Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
November 24, 1973
Time gets measured in different scales. Geologic time runs in cycles with spans of hundreds, thousands or millions of years, hard to put in a human context because the Earth's pace is not a human pace.
A few signposts of 1973: Richard Nixon was president, and the jaws of ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
June 30, 1979
It was San Luis Obispo County’s Woodstock only with less mud, sex, drugs or rock and roll but more politics. They estimated 20,000 would attend.
Over 30,000 people jammed Highway 1 for a combination music festival and anti-nuclear rally.
It was held on the Army airstrip behind Cuesta College almost ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Visiting Cayucos area site of test drilling by state engineers are three members of the Morro Bay-Cayucos Joint Atomic-Seawater Reclamation Committee (left to right) Joe Giannini, Jack Lindemann and chairman Duval Williams.
January 9, 1966
The Atomic Age was on the march. Three years earlier Cal Poly had installed a micro ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
May 25, 1984
So I was wrong about Walter Mondale. He did come to San Luis Obispo.
Once.
Mondale came to town at the request of the anti-Nuclear group Mothers for Peace, the only candidate of three invited to show up.
Quoting the story by staff writer Alan Mittelstaedt:
The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
September 20, 1972
These photos are from a set of aerial photos made for development stories throughout the county. The early 1970's brought a wave of development to the area as Cal Poly expanded and workers flooded in to build a power plant.
Construction was underway at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear ...
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