[Not A Snowbird]

I flew in and out of there a few times in the 1980's,

You should see it now. Back in the 80's there was one parking lot (with meters), one place to hang out and have a beer overlooking the runway (singular), and you had to walk out to your plane.

Now it looks like LAX, and the planes come screaming in over the 405 freeway. It looks sometimes like they're going to puddle jump off the tops of cars, they're so close.

[Steve_Seattle]

"You should see it now. Back in the 80's there was one parking lot (with meters), one place to hang out and have a beer overlooking the runway (singular), and you had to walk out to your plane."

Haven't been down there since my wife and I split up. She was from Anaheim, and we went down there a couple times a year for several years, sometimes coming into LAX, sometimes John Wayne. John Wayne did seem real primitive for being right in the middle of such a major population center; sounds like it's grown up since then.