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 »
Monday, July 21st, 2008
January 11, 1964
Couldn't find a clipping to go with this photo.
My guess is this is Palm Street next to the courthouse annex. It looks like one of those weekend found feature photos that did not always find a home. Before the paper started publishing a Sunday edition a lot ...
Posted in 1960's, Popular Culture | 2 Comments »
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
May 29, 1964
Just because the graphics are corny and headline is patronizing doesn't make it less true.
They try to get us to take the safe road any way they can.
In driver's ed we had to watch a film featuring a happy-go-unlucky skeleton driving a car and grim real life blood ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
June 16, 1964
School’s out! Time to grab the transistor radio and hit Avila Beach. Can’t tell if the bikini has yellow polka dots like the 1960 novelty song. Everybody was grey back then, or at least all the newspapers were.
Cultural anthropologists will note that, like today, the beach population was ...
Posted in 1960's, Fashion | 5 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 ...
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