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United Air Lines featured many of their destinations in a series of advertisements placed in Time magazine in late 1944 and 1945. #TravelTuesday This tweet was posted on May 11, 2021.
Jeff Hafler, a self-professed “hairstorian” and veteran hairstylist, began collecting vintage hair-related objects while attending cosmetology school in 1991. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on May 13, 2021.
Sporting masks and matching uniforms, The Phantom Surfers channeled the look and sound of a first wave surf group when they hit the stage and studio with their “California Go!” sound in San Francisco in the late 1980s. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on May 14, 2021.
The Boeing 377's unique, pressurized, “double-bubble” fuselage was equipped with two decks: the upper contained a roomy main cabin, while the lower featured the highly popular cocktail lounge. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on May 12, 2021.
The aircraft’s four 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney radial engines enabled the Stratocruiser, as its name asserted, to cruise in the stratosphere at over 300 miles per hour. With a range of just over 4,000 miles, the B-377 was ideally suited for transoceanic routes. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on May 12, 2021.
The boxes and bags full of old rollers, rods, curlers, clips, combs, and barrettes that Hafler has acquired over the years inspired his one-of-a-kind “Hairsterical” sculptures each of which features a different hairstyle. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on May 13, 2021.
San Francisco and the Bay from a plane has always been a beautiful view. 📸: Stanley H. Page; c. 1920 Gift of Charles Page This tweet was posted on April 27, 2021.
The unpressurized 2-0-2 had a capacity of 40 passengers and a maximum speed of 311 miles per hour, much faster than the DC-3. With a range of just over 600 miles, it was designed to compete with the Convair 240 on short domestic routes. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 28, 2021.
College radio is a key outlet for underground genres such as instrumental rock and surf music. Through the 1980s, DJ Jim Dunfrund hosted “Surfwave” on KXLU-FM at Loyola Marymount University in LA. Locally, DJ Phil Dirt featured “Surf’s Up” on @KFJC897fm from Foothill College. This tweet was posted on April 29, 2021.
RT @thisisaaronland: I wrote a blog post / about updating @sfomuseum ’s geotagging application / to support @protomaps map tiles / and inte… This tweet was posted on May 03, 2021.
♪ Jon & The Nightriders performing "The Wedge" at The Whisky A Go-Go, Hollywood, CA, circa 1981 Footage courtesy of John Blair See more of “Surf’s Up! Instrumental Rock ‘n’ Roll,” online at https://t.co/ojjYamHVLU. This tweet was posted on May 03, 2021.
📸: photo: Hughes H-4 Hercules; 1947 Gift of Frank A. Norick 2009.015.002 model airplane: Hughes H-4 Hercules; 2002 Made by and gift of Jim Lund 2014.153.018 a e photo: Hughes H-4 Hercules; 1947 Gift of Frank A. Norick 2009.015.003 This tweet was posted on May 05, 2021.
In the photograph ⬆️, Madam C. J. Walker Beauty Culturists conference attendees congregate around the back terraces and reflecting pool of Villa Lewaro. The estate is now a National Historic Landmark and National Trust for Historic Preservation National Treasure. This tweet was posted on May 06, 2021.
Inspiration and resilience are themes this month in our virtual Video Arts gallery. Four short documentaries take us on a journey around the world and remind us of our shared humanity. Watch them here: https://t.co/s0oA7fUN7a #VideoArtsSFOM This tweet was posted on April 16, 2021.
The one and only flight of the "Spruce Goose," which lasted only a minute and hit an altitude of 70 feet, took place on Nov. 2, 1947, off the coast of San Pedro, CA, with Howard Hughes at the controls, David Grant as copilot, and members of the press on board. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on May 05, 2021.
What's it like for a designer and the child of an air traffic controller to work at a museum within an airport? Natalia Gajos, our Digital Design Assistant, describes what two years with SFO Museum and @flySFO has meant to her: https://t.co/vXMsTX3YY8 This tweet was posted on April 19, 2021.
Later DC-6 variants had a longer fuselage, increased range, and higher weight capabilities, and include the DC-6A cargo-liner, the DC-6B passenger-liner, and the convertible cargo/passenger DC-6C. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 21, 2021.
The Douglas DC-6 was initially conceived of as a military transport but its design was changed to a civilian airliner following the end of WWII. It was fundamentally an updated, enlarged, and pressurized DC-4 built to compete with the Lockheed L-049 Constellation. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on April 21, 2021.
