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Santa Catalina Island: A 100 years of tourism
Catalina: A 100 years of island tourism
The Orange County Register
Published: May 4, 2012 Updated: 10:57 a.m.
Catalina Island had been struggling to build its tourism for decades when a young aviator from Santa Ana took off from Newport Beach on May 10, 1912 and completed the longest over-water flight to date and becoming the first to land on water. Here's how that flight started a tourism boom.
