1966 Pinedorado sweepstakes winner "Saturday Night 1866". ©The Tribune
©The Tribune
Not many local festivals can boast that one of their judges had won a Nobel Peace Prize. Oh yours won one? Ours won two, the only person who has won two undivided Nobel Prizes.
The organizers of the 18th annual Pinedorado celebration were able to bring in Linus Pauling, Big Sur resident, as a judge for the event. His prizes were for Chemistry [1954] and Peace [1962]. Perhaps he was inspired to promote taking vitamin C for colds by the perpetual fog that hovers over the coast.
Pinedorado #18 was billed as the most successful in its history with over 60 entries.
Cambria Pines Realty was the sweepstakes winner with its float titled “Saturday Night 1866″ a man in a washtub being given a shampoo by his wife.
Coastal parades often boast a entries with a quirky sense of humor. This year three musicians plugged mouthpieces into dried kelp and played patriotic marches. Even better they broke the arrangement into in three parts, uh, guess you can’t call it stereo. Trilophonic is the word I’ll use.
Back in 1966 Morro Bay also hosted Their seventh annual Rock-O-Rama lighted boat parade. Today the lighted parade is held before Christmas.
San Luis Obispo had a big square dance at the Veteran’s building and a big crowd was camping at the sand dunes south of Oceano. Both Jim Vestal and Jack Wilson were credited with photos from the weekend.
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A bit off-topic–Ok, ok, a lot off topic–but I’m curious as to what “giant power plant” L.A. planned to build from the article on the lower-right corner of the full page 1966-09-05 Trib.
The UPI story datelined Los Angeles described a $157 million hydroelectric power plant that would be a pump-back system between Pyramid and Castiac reservoirs. It was to be built six miles north of Castiac and two miles east of U.S.99 in the southern slopes of the Tehachapi mountains. Energy would come from the State Water Project in Northern California. Power would be generated during peak load times and water pumped back uphill during off peak.
William Myers, president of Los Angeles Water and Power Commission said the plant “is like an insurance policy against blackouts. If New York City had had such a system, its blackout never would have happened.”