"…these sculptures are like short poems pertaining to California where I was born, and to the world I have known." Isamu Noguchi, November 11, 1982 #NoguchiSFO
This tweet was posted on September 18, 2018.
#FrankLobdell was a significant artist in West Coast Abstract Expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement and a popular instructor at the California School of Fine Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) from 1957 through 1965. #SFAC #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on August 03, 2020.
#HarveyMilk did not win his bid for the 1973 election or the 1975 election, but as they say, third time's the charm. He won the 1977 elections to become the first openly gay elected official in California. #HarveyMilkExhibition
This tweet was posted on January 15, 2020.
#OnThisDay in 1935, the first of three Martin M-130 #flyingboats was delivered to Pan American Airways. Named the "China Clipper", this M-130 would go on to make history by inaugurating the first scheduled #transpacific air mail service from California to the Philippines. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on October 09, 2018.
#Onthisday in 1889 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation founder Allan Lockheed was born in Fremont, California. In 1915, he and his older brother, Malcolm Loughead, opened a flying concession at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, selling rides on their Model G aircraft #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.
#Onthisday in 1920, Hollywood costume designer and Academy Award winner, William Travilla, was born in Los Angeles, California. Well known for dressing Marilyn Monroe, Travilla created this synthetic blend, summer seasonal ensemble for #United in a new color named Blue Frost.
This tweet was posted on March 22, 2022.
#Radio courtesy of the collection of California Historical Radio Society. "On the Radio" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/1nHbV738Te #RadioSFO
This tweet was posted on May 14, 2018.
75 years to the day: #PanAm's christening ceremony for the California Clipper, held at Treasure Island: http://t.co/HNa8N1kWgm #avgeek
This tweet was posted on April 25, 2014.
@sammiiloo Thanks for checking out our exhibit! And welcome to California!
This tweet was posted on December 21, 2011.
@united opened the airline industry's first kitchen in Oakland, California in the late 1930s.
This tweet was posted on June 27, 2016.
Adverse publicity from an ill-planned ad campaign, along with stiff competition on the California corridor from other airlines ultimately led Pacific to seek out a merger with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West in 1968.
#DefunctThursday #PacificAirlines
This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.
After replacing numerous spokes, tires, drive belts, and an engine crankshaft, the California motorcycle’s 1 ¼-horsepower engine gave up outside of Albany, New York. George Wyman finally arrived in New York City on July 6 after pedaling the final 150 miles.
This tweet was posted on March 05, 2021.
Air California was founded in 1965 by a group of Orange County businessmen who recognized a great need to serve the rapidly expanding business communities and population centers of the region with intrastate air service from Orange County Airport (later named John Wayne Airport).
This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.
All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4 #TheAutomaticAge
This tweet was posted on June 13, 2018.
All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4
This tweet was posted on February 22, 2018.
All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4
This tweet was posted on August 30, 2018.
All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4
This tweet was posted on June 28, 2018.
All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: #CoinOperated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4
This tweet was posted on March 06, 2018.
All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: Coin-Operated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4 #CoinOperated
This tweet was posted on June 01, 2018.
All objects are courtesy of Joe Welch American Antique Museum in San Bruno, California. "The Automatic Age: Coin-Operated Machines" is on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. https://t.co/vtBTqEQXW4
This tweet was posted on February 13, 2018.
Alright California, get out and "Cast Your Vote!" http://t.co/z59Ls9GN
This tweet was posted on June 05, 2012.
Around the same time, Metlox added the California Mobile series to their Poppytrail earthenware. Designed by Frank Irwin (1922–2002), California Mobile was a decal pattern applied to Metlox’ Freeform range of sculpturally squared plates and boomerang-shaped dishes. #1950sConsumer
This tweet was posted on September 12, 2019.
At 101, we bid farewell to Wayne Thiebaud, esteemed painter of luminous, playful still lives and landscapes, and icon of Northern California.
This tweet was posted on December 27, 2021.
Based in San Francisco, the 3,800-employee carrier served numerous destinations up & down the California corridor, from San Diego to Crescent City, along with cities throughout the Southwest and Northwest, and even several tourist destinations in Mexico. #DefunctThursday #AirWest
This tweet was posted on March 17, 2022.
Bothwell lived on the island of Ta`ū as the adopted daughter of a local chief and his family for two years. Bothwell sketched, painted, and made woodblock prints, which she shipped back to California to fund travels in Australia and Europe. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #DorrBothwell
This tweet was posted on September 28, 2022.