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By 1962, Piedmont's service extended to Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. Their entry into the jet age was powered by a Boeing 727 in 1967. Piedmont started to operate Boeing 737s the next year. #DefunctThursday #Piedmont #AvGeek This tweet was posted on September 29, 2022.
Designed in the International Style, SFO’s 1954 Terminal was a seven-story building and employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. #SFOHistory #SFO #AvGeek #SFO1954 This tweet was posted on October 04, 2022.
How many menus did Pan Am issue? A lot! Browse through over 500 of them in our online database: https://t.co/F4qGotpYp7 #AvGeek #PanAm #PanAmerican #Menu This tweet was posted on October 03, 2022.
Piedmont Aviation was incorporated in North Carolina on July 2, 1940, by Thomas Davis. Initially, Piedmont Aviation began as an airplane repair service and a training school for pilots and did not operate its first passenger service in February 1948. #DefunctThursday #Piedmont This tweet was posted on September 29, 2022.
Today’s #DefunctThursday episode has a plot twist: USAir changed the name of an affiliated subsidiary, Henson Airlines, to #Piedmont Airlines in 1993. This new iteration uses the same logo as the earlier company and is a subsidiary of American Airlines. #DefunctThursday #Piedmont This tweet was posted on September 29, 2022.
“I’d be there for just a few days and I wanted to take advantage and get as much as possible out of the process. So, I started using the old molds in the factory…but I adapted them, I changed them.” —Marvin Lipofsky #studioglass This tweet was posted on October 04, 2022.
📸: document: City and County of San Francisco, Mills Estate Incorporated, Rental Agreement; 1927 Transfer from City and County of San Francisco 2000.018.038 a b https://t.co/w9mvvlIIbn This tweet was posted on September 28, 2022.
Bruce taught himself to silkscreen while working at wallpaper factories in Benicia and San Francisco. Before long, he began crafting his own Victorian wallpapers in the evenings and weekends at the studio in Benicia and established a mail-order business. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
Flown by pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm, with navigation & radio operations performed by Harry Lyon and James Warner, the Southern Cross, a Fokker F.VII, was the first aircraft to complete a transpacific crossing from North America to Australia. #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
The Southern Cross was initially acquired as a salvaged aircraft. Reequipped with new Wright J-5 engines and the latest Micarta propellers, the plane was based and tested at Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco (later @flySFO). #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
The airplane departed from Oakland, CA, on May 31, 1928, and flew first to O'ahu, then to Suva, Fiji, and continued on to Brisbane, Australia, landing on June 9th. The trip covered a total distance of 7,200 miles in 10 days at an average speed of 90mph. #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on October 05, 2022.
In 1949, Kenny Friedkin, a flight trainer and test pilot, formed Pacific Southwest Airlines or PSA. The airline began weekly round-trip flights between San Diego and Oakland with a single leased Douglas DC-3. #DefunctThursday #PacificSouthwestAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
RT @KLM: Today we turned 103 years old, and that means we have a new Delft Blue house! Can you guess where it's located? 🥳#HappyBirthday #K… This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
Two years later, the route’s terminus moved to SF. By the end of the decade, PSA added the Douglas DC-4 and the Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop to its fleet and offered nearly 100 flights a week to numerous destinations throughout CA. #DefunctThursday #PacificSouthwestAirlines This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
A number of mathematical models were displayed at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition to promote the idea that students must visualize algebraic relationships through geometry. Today, algebraic geometry serves as a source of deep insight throughout mathematics. #MathAtSFO This tweet was posted on April 20, 2022.
Inspired by the geometric division of landscapes as seen by Diebenkorn from a helicopter, the works investigate the various ways of slicing a rectangle with horizontal and vertical lines. Diebenkorn called these prints the “bones” of the Ocean Park works. #RichardDiebenkorn This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
Renamed in 1937 as Continental Airlines, the carrier introduced a red, white, and blue eagle symbol with its block letter logotype in 1944. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #aviationhistory #ContinentalAirlines This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
Richard Diebenkorn was a California-based painter and printmaker who spent much of his renowned career in the Bay Area. He is most known for his Ocean Park series (1967–1988) that brought him international acclaim. #RichardDiebenkorn #publicart #Etching This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
When Continental became an international carrier in 1968, it launched a new corporate identity created by Saul Bass & Associates. An oval, defined in spreading jet contrails, and an updated typeface communicated its new global status and market position. #DefunctThursday #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
@RodBogart We're very sorry but the exhibition rotation starts this week with the de-instillation of "Mathematics: Vintage and Modern" and in the installation of "Japonisme: A Passion for Japan." https://t.co/h19OB3lHAM This tweet was posted on April 25, 2022.
