Archive for the ‘Construction’ 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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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 ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
This has to be on any top ten list of big things to hit San Luis Obispo County. The Tribune was almost 25 years old by the time Southern Pacific opened service by pulling into town May 5, 1895.I can’t say it was a shining moment in The Tribune's career.Back ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Visiting Cayucos area site of test drilling by state engineers are three members of the Morro Bay-Cayucos Joint Atomic-Seawater Reclamation Committee (left to right) Joe Giannini, Jack Lindemann and chairman Duval Williams.
January 9, 1966
The Atomic Age was on the march. Three years earlier Cal Poly had installed a micro ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
September 20, 1972
These photos are from a set of aerial photos made for development stories throughout the county. The early 1970's brought a wave of development to the area as Cal Poly expanded and workers flooded in to build a power plant.
Construction was underway at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear ...
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