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United opened the airline industry's first kitchen in Oakland, California in the late 1930s. In the 1960s, United built a flight kitchen at SFO. The sign in the photo reads, "one of sixteen kitchens, the San Francisco kitchen is the largest and most modern in United Air Lines. Built at a cost of over $600,000, the kitchen and the cafeteria is designed to handle the DC-8 meal service. This facility has a capacity of producing 5000 to 6000 meals per day.” #SFOHistory United Air Lines, publicity photographs for Wing Tips employee newsletter, United Air Lines Service Center flight kitchen model c. 1962 SFO Museum Collection Gift of the Family of Joe Monte 2013.125.024
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