Friday, June 27th, 2008
TIGHT SQUEEZE FOR NEWSMAN ON LOPEZ PROJECT ROAD
Jack Magee stands between two cars on narrow curve
August 10, 1968
Upper Lopez Canyon Road was built along a ridge to replace the old and even narrower original road soon to be beneath the waters of the new Lopez Lake.
In the era of ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Memorial services were held at Mission San Luis Obispo and in Oceano following the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.Telegram-Tribune photos by Barry MinettJune 5-10 1968A scant two months earlier the nation had been rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and the urban violence that followed.Now the nightmare would ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
May 17, 1968
One of the lost traditions of San Luis Obispo is La Fiesta de las Flores. Established in 1925 as a fund-raiser for the fire damaged downtown Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa , the festival was held almost continually until 1995.
The city festival then fell victim to organizer ...
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