Jun 08
A recent story in the Tribune brought back memories for Woody Frey. He was 6 when the Golden Gate bridge was dedicated 75 years ago on May 27, 1937. Pedestrians were given the first day on the span. He is standing at the front right of this San Francisco Chronicle photo. He moved to California …
Mar 23
Author Doug Jenzen has generously agreed to share with Vault readers an introduction to his new book on the South County. He will be at a book signing at the Dana Adobe Saturday, March 24. He is donating all the book royalties to restoration of the historic structure. (The automated watermark incorrectly says these are …
Jan 09
Guy Crabb, a teacher of the year for San Luis Coastal School District, and history author has published the third book in his series on downtown San Luis Obispo. The latest book covers the cross streets connecting the longer commercial streets of Higuera, Monterey and Marsh. One of the stories in the new book recalls …
May 13
Delite Bakery circa 1950s photo courtesy Janice (Putnam) Reichert. Janice (Putnam) Reichert recently wrote in to share her photo and memories of Delite Bakery. My mother worked there for many, many years. As a matter of fact she came up with the name for the bakery and the unique spelling. I was just a baby …
Nov 15
Blake Andrews shared this post card of Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo. I am guessing this is the early 1950′s though if you have a better guess from the make of the cars please post a comment. Higuera was a two way street then, with no trees planted but lots of awnings on the …
Oct 01
PFTV reader George Shyavitz met Ralph De Palma’s wife in 1981. The famed racer was featured in an earlier post on the San Luis Obispo racetrack at Exposition Park. George kindly shared these images with us. De Palma’s resumé is quite impressive. He also shared this link to the history of dry lake racing. Muroc …
Apr 10
Kimberly Alfaro at the former San Luis Obispo Historical Society sent along the following information which has been lightly edited. She says the large photo is of Mr. and Mrs. William Paulin. On Friday, April 16th from 5:30-8:30pm, join the newly named History Center of San Luis Obispo County in the official opening of a …
Mar 17
Vivian Krug of the South County Historical Society provided this information on their next exhibit. Photo courtesy of the Filipino American National Historical Society – California Central Coast Chapter. “We traveled. I mean we moved from camp to camp. You start out the year, January … you’d find a place and it was usually an …
Jan 20
Jeff Allen, bass player in the band Cirkus sent along this note and another couple of photos. Judging from the comments there is enough interest in the subject to add to the conversation. If you missed the original post Acid Rock Lights Up the Night and a few extra photos in a followup post Acid …
Jan 16
Blogger on all things Paso Robles, Dave Skinner, contributes this image for our intermittent Readers Remember feature. You can see the shoulder of Cerro San Luis and a Shell service station in the background. He tells the story: My Skinner grandparents’ WWII patriotism included rationing and volunteering to man lookout points as spotters on the …
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