Van Ness as firebreak: Wall, “Heroic San Francisco.”
21
blew up shop: Moriarty, “California Sportsman,” p. 8.
22
cars used as ambulances: Michael C. Howard, telephone interview, January 18, 1997; Dunham, “The Howard Automobile Company.”
23
day’s rental of a horse and buggy: Wall, “Heroic San Francisco.”
24
Robert Stewart: Michael C. Howard, telephone interview, January 18, 1997.
25
auto racing in 1906 San Francisco: Klinger, “Pioneering Automobile Insurance.”
26
Howard racing cars: “Charles S. Howard,”
, June 7, 1950, p. 2; Dunham, “The Howard Automobile Company.”
27
Howard advertises wins: Dunham, “The Howard Automobile Company.”
28
“horse is past …”: Ralph Moody,
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963), p. 22
29
sold eighty-five White Streaks: “Charles S. Howard,”
, June 7, 1950, p. 2.
30
Durant gave Howard sole distributorship: Dunham, “The Howard Automobile Company.”
31
GM bailout: “Charles S. Howard,”
, June 7, 1950, p. 2; “Yea, Verily,”
, fall 1937.10
32
Charles S. Howard Foundation: “Howard, Charles Stewart,”
. 27.
33
expedition to Galapagos: Dunham, “The Howard Automobile Company.”
34
Frank’s accident and aftermath: “Frank Howard Killed,”
, May 14, 1926, p. 1; Jane Babcock Akins, telephone interview, November 12, 1999.
35
Howard cries over painting: Bill Nichols, telephone interview, January 14, 1998.
36
Tijuana: T. D. Proffitt, III,
(San Diego: San Diego University Press, 1994), pp. 190–98; Wad Studley, telephone interview, February 6,
