Post Office: La Jolla, 1965 August-September
Scope and Contents
A collection of letters, postal cards, telegrams, memos, a resolution & other items. Examples are: letters, postal card & telegram (Aug.-Sept. 1965) from Eric V. McNaught-Davis (Real Estate & Insurance), Roger J. Vanasse (NALC Branch, La Jolla), Barbara J. Wagstaff (Wilbur Clark’s Crest Hotels), Harold Hollerway (Mary Stevens & Associates), Wm. M. Loeltz (Loetz & Associates), Roy Drew (Architects Robert Mosher and Roy Drew), La Jolla constituents Helen M. Baker, Mildred G. Page, Mr. & Mrs. Strong & Wilson re/ extensive commentaries from La Jolla businesses and residents concerned about the “La Jolla Post Office” becoming just a branch office of San Diego and thereby suffering a potential economic loss of the name La Jolla as a real estate value and as a tourist attraction; copy of a “Memo To Marie Adams From Ed Gillenwaters” (9/1/65) re/ “In addition to the enclosed petition, we have received a vast number of letters on the La Jolla post office” – the petition was not attached to this memo; memo and letters (8/65) re/ “Boss -- La Jolla Post Office” from Ed (Aug. 1965) – “we are working with Jimmy Utt and buck the letters to the Post Office Dept. . . . we have received petitions and letters representing over 5000 signatures. . . . I feel we should buck the whole shooting match to Utt to handle since it is a matter of concern to him;” the remainder of this collection contains numbers of constituent letters, telegrams & postal cards most of which stress concerns with the loss of the name La Jolla as distinct post office. Congressman Wilson’s responses (Sept. 1, 2 & 3, 1965) to “the prosposed merger of the La Jolla Post Office” emphasized the “problem is being handled by your able Congressman, James B. Utt, who is making a valiant effort to prevent the loss of the La Jolla Post Office. . . . This ill-advised proposal was made once before, during the Eisenhower Administration, and was bluntly rejected by President Eisenhower at that time. I hope you will appeal to President Johnson to prevent happening under the present Administration.”
Dates
- created: 1965 August-September
Creator
- From the Collection: Wilson, Robert (Wilson, Robert Carlton) (1916-) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & University Archives Repository