08-22-2011, 07:45 AM
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SPEV/Orion wrangler
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 2,645
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Originally Posted by pantherjon
Only question I can answer is the first and it is a 'YES'..In the early '70s my family made a trip from CA to PA and since we had relatives in Denver we drove through that way. I was also at my height of rocketry involvement then and my Dad thought it would be cool to take a little side trip to Penrose and take a tour of the Estes facility..Really the only part of the tour I can remember was going behind the plant to launch a rocket..Was pretty cool  |
Jon, if you're on Facebook, go to the Estes Rockets page. Back on August 1, they posted the following: "The local newspaper, The Florence Citizen, publishes a "Memory Lane". 50 years ago this week Vernon Estes announced that he was moving his model rocket company to Penrose and had started construction on four buildings. Who remembers taking a tour of Estes during a summer vacation? And NO we no longer have tours - sorry!"
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