The Air Museum (Planes of Fame) circa 1962 at Claremont

[aerovin]

Researching something else I came across some vintage film footage of The Air Museum at its original location in Claremont in this YouTube posting; based on the date of other footage, probably taken about 1962.

Air Museum footage starts at 17:24:

https://tr-cam.com/video/mILnrWNENXc/porterville-ca-air-show-sept-22-23-1962-wwI-aircraft-plus-other-random-shows.html

Apologies if this has been posted earlier...don't recall seeing this before.

[aerovin]

Apparently, "don't touch the airplanes" was not a thing back then.

[Randy Haskin]

Apparently, "don't touch the airplanes" was not a thing back then.

As I heard Lefty Gardner say once, "these airplanes made it through a war....those people won't hurt it by touching it."

[airnutz]

Apparently, "don't touch the airplanes" was not a thing back then.

At the end of the video inside the hangar there is an unaccompanied young fella spinning thru the prop on a rotary Nieuport. If he had visited the cockpit prior to that fiddling with switches(or someone else had prior fiddled), life in the hangar could have become very exciting that day.

Back then we could touch(with restraint) but were never to "run" around the aircraft.