Idlewild Airport
Rita recorded “Idlewild Airport” for 1950.
Contextual photograph of Idlewild Airport. The exact 1950 project on Rita's list has not been identified, and this is not presented as the job itself.
Undated · Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons · no known restrictions · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Open
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Unresolved
Rita’s list
Transcription: Idlewild Airport — 1950
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-010
1 of two
“Idlewild Airport — 1950”
The exact project or site has not yet been identified.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Unresolved
The masonry package on this job has not been established. The entry rests on the family record alone, and nothing further is claimed here.
The construction team
The construction team for this job has not yet been established.
What happened to it
Altered
John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, NY 11430
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01airporthistory.org
kennedy opening early years
- 02newyorker.com
not idle not wild
- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:Idlewild Airport arrivals building. LOC gsc.5a25461.jpg
- Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. · Public domain — no known restrictions on publication · Library of Congress, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, via Wikimedia Commons
The arrivals building at Idlewild Airport, photographed for the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection. Shown as period context for the airport, not as the specific 1950 scope.
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