Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Images from the March 10 edition of the Telegram-Tribune, volunteers are washing oil from the feathers of a grebe hoping he will be one of the 25% who survive. Another photo shows oil muck being scraped from a Santa Barbara beach. Photos were by David Ranns
January 29, 1969
Offshore ...
Posted in 1960's, Environment, News, Oil | 4 Comments »
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Memorial services were held at Mission San Luis Obispo and in Oceano following the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.Telegram-Tribune photos by Barry MinettJune 5-10 1968A scant two months earlier the nation had been rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and the urban violence that followed.Now the nightmare would ...
Posted in 1960's, News, Politics, Popular Culture | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
June 1964 In this election season I thought it would be interesting to see the advertising strategies of 44 years ago.Read the ads, choose your candidate, pick your favorite middle-aged white guy.You won’t see advertisements for the Democrat running for president because the incumbent Lyndon Johnson was the presumptive nominee ...
Posted in 1960's, Advertising, News, Politics | No Comments »
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
November 22, 1963As promised in the last post, here is coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination. There are no local photos but the mythology that has since surrounded the event makes real time coverage interesting reading. Click on the newspaper pages to view a larger image.
There were trivial stories, ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Senior mathematics student David Brown speaks to a crowd protesting napalm in front of the Cal Poly administration building.
February 1, 1968
Cal Poly is not Berkley, but even at a conservative pragmatic school, enough anti-war idealists could be found to march.
Glenn Allen of Dow Chemical was on campus recruiting job seekers, ...
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