Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
February 8, 1966
Every Saturday for two years 15-25 workers, 75 percent volunteers, built new San Luis Obispo Church of Nazarene facility on Johnson Ave. Rev. George O. Cargill set to deliver the first sermon February 13, 1966. The crew included several professional builders as well as 82-year-old Thorwald Hatlin. The ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
This view of Highway 1 with Cal Poly in the background shows how much has changed in 42 years. The highway has a center divider and the university has a library and performing arts center, recreation center and other buildings. I should have climbed a little further up the hill ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Pharmacist Doug Carpenter checks pills.
January 29, 1966
A few years ago I was taking pictures of a pharmacist and he adamantly did not want his picture taken counting pills. He had seen his profession visually reduced to a simple bean counting when the skills required were much more complicated. We ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
January 8, 1966
Courthouses cost more than they used to.
About 40 years ago a new north county courthouse cost $52,000. The newly dedicated (October 24, 2008) Superior Court of California building in Paso Robles on Park Street cost $12.5 million. In fairness the new courthouse is much bigger, higher tech and ...
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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 ...
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