Treasure Island Museum

"The station is currently just off Treasure Island, where it was constructed on a 96-by-173-foot steel frame that was manufactured in Shanghai, China, the public works department said." SFGATE

1939-1940 PanAm Clipper

Happy Thanksgiving! From our digital archive of Masthead newspapers, view more at www.treasureislandmuseum.org/masthead.

Entrance to Building One, Treasure Island, location of Treasure Island Museum, featuring Pacific Unity sculptures by Adaline Kent, Jacques Schnier and Helen Philips. Photo credit: Laurie Gordon.

Wow, a must read mystery from War Is Boring! "The airship took off at 5:30 that morning from Treasure Island. On board were the pilot, Annapolis graduate Lt. Ernest DeWitt Cody, 27, and Ensign Charles E. Adams, 38, who received his commission just the day before. It was to be a routine anti-submarine patrol, flying out to the Farallones before heading down the Pacific coast toward Montara and eventually landing back at Treasure Island."

A recent eBay find. Not the sexiest of GGIE acquisitions, but one close to the heart. Don't you love the olive altar/press on the cover? Until recently, most of... the GGIE olive trees remained on Treasure Island, and some are still there and will remain through redevelopment. "Avenue of Olives" was a main thoroughfare (now 9th Street, it will be gone when development is complete). Adult trees were purchased from a ranch in Santa Clara, barged up the bay and planted as part of the GGIE's incredible landscaping. Over the years the Brucia family harvested the olives and made Treasure Island Olive Oil (no longer). This was a postcard folder--you could send it home, OR you could separate the pages of recipes and put them in your recipe box! See more

Did you know that the wonderful artist Miné Okubo has a connection to Treasure Island? Okubo was a Japanese American artist who was one of Diego Rivera’s assistants for the Pan American Unity mural, painted at the Golden Gate International Exposition (shown in the first photo). Two years after the end of the fair in 1940, the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred and the US officially joined WWII. In 1942, Okubo and her family, along with 112,000 other people of Japanese ancestry w...ere uprooted from the west coast and forced into internment camps throughout the country. Okubo took her experience in these dehumanizing camps and turned it into art in the form of her graphic novel, Citizen 13660 released in 1946. Citizen 13660 was the first story published about the Japanese internment camps by someone who experienced them first hand. Okubo went on to have a long career as an illustrator and painter in New York City and passed away in 2001. . . . #diegorivera #diegoriveramural #treasureisland #treasureislandsf #art #mural #japaneseamericanartist #mineokubo #minéokubo #goldengateinternationalexposition #worldsfair #1930s #1940s #artdeco #bayarea #sanfrancisco #bayareahistory #sanfranciscohistory #sf #treasureislandmuseum Bay Area Television Archive Diego Rivera Pan American Unity mural CCSF See more

Just spotted this gem:

At 2:00PM join the Living New Deal for their presentation "Treasure Island: Build It and They Will Come: Organized Labor at the Golden Gate International Exposi...tion with The Living New Deal". From the first scoops of mud to the final coat of paint applied to the buildings of the Golden Gate International Exposition, organized labor was there. Join Harvey Smith, Project Advisor for the Living New Deal and author of Berkeley and the New Deal for a presentation discussing the contributions of organized labor and the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration to the creation of Treasure Island, and the construction of the courts and palaces of the 1939 World’s Fair:https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pUamPxn3RaGHXQTNecWaTg See more

It's not every day that you get to be in a Zoom call with an emperor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton The late Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico gave a lecture today courtesy of the Treasure Island Museum.

THIS SUNDAY! September 27 from 3:00-4:30 A zoom lecture by Art Deco Society of California Preservation Director Therese Poletti : Architect TIMOTHY PFLUE...GER ON TREASURE ISLAND (GGIE ) Registration is required: (but no charge to "attend" on ZOOM) Among the architects in charge of creating the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-1940, Timothy Pflueger was one of the most influential, and his Federal Building was seen as one of the few modernist designs at a fair that was mostly the last gasp of the Art Deco style. He also designed the California Building, the San Francisco Building, and the Court of Pacifica. In all of these works, he hired many of his artist friends, such as Ralph Stackpole, who created the iconic sculpture of Pacifica. In 1940, when the fair was reborn for a second year, Pflueger hired the famed Mexian muralist, Diego Rivera, to create a massive mural that would eventually find a home in San Francisco. Rivera was a key attraction at the dynamic Art in Action exhibition, where fair goers could watch art work in progress.

Are you looking for an interesting way to spend a warm Saturday? Come take our self guided tour! The tour is part of our San Francisco History Days programming. Along with two virtual lectures, you can visit the island’s historic landmarks in person and learn about the history behind them. End it all with a 1939 Treasure Island Fair cocktail at Mersea. Museum personnel will welcome you out front of Building One on Sat September 26th from 11am-3pm. Link here and in bio: www.bit.ly/historydaysinfo . . . #treasureisland #historydays2020 #historydays #history #localhistory #bayarea #worldsfair #artdeco #architecture #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscohistory #bayarea #museum #collection #archive #treasureislandsf #treasureislandmuseum

Want to see the building that housed the Art In Action exhibition at the GGIE? Come to our self guided history tour of Treasure Island this weekend! Museum staff will be tabling out front of Building One on Saturday the 26th from 11am-3pm to answer all your questions!

History Days 2020 full programming For this weekend!