Mills Field: Difference between revisions

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Unfinished History

Mills Field in 1927, which eventually grew into San Francisco International Airport. Originally part of the D.O. Mills estate, which in turn was later subdivided into the town of Millbrae and the airport.

Photo: San Mateo County History Museum

Gilded Era plutocrats: (l to r) Elizabeth Mills Reid, Whitelaw Reid (editor, New York Tribune), Darius Ogden Mills, Elihu Root (Secretary of State for President Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War for Roosevelt and William McKinley), J.P. Morgan (banker), and Ogden Mills, at the Mills estate in Millbrae, long before air travel, c. 1900.

Photo: provenance unknown

Waterfront property east of the Bayshore Highway before airport improvements, 1927.

Photo: courtesy San Francisco Airport Museums

Mills Field, before it was renamed San Francisco International Airport, c. 1930s

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

Mills Field, 1927.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

By-1937, almost 800,000 square feet of concrete runways, taxiways, and aircraft parking were in place, illuminated by modern, multicolored lighting and extensive underground power lines.

Photo: SFO Museum

Oyster Point between Mills Field/SFO and San Bruno Mountain, c. 1970s.

Photo: South San Francisco Historical Association

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 ''Photo: San Mateo County History Museum ''
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+[[Image:Elizabeth-Mills-Reid,-Whitelaw-Reid,-D-O-Mills,-Elihu-Root,-JP-Morgan,-Ogden-Mills-in-Millbrae.jpg]]
-'''SF International Airport 2009.'''
+'''Gilded Era plutocrats: (l to r) Elizabeth Mills Reid, Whitelaw Reid (editor, ''New York Tribune''), Darius Ogden Mills, Elihu Root (Secretary of State for President Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War for Roosevelt and William McKinley), J.P. Morgan (banker), and Ogden Mills, at the Mills estate in Millbrae, long before air travel, c. 1900.'''
-''Photo: LisaRuth Elliott''
+''Photo: provenance unknown''
+[[Image:Waterfront property east of the Bayshore Highway before airport improvements 1927 pub 2011.032.0021 1.jpg]]
+'''Waterfront property east of the Bayshore Highway before airport improvements, 1927.'''
+''Photo: courtesy San Francisco Airport Museums''
+[[Image:Mills-Field-airport.jpg]]
+'''Mills Field, before it was renamed San Francisco International Airport, c. 1930s'''
+''Photo: Shaping San Francisco''
+[[Image:1927 SF airport.jpg]]
+'''Mills Field, 1927.'''
+''Photo: Shaping San Francisco''
+[[Image:By-1937,-more-than-790,000-square-feet-of-concrete-runways,-taxiways,-and-aircraft-parking-were-in-place,-illuminated-by-modern,-multicolored-lighting-and-45,700-feet-of-underground-power-lines.jpg]]
+'''By-1937, almost 800,000 square feet of concrete runways, taxiways, and aircraft parking were in place, illuminated by modern, multicolored lighting and extensive underground power lines.'''
+''Photo: SFO Museum''
+[[Image:Oyster-point-undated-probably-early-1970s ssfhistory.jpg]]
+'''Oyster Point between Mills Field/[[San Francisco Airport|SFO]] and [[San Bruno Mountain|San Bruno Mountain]], c. 1970s.'''
+''Photo: South San Francisco Historical Association''
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