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'''<font face = arial light> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>Unfinished History</font></font> </font>''' | |||
[[Image:outofsf$treasure-island-1938.jpg]] | [[Image:outofsf$treasure-island-1938.jpg]] | ||
'''Treasure Island taking shape in 1938. After two years as a celebratory World's Fair, it became a military base at the outset of WWII. | '''Treasure Island taking shape in 1938. After two years as a celebratory World's Fair, it became a military base at the outset of WWII. Yerba Buena Island ("Goat Island") is at left of center.''' | ||
[[Image:Treasure-Island-aerial-Oct-11-1940 D4455A.jpg|720px]] | |||
'''Treasure Island view from the air, Oct. 11, 1940.''' | |||
''Photo: [http://sfmta.com/photo SFMTA Photo] D4455A'' | |||
[[Treasure Island Fair| More Treasure Island]] | [[Treasure Island Fair| More Treasure Island]] | ||
''Photo: | ''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA '' | ||
[[Image:Treasure-island-airport-plan-illustration drescher.jpg]] | |||
'''Illustration of the planned airport for Treasure Island after the World's Fair. Once the Navy took over the airport plans were scuttled.''' | |||
''Image: courtesy Tim Drescher'' | |||
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'''Footage from SFO in 1941, followed by images of the PanAm Clipper circling around in Clipper Cove off Treasure Island.''' | |||
''Video: from "Lost Landscapes #1, 2007" courtesy Prelinger Archives'' | |||
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'''Kodachrome footage of the San Francisco World's Fair, held on Treasure Island.''' | |||
''Video: Prelinger Archive, original filmmaker unknown'' | |||
[[Image:Treasure-island-1997.jpg]] | |||
'''1997 view of Treasure Island from Yerba Buena Island just to its south. Building in lower right is being used as a movie studio, while the entire island is about to be given back to the city of San Francisco. There is a lot of seismic and toxic mitigation work ahead to make it useful. The building in the center was a Nazi airport in an Indiana Jones movie.''' | |||
''Photo: Chris Carlsson'' | |||
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Latest revision as of 21:02, 3 November 2023
Unfinished History
Treasure Island taking shape in 1938. After two years as a celebratory World's Fair, it became a military base at the outset of WWII. Yerba Buena Island ("Goat Island") is at left of center.
Treasure Island view from the air, Oct. 11, 1940.
Photo: SFMTA Photo D4455A
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
Illustration of the planned airport for Treasure Island after the World's Fair. Once the Navy took over the airport plans were scuttled.
Image: courtesy Tim Drescher
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/sf-airport-1941-and-clipper-cove-from-lost-landscapes-no-1" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Footage from SFO in 1941, followed by images of the PanAm Clipper circling around in Clipper Cove off Treasure Island.
Video: from "Lost Landscapes #1, 2007" courtesy Prelinger Archives
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/GoldenGa1939_3" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Kodachrome footage of the San Francisco World's Fair, held on Treasure Island.
Video: Prelinger Archive, original filmmaker unknown
1997 view of Treasure Island from Yerba Buena Island just to its south. Building in lower right is being used as a movie studio, while the entire island is about to be given back to the city of San Francisco. There is a lot of seismic and toxic mitigation work ahead to make it useful. The building in the center was a Nazi airport in an Indiana Jones movie.
Photo: Chris Carlsson