Whoa- great series!
I originally found out about Flo's, maybe it the late 70s, early eighties(?). It's been years. I had worked up at Bracket Field in La Verne in the 70s. I ate there a few times, but for a kid the restaurant was too expensive. I remembered the thing about flying in for breakfast, and after I met the victim that became my wife, we ended up down at Chino one Sunday. Seems that someone that wrote for the local paper found out about it maybe a year later. The jig was up and the little place became quite crowded. I think they may have added on? Anyway, too many people- and we found B&G (although never did seem as good) elsewhere.
Moved up here and found myself at breakfast at Hesperia Airport Restauraunt. Did a web site for the owner. He sold the place after a couple years. New owner was a cry baby (German who bought the place a month before 9/11). It wasn't a good thing for a non-citizen to have a flight school. The new guy ended up getting wrapped up with some of the local political theives and somehow I found myself being on the ugly end of an 8 million dollar fraud lawsuit. (Huh?). Anyway, as much as I liked flying (hang-gliding, ultralights and aerial photography from small planes), I'm quite satisfied with the B&G being the only tradition remaining from those days. I haven't set foot on a small airport since the attorney's found out I wouldn't/couldn't afford to pay them off to get out of the suit. BTW, the owner of the Hesperia Airport ended up losing the suit to the local politico that bought out the German guy's interest and had to give the thief the airport and a million in damages. Sheesh, local politics. ...