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Golden Gate International Exposition, Treasure Island, San Francisco, 1940. The The woman with the hat at the Fountain of the Evening Star by sculptor Ettore Cadorin. From a box of Kodachrome slides I found at a flea market. View full size.
I was stationed on Treasure Island for 10 days in July of 1969, while I was getting discharged from the Marine Corps. I was fascinated and mystified by the remains of streets and buildings laid out neatly over a large area, the only evidence being little stones in the ground marking off the blocks.
It was only many years later that I learned what it was all about. How I wish I had had a complete guidebook and map, to be able to visualize what had stood there! I'm told that even those little evidences are now long gone. :-(
...let me belatedly complement whoever took this picture on its excellent composition.
Must be Kodachrome in its infancy!
[Actually the second version of the film, introduced in 1938. The original 1935 Kodachrome's color dyes were not as stable. -tterrace]
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