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O’Malley distilled over one hundred interviews into vibrantly-colored text-based works. The inspirational words of these sixteen prints vary in content from the sincere to the silly and allude to the idea that the wisdom of our 80-year-old selves might already exist within us.
“Advice from My 80-Year-Old-Self” by Susan O’Malley is on display in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://bit.ly/4tKRS8x
Maxine Crookston (1915–2016) was known as “The Voice of San Francisco Airport” from the late 1940s through the 1950s. Born in Salt Lake City, Crookston dreamed of flying as a child and recalled jumping as far as possible from her parents’ porch while flapping her arms as wings. Her life's ambition was to fly as a commercial pilot.
The short sleeve blouse has a banded waist and an attached jabot neckpiece for the insignia pin. Smart looking and allowing greater ease of mobility for the demands of jet service, it was issued from 1965 to 1968 and became known as “the cheerleader” because of its flared skirt.
Well known for dressing Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood costume designer and Academy Award winner, William Travilla (1920–1990) created this synthetic blend, summer seasonal ensemble for United in a new color named Blue Frost. The lightly fitted jacket has a distinct chelsea collar and a three-quarter-length sleeve with a detachable dropped cuff.
Filmmaker Beau Gaughran captures the vast, rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains and high desert through the powerful connections made by ranching women with their dogs, horses, and cattle.
The Smithsonian first displayed an exhibition of Alvarado’s photography, “Through My Father’s Eyes,” in 2002. Since then, Janet has curated exhibitions throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Stanford University Libraries now permanently holds the collection of Alvarado’s work, and Janet continues to work tirelessly to share her father’s legacy.
Janet Alvarado, the daughter of Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado (1914–76), discovered a tremendous archive of nearly 3,000 negatives and photographs in her parents’ garage after her father’s death in 1976. Astonished that her father had never discussed his photography with her, she realized the important treasure she had uncovered. In 1998, Janet established The Alvarado Project to ensure the preservation of her father’s unique cultural record of Filipino American life in CA.
“She was tough, you had to be,” former California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, who was also a contemporary of Milk at the time, recalled. “But she was also lovely, she has a great heart. She did a lot symbolically because women were not involved. We all thought we were liberals, but there was under-representation of women. And she held herself with the boys.”
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