Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

I don't recall any fitting that description. Was it at an airline terminal?

No. Hartsfield has four parallel runways. There are crossover taxiways between
them. At the time, the terminals were all on the north side of the field. We
were building a tunnel between the center two runways. Today, this tunnel links
the new terminal and the concourses which are located between the center two
runways. Today, the old passenger terminal to the north of the field is the
cargo terminal.

Back then, all traffic headed to the north side of the field; cargo, GA,
airlines, etc.. There were taxiways between the runways to allow traffic to get
there. I was posted on a dirt road used by construction vehicles which crossed
one of these taxiways. Since the tunnel base was about 60' below ground level,
trucks coming out of the jobsite couldn't see traffic on the taxiway. My job
that day was to flag the trucks down if there was a plane coming. Looking at a
diagram, it seems that I was located somewhere in the vicinity of what is now
F5, though E5 ran all the way across back then (E5, F5, and J were all one long
road).

As I recall, the DC-3 landed on the runway just north of my position (that would
be 8R). I saw him land, and he turned off towards the terminals (away from me)
on the taxiway I was guarding. That was a few hundred feet away from me. I
remember the symbol, the "Southwest" markings, and the curtains in the windows.
It looked like new.

I don't recall watching to see where it wound up, and I wouldn't have known
which of the buildings was what anyway (except for the tower).

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