#RobertBechtle’s early work was as a Bay Area figurative painter, but in the 1970s, he received national acclaim as a Photorealist. Shown here is Benton Street in #SanFrancisco, one of the familiar local neighborhoods Bechtle frequently paints. https://t.co/Exr4TSUHDQ #publicartThis tweet was posted on September 13, 2019.
#StanleyHenryPage was an early twentieth-century #SanFrancisco#BayArea engineer who was inspired by the new technologies of flight. In the 1920s, Stanley Page merged his love of flying with glass plate photography by capturing images of the Bay Area from his plane. #avgeekThis tweet was posted on December 13, 2019.
Airlines have customarily used landmarks to advertise their destinations. How many San Francisco landmarks can you recognize? #TWA#SanFrancisco#1960s
Image: TWA (Trans World Airlines) stationery card, San Francisco, early 1960s. Gift of Daniel Kusrow 2018.061.052 This tweet was posted on July 12, 2019.