Text on card “Does this look natural, you ought to know”
Tag: San Fransisco
Treasure Island Airport Plans, 1939
Golden Gate Bridge Turns 80
Construction start: January 5, 1933, Construction end: April 19, 1937, Opened: May 27, 1937
Total length 8,981 ft (about 1.7 miles), Width 90 ft, Height 746 ft
The “China Clipper”
China Clipper (NC14716) was the first of three Martin M-130 four-engine flying boats built for Pan American Airways and was used to inaugurate the first commercial transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila in November 1935. (Wikipedia)
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San Fransisco Mint, 1938
Chinatown, San Fransisco, 1930s
“City of San Fransisco”, 1938
“CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO” streamliner left Oakland Pier terminal in two sections on January 2, 1938, when the new ultra-modern 17-car train was inaugurated to supplant the original 11-car train which had been in operation since June 14, 1936, for the SP-UP-C&NW between San Francisco and Chicago. Both trains carried capacity loads of holiday travelers. The original streamliner was assigned to other service after this trip. (Wikipedia)
Golden Gate Bridge, 1935
1935 Oldsmobile Sport Coupe in front of the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco.
