Archive for the ‘Oil’ Category
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
July 16, 1959
Set the wayback machine to the Eisenhower era.
Currently this is the record holder for oldest image from our files. Tribune librarian Sharon Morem found this print in the bottom of a manila file folder. It went with a four paragraph business brief.
You can see the penciled crop marks ...
Posted in 1950's, Oil | 4 Comments »
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 »
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
August 5, 1963
The headline shouted about a "Substantial" oil strike but the subhead says No Production Yet. This news report talks about drilling on top of a mountian in Lopez Canyon. Numbers were few and far between in this story and never having covered an oil story in that ...
Posted in 1960's, Construction, Environment, Oil | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
San Luis Obispo's downtown has been greatly improved with the addition of trees. Many of the car lots have been moved to the edges of town and as of this writing gas costs over ten times more than ¢31.9 per gallon.
(I remember dad driving around the block because ¢33.9 was ...
Posted in 1960's, Going, Going, Gone, Oil | 1 Comment »
