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German filmmaker Sylvia Borges was inspired by choir rehearsals in an empty parking lot during the COVID-19 pandemic to produce a film that speaks to forced separation, but also to unity & resilience during these difficult times. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO #SylviaBorges #Particles This tweet was posted on January 21, 2022.
RT @airandspace: #OTD in 1976, the supersonic Concorde entered commercial service. Two flights took off at the same time, one operated by A… This tweet was posted on January 21, 2022.
RT @airandspace: On this day in 1935, the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST) flew for the first time. Its day-plane version was the DC-3, one… This tweet was posted on December 17, 2021.
Within the frame were seventeen bays for hydrogen gas cells, within twelve of these bays, located below the hydrogen bags, were storage bags for Blau gas. The gas extended the range of the craft by nearly thirty hours of flying time. #WingWednesday #WinglessWednesday This tweet was posted on December 08, 2021.
After leaving Alameda on Nov 22, and landing in Manila (shown here!) on Nov 29, the #ChinaClipper started its long journey back to the United States on Dec 2. The entire round-trip included over 123 hours of flying time, covered over 16,000 miles, and set 19 world records. This tweet was posted on November 29, 2021.
Sundials, which date to ancient Egypt, are some of the earliest instruments and measure time. Because the sun appears to move at different rates depending on location, horizontally fixed sundials are calibrated for specific latitudes. #AntiqueScientificInstruments This tweet was posted on November 02, 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. #madamcjwalker This tweet was posted on October 12, 2021.
SFO has witnessed great strides in aviation. For close to a century, the airport reinvented itself numerous times. Looking out over the busy runways and terminals today, one can only imagine the lonely stretch of pastureland that predated SFO. #MillsFieldSFO #SFOHistory #AvGeek This tweet was posted on October 18, 2021.
The aircraft proved costly to operate when compared to newer subsonic airliners available at the time. With little market for high-priced supersonic travel in the Soviet Union, Aeroflot’s passenger service was intermittent and brief, and ended in June 1978. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on September 08, 2021.
“There really wasn’t time to be scared. We were just too busy.” Our newest #blog post describes. through the career documents of Flight Attendant Jane Thoe, the actions of the crew of #PanAm World Airways Flight 845 in the first major accident involving a Boeing 747. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 31, 2021.
Author, antique motorcycle collector, and American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Hall of Fame member Cristine “Cris” Sommer Simmons has ridden cross country on her 1915 Harley-Davidson 11-F three times. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles #womenwhoride This tweet was posted on August 24, 2021.
The Video Arts screening room temporarily is closed to the public at this time. In the meantime, our virtual screening room remains open while we present themed programming from our archives. https://t.co/s0oA7fUN7a #videoartsSFO #children #inspiration #courage #resilience This tweet was posted on September 03, 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. #madamcjwalkerphoto This tweet was posted on August 05, 2021.
It’s your last week to see “Mathematics: Vintage and Modern!” This image was posted on April 20, 2022. #mathatsfo #mathematics #math #mathematicalmodels
The medium-to-long-range aircraft had a narrow body, sharply swept-back wings, and a capacity for up to 110 passengers. The aircraft was claimed to be the fastest commercial jetliner in service at the time with a maximum cruise speed of 615mph. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on July 14, 2021.
Working in the elements in one of the coldest populated regions on Earth for extended periods of time, the #IceFishers often utilize the protection of plastic packaging obtained from nearby markets selling Western, Chinese, and Russian goods. This tweet was posted on July 06, 2021.
With a transcontinental range of almost 4,000 miles, the DC-8 could easily fly nonstop from San Francisco to New York in just over five hours. The transcontinental flight time for the piston-powered Douglas DC-7 it replaced was around eight hours. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on July 07, 2021.
In 1962, The Ventures toured Japan for the first time as a duo with founding members Don Wilson and Bob Bogle. Thousands of fans were on hand to greet the band when they returned to Japan in 1964 as a quartet with Nokie Edwards and Mel Taylor. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on June 25, 2021.
Mid-1960s airline fashion showcased bright and colorful, patterned fabrics for the first time in the industry. In 1967, Starflite Uniforms created an ensemble patterned in bold stripes for Northwest Orient Airlines. #FlightPatterns This tweet was posted on June 10, 2021.
Although that race was promoted to test the top speed the automobile, Oscar Hedstrom set the fastest time on an Indian motorcycle—a record of one minute and three seconds at an average speed of 57.35 miles-per-hour over the mile-long course. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on June 03, 2021.
Even after a year of staying home, it's hard to imagine life without shampoo, which emerged in the early 1900s. At the same time, in 1906, Black entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker launched her ultra-successful Wonderful Hair Grower promising to grow hair long and strong. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on June 04, 2021.
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.
📸: advertisements: United Air Lines, Time Magazine | San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, 25-years; 1944-1945 Purchases 2017.112.026, .028, .030-033 This tweet was posted on May 11, 2021.
As one of the wealthiest African Americans of her time, Madam C. J. Walker commissioned Vertner Woodson Tandy, one of New York's first licensed Black architects, to design Villa Lewaro, an Italianate-style, thirty-room mansion to be built in Irvington, NY. This tweet was posted on May 06, 2021.
Learning printmaking, whether in isolation or in "normal times" takes time, discipline, experimentation, and determination. Intermediate Printmaking students at @SFSU created monoprints now on view, led by professor and printmaker Susan Belau in the fall of 2020. #StudentArtSFO This tweet was posted on April 08, 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.
The field lighting control building was originally located across a parking lot from Hangar No. 2 (at bottom, center of historic image). By the time it was torn down, it was just west of the end of runway 28L. #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on April 06, 2021.
@_Richard_Lyu @flySFO Our sincere pleasure! Thank YOU for spending time with us! This tweet was posted on March 19, 2021.
Hand-held electric hair dryers became available in the first decade of the twentieth century. Loud, heavy, and expensive, early dryers operated with low wattage and required long drying times. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on March 22, 2021.
While sitting in the salon (perhaps for the first time in over a year) have you ever wondered how blowout styling started? Rose Evansky (1922-2016), a Polish Jew who fled to Britain from Nazi Germany, pioneered it in the early 1960s in London. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on March 22, 2021.
The DC-3 proved aerodynamically superior to other planes, highly reliable, safe, easy to maintain, and for the first time, enabled carriers to make a profit from passenger services. More than four hundred DC-3s were initially ordered by most major airlines. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on March 10, 2021.
“The style of music I developed, to me at the time, was the feeling I got when I was out there eating it on the waves. It was that good rambling feeling I got when I was locked in a tube with white water caving in over my head.” —#DickDale #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on February 18, 2021.
Advanced for its time, the Boeing 247 accommodated only ten passengers, which made it less economical to operate than larger capacity airliners, particularly the more fuel-efficient, fourteen-seat Douglas DC-2, introduced a year later in 1934. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 03, 2021.
German-born Karl Ludwig Nessler (1872–1951, shown with Miss America Norma Smallwood in 1926) patented the first electric permanent wave machine in London in 1909 before emigrating to the U.S. in 1915. It required heat and chemicals, and was time consuming and costly. #HairStyle This tweet was posted on January 21, 2021.
RT @airandspace: On this day in 1976, the supersonic Concorde entered commercial service. Two flights took off at the same time, one operat… This tweet was posted on January 21, 2021.
@DavidGallagher @rwbowdidge @InterurbanE Hey, we can help with that! Most our photos by Stanley Page are on MillsField, where we're building a new collections site one step at a time: https://t.co/BpvM7c7Wlg This tweet was posted on January 14, 2021.