Golden Gate International Exposition

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $15.95

Stock #:885262
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: San Francisco
State: California (CA)
County: San Francisco
Publisher: J.C. Bardell
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Other Categories:

Additional Details:
This is the first official view of Exposition Island, as it will appear in 1939. The view is from the shore of Yerba Buena Island, looking north. In the immediate left foreground is a 110-foot causeway, serving as a boulevard approach from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. At the right is Exposition Harbor, 1500 feet wide and 3400 feet long, which will be used for marine regattas. The Exposition Administration building which will serve as a future Airport Terminal, is the first building to the right of the roadway. The main entrance to the Expo is half-way up the boulevard, with the Exposition ferry terminal beyond. to the extreme right are two airport hangars which will serve as exhibit palaces and behind the hangars is the Lake of All Nations. Central unit of the two major axes of the Expo exhibit palaces is the 350-foot Expo tower in the center of the painting, made by Chesley Bonestell, Berkeley artist.

Post a public comment, question or review: