Hollywood Comes to the Harry P. Williams Airport
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The cast and crew of Thunder Bay came to Morgan City to film a story about two men who want to build an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In the above photo, Jimmy Stewart stands in front of the main hangar of the Harry P. Williams Airport. The film was released in 1953.
Image Courtesy of the Wedell-Williams Memorial Foundation and the Louisiana State Museum
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End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
Jimmie Wedell would never enter the MacRobertson Race from England to Australia. The Gypsy Moth in which he was giving a lesson crashed just outside of Patterson on June 24, 1934. Wedell died…