Emory Ranch Airport

10/05/2026

10/01/2026

Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Brawley Cattle Call✨
The Brawley Chamber of Commerce and One World Beef, present the 2026 Cattle Call Rodeo & Celebration🤠🐂

✨ THE PLATINUM ROUNDUP ✨

For seven decades, Cattle Call has brought our community together through tradition, western heritage, and some of Brawley’s most beloved events. This November, we’re celebrating 70 years of Cattle Call with two weeks of festivities:

⛳ Inaugural Cattle Call Golf Tournament
📅 November 6 | 8:00 AM

🌶️ Chili Cook-Off
📅 November 7 | 9:00 AM *Back to a morning event! ☀️*

🤝 Kick-Off Mega Mixer
📅 November 9 | 6:00 PM

🎺 Mariachi Night
📅 November 11 | 6:00 PM

🥞 Chuck Wagon Breakfast
📅 November 14 | 5:00 AM

🐎 Cattle Call Parade
📅 November 14 | 9:00 AM

🏆 Cattle Call Rodeo
📅 November 13-14 | 7:00 PM
📅 November 15 | 1:00 PM

70 years. Seven decades. One Brawley tradition. 🩶🤠
Get ready for The Platinum Roundup!

• Visit www.brawleychamber.com/brawley-cattle-call for more information

10/01/2026

Hike a few miles into Cuyamaca Rancho State Park and you find an airplane engine bolted to a stone pedestal, with a stone bench built into the hillside behind it. There is no runway anywhere near it.

On December 7, 1922, a de Havilland DH-4B left Rockwell Field on North Island bound for Tucson, carrying Army officers Francis C. Marshall and pilot Charles Webber. Heavy fog swallowed the backcountry ridges. The plane clipped the treetops on Japacha Ridge and went down. Searchers combed the mountains and found nothing.

The wreck was not located until May 1923, five months later. What was left of the engine was set into a masonry pedestal at the crash site the following year, and it has stayed there ever since, slowly weathering under the pines while the state park grew up around it.

Hikers who make the climb now report something unexpected: honeybees have colonized the inside of the engine block, so the smart move is to read the monument from a respectful distance.

A cast-iron engine on a mountain ridge is a strange kind of gravestone, and it is one of the few in the county that most residents will never see.

09/20/2026

16 years ago Gene Glasscock and his mule team passed through Ocotillo on his cross country trip

09/12/2026

On March 1, 1925, a ticket from Los Angeles to San Diego cost $14.50 one way — and you rode in a hole cut into a war-surplus trainer. ✈️

T. Claude Ryan and Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Mahoney ran their Los Angeles–San Diego Air Line out of Dutch Flats, a patch of bare dirt near what is now Midway Drive and Barnett Avenue. Their first airliner was a Standard J-1, a World War I trainer with a four-passenger cabin cut into the fuselage; the pilot sat behind the passengers in the open, in helmet and goggles. Later they pressed a converted Douglas Cloudster into service, big enough for around ten.

The schedule was simple: leave Los Angeles at 9 a.m., leave San Diego at 4 p.m., every day. Round trip, $22.50. It has long been billed as the first regularly scheduled passenger air service flown year-round entirely over the continental United States — a claim historians still argue about, since seaplane lines were running published schedules years earlier.

The airline itself lasted barely a year. Ryan and Mahoney dissolved their partnership in November 1926, and the shop turned to building airplanes instead.

A dirt field, a surplus trainer, and a printed timetable. That was the beginning of commercial flight in this town.