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In 1967, Air California began passenger service by operating turbojet Lockheed L-188 Electras between Orange County and San Francisco. During 1968, the airline expanded its aircraft fleet to include Boeing 737s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and added routes to Oakland and San Jose. This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.
The airline expanded its routes beyond the California corridor to include Seattle, Portland, Houston, and New Orleans, and by 1987, Chicago, Vancouver, and Anchorage. #DefunctThursday #AirCal This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.
At 101, we bid farewell to Wayne Thiebaud, esteemed painter of luminous, playful still lives and landscapes, and icon of Northern California. This tweet was posted on December 27, 2021.
On November 2, 1947, the Hughes H-4 Hercules prototype made its first and only flight off the coast of San Pedro, California, with Howard Hughes at the controls. The enormous aircraft flew for just over a mile at an altitude of 70 feet for one minute. #WingWendesday #SpruceGoose This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
📸: David Robinson, The Bass Player for Roy Milton’s Band, on the Floor of the Primalon Ballroom, 1223 Fillmore Street; c. 1940s David Johnson (b. 1926) © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley This tweet was posted on December 03, 2021.
In 1981, Bruce moved into the studio where Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) still resides today, a nineteenth-century former U.S. Army arsenal in Benicia, California. #VictorianPaperedWall This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
📸1/2: Bruce Bradbury at his home in Vallejo showing drawings for a Vallejo Times-Herald article of a California State Capitol commissioned restoration project c. 1982 Courtesy of Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers R2021.1401.028 This tweet was posted on November 17, 2021.
Hand silkscreened in Benicia, California, the Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers (@BradburyWalls) presented in this exhibition are Victorian-era room sets that feature both wall and elaborate ceiling papers. https://t.co/zqCl6PmNEN #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on October 08, 2021.
Happy Birthday, California! Our great state was admitted into the Union on this day in 1850. In 2015, we presented “Catch Our Style: California Regional Airlines 1950s–1980s”! #California #CatchOurStyle This tweet was posted on September 09, 2021.
Relive the memories online at: https://t.co/OogQHquVtN #California #CatchOurStyle This tweet was posted on September 09, 2021.
This exhibition featured objects from California Airlines such as PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines), Air California (later AirCal), and Pacific Air Lines, Air West, and Hughes Airwest. Do you remember this exhibit? What’s your favorite California regional airline? #CatchOurStyle This tweet was posted on September 09, 2021.
In 2010, Sommer Simmons rode Effie from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to Santa Monica, California, from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Carlsbad, California, in 2016, and again in 2018 from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles #womenwhoride This tweet was posted on August 24, 2021.
In 1960, Delta Airlines proudly introduced the 615 miles-per-hour Convair 880, produced by the Convair Division of General Dynamics, of San Diego, California. In January 1962, the airliner achieved a record top speed of 715 mph on a flight from Chicago to Miami. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on July 14, 2021.
This is your last week to catch "Surf’s Up! Instrumental Rock ‘n’ Roll." Instrumental surf music originated in Southern California in the early 1960s along with a booming interest in surfing and the subsequent pop-cultural craze. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on July 19, 2021.
Douglas developed the DC-8 jetliner during the mid-1950s as a competitive design to Boeing’s 707 jetliner. Built in Douglas’ new Long Beach, California, plant, the first aircraft was rolled out and flown in 1958. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on July 07, 2021.
📸 1/2: Chicago & Southern Air Lines (C&S); 1950s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2012.065.180 California Central Airlines; c. 1953 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2012.065.147 Pan American World Airways; 1950s Gift of Barnaby Conrad III 2001.038.028 This tweet was posted on July 02, 2021.
For many guitarists, customized gear is essential to the look and sound of surf music. One example is the series of customized Fender Jaguar guitars that Dave Wronski hand-crafted for his progressive, Southern California surf music trio Slacktone. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on June 15, 2021.
Harvey Milk (1930–78) made history in 1977 when he became the first openly gay individual elected to public office in the state of California. He would serve just eleven months on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before his assassination on November 27, 1978. #PRIDE This tweet was posted on June 01, 2021.
While we're partial to the parks in California (naturally!), among our favorites is @WrightBrosNPS - check out their page for aviation history. #NationalParkWeek #FindYourPark This tweet was posted on April 20, 2021.
