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Kids today with their Xbox, why I tell you when I was a kid we had something better. RefrigeratorBox™. Don’t think it  sounds like fun? Try this: Put your brother in RefrigeratorBox™ and roll it down the hill. (Offer not valid in oxygen breathing states.) Draw fins on RefrigeratorBox™ and fly to the moon. Carve a ...

There was little that was temperate about the temperance movement. Anti-Saloon League members wanted to get the drink out of a barfly’s hands and replace it with a hymnal. Women might be allowed drink at home but at that time were not welcome in bars. Often medicines advertised as specifics for ...

Strangely, it wasn’t founded to be a general interest newspaper. The early days of the Telegram consisted less of inspired journalism and more evangelical fervor. When the first edition published February 24, 1905 the Telegram was a semi-weekly, scolding readers and holding them to a righteous moral standard. I somehow doubt  there ...

Harford Pier is the only pier in the county that the public can regularly drive on, though apparently if you have a whale to return to the ocean, the Avila Beach pier is the one to use. Fishing, restaurants or taking a stroll to check out the seals, there always seems ...

In 1966 the Mid-State Fair was still called the San Luis Obispo County Fair and the entertainment was, well, not very entertaining. The event lasted 5 days, admission was cheap, and you got what you paid for. Admission to the fair was $1, according to the US Inflation Calculator $6.73 in ...

Who thought locating a mobile home park downwind from a tallow plant was a good idea? San Luis Tallow Company has been located on Prado Road since 1939. The boom of mobile home park construction hit the county in the 1960s. By 1971 complaints were filed at the San Luis Obispo County ...

This just in, Stickley  Mission and Jacobean style furniture is on sale at San Luis Furniture Co. Don’t forget the S&H trading stamps.

Fearless, flamboyant and famous Harriet Quimby was the first American woman to be licensed as a pilot. True. She was the first person to be licensed to fly a monoplane and the first woman to fly across the English Channel. True. Her daring aerial feats inspired a young Amelia Earhart, and both would later ...

Arroyo Grande is embarking on a year long celebration of city-hood. The town incorporated July 10, 1911 but it was a rocky start. It is unclear from the front page July 11, 1911 article in The Telegram if the incorporation had significant opposition or if the editor was just confused ...

BP has miles beaches to clean on the Gulf coast, but blown out oil wells are not the only source of oily beach pollution. It used to be that getting tar balls on your feet was part of going to Avila Beach. We were told it was due to natural ...