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San Diego: Post Office, 1965-1971

 File — Box: 346, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5

Scope and Contents

Corresp., news releases, newsclippings, photos, etc. Examples are: Stapled packet of Wilson office notes (6/30/?) re/ “Twinco Annex for San Diego Post Office temporary lease” with est. cost of $60,577, HUD (Operation Breakthrough) contract of $185,000 with “Institution for Personal Effectiveness in Children in San Diego” & contract from GSA for reader-printers from Stromberg Datagraphics, Inc.; two small stapled packets of letters & Wilson’s office notes (Sept.-Oct. 1969) re/ “Ground Breaking Ceremony for the new Postal Facility at Midway Drive and Barnett Avenue;” corresp. of Congressman Wilson & constituent R. Daryl Collins (8/69) re/ “thank you for completing my recent poll and for your interest in the new Main Post Office in San Diego;”; two photos of design rendering of “U.S. Post Office and Vehicle Maintenance Facility--San Diego, California” & copy of newsclipping (4/69) “Lowest Bid Submitted For Post Office...F.E. Young Construction Co....$8.6 million;” copy of Release No. C-67 (Info. Service, Post Office Dept.) (4/8/69) re/ notice of award to build new office in S.D. to F.E. Young Const. Co. & copy of Release No. C-36 (2/24/69) re/ “date for opening bids for construction of the new main post office at San Diego, Californian, has been extended for one week to March 6, 1969;” Wilson office memos (2/69) & telegrams to Wilson from Glenn A. Dowdy (Assoc. Gen. Contractors, S.D. Chapter) (2/1069) re/ bid opening be done locally to better competition & need to do test hole to check water levels at new post office site (also includes article sent by Dowdy on opposition to secondary boycotts by Gen. Cont. Assoc.); newsclippings from The Daily Californian & The San Diego Union (1/28/69) re/ rejection of proposed post office building site at Lexington & Van Harten in El Cajon, Calif. and newsclipping from The San Diego Union (7/18/68) re/ “$325,000 Pact Let For Post Office Work...to the Hazard Co. for site preconstruction;” corresp. (Ap-May 1968) from John L. O’Marra (Asst. Postmaster General) & Congressman Wilson & newsclipping from the Evening Tribune (5/6/68) re/ new post office site in S.D. & O’Marra’s testimony to the House Appropriation Subcommittee; “MEMO FOR FILE” (9/28/?) re/ the selection of Ward Deems of San Diego as the architect to design the new San Diego Post Office--”the amount of about $400,00 is being negotiated; copy of Release No. C-36 (Info. Service, Post Office Dept.) & newsclipping from The San Diego Union (3/1/67) re/ new post office on the site of the former “Independence (Navy) Housing Project to be six times larger than the downtown Post Office on E Street;” corresp. from Congressman Wilson, Frank L. Hope & Assoc. & Brig. General, USA (Ret.) Robert L. Schulz (Asst. to Dwight D. Eisenhower) (Feb.-Mar. 1967) re/ “the new Post Office Building and the possibility of General Eisenhower participating in COMBO II;” corresp. & office notes of Congressman Wilson (4/66) re/ Postmaster General Laurence F. O’Brien’s interest in “a project to provide a new major postal facility in San Diego; corresp. of Mrs. Lottie O’Neill, Congressman Wilson’s reply (5/66) re/ Mrs. O’Neill’s suggestion of the “square block between 24th and 25th streets, an ‘G’ and Market Street” be the location for a new post office building; stapled packet of corresp., office memos & newsclippings from Congressman Wilson, Edward M. Gillenwaters (adm. asst. to Wilson), Brad Yale Realty Co., Larry O’Brien (Postmaster General) & Joseph P. Doherty & Michael Monroney (executive assts. to the Postmaster General) (Sept. 1965-May 1966) regarding remodeling & expanding the existing main post office in S.D. or relocating it to a new part of town.”

Dates

  • created: 1965-1971

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Extent

From the Collection: 0.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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