By Marisa Lagos San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, September 27, 2014:

Ernie Ogren was 10 years old when he stood on Treasure Island along with 999 other accordion players and serenaded their audience at the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Somewhere, a picture of that 1,000-member band, which played together just that once, exists. And Ogren, now 84, is on a mission to find it.

Ogren was among several dozen people who gathered Saturday morning to view archival photos of the fair presented by Jean Moulin, curator of the century-old Moulin Studios — a photographic archive and stock studio created by three generations of the Moulin family.

At a lecture hosted by the Treasure Island Museum Association, Jean Moulin showed photos of the exposition, also known as the World’s Fair, beginning with aerial shots of the island being created by the Army Corps of Engineers. Her presentation included photos of Eleanor Roosevelt and California Gov. Frank Merriam, of the Miss America pageant hosted there, and numerous shots of the impressive artwork that decorated the fair, most of which has been destroyed.

If anyone has any information about this photo contact:
Pam Tom at accordionpam@gmail.com.

Photo: Aerial view from east to west across the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in 1939.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library