The passenger versions could feature luxuriously appointed cabin interiors with options for a lounge in the tail section and sleeper berth accommodations. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 21, 2021.
📸 3/4: Braniff, Douglas DC-6; c. 1947 Gift of M.D. Klaas 2018.112.0086 Panagra, DC-6; c. 1950 Gift of M.D. Klaas 2018.112.0300 Japan Air Lines, DC-6B, @flySFO; 1954 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2015.165.103 a b This tweet was posted on April 21, 2021.
Emrich then fills the plastic depressions with bottled water and photographs the composition with a large format film camera. He produces compositions that captivate, challenge, and beg us to reconsider our own relationship with objects that are so easily discarded. #EarthDay This tweet was posted on April 22, 2021.
In his series All Consumed, artist Gary Emrich draws focus on the industry, its advertising imagery, and its embrace of single-use packaging. To create these photos, he layers a transparent clamshell container with water bottle packaging and places it on a light table. #EarthDay This tweet was posted on April 22, 2021.
Nearly six billion pounds of plastic bottles are discarded annually and it is estimated that half once contained only water. With just 1/3 reaching a recycling facility, the 200-billion-dollar bottled water industry is a significant contributor to landfills worldwide. #EarthDay This tweet was posted on April 22, 2021.
RT @thisisaaronland: I wrote a blog post / about updating @sfomuseum ’s javascript-webassembly EXIF writer to encode GPS coordinates / and… This tweet was posted on April 26, 2021.
Women have worn hairnets for centuries for reasons including aesthetics, protecting hairstyles, and sanitary purposes. Hairnets have been made from a variety of materials ranging from real human hair and silk to nylon in various hair color shades. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on April 23, 2021.
Can you imagine a undertaking cross-country road trip on a motorcycle…over 100 years ago? To promote the idea of women as military dispatch riders, sisters Augusta and Adeline Van Buren did just that, departing New York for San Francisco in 1916. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on April 26, 2021.
Due to COVID-19, the class was online. Students set up their own studios at home, using minimal space, small formats, and just a few specialized tools for printing. Rising to the occasion, their works include traditional monoprint, hand-coloring, toner-transfer, and collage. This tweet was posted on April 08, 2021.
The combs used to style afros also reflected these principles, none more so than the fist comb. With a handle in the shape of the Black Power salute, a variety of styles were designed and patented in the 1970s. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on April 09, 2021.
📸: United DC-4E; c. 1939 Gift of Jane Luna Euler 2013.106.026 United DC-4E; 1939 Gift of Frank A. Norick 2013.075.015 Colonial Airlines, DC-4 over New York City; c. 1946 Gift of M.D. Klaas 2018.112.0121 MATS, Douglas C-54; c. 1945 Gift of the Pan Am Assoc. 2000.058.0472.028 This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.
By the late 1960s, the afro hairstyle, famously worn by political activist Angela Davis and celebrities including Nina Simone and Diana Ross, became a symbol of Black pride, solidarity, and empowerment. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on April 09, 2021.
Designed in secret under the leadership Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, and with direction from Hughes, the renamed L-049 Constellation evolved into an extremely fast, revolutionary large-capacity airliner with a unique dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive tripletail. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on April 14, 2021.
In the late 1930s, Lockheed was developing a high-speed pressurized airliner, designated the L-044 Excalibur. Howard Hughes, who, in 1939, had acquired a majority share of TWA, requested that the airliner be redesigned and developed to his specs... #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on April 14, 2021.
Operated by numerous airlines on domestic and transatlantic routes, the airliner played a major role in advancing long-range commercial aviation during the immediate postwar era. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on April 14, 2021.
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist, Madam C. J. Walker (1867–1919) created a haircare empire, including a product line, training schools, and salons, which made her one of the wealthiest African Americans of her time. This tweet was posted on April 01, 2021.
From the dreams of young factory workers in China to traditions from the plains of southern Spain, and from the perseverance of artistic aspirations in a Syrian refugee camp to the escapism through a form of combat unique to Rio de Janeiro's largest favela... #VideoArtsSFOM This tweet was posted on April 16, 2021.
In the United States, the 1970s were primarily a dormant period for instrumental rock until the end of the decade, when in 1979, Jon & The Nightriders unleashed a surf music revival with their self-titled 7” EP. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on April 15, 2021.