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Both fashionable and functional in reversible black and white, the smock worn with the #United #JeanLouis 1970 uniform is made of a double-faced polyester weave and has an attached matching belt. #avgeek #crewlife
This tweet was posted on August 10, 2018.
Did you know the #rainbowflag was created right here in San Francisco in 1978? Our exhibition on #GilbertBaker, the flag's creator, features a flag made by Baker for the ABC television miniseries When We Rise in 2016. #ALegacyOfPride
This tweet was posted on August 09, 2018.
For inflight meal service, Jean Louis created this serving smock in a vivid geometric pattern with the letter U for #United worn from 1970 until 1972.#avgeek #crewlife
This tweet was posted on August 10, 2018.
In 1901, Caille Brothers of Detroit patented Log Cabin, a nickel-operated bagatelle game and trade stimulator. Log Cabin features a spring-loaded plunger for shooting and pioneered the mechanical ball lift. #coinoperated
This tweet was posted on August 10, 2018.
Our online database features a selection of our collection of airline bags. Check it out here: https://t.co/fbLPCY7rB8 Do you own any airline bags?
This tweet was posted on August 12, 2018.
The cabin had a capacity for fifty-nine tourist-class passengers on the upper deck and forty-eight second-class passengers on the lower. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on August 24, 2018.
#Onthiday in 1958, Pan American World Airways received their first Boeing 707. The 707 proved to be the world’s first sustained and successful commercial jetliner. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 707? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 15, 2018.
During the 19th century, having a #cat became a part of European culture and style. By the end of the century, a wide variety of decorative arts with #feline subjects was created, including these inkwells. #caticons
This tweet was posted on August 13, 2018.
Jackson Vending’s safety match vendors, popular in cigar stores, public houses, and saloons, dispensed a box of safety matches from a rotating carousel housed under a glass dome. #CoinOperated
This tweet was posted on August 14, 2018.
Maneki neko most often feature a colorful bib attached to their necks. #Bibs, referred to as #kibuse, frequently appear on #cats and dogs in Edo period (1615–1868) woodblock prints. #beckoningcats
This tweet was posted on August 16, 2018.
NOW PLAYING: "Coin Operated" by Nicholas Arioli. Arioli’s CG animated short explores the significance of the term “life savings” through the experience of a naïve young boy who opens a lemonade stand to finance his dreams of space travel. #VideoArtsSFOM
This tweet was posted on August 13, 2018.
Read the first sheet of the Balloon Post, a short-lived newsletter that aimed to raise funds in relief of French refugees of the Franco-Prussian War, edited by Susan Hale in 1871. #IntotheEther #ballooning
This tweet was posted on August 03, 2018.
Other defining characteristics of the #Caravelle included its triangular-shaped passenger windows, a clean-swept wing, and an exceedingly aerodynamic nose section. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on August 02, 2018.
Collecting remnants of metal, glass, and disassembled machine parts, #MartinVenezky photographs them in a studio setting to produce abstracted images of each item, stripped from its original context and reduced to elements.
This tweet was posted on August 04, 2018.
Have we mentioned that we've launched a new digital playground? It's a work in progress with much more to come, but we've got a blog going at https://t.co/zEnBYU1UmW and we've been having a lot of fun with old #maps of @flySFO at https://t.co/pz6xehOt8q
This tweet was posted on August 07, 2018.
In the mid-1950s, Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands began developing an airliner that would fill a major niche in regional commercial aviation, the F-27 Friendship. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on August 08, 2018.
NOW PLAYING: "Canción del Campo (Field Song)" by Brad Bischoff. Roberto Olivera, a second-generation immigrant who worked CA’s tomato fields to escape poverty & an affectionless stepfather, explains the lessons his mother taught him. https://t.co/OezMboTnea #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/C7aemxq0ob
This tweet was posted on August 06, 2018.
The first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 entered service #onthisday in 1971 with American Airlines. Have you ever flown on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10? #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 05, 2018.
