Last time I happened by the place, it looked like there was some activity; flags on the flag poles, a new gate across where one would drive onto the ramp and a dumpster outside like trash service was resumed or remodeling was underway inside. If so, hope the business works out well. Its been a shame seeing the place sitting empty. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #199 August 10, 2011 U.S. Navy Test Parachutists at Cal City, circa early 2000s... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwMiTeETbjU Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimartle 0 #200 August 10, 2011 Oh Baby... Now THAT is an opening shock! Do that twice and then tell me a PC opens hard! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites