oakland airport

16-Nov-80

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland airport passengers board 4:10 pm PSA flight bound for LA-San Diego." Photo shows a PSA airplane parked on the tarmac with a line of passengers waiting at the...

16-Nov-80

Handwritten on the back, "PSA ticket counter." Tribune captions, Nov. 16, 1980- "Airline passengers buy tickets on PSA flights at Oakland airport Sunday for the first time since pilots struck...

7-Aug-84

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland Airport ticket counter." Photo shows a crowd of passengers waiting in several lines at the various ticket counters of several different airlines. Their luggage...

5-Dec-85

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland Airport." Photo shows a Western Airlines plane being loaded with luggage. A passenger tunnel is connected to the plane. On the tarmac near the plane is a truck...

17-Apr-86

Handwritten on the back of the photo, "Oaklnad Airport, commercial flight takes off with proposed landfill area in foreground."

16-Aug-27

This photo shows the monoplane the "Pabco Pacific Flyer" at the Oakland Airport. An Indian head is painted underneath the pilots perch. Livingston Irving is sitting in the cockpit...

Feb-31

Clipping that goes with the image, Feb. 1931-- "OAKLAND AIRPORT--'WITHOUT A PEER IN THE NATION'- Oakland municipal airport, developed at a cost of more than $1,500,000, is today officially rated...

1937

Handwritten on the back, "airport chart 59 Picas Yearbook #4862, 3/31/37." Photo is an aerial view of the Oakland Airport with artists drawings around the airport showing where new additions and...

1934

Handwritten on the back, "Year book 1934 pg. 41. Aviation, Airport, Oakland, Calif." Photo is an aerial view of the Oakland Airport. The parking lot is crowded with cars and cars are driving on...

19-Jul-38

Tribune clipping on the back, July 19, 1938 "Oakland Airport." Handwritten, "Oakland Airport Used in 1938 Yearbook pg 40. 4/14/38." Photo is a low level aerial view of the buildings of the...

5-Feb-39

Tribune clipping on the back, "Paving and rocking of the 5200-foot east-west runway at the Oakland Airport gives Oakland one of the longest and best runways of the country. The taxi strip (right...

1938

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland Airport, Used in 1938 Yearbook pg 41, 4/14/38." Photo shows the air traffic control tower and the connecting terminal at the airport. On the ground surrounding...

c. 1935

Handwritten on the back, "Oak. airport." Photo is an aerial view of the airport showing the three administration/terminal buildings and five hangars; planes parked on the left side and a car...

1932

Handwritten on the back, "1 page, Yearbook 1932 3-16-32. Aviation, airports, Oak. Muni., airview." Photo is an aerial view of the Oakland Airport. Several planes lined up near the runway....

1935

Handwritten on the back of the photo, "1937 Yr book Part 2, page 5. Oakl. Munici. Airport. bldgs still exist." Photo shows an aerial view of the airport. Several lines of cars are parked in...

1935

Photo shows an aerial view of the airport. Several lines of cars are parked in the parking area on the right side of the hangars. In the bottom left corner is the "terminal," then a hangar with...

1935

Handwritten on the back of the photo, "2/26/36 Year book- Part II pg 9, Oak. Municipal Airport." Tribune clipping on the back, May 30, 1963-- "1935-Latest planes stand on display at Oakland's...

22-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 22, 1938-- "Air speed kings of the Nation will compete for flying honors at the Pacific International Air Races at Oakland Municipal Airport next Saturday, Sunday...

25-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 25, 1938-- "Ten minutes after the upper left photo was taken, the steel pylon buckled at the arrow and plunged the two men shown on the top 80 feet to the ground...

20-Apr-52

Tribune caption on the back, April 20, 1952, "Reaching into the sky above the Oakland Airport administration building is the nw CAA Airway Traffic control Center." Photo shows the new air traffic...

28-Sep-63

Handwritten on the back, "'Tin Goose' at Oakland Airport." Photo shows a tri-motor Fokker parked on the tarmac in front of the airport terminal. A group of people are standing in a line waiting...

18-Sep-87

Tribune caption on the back, Sep. 21, 1987-- "Cargo hold of huge Flying Tigers Boeing 747 is loaded near Oakland airport terminal." Handwritten, "Oakland Intl. Airport, new terminal, morning rush...

12-May-64

Photograph shows Joan Merriam stepping out of her plane. She is waving and laughing and appears to holding a press release in her hand. On the back of the print, written in pencil is "Joan...

12-May-64

Photograph shows Joan Merriam standing on the wing of her plane accepting a large bouquet of roses from a man standing on the ground beside her plane. A Both Merriam and the man are laughing....

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