One lives and learns! Somewhere I've got the Putnam Beechcraft book - see if I can locate it - it's not with my others as it is a different size and a lot of books are in boxes at present,
Van Nuys must have been a superb place to be in the 60s, seems to be all biz jets now... The couple of times I was in LA either side of 2000 I didn't get there or to Burbank.