Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Pharmacist Doug Carpenter checks pills.
January 29, 1966
A few years ago I was taking pictures of a pharmacist and he adamantly did not want his picture taken counting pills. He had seen his profession visually reduced to a simple bean counting when the skills required were much more complicated. We ...
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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 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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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Mrs. B.L. Durham, San Luis Obispo County Draft Board clerk, checks 109 draftees aboard a Greyhound special for their physicals in Los Angeles.January 26, 1966Bring up the subject of a draft today and people will think you are talking about the NFL or trying to sell caulk.At the downtown bus ...
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