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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West standing on a step outside the front door to the motor lodge she and H. H. West stayed at while passing through San Jose. A gravel drive passes across the foreground on an upward angle from right to left. The span of motel rooms runs parallel to the drive, entering the frame at left and stretching towards the right. Mertie West stands at center on a concrete step in front of the front door to an end unit room. To her left, two cars are parked, side-by-side, beneath a covered parking area. A door to another unit stands at far left and extends out-of-frame. Trees and shrubbery line the side of the building at right. Text from negative sleeve: 1622. Yellowstone trip 1942. Sunday, July 5, 1942. Napa, California. 1. We stop at W.D.Butler's home and Mertie West gets out and meets W.D.Butler. Mrs Butler is at Church. We have dinner here with the Butlers. 2. We leave the Butlers and Napa and drive thru San Francisco, Oakland, San Mateo and down the skyline highway to San Jose, where we stop for the night. Our San Jose cabin. 2 films [Note: In all instances of the year date, 1942, the last digit (2) is handwritten over a typed 3.]
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1622_001 ark:/21198/zz002htpp2
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Rest stops--California--San Jose Automobile travel--California Automobiles--American--California--San Jose Motels--California--San Jose West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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