We're in the thick of summer vacation and we're looking back to 2012 when we presented the exhibition European Holiday: Air Tourism to Europe during the Postwar Era. Have you ever been on a European holiday? Where was your favorite travel destination? #avgeek #traveltuesday
This tweet was posted on August 07, 2018.
In September 2017, San Francisco and the city of Kiel, Germany, became official #sistercities. SFO Museum is proud to present an exhibition of event posters celebrating Kiel’s annual regatta, a sailing event that takes place annually in the city and surrounding waters.
This tweet was posted on July 26, 2018.
Large construction projects at @flySFO are often funded through the selling of #bonds. Paper bonds were issued from the 1930s-70s, and a few such as these have made their way into our collection. #SFOHistory #TBT
This tweet was posted on July 26, 2018.
The Airbus A300 was the first wide-body airliner produced by Airbus Industries, a European aerospace manufacturing consortium formed in 1970. The A310 was a shortened fuselage version of the A300 with a redesigned wing and undercarriage. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on July 27, 2018.
Introduced in 1983, by Lufthansa and Swissair, the Airbus 310 proved reliable in service while providing a comfortable and spacious cabin for passengers. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on July 27, 2018.
NOW PLAYING: "The Art of Flying" by Jan van IJken. van IJken filmed one of the most spectacular natural phenomena on earth, when, during a particularly warm summer, thousands of #starlings stayed in the #Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/61J7RQiyQf
This tweet was posted on July 30, 2018.
There's a bird, there's a bird, oh look, there's another bird. Midway Atoll was once used as an island stop by #PanAmerican on its transpacific flights from the 1930s to '50s. Now it is part of the #Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
This tweet was posted on July 30, 2018.
As passenger numbers swelled in the 1980s, SFO began upgrading amenities and providing an increasing array of concessions. This 1990 map of SFO shows all amenities available at the time, including our art exhibits and even a video arcade! #avgeek #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on July 19, 2018.
Flying a bright red, ten-passenger Stinson Tri-Motor, Century Pacific Air Lines began service from San Francisco #onthisday in 1931. #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on July 31, 2018.
Made from #faience, a tin-glazed #earthenware, #Gallé cats feature colorful, whimsical designs and glass eyes colored by green sulfur. #caticons
This tweet was posted on August 02, 2018.
To dress TWA’s 2,400 hostesses, Pierre #Balmain created this 1965 summer uniform in fabric mill-dyed to specification for the turquoise and white color scheme. The worsted wool skirt is matched with a collarless demi-fitted jacket in oyster worsted Dacron. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on August 01, 2018.
Our online database contains a selection of ticket jackets from our collection, such as this gem from #PSA. Do you have any #ticketjackets? https://t.co/jfdaDMPlQY
This tweet was posted on July 22, 2018.
The Sud Aviation #Caravelle was one of the first successful commercial #jetliners produced in Europe, first flown in 1955. The Caravelle was a medium-range jetliner that featured twin, rear-mounted turbofan engines. #AviationEvolutions
This tweet was posted on August 02, 2018.
The first #electric shock devices date to the mid-18th century, when electrical therapy was commonly administered as a treatment for nervous disorders. #CoinOperated
This tweet was posted on July 19, 2018.
Working with a large format film camera, #JasonReblando produces meticulously rendered images that adopt a straightforward documentary style and examine the towns as they exist today.
This tweet was posted on July 21, 2018.
Modern #jukeboxes trace their origins to coin-operated phonographs. Marketed as automatic phonographs, these late-nineteenth-century machines combined wax cylinder phonographs with a #coinoperated mechanism.
This tweet was posted on July 24, 2018.
NOW PLAYING: "Swindon: A Portrait of Youth" by Robin Mason. Mason’s snapshot of multiple perspectives on growing up in the #UK was created from telephone interviews conducted in 2017 with #teenagers in #Swindon, a town in Southwest #England. #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/FUzUjl8PRr
This tweet was posted on July 23, 2018.