89. Where Do You Park "Your" Blimp?

What?  You don't have a blimp.  Neither does your SoCal gal.

Over the years she's not too sure she's really wondered too hard about where Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company kept their blimps when they weren't flying the blue skies of America.  That is until she moved back to California.  Then it isn't so much that she wondered as one can't help but notice the parking for one, parking lot for the particular blimp in Goodyear's fleet known as Spirit of America.

Why?  Perhaps you have heard of a freeway (some might convincingly argue is a freeway disguised as a parking lot or maybe it is a parking lot disguised as a freeway?) in Southern California, the 405 (aka Interstate 405)?  About ten miles south of LAX on the 405 as you drive through the city of Carson, you can't miss the blimp parking lot from your moving vehicle.  Okay, unless of course, if your eyes are shut.  And if you are driving with your eyes shut...well, your SoCal gal certainly hopes that is not the case.

In case you are wondering if Goodyear blimp rides for the general public are a possibility, they are not.  This has been Goodyear's policy for over fifty years.

Goodyear blimps have been a part of our culture's collective consciousness since 1925 and providing live aerial shots of sporting events since the very first time at the 1960 Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

In a place like the greater Los Angeles area where parking is usually at a premium for being the scarce commodity it usually is; it almost seems unfair that one blimp should have so much room to park.  Maybe we give it a pass.  After all, it is a Goodyear blimp.

FYI, the address for the Carson blimp base is 19200 Main Street, Carson, California.