A guide to San Francisco in 1937

It’s the “Official Souvenir Program for the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta,” which began precisely 75 years ago today. Inside it, you find a bunch of high-fallutin’ rhetoric about Progress and Commerce, but you also find more than 130 advertisements for various businesses that wanted to be included in what functioned as a visitor’s guidebook.

This is the year the Golden Gate Bridge was completed.