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Bookmark or Share- Treasure Island History - timuseumThe original purpose of Treasure Island was to host the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. The GGIE was a glowing Art Deco “Magic City” of towers, gardens, goddesses, and dazzling lighting effects created to celebrate the ascendency of California and San Francisco as economic, political, and cultural forces in the Pacific region.
- Treasure Island Fair: Golden Gate International ExpositionThe Golden Gate International Exposition opened February 18, 1939 and ran until November, and opened again in 1940 from May through September. The Exposition was a tour de force of architecture, art, and dramatic lighting—all set on its own little island created on the shoals off Yerba Buena Island.
- The '39 world's fair: an island of joyous excess - SFGATEIt is both an engineering marvel and the site of one of the oddest, most beloved and fantastic creations in the city's history - the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939, San...
- San Francisco's greatest party: The Golden Gate International ...In the late 1930s, the city prepared to host the Golden Gate International Exposition, a tourism initiative that would draw 17 million visitors over two years to the newly created Treasure...
- How Treasure Island Got Made — and Why | KQEDThey had held two fairs before: the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 in Golden Gate Park and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Both fairs were successful, says Anne Schnoebelen, historian and member of the Treasure Island Museum’s board of directors.
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