1964 Avila Beach Fashion

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 ...

1965 Avila Beach

Monday, February 18th, 2008

    March 15, 1965 Some images don’t make it into the paper. The Telegram-Tribune had a voracious appetite for photography, publishing weekly picture pages, so the photographers were always looking for the next feature. This appears to be one of those cases where the pictures did not make the cut, it was ...