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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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The election is over. Hope your candidate did well. Here in the Vault we don’t have to worry about the future, lets look back at the past. Cal Poly has been playing football for a long time but 1924 was not a vintage year for the school.
As a photographer I prefer ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
June 2, 1965
Having created a display for the Veteran's museum, I am not a fan of vandalism, but as pranks go, this one was a doozy.
Someone with a big truck or tractor swiped the 140-millimeter cannon from the Veterans Memorial Building and parked down Grand Ave. at Cal Poly, quite ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
January 5, 1965
My first two quarters at Cal Poly, class registration was held in Mott Gym. Hopefuls would walk in with a penciled in wish list of classes and walk around from table to table picking up punch cards.
The arena was filled with hundreds of students and every half hour ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Senior mathematics student David Brown speaks to a crowd protesting napalm in front of the Cal Poly administration building.
February 1, 1968
Cal Poly is not Berkley, but even at a conservative pragmatic school, enough anti-war idealists could be found to march.
Glenn Allen of Dow Chemical was on campus recruiting job seekers, ...
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