Rick Laubscher is an award-winning journalist, public relations executive, and founder of Market Street Railway in San Francisco. A fourth generation San Franciscan, Rick’s long career in journalism, Commerce, Industry, and Labor, and civic activism has centered on his beloved city. In this oral history, he discusses the Laubscher family Commerce, Industry, and Labor and his childhood in San Francisco; his years as a television reporter in the city; his public relations career at the Bechtel Corporation; and the many civic activities he undertook, principally the founding of Market Street Railway.
Title
Rick Laubscher: Forty Years of Giving Back to San Francisco,
From KRON to Market Street Railway
Published
Berkeley, CA, Oral History Center, 2017
Full Collection Name
Community and Identity Oral Histories Individual Interviews
Type
Text
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Laubscher, Rick. "Rick Laubscher: Forty Years of Giving Back to San Francisco,
From KRON to Market Street Railway." Interview by Todd Holmes in 2016. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2017.
Interview date(s) 2016
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