Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Pismo Beach still celebrates clams — consider its 62th annual Clam Festival last weekend, for example, which drew thousands. But the days are gone when clamming drew tens of thousands to the city’s fine beaches.
Clamming was consistently good from 1949 until 1979, when state Fish and Game officials said ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Howard Martin, Fish and Game Warden stood in San Luis Obispo Creek today where it flows through the downtown heart of the city pointing to the trash and garbage which makes the stream an “open sewer.”
October 6, 1966
Today San Luis Creek is a downtown gem for folks looking for ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
People have had big ideas for the Oceano Dunes for a long time.
The Chumash Indians were the last sustained civilization on the dunes, living on the abundant clams and fish.
In the early 1900's real estate speculator's maps carved the beach up into lots. On July 4, 1907 a celebration was ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Captain Roy J. Bud Newton of the Lynann with a whale gun.
The Lynann was a whaler, converted from a Navy submarine chaser.
January 28, 1966
It wouldn’t happen today.
Using logic that made sense in the 1960’s researchers were killing seals to save them.
Working out of Morro Bay, a trio of marine biologists ...
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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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