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During the 1940s, United Air Lines constructed a large West Coast Maintenance Base at San Francisco Airport, along with this beautiful office building. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT United Air Lines, San Francisco Airport c. 1940 SFO Museum Collection Gift of United Airlines Archives 1999.047.245 This image was posted on April 07, 2016.

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