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THIS MONTH IN CORONADO HISTORY No. 144 on Dec. 17, 1970. The hotel, one of the oldest and largest all-wooden buildings in California, is also one of America’s largest wooden buildings.
May 7, 1929
LESLIE CRAWFORD COLLECTION
A colorized postcard of the American Ostrich Co.'s Coronado farm.
May 3, 1887 The Coronado Beach Co. and E.J. Johnson, the owner of the Fallbrook ostrich farm, signed an agreement to have ostriches on Coronado. Johnson moved an ostrich flock onto Block 40, Coronado Beach.
May 3, 1923 Army pilots Lt. John Macready and Lt. Oakley Kelly arrived at Rockwell Field from Hempstead, New York, successfully completing the first nonstop flight across the United States. This was their third attempt, achieving the feat in 26 hours, 50 minutes and 38 seconds.
May 5, 1977 Hotel del Coronado received national historic designation. It was already named California Historic Landmark
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The Coronado City Council authorized a request for orders from the secretaries of war and the Navy for a ban on flying over Coronado after instances of ordinance dropping on the Strand and the golf course at the Coronado Country Club and a machine gun slug narrowly missing a boater. The flying of government planes over the city was characterized as a menace to the lives of residents.
May 10, 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off from North Island for the first leg of his historic flight to Paris, making his way toward the East Coast. May 15, 1846 The 4,158-acre Coronado Peninsula was deeded to Pedro Carrillo and Josefa Bandini as a wedding gift from California Gov. Pio Pico (under Mexican rule). Carrillo used the land to graze his cattle and watered them at Russian Spring, a freshwater spring on the west end of North Island.
May 16, 1887 The Coronado Evening Mercury pub-
