Name/Title
Documents and photos detailing congestion at the Posey Tube, 1940-1945Entry/Object ID
2012.6.14Scope and Content
Accession No. 12.6.14
Subject Category: City of Alameda; Posey Tube - Navy Base
Date or Period: 1940-1945
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid-free legal size manila file folder with documents, most on tissue paper, an broken envelope marked ‘Photographs’, a newspaper clipping dated March 23, 1945, and photos.
History of Object: Documents with supporting photographic evidence petitioning the Navy for an additional Tube between Alameda and Oakland. For Alameda interested parties included Charles R. Schwanenberg, City Manager, and Harold D. Weber, Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Weichhart and councilman W. Branscheid (1941).
Includes photographs and a newspaper clipping detailing congestion and accidents, and an enlarged 1941 aerial view of Webster St., taken between 4pm and 5pm, showing bumper-to-bumper traffic, also the Bethlehem Shipyard, the General Engineering, Pacific Bridge, and Pacific Coast Engineering plants, various railroad tracks, the remnants of the San Francisco Bay Airdrome, and crops.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: February 18, 2012
