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Title
Stranded Greyhound passengers
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Service men and civilians sleep in Continental Santa Fe Station, located at 1050 Kettner Blvd. in San Diego, while awaiting other transportation. The union is asking that wages be increased from $7.26 to $8.50 per 100 miles and hourly rates for short-run drivers be increased from $1.64 to $2.04. In Los Angeles 5,000 Greyhound passengers, who travel in and out of the city each day, have been forced to seek out other methods of transportation. Photo dated: March 3, 1952.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068665
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7452.
CARL0000071659
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24212
Subject
Greyhound Corporation
Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.)
Strikes and lockouts--Bus drivers--California--San Diego
Soldiers--California--San Diego
San Diego (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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