Archive for the ‘1960's’ Category
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
February 8, 1966
Every Saturday for two years 15-25 workers, 75 percent volunteers, built new San Luis Obispo Church of Nazarene facility on Johnson Ave. Rev. George O. Cargill set to deliver the first sermon February 13, 1966. The crew included several professional builders as well as 82-year-old Thorwald Hatlin. The ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
This view of Highway 1 with Cal Poly in the background shows how much has changed in 42 years. The highway has a center divider and the university has a library and performing arts center, recreation center and other buildings. I should have climbed a little further up the hill ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Writer Gilbert Moore and photographer Jim Vestal visited Fort Ord in Monterey as training for the Vietnam War was ramping up. Both had been through basic training there in the early 1960’s but in the mid-1960’s thousands of soldiers were going to battle in South East Asia.
At the beginning of ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Pharmacist Doug Carpenter checks pills.
January 29, 1966
A few years ago I was taking pictures of a pharmacist and he adamantly did not want his picture taken counting pills. He had seen his profession visually reduced to a simple bean counting when the skills required were much more complicated. We ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
August 10, 1968
Nights are getting longer, daylight saving time is ending and lights are taking effect.
The 1960’s were the golden age for neon signs. The view of Monterey Street shows signs in front of the Fremont and Obispo theaters and the Anderson Hotel. The light pollution spraying into the sky ...
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