Happy Arab American Heritage Month! Celebrate with an online viewing of “King of the Night" by LonelyLeap. Imad Khachan, born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, operates NYC’s last remaining chess shop as a welcoming place to create community. https://t.co/n9avSLUOMl #NAAHM https://t.co/uEhcnl2oIx This tweet was posted on April 25, 2022.
Our “you collect what?” list is lengthy. Among the unexpected items are tray liners, which help to create the perfect place-setting for a meal service. Browse through over fifty of them on our collection website! https://t.co/d3DBDsRn9E #collections #avgeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on April 25, 2022.
📸 2/2: brochure: Continental Airlines, Boeing 747; 1970 Gift of David A. Abercrombie in memory of Stanley A. Abercrombie 2001.039.209 https://t.co/dnl4JJ9J2W postcard: Continental Airlines, Boeing 707-320C; c.1970 Gift of the William Hough Collection 2008.055.293 This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
Air New Zealand was founded as TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited) #onthisday in 1940. TEAL was created as a joint venture between BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), Qantas Empire Airways, and the New Zealand government. #airnewzealand #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 26, 2022.
In 1973, Air New Zealand began using the “Koru” logo representing the tip of the silver fern. An integral part of native Māori art and culture symbolizing new growth, strength, and peace, the logo is still used on a wide range of products associated with the airline. #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 26, 2022.
See "From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/WWq06Yg2xJ #PineappletoPina #pineapple #lace #fashion #design #Phillipines This tweet was posted on April 26, 2022.
"Paperhangings should in no case be allowed to cover the whole space of a wall from skirting to ceiling….The most dreary method of decorating the wall of a sitting-room is to cover it all over with an unrelieved pattern of monotonous design.” - Charles Locke Eastlake, 1867 This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
A complementary fill pattern above the dado set off framed prints hung from picture rails; a frieze, or decorative border, adorned the top of walls. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
Fashionable Aesthetic Movement interiors displayed threefold division of walls. A dado covered the lower part of the wall and provided an alternative to wood paneling. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
The Caravelle was a medium-range jetliner that featured twin, rear-mounted turbofan engines, a clean swept wing, an exceedingly aerodynamic nose section, and a high-mounted horizontal stabilizer. #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
📸 2/3: photograph: Pan American Airways, Auckland, New Zealand, Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL); c. 1940 Gift of Marion L. Yates in memory of John A. Yates, PAA April 1938 - 1973 2006.015.015 h This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
📸 3/3: postcard: Air New Zealand, Douglas DC-8-50; 1960s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.166.0036 model airplane: Air New Zealand, Boeing 747-400; c. 1990s Gift of Mark F. Adams Collection 2001.106.039 a b This tweet was posted on April 27, 2022.
After China’s civil war (1945-1949), CAT relocated to the island of Taiwan in 1950, and evolved from a relief cargo airline to a government contractor and commercial carrier. In 1953, the airline formally became the flag carrier of the Republic of China. #CAT #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.
Choreographers Peter Walker and Emily Kikta collaborate with forty-six dancers across twenty different countries during the pandemic to remind us that dance is a universal language—not bound by theater walls or limited by borders. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #InternationalDanceDay https://t.co/ZmqhDbQgGV This tweet was posted on April 28, 2022.
In his sculpture, “Kneeling Woman,” Gandari skillfully leaves the hair unpolished to create a beautiful texture that contrasts with the body’s rich green sheen. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe This tweet was posted on April 29, 2022.
Pheoleen Gandari’s interest in art began during grade school at Zengeza in Chitungwiza, a township in Harare. While in school, Gandari was inspired to carve stone by Newman Chikuni, a senior artist at the Chitungwiza Arts Centre. #ZimbabweSculpture #Zimbabwe This tweet was posted on April 29, 2022.