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R.R. Crossing Poly
©The TribuneCouldn’t find a story to go with these negatives marked R.R. Crossing Poly Sept 7-63. My guess is this is the Foothill Blvd. crossing of the Southern Pacific tracks. Cerro San Luis is on...
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The Eagle of Freedom or Jim Crow?
Bill Mauldin penned this political cartoon published in the Telegram-Tribune Sept. 12, 1963.Artist Bill Mauldin was a master of communicating complicated concepts and emotions with a few sharply drawn...
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Kursk Tank Battle, World War II week by week
Telegram-Tribune July 9, 1943.In local news, Marine pilot Lt. George Langston of Atascadero was credited with downing a Japanese bomber in fighting over Guadalcanal. Receipts at the San Luis Obispo...
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Honoring Dr. Louis Tedone
Dr. Louis Tedone will be honored this evening, July 9, 2013 at Mission San Luis Obispo Parish Hall. Tribune reporter Sarah Arnquist wrote this story published Sept. 10, 2006: Dr. Louis Tedone, 83, will...
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Ah Louis, pioneer builder of San Luis Obispo
Ah Louis has to be on any top ten list of early persons of influence in San Luis Obispo. This article comes from the May 10, 1956 Centurama edition of the then Telegram-Tribune but the column was...
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Cannon returned to Mission San Miguel
Historic Spanish cannon stolen from Old Mission San Miguel a year ago is welcomed home by Brother Paul (left), Brother Martin (center with glasses) and Father Manuel, standing next to Sheriff Larry...
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Sicily invaded, World War II week by week
July 1, 1943 Telegram-Tribune headlines include invasion of Sicily.If anyone wondered where the Western Allies were moving next early July would provide answers. The Japanese forces were under attack...
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The Elg runs aground off Oceano
Vivian Krug from the South County Historical Society shares this item about a story outlined previously here in Photos from the Vault. September 1938 — A lumber freighter runs aground and the captain...
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Pismo Pier plans from the past
Pismo Beach is currently setting goals for the future of downtown. At one time there was talk of putting commercial space on the diamonds of the pier, newly rebuilt from storm damage. The artist can’t...
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Patton takes Sicily, World War II week by week
Quoting from the Thursday July 22, 1943 Telegram-Tribune: “Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton’s Seventh Army raced virtually at will through the collapsed Axis defenses of central and western Sicily today,...
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