bluEldr, did you know Roy Immel? He lived just west of me a few miles on a grass strip, and was an old B47 driver. He had a 150 Texas Taildragger until his most recent acquisition (pictured at the following link, a local EAA newsletter, which announced his recent trip West.)
A very nice fellow about your age, who was still chasing after (and probably caught) the prettiest widow in the county! http://www.hillcountryflyer.com/newslet ... letter.pdf
Here's a pic of his hangar/home, which is off a mid-field taxiway on the north side of the runway (that's the taxiway on the other side of the hangar in this view...the runway is barely in the pic):
That's his hangar about 2/3rds down the runway, off to the left:
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention. An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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