Coronado Eagle and Journal, Volume XVI, Number 35, 28 August 1928 — Some Suggestions From Correspondent [ARTICLE]

Some Suggestions From Correspondent

When the bridge was announced, the type of bridge and the location so close to North Island was such that any school boy would know it could not be built. And yet Coronado'was wild with excitement. Property changed hands and some bought more than they wished they had. But we had to content ourselves with the old 20-minute transportation. When the new auto ferry was announced, no one was excited but the San Diego and Coronado Ferry company. The new auto ferry was propose to land too close to them, so they promised a new ferry boa.t, but have put it off for a year. The 16th of August, the day of the big air meet, there were two lines of autos for four blocks, but when they take one boat off at 7 or 8 o’clock, and you are not lucky enough to catch the last boat, there always remains that beautiful ride of 30 miles around the strand if your gasoline holds out. The possibilities of some good, enterprising corporation that would take over this big matter of transportation which is of the utmost importance to Coronado, and connect this city with a tube, would be unlimited. With a five- or six-minute drive to San Diego, moneyed men would come in and invest, and there would be the greatest boom Coronado has ever known; then we could pave and light our streets and do other necessary things, and pay for them and not burden the people. And Tent City, with the only safe bathing facilities around San Diego, Would come to life, and we would have a Coney Island of our own. A. S. HUTCHINSON.