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Western Airlines, Continental Airlines, TWA, Braniff, SFO Helicopter, and Golden West Airlines were all located in the old Pier F in San Francisco International Airport in 1974.
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#OnThisDay in 1959, Qantas’ first jet service departed from Sydney Airport destined for San Francisco.
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With airport planners projecting annual passenger traffic at SFO to reach 23 million, a series of design, engineering, and construction projects were proposed during the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
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San Francisco launched a master plan in 1951 to create the modern airport terminal facilities and extended runways needed to serve the international community in the coming jet age.
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The suburban landscape surrounding SFO has changed a lot since the 1940s.
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The interior of the air traffic control room at SFO in 1968 looks very different from a modern air traffic control room.
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United opened the airline industry's first kitchen in Oakland, California in the late 1930s.
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The vending machines in the United hangar at San Francisco International Airport in 1965 offered milk, hot drinks, pastry, candy, and hot foods.
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The cars and the airlines may have changed but the curbside at SFO still looks similar to how it did in the 1970s.
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In June of 1948, San Francisco International Airport exceeded one million annual passengers.
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#Onthisday in 1931, Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco was renamed San Francisco Airport.
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#OnThisDay in 1927, the Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco began operations.
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#TBT: Throwback to when the second Air Traffic Control Tower above Terminal 2 was being constructed; it replaced the first 1954 Air Traffic Control Tower (at right) and was completed in 1981.
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Hangar No.
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On April 19, 1930, the U. S. Army Air Corps held an “air circus” that brought large numbers to Mills Field.
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#Onthisday in 2011, Lufthansa began first regular Airbus A-380 service to San Francisco International Airport.
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Before the age of instant updates and Google Maps, good old-fashioned paper flyers kept passengers updated on airline and airport changes.
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Before the age of instant updates and Google Maps, good old-fashioned paper flyers kept passengers updated on airline and airport changes.
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Pancake Palace used to be a restaurant in the old International Terminal (now Terminal 2) at San Francisco International Airport.
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