Super Market Show

I'll tell about another trip for the company that Larry Pahl ( Larry was sales mgr. )and I made for a service and sales meeting in San Francisco and super market show. On super market shows the equipment to be shown was always shipped by rail to wherever the show would be held. We had finished the meetings and were putting on the show. The show lasted a week and as we were finishing up it went into the weekend, so we decided to stay over, we were staying at the Roosevelt hotel in San Francisco. We noticed a poster in a restaurant that the next day a plane was leaving Oakland to Lake Tahoe Nevada, well now Lake Tahoe sports a casino by the name of HARRAHS, we sort of figured that we had worked hard enough on the show to deserve a little secret vacation, why not!! The plane left Oakland , if I remember correctly around 8:00 AM. We took a long taxi ride from our hotel to the airport in Oakland and it so happened that there was a long holdup on the bridge (this bridge is about seven miles long ) so we missed the plane, which turned out to be the best miss we ever had. O n landing at Tahoe the plane developed engine failure and crashed at the 7000 foot level of the mountain airport killing all aboard. Dodged the bullet again. The plane was a Lockheed Electra famous at the time for malfunctioning.