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, August 8th, 2008
January 2, 1966
The main source of water for San Luis Obispo is from the North County at Santa Margarita Lake.
The city can also get water from Whale Rock Reservoir and wells but the largest and fastest filling source stands behind the Salinas Dam.
When we have dry years the lake level ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
July 4, 1965
Some traditions have deep roots. Cayucos has had a July 4, parade with something wacky in it for as longer than I can remember. Pismo Beach has had fireworks.
Gone are the Pismo merry-go-round and the Ferris wheel, but we do get to pay for parking now.
Holiday weekends were ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Crop dusters dropped 9,000 pounds of barley grain on the sandspit from a souped-up World War II Stearman biplane. (Telegram-Tribune photos by Jack Wilson)
April 28, 1965
This is one of those stories from the past that would never happen today.
The brand new city of Morro Bay was involved in ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
December 19, 1964
SHELLED ABALONE Fish and Game Wardens Russell Goodrich, left, and Alvin Stewart display a few of the 281 abalone which had been removed from the shell and brought into Morro Bay aboard the commercial abalone boat Lancia. (Jack Wilson photo.)
This is a story we don't see today. ...
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