Archive for the ‘Construction’ Category
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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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
July 31, 1968
America has this tradition where we head to the beach on July 4 and play with dangerous stuff that goes boom.
I'm not advising people to do this, it is just an observation. Please, lets all have the same number of fingers next week as we do today.
In the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
TIGHT SQUEEZE FOR NEWSMAN ON LOPEZ PROJECT ROAD
Jack Magee stands between two cars on narrow curve
August 10, 1968
Upper Lopez Canyon Road was built along a ridge to replace the old and even narrower original road soon to be beneath the waters of the new Lopez Lake.
In the era of ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Archaeologist "Bobbie" Greenwood displays bone dagger. More than 1,000 Indian artifacts have been recovered at Diablo Canyon.
June 10, 1968
Major construction at Diablo Canyon was about a year away. Before it began a crew of archeologists worked to document the site.
Financed by PG&E, 15 to 18 people worked at various sites ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Auctioneer Milton J. Wershow gathers crowd while Alex Madonna watches sale.
August 20, 1965
You could never accuse Alex Madonna of doing things in a small way. When 365 pieces of equipment were declared surplus by Madonna Construction Company an auction was scheduled for the nearly $3 million dollars of machinery.
Quoting from ...
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