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40 Years of SFO's North Terminal

40 Years of SFO's North Terminal

Nostalgia for the North Terminal at San Francisco International Airport

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Edward Russell
Feb 22, 2024
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San Francisco International Airport, specifically the John Carl Warnecke and Associates and Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture-designed North Terminal — what is today Terminal 3 — that was completed in 1981, has a special place in my heart.

Some of my earliest travel memories are of the wide central corridor of the high F gates, with its bulging, heavy st…

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