Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Pismo Beach still celebrates clams — consider its 62th annual Clam Festival last weekend, for example, which drew thousands. But the days are gone when clamming drew tens of thousands to the city’s fine beaches.
Clamming was consistently good from 1949 until 1979, when state Fish and Game officials said ...
Posted in 1960's, Environment, Going, Going, Gone | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
June 30, 1979
It was San Luis Obispo County’s Woodstock only with less mud, sex, drugs or rock and roll but more politics. They estimated 20,000 would attend.
Over 30,000 people jammed Highway 1 for a combination music festival and anti-nuclear rally.
It was held on the Army airstrip behind Cuesta College almost ...
Posted in 1970's, Diablo Canyon, Environment, Politics | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in 1960's, Construction, Diablo Canyon, Environment | No Comments »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Howard Martin, Fish and Game Warden stood in San Luis Obispo Creek today where it flows through the downtown heart of the city pointing to the trash and garbage which makes the stream an “open sewer.”
October 6, 1966
Today San Luis Creek is a downtown gem for folks looking for ...
Posted in 1960's, Environment | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 29th, 2008
People have had big ideas for the Oceano Dunes for a long time.
The Chumash Indians were the last sustained civilization on the dunes, living on the abundant clams and fish.
In the early 1900's real estate speculator's maps carved the beach up into lots. On July 4, 1907 a celebration was ...
Posted in 1960's, Advertising, Environment, Popular Culture | 5 Comments »
