Ha! RT @RoadsideAmerica: At SFO Museum: 1960s stewardesses really did dress like yeomen on the starship Enterprise http://t.co/G50te4YFca
This tweet was posted on April 09, 2013.
Happy 101st Birthday to Wayne Thiebaud, who was born #onthisday in 1920! In the early 1960s, Thiebaud was acclaimed as one of the defining practitioners of Pop Art and has continued to be considered one of California’s most important and influential artists. #publicart @SFAC
This tweet was posted on November 15, 2021.
Happy Labor Day! Thank you to all of the essential workers who keep SFO running smoothly and safely, both now and over our past ninety-three years.
Image: San Francisco International Airport (SFO). late 1960s. 2011.032.0633
#MuseumFromHome #avgeek #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on September 07, 2020.
Hard at work, adding to our collection's database a recent gift of a 1960s 1:100 scale American Export… http://t.co/R9lfX24JAH
This tweet was posted on September 16, 2013.
Hundreds of instrumental surf bands pressed a multitude of records, producing both regional and national hits. Album cover artwork and graphic design reflected California’s surfing culture and is a colorful reminder of the 1960s surf music scene. #InstrumentalSurf
This tweet was posted on March 26, 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.
In the 1960s and 70s, Boeing's 747s revolutionized the airline industry. In addition to its immense… https://t.co/fuYVBkXbAw
This tweet was posted on March 31, 2015.
In the 1960s, #PanAm offered in-flight entertainment for children with Tell-a-Tale jet flight story books. #paxex
This tweet was posted on July 18, 2016.
In the 1960s, TWA (Trans World Airlines) offered 8MM films for sale featuring their various destinations. #paxex
This tweet was posted on July 14, 2016.
In the 1960s, lightweight and cost-effective polyurethane foam and fiberglass surfboards revolutionized the surfing industry. Hermosa Beach surfer-shaper Dudley “Hap” Jacobs, manufactured high-quality surfboards from polyurethane foam. #SurfboardsandShapers
This tweet was posted on February 20, 2019.
In the early 1960s, TWA (Trans World Airlines) was operating the 707-320 on the transpolar, route from Los Angeles to Paris. By 1969, TWA 707s were also flying transpacific routes to Asia. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek #TWA
This tweet was posted on December 15, 2022.
In the late 1960s, Pan American World Airways commissioned renowned psychedelic artist @Peter_Max to create a promotional poster that showed the new Boeing 747 taking off through rainbow rays of the solar system. Do you have a favorite airline advertisement? #WidebodyAV
This tweet was posted on February 10, 2020.
In the late 1960s, airport planners projected that annual passenger traffic at SFO would reach 23 mil. #SFOHistory
This tweet was posted on July 14, 2016.
Instrumental rock groups proliferated around the world from the 1950s through the 1960s. In the Netherlands, Dutch-Indonesian rockers The Tielman Brothers were part of a hybrid rock 'n' roll and instrumental rock genre known as Indo Rock. #InstrumentalSurf
This tweet was posted on February 09, 2021.
Issued in each of the three colors, the outerwear ensemble was a necessity in the late 1960s, when many airports did not have covered jet bridge walkways to protect crew and passengers from the elements as they boarded aircraft. #FlightPatterns
This tweet was posted on August 06, 2021.
It's official! Moto Bellissima: Italian Motorcycles from the 1950s and 1960s is now on view at SFO. http://t.co/XIClpDDv
This tweet was posted on November 04, 2011.
Jet Set Carry-On (T1, pre-TSA) has a great selection of flight bags on view, like this pink 1960s one by Braniff: http://t.co/rfHTLjDfMw
This tweet was posted on March 05, 2013.
Like their counterparts in the United States, international instrumental bands in the late 1950s and 1960s were influenced by rhythm and blues and rock ‘n’ roll. The Shadows, a group of teenagers from London, led the European instrumental charge. #InstrumentalSurf
This tweet was posted on March 12, 2021.
Loftleiðir Icelandic (or Iceland Airlines) was established in 1944. As #Iceland is geographically situated between Europe and the United States, Loftleiðir became a major player in the transatlantic travel in the 1960s. Did you ever fly on #Loftleiðir? #TravelTuesday
This tweet was posted on March 19, 2019.
Our newest exhibition, Flying the Freedom Birds: Airlines and the Vietnam War,” provides insight into the experience of serving aboard the commercial airliners, known as Freedom Birds, that flew troops to and from Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s. https://t.co/jA5xrcn1Wf #FreedomBird
This tweet was posted on September 27, 2019.
Pancake Palace used to be a restaurant in the old International Terminal (now Terminal 2) at @flysfo. It boasted 14 different varieties of pancakes in the 1960s. Did you ever dine there? Which pancake would you order? #SFOHistory #nationalpancakeday
This tweet was posted on September 26, 2019.
RT @airandspace: In 1960s, Braniff Airways introduced "End of the Plain Plane" w/brightly colored livery & designer uniforms: https://t.co…
This tweet was posted on May 02, 2017.
RT @flySFO: 🥞 In the 1960's Pancake Palace used to be a restaurant in the old International Terminal (now Terminal 2). The palace offered f…
This tweet was posted on February 25, 2020.
Richard (Dick) Marquis enrolled at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as an architecture student but shifted to… http://t.co/KT7qwoDxmJ
This tweet was posted on November 10, 2014.