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#Onthisday in 1933, construction on the Golden Gate Bridge started. San Francisco’s iconic landmark and a major tourist attraction, the Golden Gate Bridge attracts over 15 million visitors every year. The bridge has also been featured on numerous promotional prints for various airlines. These four postcards from the 1950s and 1960s showcase how popular the bridge was in airline marketing. Have you ever visited the Golden Gate Bridge? Or seen it in the air from a plane? 📸: postcard: TWA (Trans World Airlines), Boeing 707, Golden Gate Bridge; 1960s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.1534 postcard: Western Airlines, Lockheed L-188 Electra, San Francisco; 1950s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.1733 postcard: West Coast Airlines, Fairchild F-27, San Francisco; 1960s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.1722 postcard: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA); c. 1968 Gift of David Winckoski 2011.195.046
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