Talk:LAX color tunnels

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• Search: LAX tile|mosaic tunnel|Hallway|passageway .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 20:22, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

  read the reference citations, can you determine where the mosaics are? then look at these:

  • google Search: LAX tile|mosaic tunnel|Hallway|passageway
  • what is the best name for the page?
  • are you in L.A. ?

  • https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/design-and-architecture may have info
  • Los Angeles Public Library may have info

  • find articles that should wikilink to LAX color tunnels
  • tag it stub and publish!

  .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 03:34, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Janet Bennett should be a separate article

Janet Bennett:

• Sandhaus, Louise (2017-01-26). "Who designed the murals for the Los Angeles International Airport?". LSD News & Views.
• Bennett, Janet. "My Midcentury Airport". Scribd. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
• Bennett, Janet. "LAX Los Angeles International Airport Mosiacs To Solomons v2". Scribd. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
• Auger, Micheline (December 5, 2015). "Janet Bennett: A Life in Design". Live Your Colors. Modwalls Tile Company. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
• Sandhaus, Louise (March 23, 2017). "Her Story Meets His Story: Janet Bennett, Charles Kratka, and the LAX Murals". Design Observer. Observer Omnimedia LLC. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
• "Finding Aid to the Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive negative files, circa 1930-2000". Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved 28 November 2022. box 1419, sleeve 138505U_06 - Janet Bennett, Designer of mosaic tile installed in BART station at Twenty-fourth and Mission Streets subway station. 1971-03-04 BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG
• Kall, Vickey (4 November 2013). "Airport Mosaics". History, Los Angeles County. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
• Kall, Vickey (28 December 2015). "Back to LAX for Mosaic Monday". History, Los Angeles County. Blogger. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.

.... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 03:27, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Tunnel history

Adding this as a way to get down my notes/understandings so that others can chime in.

The tunnels would have been built for Terminals 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Terminal 1 wasn't built until the 80s and Terminal 8 was always a "pier" off of Terminal 7, so didn't need a tunnel out to a satellite rotunda.

In Terminals 2 and 7, the "color tunnel" that connected the satellite rotunda and the terminal building would later become part of the international arrivals facilities at those terminals.

That means of the six tunnels built, four should remain, but the fate of the tunnel at T3 is unclear.

Terminals 4, 5, 6, and 7 also had smaller inter-terminal tunnels. The tunnels between 4, 5, and 6 is still used for the American alliance (American, Alaska, and JetBlue). The tunnel between 6 and 7 also exists, but it's a "sterile corridor" allowing international flights to arrive at the rotunda of Terminal 6 and have those passengers walk to the international arrivals facility at Terminal 7.

I'm not sure we should include the inter-terminal tunnels since they never had the mosaics. RickyCourtney (talk) 17:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

I have absolutely nothing helpful to offer BUT I did just email LAX and ask if they have resumed giving tours. (Per the website, they used to do so but stopped bc of COVID.) If feasible I'll sign up and try to get photos and possibly answers. jengod (talk) 17:25, 9 February 2023 (UTC)