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Arroyo is incorporated good and tight
The 1914 floods hit Arroyo Grande hard. ©The Tribune 1911 Daily Telegram Arroyo Grande is embarking on a year long celebration of city-hood. The town incorporated July 10, 1911 but it was a rocky...
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Oilport, before it was Shell Beach part 2
Daily Tribune December 10, 1907 Tales retold several times often wander from the truth, it is always good to get as close to the original source as possible. The now forgotten 1907 community of Oilport...
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Nipomo Flooding
MIGRATORY WORKERS CAMPSITE...Rain and mud are the dismal setting in which migratiory pea harvest workers wait out the incesseant drizzle. Huts, tents, trailers, and parked cars in this Nipomo camp...
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Cruella De Vil’s gloves
Page excerpt, July 1, 1890 San Luis Obispo Morning Tribune One line stopped me cold as I was scanning the Crocker’s department store advertisement in the San Luis Obispo Tribune, July 1, 1890. Dog-Skin...
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Avila Beach in 1941
Avila Beach 1941 ©The Tribune Lifeguards sponsored by the WPA, County and chamber of commerce appeared for the first time tin 1941 on county beaches. One August day it was estimated that there were...
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1941 in San Luis Obispo County, year in review
Can anybody tell me what Spry is? It comes in three pound cans and sells for 69 cents in 1942. Seventy years ago San Luis Obispo County was changing in many ways into the place we know today. One army...
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The 1914 flood in Arroyo Grande, the Leonard Collection
Late January 1914 brought flooding in Arroyo Grande undermining Bridge Street's bridge. The epic flooding of 1914 has been covered in two previous posts. One shows flooding as Tally Ho Creek cuts...
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Snow blankets the hills on Highway 41 between Atascadero and Morro Bay
Snow covers fields along Highway 41, winter scene at Antone J. Chves ranch between Morro Bay and Atascadero. December 19, 1967 ©Jim Vestal/Telegram-Tribune Afternoon papers put special pressure on...
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Flooding on South Higuera Street
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...
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Union Oil pier collapse, the storm of 1983
Periodically big storms come in and wreak havoc with piers. For example in 1907 the Oilport pier, in what is now known as Shell Beach was demolished by a fierce storm. The pier at Port San Luis is...
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1878 Central Coast Tsunami
San Luis Obispo Tribune, November 23, 1878 Tsunami story A wave big enough to come over the sandspit in Morro Bay? Really? Pat Pemberton recently wrote a fascinating overview of the history of...
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Dodging Death in Stormy San Luis Obispo, World War II week by week
Obispan Dodges Death As Bolt Hits Pillow One San Luis Obispo man escaped death by the bare margin of a whim during the heavy electrical storm her Tuesday night. If Andrew Chessmar, 1841 Slack street...
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