I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thank you so much for making it and posting it. I knew nothing about the history of this fair, but started researching it when I recently found out that my uncle, aunt, and grandmother attended the fair in 1940. We had no idea they had attended it until we found a souvenir photo of them at the fair. So it's so wonderful to be able to watch this and imagine what they must have seen!
Such a wonderful lady ! So much energy and talent! She will be missed! I sell postcards from this fair! I live on the east coast but love this fair! So cool she was at the fair! God bless Claire
I had no idea all these structures were on Yerba Buena Island!? Wow. I have been looking up what's to be developed on Treasure Island, and this video came up. Yup, we travel often to the city and when driving along the bridge, I have always told myself that I wanted to look up the history. Thanks for this! 🥤
Australian sailor here...I trained on Treasure Island in 1972 for service on HMAS PERTH ...I was not aware that Admiral Nimitz had his home there...the mighty U.S. Pacific Fleet saved Australia from invasion during WW2 and Australia holds Admirals Nimitz & Halsey in high regard....as I also have the deepest respect and gratefulness for the privilege of serving on Treasure Island. Best wishes for the future.
Thanks! We love the Aussies, when I was young you could drink in Canada at 18 so we always went up to Vancouver and I will always remember the day an Aussie Navy ship was in Port and the entire crew swarmed the town in their dress whites and went bar hopping with us singing Aussie songs and doing chants, those boys damn near shut the town down, drinking bars out of beer and causing general havoc! It was great times!
Flying boats is why marine vocabulary was applied to airplanes. Pilot, galley, port, starboard, knots and as boats make landfall at a port, airplanes landed at an “ airport”.
My name is Edward Zuniga Leon my ancestors own yerba buena Island in 1840 and my mother's side of the family,,,,,, but obvious United States government just takes your land just because they
Lol exploitation for selling million dollar homes isolated outside the chaotic lawless cesspool SF & California has become in recent years. Drugs on every street corner where kids walk pass to & from school.. the privileged few who can afford to save themselves...
Oh, what terrific deep-dive research. I wonder about the dates for the expansion and what prompted it. Also, I wonder if there will be a place in the display for part of the transcript of the trial. If so, I recommend displaying the Precept for General Court Martial from Rear Admiral Carleton Wright to Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus ordering him to establish a court martial the next day or as soon thereafter as possible. The memo is dated July 14, 1944, three days before the explosion. By the way, the National Archives in College Park is where I was doing the research in 1995 that led to my deep interest in Port Chicago.
I wonder if this exhibit would be a good place to point out that the USS Baltimore (CA-68), President Franklin Roosevelt's flagship for the July 1944 cruise to the Honolulu Conference, was anchored at the Mare Island Navy Shipyard, along with the other ships in the COMINCH fleet, from July 6th to July 17th, departing within hours of the Port Chicago explosion.
Correction: this video tells the most well-known part of the little-known story of the Port Chicago explosion, "mutiny" and trial. Like most coverage of the Port Chicago disaster, this video overlooks the important and little known fact that scientists and engineers from the Manhattan Project Ordnance Division visited the scene to study "the effects of the detonation". The data from the Port Chicago explosion provided them with their first realistic estimates of the blast damage they could expect from an atomic bomb.
How do I contact and see your museum,would enjoy sharing miniature World's fair model built for client. Dan Vargas Imagesrr. Enjoy your look back at the fair. Incredible unique stuctures.
I was discharged from the Marines on Treasure Island in 1971. At the time the Navy was teaching the Venezuelan Navy how to operate some WW2 submarines and destroyers they had purchased. I had a buddy in the Navy who was part of one of the sub training crews. He gave me a tour of one of the subs. That was pretty cool because the sub was full of provisions and crew, so it was way more interesting than touring a museum sub. I also got to bunk a few nights on a WW2 minesweeper that was of all wood construction. It was 100ft. long and was one of two such ships left in the Navy, soon to be scrapped.
I don't know how the island can sustain a community of 20,000. An island that could be underwater in 50 years, if projections of polar ice melt hold true. It is a pity so much of the old navy installations were torn down.
I have a question I hope you can answer, there was a house above the tunnel to the right would you know who lived there in the late 50's the reason I ask is that I remember looking out the window of that house watching car come across the bridge.
I remember being a 10 yr old boy, my grandpa worked for housing authority and got a job/side job to tile one of the great whites. This was was while it was still in effect as a launch base. My5yr older cousin and I, I remember just sat and watched as the F-14’s (I think) would take off and land, and maneuver around their runway. Coolest 5 days I’ll EVER remember. And back then it was like, what’s gonna happen? We’re on a frkn military island!! Both Dad and Grandpa were Navy/Army so we were golden. Beautiful architecture, and of course scenery.
Thanks for sharing that memory. The jets must have been taking off from Alameda Naval Air Station, which is visible from the Great Whites. The only aircraft that I know took off from Treasure Island were the Pan Am Clipper flying boats that flew out of Clipper Cove. Sally Rand, who ran the Nude Ranch during the fair, had a small propeller plane, but I don't know that it was ever on Treasure Island.
My father was stationed on Treasure Island ( aka TI) from 1968 to 1971 before he was sent to serve in Vietnam. While he was actually in the Coast Guard, he served from Naval Bases in Texas, California and Hawaii. I was really happy living on TI, we had moved into brand new housing and my bedroom window looked out on the San Francisco skyline.
I lived on Treasure Island in 1982, Treasure Island was a navy base for training. There was what they called and A school For ship fittings and damage control, we lived in a very unusual barracks, it was a circular multi-storey building with an Atrium in the middle. There was a large spiral ramp that went around and around to the different floors.
Stationed there 74-76. Marine. Sad alot of our US history is falling to the wayside in tear downs. New Studio's on the island go for 2500 mo. Things are so over rated these day's
Excellent video! I love this but imagine San Francisco without the Palace of Fine Arts. A 7.7 million dollar project in 1964 rebuilds a replica of this important landmark and re-claims San Francisco as the most beautiful city in the world with still very little reminiscence of what once was because its a replica and not a dedication. Why not do it again by bringing back the original Pacifica, Elephant Towers, Tower of the Sun, and a replica of Festival Hall from the 1915 Panama Pacific exhibition with it's restored Pipe Organ? Americans as well as others from all nations from around the world would appreciate San Francisco after seeing it's heritage restored historically. Themes and modern dedications is not the way you restore something to its original value. Everything is gone now. There is no more Playland, Sutro Baths, Cliff House and with the Centennial of The Golden Gate Exhibition coming in less than 20 years and with construction already in place, I just hope that everyone involved and the wonderful caring people from the History Museum will re evaluate their investment before it list and not settle for anything less than what this magical island deserves for many generations to come
My aunt went there for her honeymoon she was escorted by her sister I thought wow you didn’t need help on your honeymoon! But it was done at that time!
I lived on Yerba Buena island when I was 15 yrs old. It was the summer of 1980 and I had enrolled in the Youth Conservation Corps. YCC was a wonderful experience! We lived in a old firehouse and ate with the Coast guard officers at the chow hall. Our days were filled with chopping fennel and other weed maintenance, at night we would sing songs and learn about conservation. It was a great summer. Yerba Buena island will always have a warm spot in my heart..
I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful presentation, thank you John. I have been a shortwave radio listener since the 1960s and still love listening to radio in whatever form its transmitted. Listening to the world on the internet is now easy - but the challenge and thrill of those pioneer days and the importance of long distance AM in our history should never be overlooked. (Mike Terry, UK)
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