By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Everyone knows the song “On the Good Ship Lollipop.” Shirley Temple’s signature tune has become a cultural touchstone, showing up in the history of the Chicago mob (it was the nickname of the Cicero crew) and, of course, “The Simpsons.”

But if you haven’t seen the 1934 film “Bright Eyes,” you might not know that the ship in question is an airplane or that this hymn to air travel was originally sung as Temple’s character taxied around one of Los Angeles’ first commercial airports, Glendale’s Grand Central Air Terminal.

Which you can still see if you take “a sweet trip,” not to the candy shop but along Grand Central Avenue, where it cleaves through Disney’s Grand Central Creative Campus.

Completed in 1929 and restored by Disney in

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