1959 S&H gas station

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

July 16, 1959 Set the wayback machine to the Eisenhower era. Currently this is the record holder for oldest image from our files. Tribune librarian Sharon Morem found this print in the bottom of a manila file folder. It went with a four paragraph business brief. You can see the penciled crop marks ...

1969 Santa Barbara Channel oil disaster

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 ...

1963 Lopez Canyon Oil

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

August 5, 1963 The headline shouted about a "Substantial" oil strike but the subhead says No Production Yet. This news report talks about drilling on top of a mountian in Lopez Canyon. Numbers were few and far between in this story and never having covered an oil story in that ...