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Today, Harvey Milk’s legacy is felt in the gains for LGBTQ rights made during the four decades since his tragic death, including the 2015 United States Supreme Court ruling recognizing same-sex marriage as a legal right. #PRIDE This tweet was posted on June 01, 2021.

📸 1/3: American, DC-7; 1953 Gift of M.D. Klaas 2018.112.1186 American, DC-7B, SFO; 1958 Gift of William T. Larkins 2004.051.003 United, DC-7; c. 1956 Gift of United Airlines Archives 2000.150.006 Airmail flight cover; June 1, 1954 Gift of Capt. Jon Simmonds 2014.156.214 a b This tweet was posted on June 02, 2021.

In 1992, The Phantom Surfers' guitarist Mel Bergman created his own double-neck guitar. Affectionately known as “DoubleJunk,” the unique guitar incorporated hardware and electrical components from a 1980s Fender Jaguar and 1960s Japanese Jazzmaster copy. #InstrumentalSurf This tweet was posted on May 14, 2021.

The Martin 4-0-4 was an upgraded, pressurized version of Martin's earlier 2-0-2 and included a redesigned wing. It had capacity for 40 passengers, a medium range, and a built-in air-stair for easy passenger loading and unloading at the tail section. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on May 19, 2021.

📸 2/3: Continental; DC-7B, City of Los Angeles; 1990 Made by Gary Field (b. 1956) Gift of the San Francisco Aeronautical Society 2018.127.004 a g DC-7C prototype; c. 1955 Gift of John Voss 2003.087.002 Pan Am DC-7C; c. 1956 Gift of M.D. Klaas 2018.112.0748 a b This tweet was posted on June 02, 2021.

From one man’s dream to build community through roller skating to a band of runners protecting a sacred public land, and from a community confronting environmental challenges to a rising literary star intent on sharing his inspiration with those in need... #VideoArtsSFOM This tweet was posted on May 20, 2021.

In 1903, Curtiss introduced one of the first two-cylinder motorcycle engines, a powerful five-horsepower, V-Twin design that boasted a greater power-to-weight ratio than a comparable single-cylinder engine. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on May 21, 2021.

Motorcycling and aviation legend Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born #OnThisDay in 1878. Before turning to aviation, he designed a series of innovative and influential single- and double-cylinder engines for his pioneering motorcycles. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on May 21, 2021.

TWA (Trans World Airlines) was the only other major carrier to order the Martin 4-0-4, and operated a fleet of forty. Other airlines operating the 4-0-4 included Southern Airways and Piedmont Airlines. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on May 19, 2021.

📽️: Church of 8 Wheels; 2016 Freddie Whitman and Michaela Swensen Sacred Strides; 2018 Forest Woodward, Anna Callaghan, and Marie Sullivan Plastic: A Second Life; 2016 Simon Ben, Borderland Dear, Dreamer; 2019 Kristian Melom This tweet was posted on May 20, 2021.

Are you as excited as we are that the #SkyTerrace is reopening @flySFO? Starting this week, hours will be Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays from 10am-6pm. Get a great view of the airfield and check out our exhibition on the 1954 Terminal. #SFO1954 This tweet was posted on May 25, 2021.

As the airline industry grew in the late 1940s-50s, construction of a new terminal @flySFO began in 1951. Designed in the International Style, the 7-story building employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. #SFO1954 This tweet was posted on May 25, 2021.

In 1908, the company introduced the Auto-Cycle, a new design made at their seven-story facility in Chicago. The 3 ¼-horsepower Auto-Cycle was a success and demand quickly surpassed supply. On display is a 4 horsepower Model 4B from 1912. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycle This tweet was posted on May 10, 2021.

New blog alert! What can museums do to be sustainable? A lot, it turns out. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at our program and efforts to minimize our environmental impact on Planet Earth: https://t.co/H96mScenuR Got additional ideas for us? Let us know! This tweet was posted on May 24, 2021.

Thirty-seven planes, participating in a State Aeronautical Conference, sat on the ground during the brief dedication ceremony and then roared down the dirt airstrip to fly on to Sacramento. #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on May 07, 2021.

📸: Curtiss Single Cylinder Cycle Motor; 1908 Curtiss Double Cylinder 6 H.P. Motor; 1907 Both courtesy of Wes Allen Curtiss motorcycle catalog page; 1907 Curtiss on a twin-cylinder Curtiss racing motorcycle; 1906 Both courtesy of Glenn H. Curtiss Museum This tweet was posted on May 21, 2021.

Art Gensler impacted people and skylines around the world. Closer to home, he and his firm had a huge impact on the look of @flySFO through work on Terminals 1, 2, & 3. A member of our Museum Advisory Board, we know him as a brilliant and kind visionary. He will be deeply missed. https://t.co/60awsREWp9 This tweet was posted on May 11, 2021.

Bicycle maker Ignaz Schwinn purchased Excelsior in 1911. A factory-backed racing team promoted Excelsior, and in 1912 at the Playa del Rey motordrome near LA, Lee Humiston became the first racer—in an automobile or on a motorcycle—to exceed 100 mph on a closed-course track. This tweet was posted on May 10, 2021.

Excelsior was one of the “Big Three” American motorcycle brands during the 1910s, along with Harley-Davidson and Indian. Like other motorcycle makers, Excelsior had deep roots in bicycling. Their first model used a Thor engine built under license. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on May 10, 2021.

Production of Excelsior motorcycles continued until 1931, when Schwinn refocused on marketing bicycles to a Depression-era public. “Early American Motorcycles” is on view pre-security in the Int'l Terminal and online at https://t.co/gk4H1rFqZs #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on May 10, 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.

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.