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California has the greatest diversity of natural areas, flora, and fauna species in North America—around 6,000 species of plants grow in our state! #EarthMonth#TBT#ILoveYouCAThis tweet was posted on April 27, 2023.
California also has an abundance of protected and preserved public use lands and national parks such as Joshua Tree, Yosemite, and Lassen Volcanic National Parks. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park contains many of the oldest trees on Earth. #EarthMonth#TBT#ILoveYouCAThis tweet was posted on April 27, 2023.
In 2015, we presented “I Love You, California: A Natural History,” which celebrated the flora and fauna of California state. #EarthMonth#TBT#ILoveYouCAThis tweet was posted on April 27, 2023.
If you were flying high above @flysfo in 1930, this would have been your view. In this composite aerial photo, created by photographer George E. Russell, Burlingame, Millbrae, San Bruno, and South San Francisco are all recognizable. #NationalAviationDay#TBT#SFOHistoryThis tweet was posted on August 19, 2021.
This photo from 1948 shows the airport’s information counter inside @flySFO’s passenger terminal built in 1937. With annual post-war air travel through SFO reaching one million passengers, an information counter was vitally needed to help travelers. #TBT#MuseumFromHomeThis tweet was posted on March 19, 2020.
Before the AirTrain was completed in 2003, passengers were shuttled around SFO in buses. The buses used to take passengers from the terminals to the parking lots. Do you remember these buses? #SFOHistory#TBT#throwback#bus#buses#museum 2011.032.2396 This tweet was posted on July 18, 2019.
Early color photographs of #SFO are rare, so we’re excited to share a recent gift to our collection. This photo from 1947 shows a United Air Lines aircraft in front of the Airport’s 1937 terminal building along with 3 of the original airplane hangars built in 1927/8. #TBT#avgeekThis tweet was posted on June 13, 2019.
Terminal 2, previously known as the Central Terminal, opened in 1954. Here are views of the terminal from just before its opening, the 1980s, and 2012. #ThrowbackThursday#TBT#avgeekThis tweet was posted on February 28, 2019.
Did you know that in the 1960s, there was a heliport next to the Ferry Building in San Francisco? The San Francisco and Oakland (SFO) Helicopter Airlines operated local helicopter flights in the Bay Area. Did you ever fly on SFO Helicopter Airlines? #SFHistory#TBTThis tweet was posted on January 31, 2019.
Throwback Thursday to 1986 and the newly remodeled Terminal 1. T1 is currently undergoing another major renovation, and we're excited for the first section to open next year! Have you ever flown out of Terminal 1? #SFOhistory #SFO#airport#tbtThis tweet was posted on December 27, 2018.