Tag Archive: Higuera Street

Dec 05

Flooding on South Higuera Street

Cal Poly instructor John Boyd eades along lower Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo Monday as he walks home because buses weren't running. ©Tony Hertz/Telegram-Tribune

Humans like to build on flat level land. Problem is the water likes it too. We can go decades between floods in San Luis County but when a cloud bursts the results can be swift. Any time rain falls faster than one inch per hour flooding is likely to follow. Parts of South Higuera Street …

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Oct 22

Higuera Street 1978

Higuera Street looking east, October 24, 1978 ©The Tribune Wayne Nicholls.

These images from downtown San Luis Obispo show what was happening about 35 years ago.

Apr 24

San Luis Obispo builds a City Hall on Higuera Street

San Luis Obispo city hall circa 1938 on Higuera street where Charles Shoes is today. ©The Tribune If you are transported back in time, hope you don't have a cell number. That was a bad thing in 1878. Today Charles Shoes in this location. From the front page of the November 16, 1878 San Luis …

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