Monday, November 11, 2024

Happy Veterans Day, 2024 -- November 11, 2024

San Francisco Examiner, 11-November-1924

Happy Veterans Day to all the veterans out there. Thank you for your service to our country.

California's Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco's Lincoln Park, was dedicated 100 years ago today, on Armistice Day, 11-November-1924. Philanthropist and irresistible force Alma Spreckels paid for the museum. The building is a copy of the French pavilion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The pavilion was a reduced-scale model of the original Palace of the Legion of Honor,

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