PC-000-713

Downtown San Diego and San Diego Bay, with old Civic Center

 

1948

 

 

This postcard is one of around 100 offered by Union Oil Company as promotional items at their Pacific Coast service stations from 1939 to around 1970. This one is not numbered but can be dated by the back. These postcards were the first to use the Kodachrome ("chrome") photographic color film/photomechanical process. The old Civic Center on the harbor is shown here toward the right of center and jutting into the space of the Bay, built in 1938 to designs by William Templeton Johnson, Richard S. Requa, Louis J. Gill, and Samuel Hamill, and used until the City offices moved in 1964. It then became the County Administration Building. The card is oriented with west at the top, with Point Loma and the Pacific Ocean on the horizon.

San Diego; San Diego downtown; Cityscapes; San Diego Bay; San Diego Civic Center; San Diego County Administration Center

 

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

 

Union Oil Company

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

Google newspaper collection, The Spokesman-Review, July 3, 1939 advertisement, p. 24

 

 

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TIFF

20.96 MB