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Historical photos of the Central Coast of California, from the archives of the San Luis Obispo County Tribune.
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Custom shaped $70 Short Boards
July 10, 1969 Surfing has been a part of the Central Coast for decades. The oldest local surf photo I can find is from the 1930’s and three decades later the sport had matured. With no local surf board company in the area brothers Reeve, 23, an...
1969 Back to School / Senator Everett Dirksen
September 8, 1969 My high school age son and his friends would like to turn the clock back 40 years. The class of 1970 had over a week more summer vacation before class started. The school enrollment was growing at that point, up about 2 per cent c...
Second man on the Moon
July 20, 1969 Californians are often laid back about time. What is the big deal about being 20 minutes late? It won’t cost you a place in the history books. Unless you are the second man to walk on the moon. What was his name? Sure Neil Armstro...
1969 Moon Globe
July 18, 1969 Everyone wanted a piece of the moon glow, even the furniture store. Before you make fun of buying a moon globe keep in mind I had one. OK, I confess, I was a moon mission geek. Reading the newspapers, watching Walter Cronkite, drinking...
Apollo 11 Mission to the moon
July 14, 1969 This was a good overview story with pictures of training of the Apollo astronauts. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Apollo 11 Mission to the moon", url: "http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2009/07/18/apollo-11-mission-to-the-moon...
Apollo 11 Moon Launch 40 years ago today
July 16, 1969 CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) Apollo 11, carrying three astronauts and the dreams of humanity, blasted away for the moon today on a historic voyage to place the footprints of man on the dust of an alien world. It was more than an idealistic trip t...
Greek Costume Party
Who said bankers dress conservatively? Margaret Nybak with San Luis banker Mel McDonald. January 18, 1969 Photos from the Vault sets the wayback machine to 480 B.C. or the late 1960’s. One of those eras had cameras. Even though the skies were ...
Hero dog foils robbery
There is an old joke in the news business that dog bites man, not news. Man bites dog, now you have a story. This story breaks that rule, here is the unbylined story from February 8, 1969, photo by Michael Raphel. Prince is just a pup, a five-month-o...
Lopez Lake dedicated
May, 24, 1969 40 years ago Lopez Lake was dedicated, but the dam had already saved the south county. In past flood years nothing slowed the raging waters of the grand arroyo. Old flood photos are spectacular, water smashing through the old town of Ar...
Greyhound Bus Station
January 7, 1969 His camouflage jacket reads: I made love in Viet-Nam not war South China Sea Surfing Association Viet-Nam chapter Pleiku Vietnam 67-68 I found myself in a metaphysical conversation the other day. A plumber made the argument that life ...
1969 Furniture Sale and RCA Television Consoles
January 3, 1969 I must be a cynic. Does anyone believe that anyone got as excited as the woman in the McMahon’s ad about a 10% off sale? She is at force 7 Beatlemania frenzy. In case you were worried, the sale is a PUBLIC SALE. It is an American tr...
John Madden, Jim Lonborg
February 2, 1969 Two local sports notables were featured in this day’s paper.John Madden came to San Luis Obispo as a member of the Cal Poly Football team. The 1957 team he played on had only one loss, a team of Marines from San Diego. At age 3...
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out - Timothy Leary at Cal Poly
May 23, 1969 The idea had come to Tim in the shower. Marshall McLuhan suggested that he come up with something snappy to say when advocating the use of LSD. In front of 30,000 hippies at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park attending the Human Be-In h...
The Free University’s "Be-In"
April 14, 1969 I don’t like everything my son has on his iPod and I don’t expect him to like everything on mine but we don’t call the police when we disagree about music. In the late 1960’s there was a wide gulf between generations.The fl...
Change you can drink to, women allowed to bartend
September 10, 1969 It was the end of the world, as male bartenders knew it, the dawn of a brave new world for women. Though it is still unclear what California citizens were being protected from, until September 1969, women were not allowed to tend ...
Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1969
January/February 1969 Forty years ago and about 100 miles south, an ecological disaster unfolded that is still shaping national debate. It would be the worst oil spill in the nation’s history until the Exxon Valdez set a new standard. The Vault...
1969 Floods Day 11-12
If you are tired of seeing stories about rain, this is the last post on the floods of ‘69. I was trying to recreate the relentless nature of the storms with the daily postings but after this I am returning to the usual three posts a week cycle....
1969 Floods Day 10
January 28, 1969 Below the brand new Lopez dam flooding was unusually light. Upstream 78-year-old Heinie Nelson was fighting to survive. A preliminary report had appeared the day before but this edition had a fuller account. Quoting from the Gilbert ...
1969 Floods Day 9
Elisha Holmes, (left) and Elbert Williams (house in background) both lost homes in Paso Robles. January 27, 1969 This time it was the North County’s turn. It is typical for Santa Margarita to hold the mark for most rainfall in the county but i...
1969 Floods Day 8
January 26, 1969 The then Telegram-Tribune did not have a Sunday edition in the 1960’s, but that did not stop the epic rain. The water kept rising, this time the North County was hit hard. Reporter/Photographer Michael Raphael made the photo a...
1969 Floods Day 7
January 25, 1969 The previous Sunday had set a record for daily rainfall with 5.6 in. Friday night washed away that mark with 5.9 inches. The month had now leapfrogged into history as the wettest January on record.The California Highway Patrol urged...
1969 floods Day 6
January 24, 1969 Gov. Ronald Reagan declared the county a disaster area, the first step in qualifying it for federal funds. Stories from earlier in the week were still being discovered. Royal Farms lost 8,000 chickens to drowning at their Buckley Roa...
1969 Floods Day 5
Car trapped in the Johnson Ave. railroad underpass. January 23, 1969 Wednesday to Thursday brought a much-needed break in the rain. It wouldn’t last long. All the highways were open for the first time since the rains began, even Highway 1 to Big S...
1969 Floods Day 4
Avila Beach flooding. Telegram-Tribune photo by Michael Raphael January 22, 1969 After four days of pounding rain the last 24 hours brought a mere .69 inches of rain. Damage estimates doubled again to $2 million. In a Dorie Bentley story Pismo Beach...
1969 Floods Day 3
View Larger Map January 21, 1969 When the big rains came photographers fanned out to the low spots to find photos. In 1969 anywhere near a stream had flood potential. Reporter/Photographer Michael Raphael covered the flooding in Avila Beach that drov...
1969 Floods Day 1-2
San Luis Creek rose turning Higuera Street into a river near Chorro Street on Sunday. Telegram-Tribune photographer David Ethridge made the image, later republished in a booklet. Monday January 20, 1969When the rain began to fall 40 years ago on a ...
The Calm Before
Saturday January 18, 1969 The Telegram-Tribune was full of news that in the full view of history turned out to be either wildly off target or watermarks of the era. Stories were being floated that there could be cutbacks of troop levels in Vietnam an...
1969 Lopez Lake opens
January 4, 1969 It would be a watershed year. The Beatles were starting the project that would bring the band’s divisions to the surface. This was their last full year of recording together and the breakup would be announced in April 1970. Midnight...
Higuera Landmarks Demolished
OLD CITY LANDMARKS DISAPPEAR AT CORNER OF HIGUERA AND NIPOMO Pioneer mayor and supervisor, P.F. Ready, first developed this site along San Luis Obispo Creek. October 30, 1969Here is a glimpse of the neighborhood today thanks to Google Maps. Paste in ...
