Archive for the ‘1900's’ Category
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The photos are of a train wreck on Cuesta Grade.
The only caption information we have is Lark wreck near San Luis Obispo.
Judging from the cars and clothing this appears to be the late 1910's to early 1920's.
Please post a comment if you have better information.
Before Amtrak became the ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
The old San Luis Obispo telephone exchange when it was located on Chorro Street.
Pictured here are Cecelia Dodge (standing) Ruth Johnson, nee Haley, Elena Bellani, nee Heyd, Mael Seely, nee Sutliff and Maymie McMillan.
The exterior photo shows the 1894-95 San Luis Obispo telephone office located in the Knapp building ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
May 10, 1901
Tribune librarian Sharon Morem has uncovered a stack of old prints from our files. Some of them are from before the paper published photos but they were printed on our pages at a later date so that is good enough to include in the blog.
The election season is ...
Posted in 1900's, Advertising, News, Politics, Railroad | 3 Comments »
