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Officially opened to the public #onthisday in 2000, the International Terminal at SFO was then the largest public works project in Northern California. Leading the Joint Venture Architects group, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, envisioned the International Terminal that became a signature structure at SFO. With 24 additional gates and 2.5 million square feet, the International Terminal doubled the overall passenger terminal square footage. Have you ever flown out of our International Terminal? Photo by Alain McLaughlin. Image: San Francisco International Airport (SFO), International Terminal, 1999. SFO Museum Collection. 2017.120.357 . . . #SFO #SFOHistory #SFHistory #airport #architecture #design #avgeek

NOW PLAYING: Berkeley-based filmmaker Kevin Gordon profiles Stockton, California’s Michael Chicago, the son of a Filipino immigrant mother and an alcoholic father, who escaped a difficult home life through Turfing, a form of street dancing with roots in Oakland. See "TURF Fever" by Kevin Gordon, now playing in the Video Arts Room located pre-security in the International Terminal. http://bit.ly/2PysMHI . . . #VideoArtsSFOM #film #video #Sub64Films #MichaelChicago #TurfDancing #StocktonProud #TURFinc #Stockton #California #dance #dancing

This circa 1960 photograph shows several Boeing 707 jetliners in their introduction liveries. Which one is your favorite? Image: Boeing 707 fleet, c. 1960. Gift of Robert W. Jackson. 2006.002.088 . . . #Boeing #707 #Boeing100 #1960s #livery #aviationhistory #avgeek

Peter Voulkos (1924–2002) was at the leading edge of a revolution in American ceramics. In 1954, Voulkos was hired to form a ceramics department at the Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles, where he employed traditional techniques and experimented with more abstract forms. By the end of the decade, Voulkos relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. As his focus shifted from refined ceramic vessels to thick-walled works, Voulkos blurred the lines between fine art and craft with innovative, deconstructed forms and striking, expressionist clay sculpture. Subsequently, generations of Voulkos’ students have made their own impact on studio ceramics and clay sculpture. See "California Studio Craft: Featuring Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection" on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. http://bit.ly/CaliforniaCrafts . . . #CaliforniaCrafts #ForrestMerrill #StudioCraft #PeterVoulkos #ceramics

Can you imagine a roundtrip flight between California and the Philippine capital of Manila taking fifteen days? In 1935, the first scheduled transpacific airmail flight took eight days to reach Manila from Alameda, with stops in Honolulu, Midway Atoll, Wake Island, and Guam. After leaving Alameda on November 22, and landing in Manila, on November 29, the China Clipper started its long journey back to the United States on December 2. The trip took another four days to travel back to Alameda and landed #onthisday [Dec. 6] in 1935. The entire roundtrip flight time was 123 hours and 12 minutes. It had covered over 16,000 miles and set nineteen world records. Learn more about early transpacific aviation in "China Clipper" on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum. http://bit.ly/chinaclipper Image: Pan American Airways, Martin M-130 “China Clipper”, c. 1939, Gift of William T. Larkins. 2010.248.012 . . . #ChinaClipper #aviationhistory #avgeek #panam

When McDonnell Douglas began to develop their widebody jetliner in the late 1960s, they endeavored to create an airliner that would operate in areas not served by the 747. The DC-10 was initially designed to be operated on transcontinental or regional routes (although later variants came with enhanced, transoceanic range) with fewer passengers than the 747. It was also intended to operate at airports not suitable for the 747. It would thus broaden the widebody market to more airlines and a greater proportion of the traveling public. McDonnell Douglas promoted the DC-10 as the widebody airliner for the entire family in a promotional poster by artist George Akimoto (1922–2010). “Widebody: The Launch of the Jumbojets in the Early 1970s” is on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum and Library. http://bit.ly/WidebodyAV . . . #WidebodyAV #avgeek #Widebody #jumbojet #jetage