This collection includes material documenting Mr. Gildred's 1981 flight from San Diego to Quito Ecuador.
After Theodore Gildred, Sr. spent some of his childhood in South America, he graduated from NYU in 1918 as a civil engineer. He became an aviator upon moving to San Diego and in 1931 embarked on a 9,000 mile goodwill flight to Ecuador.
Theodore “Ted” Bolduc was born on New Year’s Day in 1919 in Augusta, Maine to Michael and Jeanette Bolduc. He was their only son and grew up with two younger sisters, Violette and Anita. Ted enlisted in the Navy at the start of World War II and served as an Aviation Photographer, assigned primarily to "Lighter Than Air" (blimp) squadrons in Georgia and Florida. He married Navy nurse Bernice Fournier, from Waterville, Maine, in 1946 and together they raised eight children. Ted passed away on October 21, 2010 at the age of 91. He died of natural causes at the Hale Nohea care home in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Theodore Parsons "Ted" Hall (1898-1978) was an accomplished aircraft designer and engineer. Notable among his various aircraft projects is the Consolidated flying automobile and the PBY Catalina.
Thomas Parker Emery - a local community college art instructor, mural painter, designer, and sculptor - was commissioned to restore the March of Transportation murals painted by Juan Larrinaga in the Ford Building.
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