Long Beach Airport (LGB), California’s oldest municipal airport, traces its origins to biplanes taking off and landing on the beach in the early 1900s and plane builder and stunt pilot Earl Daugherty’s 20-acre flight training field established in 1919. The City of Long Beach worked with Daughterty to develop a 60-acre municipal flying field that was dedicated in December 1920. In 1938, with the help of funds from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), new runways were constructed and funds authorized for a new administrative building and control tower. The Streamline Moderne structure, designed by architects William Horace Austin and Kenneth Smith Wing, opened in April 1942. The murals and mosaics throughout the building were created by artist Grace Clements. The terminal is a…..