Key System newspaper clippings 1941-1960, , bulk 1941-1949

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Key System newspaper clippings 1941-1960, , bulk 1941-1949

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5199r139

Newspaper clippings collected by the Key System from September 1941 to July 1960 covering San Francisco Bay Area transportation, labor union, and urban planning issues, and Key System matters. Clippings are from various Bay Area newspapers including the Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, the Argonaut, Richmond Independent, and others.

Number of containers: 30; Linear feet: 15

eng,

Institute of Transportation Studies Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6656184

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Key System Transit Lines (Calif.)

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Organizational History In 1902, after having consolidated East Bay streetcar lines for almost a decade, Francis Marion "Borax" Smith formed the San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Railway. This company provided ferry service from San Francisco to a ferry pier in Berkeley, then to points in the East Bay cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda via electric trains. The Berkeley ferry terminal was at the end of a three-mile long wooden trestl...