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Hearst Castle Graduation

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

June 6, 1968 Here we are near graduation season and the 50-year anniversary of public tours at Hearst Castle. Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument was dedicated June 2, 1958. Ten years later the Cambria area high school needed help. Coast Union High School's auditorium and old gym were demolished to meet Field ...

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1965 Graduation/Smirnoff Ad

Friday, April 18th, 2008

June 3, 1965 In the olden days before computers could proof print a whole page, the people laying out news pages would get a piece of paper called a dummy with empty boxes marking where the ads went. The first time you would see the whole package was when the paper ...

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