San Francisco, CA - 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition - Palace Hotel:  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; it drew 17 million visitors to Treasure Island.  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. The dredging of Treasure Island started on February 11, 1936.  When the Palace Hotel in San Francisco opened in 1875, it was San Francisco's first luxury hotel and the largest in the world. With unprecedented opulence, it was America's counterpart to the grand hotels of Europe. After destruction in The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Palace was rebuilt reopening in 1909 at the Market and New Montgomery Streets site. While much plainer on the outside, for over a century now the new iconic hostelry has been as elegant, sumptuous, and gracious on the inside as was its famous predecessor. The "Palm Court" (also called the "Garden Court") -- which occupies the same area as the Grand Court did in the original hotel -- has been San Francisco's most prestigious hotel dining room since the day it opened in 1909. Almost anybody who is anybody has quenched their thirst at one time or another in the "Pied Piper" Bar (overseen by its famous Maxfield Parrish painting) which is located just off the gleaming polished marble lobby.  This Linen Era postcard, mailed in 1939, is in good condition.  C. T. Art-Colortone. Made by Curt Teich & Co. Chicago.  No. 6A-H1646.