Shandon murder 1958
Reader Matt Grant asked for information on a murder that took place in Shandon over 50 years ago and provided the date. He asked if the crime was ever solved but unfortunately our files before the...
View ArticleAvila Beach
May 30, 1968 The summer season was beginning at Avila Beach. Much has changed since 1968. Union Oil tanks are gone, the old rust roofed buildings are gone and the restrooms and sidewalk have been...
View ArticlePacific Coast Railroad Bridge, Avila Beach 1966
Avila Beach October 15, 1966. ©2010 The Tribune Before the current bridge to Port San Luis was built over San Luis Creek travelers used the old single lane Pacific Coast Railroad bridge. This view...
View ArticleOil on the beach
STEADY TRAFFIC OF OIL TANKERS AT AVILA BEACH AND ESTERO BAY INCREASES THREAT Ship sucks in oil from pier pipeline; one like this dumped some at sea. Michael Raphael/The Tribune ©2010 BP has miles...
View ArticleOilport, before it was Shell Beach part-1
This story comes from the Centurama editions of the then Telegram-Tribune published May 14, 1954. Several 8 page special sections were published that month to celebrate the history of the county and...
View ArticleBeware of riff raff oil
Union Oil ad August 9, 1954 from the Telegram-Tribune I was mistaken, I thought oil was oil. Wrong. Apparently some petroleum distillates come from a better class of dead dinosaurs. Think about it next...
View ArticlePearl Harbor Attack, Japan opens war on U.S. World War II week by week
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor is reported in a full page headline in the Telegram-Tribune on the day of the attack, December 7, 1941. At 1:05 p.m. the fire siren shrieked in San Luis Obispo calling...
View ArticleSinking of the Union Oil tanker Montebello, World War II week by week
Sinking of the Union Oil tanker Montebello was a headline in the Telegram-Tribune on December 23, 1941. The news was supressed by wartime censorship elsewhere. In retrospect the original skipper was...
View ArticleDon’t frack on me, lessons from Unocal’s Guadalupe pollution settlement
NOVEMBER 1997: The cleanup is in progress and crews hustle to shore up the beach against possible heavy surf erosion from El Niño. What could be bad about a process called fracking? Energy companies...
View ArticleUnion 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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