Treasure Island, San Francisco Exposition Years

Treasure Island, San Francisco Exposition Years by Reinhardt Richard Scrimshaw Press, 1973lst. 1974, ISBN: 0912020245 Hardback in good condition with good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, some tanning of pages due to paper used and age. Dust jacket shows some slight signs of wear, board cover clean good overall. Here is the complete history of the 1939-1940 World Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. The island was built for the expo. In the Bay Area is was the Best and Worst of times. The depression still lingered, the Longshoremen had a blood strike, the city and state was becoming flooded with transplants for other places worse off. This was the shinning island where all things were possible and the future was clear and bright all one had to do was cross the bay bridge which had opened in 1933. Loaded with B&W photos, history of building the island, buildings and aftermath use of island, index, 176 pages.