Restaurant with a car parked next to it, Gaviota vicinity, 1942

Item Overview

Title

Restaurant with a car parked next to it, Gaviota vicinity, 1942

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

March 7, 1942

Date

1942-03-07

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Restaurant with a car parked next to it. Signs on the restaurant read, "El Berta Café 7 Up home cooked meals," "El Berta Café Coca Cola" and "Silver Gull Gasoline Eat." The building has a Spanish-tiled roof. A gas pump sits in front of the restaurant with a label reading, "Silver Gull" on it. There are electrical wires above and trees in the background.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1188. San Luis Obispo trip March 7, 1942. H. H. West Jr. at Camp San Luis Obispo, California, telephoned to me at the office about 11 a.m. Saturday, March 7, 1942, that he was leaving for the north next day at noon; probably en route to Alaska. I phone Mertie West, and she phone Elizabeth Siemsen, and we left about 1 p.m. for San Luis. We stopped at a little café just south of Gaviota for sandwiches. 1 film.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Keywords

Genre

acetate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Gaviota

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Restaurants--California--Gaviota