Seems more like a train station to me. With the amount of light coming in, there doesn't seem to be a road bed on top of the steel structure.

hmmmm, to me it looks like a photograph of the structure of an old blimp hangar. gorgeous print!

I miss Veronica Mars...

It looks like it could be from the old Penn Station:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/3110609116/

I think it's either a hangar or, possibly, the old Sutro Baths in San Francisco.

I think it may be the London Train Terminal or bus staion ?

I miss Veronica Mars too!

Try looking at the shop on the Museum of the City of New York website. I'm not sure if they have this print available, but there are many prints similar in feeling.

the print looks similiar to photographs by modern artist László Moholy-Nagy. If you do a search for his photographs you might be able to find it or something similiar. He is well known for using radical and strange camera angles; hanging down from radio towers and such. His images from this period (in the late 1920s and 30s) are ungrounding and wonderful!

I agree with the train station, there is one in Berlin that it resembles.

This site has a pic of the blimp hangar at MCAS Tustin (not too far from the show's San Diego filming locale). Note the curve of the girders and the height of the building.

http://www.gavinarts.com/tustinblimp.shtml

This looks like a print from Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, or one of any other photographers working in the early 20th century. If you look at online sources and museum stores, just look for "modernist" photography as keywords and you should be able to find other prints similar to this.

It's highly unlikely the set decorator went for a Steichen print. You might try looking at the set designer magazine.

Musée d'Orsay?

I agree with the train station vote. Those pics of Penn Station are great, too bad they didnt preserve it like Grand Central station.

my guess is the Galerie des Machines by Gustave Eiffel; if not that I'd say it is still French, late 19th century, though I couldn't say who the photographer is. Eugene Atget or Steichen are good guesses, and I couldn't see why it would be unlikely that a set designer would choose one of these.

....or the UFO hangar at Area 51:)

I miss Veronica Mars!!! Oh, rumor has it that Rob Thomas is writing a movie! YIPPY! I was wondering the same thing about this image but thought it may be a Alexander Rodchenko print because of the weird angle. But yes, early 20th century modernism is a great start.

It looks like a photograph by Andreas Feininger or maybe Margaret Bourke White, both Life Magazine photographers. I know Feininger did large posters of his New York City industrial looking photographs back in the late '80's.

You should check out Life Magazine's photo archive, which is now on line. They have just about every type of image you can imagine, and you can buy prints of any image for about $100.

Google "Life Magazine archive" and you'll get the site.

It is definitely an old train shed.

I agree with orangepaperbike. It looks just like a blimp hanger. My grandparents who are from akron, ohio (the tire capital of the US), have photographs of old hangers that look exactly like this print!

the signs, which appear to be track names & numbers, lead me to believe that it is a train station and not a blimp hanger, however, I have never been in a blimp hangar.
Reminds me of graphics/murals I do with PS.
Good luck finding it.