GUIDE TO THE SAN DIEGO TRANSIT SYSTEM COLLECTION
COLLECTION NUMBER:
C123.COLLECTION TITLE:
San Diego Transit System Collection.CREATOR(S):
San Diego Transit System.DATES OF MATERIAL:
1951-1954.EXTENT:
53 negatives: safety film; 4 x 5 in.LOCAL CONTROL NUMBERS:
Copy negatives: 94:19181/0-52.REPOSITORY:
San Diego Historical Society
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203ACQUISITION INFORMATION:
Loan for copy from unknown source.RESTRICTIONS:
Open for research.COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives of the San Diego Historical Society. Reproduction or publication of any part of this collection must include the following information next to the image(s) or in a special section of credits: San Diego Transit System Collection, San Diego Historical Society, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.GENERAL NOTES:
Arranged by local control number. Related materials: San Diego Transit System Bus Drivers Photograph Album (PA163). Forms part of the San Diego Historical Society Negative Collection.SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE:
This collection documents activities of the San Diego Transit System in the early 1950s. It includes Jesse L. Haugh, president of San Diego Transit System; bus drivers, mechanics, and other employees; parked buses, buses being cleaned, and buses in operation on Broadway and other locations; students boarding buses; people riding buses and waiting at bus stops; and promotional photographs of Miss Downtown San Diego.SUBJECTS INDEXED:
San Diego Transit System.
Buses.
Bus stops -- California -- San Diego.
Mass transit -- California -- San Diego.CONTENTS LIST:
Negative Description 94:19181/0 Miss Downtown San Diego boarding bus. 94:19181/1 Bus driver. 94:19181/2 Bus driver talking to police officer at downtown intersection. 94:19181/3 SDTS employees working on bus at garage. 94:19181/4 Employees working on bus. 94:19181/5 Employees working on bus. 94:19181/6 Employees working on bus. 94:19181/7 Employees working on bus. 94:19181/8 Buses parked in lot. 94:19181/9 Buses parked in lot. 94:19181/10 Mechanics working on bus engine. 94:19181/11 Buses being cleaned. 94:19181/12 Men watching buses being cleaned. 94:19181/13 Men watching mechanics working on bus engine. 94:19181/14 Group portrait of SDTS employees. 94:19181/15 Group portrait of bus drivers. 94:19181/16 Interior view of bus showing emergency door. 94:19181/17 Group portrait of SDTS employees [at retirement party?]; sign in background reads: "Total ages 749 years, company service 249 years." 94:19181/18 Group portrait of bus drivers. 94:19181/19 Interior view of bus. 94:19181/20 Woman paying bus fare. 94:19181/21 SDTS employees standing outside bus in downtown San Diego. 94:19181/22 SDTS employees posing in front of Park 'N Ride bus. 94:19181/23 Bird's-eye view of buses on Broadway. 94:19181/24 SDTS President Jesse L. Haugh (right) and Lauren Clapp looking at Park 'N Ride sign. 94:19181/25 SDTS employees looking at "Sunshine Special" bus display. 94:19181/26 Channel 8 TV cameraman filming people boarding bus downtown. 94:19181/27 Bus passengers. 94:19181/28 Ocean View bus. 94:19181/29 Park 'N Ride buses. 94:19181/30 East San Diego bus. 94:19181/31 Parked bus. 94:19181/32 Bus driver and Miss Downtown San Diego on bus. 94:19181/33 Employee applying SDTS emblem to side of "Sunshine Special" bus display. 94:19181/34 Miss Downtown San Diego posing with bus stop sign. 94:19181/35 Miss Downtown San Diego posing with bus. 94:19181/36 Lauren Clapp shaking hands with SDTS President Jesse L. Haugh (right). 94:19181/37 SDTS employee standing outside La Jolla bus. 94:19181/38 Students boarding bus. 94:19181/39 Students on bus in front of Brooklyn School. 94:19181/40 Ocean View Boulevard bus. 94:19181/41 Students boarding buses. 94:19181/42 Bird's-eye view of buses on Broadway in front of U.S. Grant Hotel. 94:19181/43 SDTS employee at desk with adding machine. 94:19181/44 Lauren Clapp at desk. 94:19181/45 SDTS President Jesse L. Haugh at desk. 94:19181/46 SDTS employee talking to woman at Horton Plaza. 94:19181/47 SDTS employee, buses, and pedestrians downtown. 94:19181/48 People waiting for buses downtown at 4th Avenue. 94:19181/49 Sailor and two other men boarding Imperial Beach bus at 4th Avenue. 94:19181/50 SDTS [management?] meeting. 94:19181/51 Bird's-eye view of buses on Broadway in front of U.S. Grant Hotel. 94:19181/52 View of 3rd Avenue, looking north.
