Archive for the ‘1970's’ Category
Friday, November 28th, 2008
June 8, 1978
A. David Chan asked about Carol Hallett and by good fortune I had her photo in the "someday soon" stack. Her biography says she was field office representative for Assemblyman, later Congressman, William M. Ketchum. Speak up if you know for sure, my guess is that she was ...
Posted in 1970's, Politics | 1 Comment »
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
November 24, 1973
Time gets measured in different scales. Geologic time runs in cycles with spans of hundreds, thousands or millions of years, hard to put in a human context because the Earth's pace is not a human pace.
A few signposts of 1973: Richard Nixon was president, and the jaws of ...
Posted in 1970's, Construction, Diablo Canyon | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 17th, 2008
July 15, 1971
Death penalty trials are grim stories.
Over the last 20 years I have worked at the paper I have covered portions of 3 of the 4 active county death row stories.
In 1971 there was a wave of 3 death penalty convictions within 9 months.
Joseph Deb Tregeagle was convicted of ...
Posted in 1970's, News | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Raven Schlossberg clutches her hands and screams at a costumed Bruce Smith at Theta Chi haunted house in San Luis Obispo. Her friend, Tawny Claussen, also let out a shriek.
Mark Aronoff/Telegram-Tribune
October 31, 1979
On Halloween, we are allowed to drop our mask of fearlessness for a day and be afraid, very ...
Posted in 1970's, Cal Poly, Popular Culture | 6 Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Do you recognize these guys?
They were two of the most powerful congressmen of their time. Leon Panetta was profiled last week and to the right is Republican congressman Bill Thomas from Bakersfield.
Panetta chaired the House Budget committee from 1989-1993 and later served in Bill Clinton's White House. A few years ...
Posted in 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, Politics | No Comments »
