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This photo from 1948 shows the airport’s information counter inside SFO’s passenger terminal built in 1937. With annual post-war air travel through SFO reaching one million passengers, an information counter was vitally needed to help travelers easily and quickly find out where they needed to go. image: San Francisco Airport, passenger waiting room, ticket counter, 1948. SFO Museum Collection. 2011.032.0206
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