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The Golden Gate Kindergarten Association is a non-profit organization in San Francisco with a dual mission: it operates a preschool for children ages two through five, known as the Phoebe A. Hearst Preschool, and it also holds the Rhoda Kellogg collection of children’s art. The Phoebe A. Hearst Preschool is proudly the oldest preschool program in San Francisco. Rhoda Kellogg was an early childhood scholar and collector of children’s artwork who served for years as the preschool’s director. Ms. Kellogg amassed an extensive and wide-ranging collection of children’s art—numbering over half a million pieces—through travels in thirty countries around the world and through her work with children at the Phoebe A. Hearst Preschool. The pieces on view in this exhibition represent the breadth and diversity of children’s art held in the Rhoda Kellogg Art Collection. Art from the "Phoebe A. Hearst Preschool and Rhoda Kellogg Art Collection" is on display pre-security, in Terminal 1. http://bit.ly/2qaEuMr . . . #RhodaKelloggArtCollection #PhoebeHearstPreschool #RhodaKellogg #preschool #studentart #childrensart #childart #Kindergarten

#Onthisday in 1965, the Douglas DC-9 was introduced into service by Delta Air Lines. The DC-9 was the second commercial jetliner manufactured by Douglas. The aircraft was produced for 41 years, first by Douglas, then McDonnell Douglas, and finally Boeing in numerous variants and derivatives, with final deliveries of its last derivative, the Boeing 717, in 2006. What are your favorite DC-9 memories? Image: McDonnell Douglas MD-80 poster, Flying colors, 1970s. Gift of the William Hough Collection. 2006.010.467 . . . #dc9 #douglasaircraft #DC #avgeek #delta #frontier #midway #republic #avgeeks #jetliner #jetage #poster #design

The Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra was a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a clean, aerodynamic fuselage and a twin tail. It was developed in response to criticism from airlines that the earlier Model 10 Electra was too small. The Model 14 had more powerful engines than the Model 10, could carry two more passengers, and featured Fowler flaps on the wings that enabled it to glide at low speed on the approach to landings. More than two hundred were built in the United States and under license in Japan. They were operated by airlines worldwide. In 1938, a modified version was flown by Howard Hughes and a crew of four to circumnavigate the northern hemisphere, covering 23,804 miles in three days and nineteen hours, a world record. See "Aviation Evolutions: The Jim Lund 1:72 Scale Model Airplane Collection", which features more than 200 models, on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum. http://bit.ly/AviationEvolutions . . . #AviationEvolutions #jimlund #lockheed #avgeek #aviationgeek #aviation #aviationhistory #vintageaviation #history #aviationgeeks #modelplane #scalemodel #avgeeks

Our newest exhibition, "The Modern Consumer: 1950s Products and Style" is now on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. A new wave of consumerism swept across the United States during the 1950s. Driven by a thriving postwar economy, designers utilized bold styling to transform everyday objects into visually expressive items, and manufacturers unleashed an array of products to keep pace with demand. Stores carried everything from portable televisions and pocket-sized radios to space-age toys and plastic dinnerware sets. Shopping centers and indoor malls with vast, paved parking lots catered to new suburban housing developments that extended from cities and towns. Often located at the intersections of major roads and highways, shopping centers offered easy access to a multitude of supermarkets and stores. http://bit.ly/1950sConsumer . . . #1950sconsumer #1950s #vintage #1950sstyle #1950svintage #50s #glamour #midcentury #classic #retro #goldenage

In her series, Air/Plains, artist Millee Tibbs revisits the ever-familiar image of the setting sun. During the course of two weeks working in the Great Plains region of central Nebraska, Tibbs photographed the sun each evening as it disappeared over the horizon. Back in the studio, she produced the images as pigment prints, folded them into common paper airplane designs, and re-photographed the objects. The title of the series refers to the content of the image—the sky and earth—and also to the object into which the photograph has been folded. The resulting images hold the illusionistic space of the landscape while documenting the folding, creasing, and scoring that give them form. In this way, Tibbs draws attention to the photograph as object and meditates on our tendencies to often mistake a picture for the thing itself. "Air/Plains" by Millee Tibbs is on display, post-security on the departures level of Terminal 1. http://ow.ly/IjFG50jS9CR . . . #photography #MilleeTibbs #Nebraska #Paperairplanes #photograph @sbbiteellim

The field of aeronautical engineering led to some of the most profound technological advancements of the 20th century. One of the companies driving these changes was the Boeing Aircraft Company. Within the span of a single lifetime, Boeing went from producing piston-engine, propeller-driven aircraft constructed of fabric, metal tubing, and wood to modern jetliners. This United Airlines photo depicts what is often referred to as the first modern airliner, the model 247 that Boeing introduced in 1933, seen parked next to the 747 that Boeing introduced in 1970. The twin-engine Boeing 247 had a maximum speed of 200 miles per hour, a range of 745 miles, a wingspan of 74 feet, and carried 10 passengers. In comparison, the 747-100 had a typical cruising speed of 570 miles per hour, a wingspan of 196 feet, and carried 366 passengers in a three class configuration across continents and oceans. Image: Sal Hernandez, United Air Lines, Boeing 247 and 747, San Francisco International Airport (SFO), 1970. SFO Museum Collection. 2016.115.009 . . . #AVGeek #Boeing247 #Boeing747 #Boeing #avgeeks #aviationgeek #aviation #vintageaviation