Hall of Transportation, Treasure Island - San Francisco, CA
Posted by: DougK
N 37° 49.098 W 122° 22.102
10S E 555593 N 4185843
Hall of Transportation was built on Treasure Island for the Golden Gate Exposition of 1939. Also known as Building 2, it was supposed to become an aircraft hangar for a future San Francisco airport.
Waymark Code: WMC089
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2011
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The Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-40 was held to celebrate the monumental achievement of the construction of the Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges, but was also designed to help bring the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s with a positive show of harmony between nations. The shoals of Yerba Buena Island were chosen as the site of the fair, and also as the location for a future local airport for San Francisco. Appropriately, the Exposition was designed in line with the planned airport. Three permanent buildings were constructed to serve the functions of the Exposition and the airport. The
Administration Building (Building 1) would serve as the airport's terminal building, the Hall of Transportation (Building 2) and
Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts (Building 3) would serve as hangars. As a result of WWII, the airport was never built. Today, these building are the only extant buildings on Treasure Island that date to the Exposition period.
source: Library of Congress