Friday, October 31st, 2008
August 10, 1968
Nights are getting longer, daylight saving time is ending and lights are taking effect.
The 1960’s were the golden age for neon signs. The view of Monterey Street shows signs in front of the Fremont and Obispo theaters and the Anderson Hotel. The light pollution spraying into the sky ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Images from the March 10 edition of the Telegram-Tribune, volunteers are washing oil from the feathers of a grebe hoping he will be one of the 25% who survive. Another photo shows oil muck being scraped from a Santa Barbara beach. Photos were by David Ranns
January 29, 1969
Offshore ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
January 13, 1968
The military absorbed the lessons of Pearl Harbor and in the midst of Cold War with the Soviet Union the United States Air Force manned a series of radar tracking stations to warn of an "enemy air invasion".
Just south of town the Cambria Air Force Station had been ...
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