Author: Various
Title: Oakland Shopping News Program of Events. Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island [Two Publications]
Description: San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Shopping News, 1939. First edition; 17 x 11 1/4; pp. 4; newsprint; front pages with ornate illustrated boarders in blue and black; both publications with short cuts and nicks to edges (mostly not affecting text); illustrated with large maps maps; overall very good. Uncommon survivors from the Golden Gate Expo of 1939, the two publications listed the events for February 18 and 19 (the very first two opening days) and February 23 through 25 respectively, while they also displayed two large maps each - the first one depicting Treasure Island with detailed captions of streets and venues and the second one containing "Key to Shopping News Stores" and possible routes for reaching Treasure Island. Oakland Shopping News, published twice weekly in a circulation of 102 000 copies and distributed in Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, was an offshoot publication of the San Francisco Shopping News - a newspaper advertising local businesses and approximately 760 of their commodities, with descriptions and prices, in each issue. Ill.: 0. 2.

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