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eLivermore.com - By Bill
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The Buildings, then and now.
In order, the photos are:
Silhouette of ~1944 photo below, with building numbers
added.
~1944 photo of the Naval Air Station
1956 Livermore Radiation Lab diagram (cropped)
1993 USGS Aerial photo of a portion of Lawrence Livermore Lab from the Microsoft
Terra Server
Above & Below: ~1944 photo of the Naval Air station. This is the
same photo as on page 1, but cropped to the building area, and rotated.
East Ave is at the bottom. Vasco Road would be off the left side, and
Greenville Road off the right side (visible in upper right corner).
Above: Diagram of the Livermore Radiation Lab, January 1956
Above: 1993 USGS photo of a slightly larger area than the photos above.
Buildings # 1 & 21 are labeled to match the top photo for reference. A Sandia building can be seen at the bottom middle.
This photo is from the Microsoft Terraserver, which has photos of the entire
country.
Click here for this view on the terraserver
This is the buildings section of the photo on the previous page, cropped and
rotated. The road at the bottom is East Ave. Many of the building in
this photo are are still present at the Lawrence Livermore Lab.
The following table lists the numbered
buildings and their 1956 and 2003 assignments
| NAS # * |
NAS Description |
1956 # |
1956 Assignment |
2003 |
| 1 |
A & R Building |
126 |
Crafts |
Existing |
| 2 |
|
125 |
Health Chemistry |
|
| 3a |
|
163 |
Stores-Office |
Demolished |
| 3b |
|
164 |
Stores |
Demolished |
| 3c |
|
165 |
Stores |
Demolished |
| 3d |
|
166 |
Warehouse |
Existing |
| 3e |
|
167 |
Warehouse |
Existing |
| 3f |
|
- |
Demolished |
Demolished |
| 3g |
|
- |
Demolished |
Demolished |
| 4 |
M & E Hangars |
121 |
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft |
|
| 5 |
M & E Hangars |
124 |
Accelerator Development |
|
| 6 |
Control Tower |
- |
Demolished |
Demolished |
| 7 |
Administration Building |
113 |
Administration |
Existing |
| 8 |
|
131 |
MTA & Arc Research Office |
Existing |
| 9 |
|
132 |
AEC Office (western
portion was demolished) |
Existing |
| 10 |
|
133 |
Reception |
Demolished |
| 11 |
|
136 |
Administration |
Existing |
| 12 |
|
- |
Demolished |
Demolished |
| 13 |
|
130 |
Cafeteria |
Existing |
| 14 |
|
141 |
Electrical Engineering |
Demolished |
| 15 |
|
142 |
Electrical Engineering |
Demolished |
| 16 |
|
143 |
General Services |
Existing |
| 17 |
Swimming Pool ? |
145 |
Swimming Pool |
Existing |
| 18 |
|
144 |
Sandia |
Existing |
| 19 |
|
151 |
Mechanical Engineering |
Existing |
| 20 |
|
152 |
General Engineering |
Existing |
| 21 |
|
153 |
Accelerator |
Existing |
| 22 |
|
155 |
Electrical Engineering |
Existing |
| 23 |
|
105 |
Maintenance Shop |
Demolished |
| 24 |
|
161 |
PW Administration |
Demolished |
| 25 |
|
162 |
PW Physics |
Demolished |
| |
(Between #18 & #21) |
146 |
Dormitory-Offices |
Existing |
| |
(South of #4 & # 5, between them) |
122 |
Chemistry |
|
| |
(to the right of #7) |
139 |
Communications |
Existing |
* NAS number is from the photo at the top. The numbers are arbitrary, and
are not a
numbering system used at that time.
The 1956 information is from a 1956 Livermore Radiation Laboratory diagram.
The function of must of the buildings at the time of the Naval Air Station is
not known.
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