Elephant Walk

In September of 2011 the Barnum and Bailey Circus, who had been performing at the Cow Palace, brought the show to the streets of San Francisco in a rarely seen “Elephant Walk”. The lumbering elephants clasping on to each other from trunk to tale made their way down Geneva Avenue flayed by hoards of onlookers.…

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Fleet Week

On January 19th 1911, Eugene Ely took off in his Curtiss pusher airplane from the Tanforan racetrack in San Bruno and landed on the USS Pennsylvania anchored off the San Francisco pier. Ely was the first pilot in history to land an airplane aboard a warship. Nearly 100 years after the inception of Naval aviation…

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