📸: Jon and the Nightriders 7" EP California Records | Riverside, CA Fender Jaguar 1965 Fender 6G15 Reverb 1962 played/used by John Blair of Jon & The Nightriders Recorded Live At Hollywood’s Famous Whisky A Go-Go 1980 Voxx Records | Los Angeles All: Courtesy of John Blair This tweet was posted on April 15, 2021.
📸: Mosrite Joe Maphis Double Neck 1966 played by Davie Allan Mosrite of California | Bakersfield, CA Courtesy of Mel Bergman Blues Theme 1967 Davie Allan & The Arrows | Los Angeles Tower Records | Hollywood, CA Courtesy of Mickey McGowan, Unknown Museum Archives This tweet was posted on April 05, 2021.
After replacing numerous spokes, tires, drive belts, and an engine crankshaft, the California motorcycle’s 1 ¼-horsepower engine gave up outside of Albany, New York. George Wyman finally arrived in New York City on July 6 after pedaling the final 150 miles. This tweet was posted on March 05, 2021.
The 1902 California Motor Bicycle on display in #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles was discovered and restored in the 1970s by newspaper mogul and collector Otis Chandler (1927–2006) and is very likely George Wyman’s cross-country machine. This tweet was posted on March 05, 2021.
📸: George A. Wyman at the end of his transcontinental ride July 1903 The Motorcycle Magazine November 1903 | New York Courtesy of The George Wyman Memorial Project California Motor Bicycle, 1902 California Motor Company, Inc., San Francisco Courtesy of Dave Scoffone This tweet was posted on March 05, 2021.
Undaunted, Wyman departed for his transcontinental journey atop a specially modified California motorcycle on May 16, 1903, from Lotta’s Fountain at the corner of Market, Geary, and Kearny Streets in downtown San Francisco. This tweet was posted on March 05, 2021.
Wyman often walked his California when conditions worsened, and he pedaled the bike when its engine overheated. Breakdowns were common and crashes punctuated the journey. This tweet was posted on March 05, 2021.
♪ Watch the live clip: “Miserlou” performed by Dick Dale and his Del-Tones at the Harmony Park Ballroom, Anaheim, California, 1962, at: https://t.co/3TkbwAAIKD Footage courtesy of @Ina_audiovisuel #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on February 18, 2021.
During the summer of 1961, #DickDale & his Del-Tones played dances known as “stomps” to thousands of teenagers in Southern California. As crowds grew, Dale and his group played at increasingly higher volumes, causing amplifiers to malfunction on a regular basis. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on January 22, 2021.
The all-metal Ford Tri-Motor, or “Tin Goose,” had a huge impact on commercial aviation in the late 1920s and 199 were produced. Shown here is a 4-AT Tri-Motor from Maddux Air Lines, a short-lived airline from the late 1920s based out of southern California. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 20, 2021.
We’re joining museums across California in supporting the state’s COVID-19 health guidelines: 😷 Wear your mask 📏 Keep your distance (6 ft ) 🏠 Stay home if you’re sick 🖐️ Wash your hands frequently #MuseumsForMasks #MaskOnSFO https://t.co/Dzzuxe7QmG This tweet was posted on January 28, 2021.
This week on #SFOMat40: In 2015, we presented “Catch Our Style: California Regional Airlines 1950s–1980s” which featured objects from airlines such as PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines), Air California, and Pacific Air Lines. https://t.co/OogQHquVtN #TBTSFOM #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on December 03, 2020.
Today the International Terminal turns 20! Officially opened to the public #onthisday in 2000, it was part of the largest public works project in Northern California at the time. What are your favorite memories of our International Terminal? #MuseumFromHome #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on December 10, 2020.
#JamesChronister approached making “California (1)” by first hiking in the Bodega Bay area of Northern California and taking hundreds of color photos of the terrain. #publicart #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on October 06, 2020.
RT @CAHistory: Are you an author or historian? Know one? We're looking for the best scholarly writing about California's past.... http://t.… This tweet was posted on June 03, 2013.
From the archives: Pan Am's California Clipper, docked at Treasure Island (in its Expo glory!), c. 1939 http://t.co/Goq73DaaBS cc: @TIMuseum This tweet was posted on May 03, 2013.
Introduced to photography while in the Vietnam War, Robert B. Taylor captures rural California beauty: http://t.co/6SlpTH5a3R Post-TSA, T3 This tweet was posted on April 04, 2013.