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While researching options for an airport between 1925-26, the office of San Francisco Mayor James Rolfe, Jr. sent telegrams to cities around the country to inquire about their own air field operations or intentions. Charles F. Kerrigan, Assistant to New York’s Mayor Jimmy Walker, responded to the inquiry, with a telegram stating, “City of New York has no air port no formal plan underway for acquiring one informal station made by developing one on marsh land own by city in Jamaica Bay.” The telegram was dated October 20, 1926, just under seven months before the Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco was officially dedicated. #52Objects #SFOHistory #aviationhistory #avgeek telegram: Western Union, airport inquiry from San Francisco Mayor James Rolfe, Jr.; 1926 Transfer 2000.018.072.007 http://bit.ly/3ZsiUl8 This image was posted on February 27, 2023.