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Title: Anne Hunt Collection
Identifier/Call Number: MS 281
Contributing Institution:
San Diego History Center Document Collection
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1958-1996
Abstract: The collection contains materials collected by Anne Hunt related to the operations of the San Diego and Coronado Ferry Company
and the creation of the organization Air/Space America and the planning of their air shows.
creator:
Hunt, Anne
This collection is open for research.
The San Diego History Center (SDHC) holds the copyright to any unpublished materials. SDHC Library regulations do apply.
Collection processed by Alison Hennessey on May 2, 2012.
Collection processed as part of grant project supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) with generous
funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Anne Hunt Collection, MS 281, San Diego History Center Document Collection, San Diego, CA.
The collection contains materials collected by Anne Hunt while employed at the San Diego and Coronado Ferry Company and Air/Space
America. San Diego and Coronado Ferry Company materials include employee bulletins, memorandums, and notices, as well as passenger
tabulations and San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge commemoration materials from August 2, 1969. The bulk of the collection relates
to the formation of the organization Air/Space America and the planning of two air shows. The collection includes organization
overview presentations, Board of Directors meeting minutes and biographies, and research conducted on the Pacific Rim. Materials
relating to Air/Space 88 also include correspondence and planning for opening day activities, such as participation of Vice
President George Bush, San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Conner, and other politicians. Exhibitor materials include invoices, applications
to exhibit, finances, and correspondence. Air/Space 90, the planned but not executed air show, includes correspondence, participation,
and press. Additionally, press and correspondence related to Congressman Bob Wilson, one of the Air/Space America founders,
are also contained in the collection.
Collection is arranged into five series:
Series I: San Diego and Coronado Ferry Company
Series II: Air/Space America
Series III: Air/Space America 88 (air show)
Series IV: Air/Space America 90 (air show)
Series V: Miscellanea
Items within each series are arranged by subject.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number 2002.103.
Biographical / Historical Notes
Little is known about Anne Hunt, except that she had a connection with and collected materials from both the San Diego and
Coronado Ferry Company and Air/Space America.
The San Diego and Coronado Ferry Company moved all modes of transportation, from horse drawn buggies to cars, from downtown
San Diego to Coronado Island beginning April 15, 1886. The need for ferry service ended with the opening of the San Diego-Coronado
Bay Bridge, August 2, 1969.
Anne Hunt held the positions of Exhibitions Coordinator, Marketing Assistant, and Marketing and Exhibit Coordinator with Air/Space
America. Air/Space America was a San Diego-based non-profit organization founded in 1985 to put on an international air show
that would compete with the most well-known air shows in Paris, France and Farnborough, England. Air/Space America organized
and conducted an air show, May 13-22, 1988, at Brown Field in Otay Mesa. The next air show planned for May 4-13, 1990 was
abruptly cancelled in late April 1990 and the organization declared bankruptcy shortly thereafter. At the time of its bankruptcy,
it owed 300 creditors between $2.5 million and $4.5 million. The creditors included the City of San Diego, which wanted the
organization to pay $150,000 for damages to Brown Field incurred after the 1988 air show.
Few of the major airframe manufacturers, like Boeing, Lockheed or McDonnell Douglas attended the 1988 show, instead favoring
the aerospace industry’s already established shows.
Air/Space America officials blamed the City of San Diego for the demise of the aerospace shows. They claimed that by postponing
approval of the 1990 air show, City officials hampered fund-raising activities planned by the organization to erase debt incurred
from the 1988 show. Air/Space America officials said the City would not provide the organization with a multiyear commitment
for Brown Field, which caused a group of investors, who were ready to put up nearly $3 million, to change their mind.
The City of San Diego blamed Air/Space America for its own destruction, citing mismanagement and an adversarial relationship
with City staff. Council member Bob Filner also blamed Air/Space America for being poorly managed and for not having a sound
financial plan. No creditor ever received all the money they were owed. At the time of its bankruptcy Air/Space America only
had about $24,000 in assets. Four former Air/Space America employees approached The City of San Diego with plans for another
1990 air show called The U.S Airshow, but the plans never came to fruition.
Air/Space America 90 promotional VHS videotape previously separated to Videotape Collection, VT 205.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Air/Space America.
Burgener, Claire W.
Hatfield, Guy E.
Hunt, Anne
Kerch, Charles G.
Klein, Herbert G. (Herbert George), 1918-2009
Lee Company, The.
Parma, Leon
San Diego (Calif.). City Council.
San Diego and Coronado Ferry Company.
TacTech, Inc..
Tech Pubs Hal, Inc..
Technofan, Inc..
Teledyne, Inc..
Tennant Company.
Texstar, Inc..
Thermal Equipment Corporation.
Thermal Structures, Inc..
Thermo Electron Corporation.
Tiernay Metals.
Tiodize Company, Inc..
Tracor Flight Systems.
Tri-Models, Inc..
Trimble Navigation Ltd..
Trontech, Inc..
TRW Space and Defense.
U. S. Air Tool Company, Inc..
U. S. Paint.
U. S. Welding Corporation.
United Engineering Steels Ltd..
United Instruments, Inc..
United Parcel Service.
United States. Air Force.
United States. Immigration Border Patrol.
Universal Alloy Corporation.
University of North Dakota.
USA Information Systems, Inc..
V Band Corporation.
Valcor Engineering Corporation.
Van Deerlin, Lionel
Vantage.
Vard Newport.
Vector Aeromotive Corporation and Vehicle Design Force.
Walsh, William A.
Wilson, Bob, 1916-
Wilson, David F. (Bud)
Aeronautics -- Exhibitions
Air shows
Aircraft industry
Coronado (Calif.)
Ferries
San Diego (Calif.)
San Diego-Coronado Bridge