Wish You Were Here! Postcards from the Golden Gate International Exposition is presented by the Treasure Island Museum.

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COMMERCE

HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS

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HOTELS
San Francisco Hotel Postcards
San Francisco hotels started issuing postcards as early as 1936 to lure of out-of-town visitors to see the Treasure Island fair. The fair buildings were not yet completed at the time of these cards' issuance. As a result, the images of the fair were often inaccurate. Other inaccuracies were quite intentional, such as the exaggerated image of the Palace Hotel looming large over the San Francisco horizon. Both the Fairmont Hotel and the Hotel Mark Hopkins changed the geographical location of the fair, depicting the San Francisco Bay to the south, so that Treasure Island could be seen in the background of the hotels.

Top three postcards, published by Curt Teich & Co.
Last postcard, publisher unknown 

RESTAURANTS

Bernstein's Fish Grotto Restaurant
Fold-out advertising postcard for Bernstein's Fish Grotto on Powell Street, San Francisco.

Caption on reverse: The community toasts the giant bridges, linking the East Bay and the North with the Metropolitan center of the West ... the "greatest show on earth" - the Golden Gate International Exposition, cavalcade of History, Science, Art and Frivolity ... between Exposition visits, go to Bernstein's Fish Grotto, San Francisco's outstanding internationally known showplace, featuring Fish and Seafood Dinners unsurpassed.

Dettner's Printing House

Cobb's Chicken House
Cobb's Chicken House served chicken dishes in a structure shaped like a live hen.

Publisher unknown