Treasure Island
The Magic City
1930-1940
The Story of the Golden Gate International Exposition
By Jack James & Earle Weller, 1940
390 pages, B/W photographs
- Bonus Book –
Official Guide Book
Golden Gate International Exposition
World’s Fair on San Francisco Bay
First Edition
By Exposition Commission, 1939
120 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
- Bonus Book –
The Gardens of the Exposition
By California Nursery Co., 1939
16 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
- Bonus Book –
A Trip To the San Francisco Exposition
(The Golden Gate International Exposition)
With Bobby and Betty
By Joseph Henry Jackson, 1939
104 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
- Bonus –
Movie
The San Francisco World’s Fair
9 1/2 Minutes, black & white, with audio tour guuide
- Bonus –
Color Home Movie
The 1939 World’s Fair,
Rose Bowl Parade & Game
(USC 7 – Duke 3)
30 Minutes, Color, no audio
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The Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (1939 and 1940), held at
San Francisco's Treasure Island, was a World's Fair celebrating, among other
things, the city's two newly built bridges. The San Francisco–Oakland Bay
Bridge opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937. The exposition opened
from February 18, 1939, through October 29, 1939, and from May 25, 1940,
through September 29, 1940.
Treasure Island, a flat, geometrically-shaped, artificial island attached
to Yerba Buena Island, was built for the Exposition near where the Oakland span
and the San Francisco span of the Bay Bridge join. Built by the federal
government, Treasure Island was to be an airport for Pan American's
transpacific flying boats, like the China Clipper. Due to wartime needs, it was
turned into a naval base used by the US Navy from 1941 to 1997.
The theme of the exposition was "Pageant of the Pacific", as it
showcased the goods of nations bordering the Pacific Ocean. The theme was
physically symbolized by "The Tower of the Sun" and a giant, 80-foot
statue of Pacifica, goddess of the Pacific ocean.
As the boundaries of human intercourse are widened by giant strides of
trade and travel, it is of vital import that the bonds of human understanding
be maintained, enlarged and strengthened rapidly. Unity of the Pacific nations
is America's concern and responsibility; their onward progress deserves now a
recognition that will be a stimulus as well.
Washington is remote from the Pacific. San Francisco stands at the doorway
to the sea that roars upon the shores of all these nations, and so to the
Golden Gate International Exposition I gladly entrust a solemn duty. May this,
America's World's Fair on the Pacific in 1939, truly serve all nations in
symbolizing their destinies, one with every other, through the ages to come.
—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, via radio, during the opening
ceremonies.[2]
The San Francisco Downtown Association created the 49-Mile Scenic Drive to
promote the exposition and the city. The drive started at San Francisco City
Hall and ended on Treasure Island after winding around the picturesque
"City by the Bay."
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