Wow! I had to join this site , just to chime-in on this one!
I worked for Mid-Atlantic for about a year in 1990-91. We used the "Nightship" callsign then.
I lived and flew out of LAS to ONT in a C208B five nights a week. Living in Vegas was a trip. Never been there, then one day I'm living there. Could not have felt stranger if I'd been plucked off the planet by a UFO and deposited in another world!
I was really enjoying myself in LAS, living in a crappy $85 a week pad near the Scenic terminal. (Right across from the Tropicana.)
The run crapped-out and the company moved me to Santa Maria, CA.
I flew a run out of SMX to SBA, Oxnard and into LAX every night, Monday through Friday night. Thank God the company was paying to put me up at a hotel near LAX, cuz I was living out of my car in Santa Maria!
About six or seven months of car-camping (Job paid 18k) and I was ready to move back to DEN (at least for a while) to move back in with my rich GF.
That contentment in the Mile-High city wore off, and I hit the road again.
Back through my homestate of WI to fly out of MKE for a year.
Got back on with a FedEx Feeder (CSA) 15 and a half years ago, and been happy (mostly) in SD every since.
Lots of great memories from the Mid-Atlantic days. Hope all those people I met along the way are doing well.
-michael