JESSOPDAVID

Interview with David Jessop, 1992

 

1992-10-25

 

Interviewer: de la Torre, Jorge

David Jessop attended San Diego State from 1930 to 1934 and played football for the college team. His family owned Jessop's Jewelry Store and the famous Jessop's Clock at Horton Plaza. In this interview totalling 57 minutes, he talks about his first experiences of going to the State Normal School and his first impression of the campus. He spends a fair amount of time discussing the ways the Great Depression affected San Diego and elsewhere, particularly the difficulty of finding a job upon graduation. Jessop also discusses student life including the Greek system, sports, and other activities, comparisons between the new school and the old, and the ethnicity of San Diego at the time.

Jessop Jewelers; San Diego State Teacher's College; Coronado; Coronado Ferry; Great Depression; Student lockers; Mission Palisades campus; Montezuma Mesa; Landscaping; Cowles Mountain; Student employment;

 

California

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English

 

Audiocassette

00:57:47

No

 

 

 

Audio

MP3

70.27 MB