The first U.S. pandas stayed the night in San Francisco

The first giant pandas arrived in the United States in the 1930s and early ’40s, costing more than $10,000 each and settling in zoos in Chicago and New York.
But before that happened they were San Francisco tourists, arriving by plane and ocean liner, with several staying in Union Square at the Hotel St. Francis on the way to their new homes.
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