Archive for the ‘1900s’ Category
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Think of today's pay per view, boxing, horse races, movies and the like. An example of 1903 pay per view was odd by comparison, oh and you had to leave the home to see it.
LIQUID AIR
EXPERIMENTS
Dozens of Paradoxical Feats
Enjoyment....Novelty....Instruction
Burning Steel and Freezing Strawberries in ice tumbler containing Liquid Air.
THE MARVEL ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
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Vivian Krug of the South County Historical Society provided this information on their next exhibit. Photo courtesy of the Filipino American National Historical Society - California Central Coast Chapter.
“We traveled. I mean we moved from camp to camp. You start out the ...
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
January 5, 1907
Cuesta Grade accidents have been front page news since the days of horse and buggy.
A NARROW ESCAPE
H.E. Smith, Wife and Child Tipped Out
The Accident Occurred on the Cuesta Grade on Wednesday Afternoon
When Justice of the Peace-elect Harry E. Smith started out for a drive with his wife and ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
May 15, 1907
Three ads stacked on a page of the Morning Tribune.
Corsets were part of any well dressed woman's wardrobe at the time. I don't think anyone was running marathons in these. They look like they allow for a thimble full of air or food and not much else. The ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
You can find grizzly bears all over California — just look up. There it is, on the flag pole. According to one website the last Grizzly in the state was shot in 1922 but they were becoming rare as early as 1889.
It was then that newspaper tycoon William Randloph Hearst ...
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
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May 14, 1907
A little over 100 years ago gas companies were in a bad way. Electricity was proving to be an effective competitor for street lighting franchises and home owners were making the same choice. Why send out ...
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