We get it, we want to get out of town too. But while not many people are flying these days, you can at least enjoy these awesome vintage photos of the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, which just turned 95 years old. All photos via the Cleveland Memory Project.
Ford Hangar, 1920Construction Workers Begin Building Airport, 1925Plane Flying at Night, 1925World’s First Airport Floodlight, 1928Original Airport Hangar, 1928Men with Air Mail Message for President Herbert Hoover, 1929Airplane Refuels During Record-Breaking Endurance Flight, 1929Mayor Miller and Others in Front of Airplane, 1933New Restrooms, 1937Arrival, 1940Pilots Checking Air Lanes, 1940Old Main Building, 1951Browns Departing to Play the Los Angeles Rams, 1951New Addition, 1952Demolition Underway for Expansion, 1953New Terminal at West Concourse, 1954New Concourse, 1954Mayor Celebrezze Hanging Hopkins Airport Sign Outside City Hall, 1954Main Terminal, 1954Entrance, 1956First Jet Flight, 1960Mayor’s Wife Shakes Pilot’s Hand Before First Jet Flight From Cleveland, 1960Airport Firemen, 1962Cleveland Army Air Base, 1963Loading Cargo onto 727, 1964Entrance Sign, 1965New North Concourse, 1965New West Concourse, 1965International Machinist Union Picketers on Strike, 1966Waiting for Airplane, 1966Backed up Traffic, 1967New Curbside Baggage Area, 1967Passengers Arriving, 1969South Concourse, 1969Beckett Hangar, 1970Sheraton Inn, 1970New Central Terminal and East Concourse Site, 1971Main Entrance, 1973Main Entrance, 1974Mayor Ralph Perk at Hopkins, 1974Pinball Machines Removed, 1974Flight Sculpture Installed, 1975New Baggage Claim, 1975New Ticketing Building, 1977New Building, 1977Mayor Dennis and Wife Sandy Kucinich Arrive From New York, 1978New Baggage Claim, 1978Air Transportation Around the World Installation, 1979Radar Antenna, 1980Air Traffic Controllers, 1981Control Tower and One World Restaurant, 1981Ticket Entrance, 1984Administration Building and Parking LotUnited AirplaneHopkins InteriorAdministrative BuildingHopkins InteriorTWA AirplaneTWA Plane and Terminal
