Lucky you. I'm sure that was an experience you'll never forget. BTW, if anyone's interested there's a great writeup with comparison photos from 1956/2006 by a former Nike missle base crewmember from the LA-88 Oat Mt. location on Nike Historical Society webpage . Didn't realize LA alone had 16 Nike sites, with about half of those later upgraded to the nuke-laden Hercules interceptor. Someday I'm hoping to visit the decommissioned Nike museum in San Franciso, apparently the only one left in the US. Anyone here ever been there?

Nike Historical Society main page