Clik here to view.
James Dean Death an Accident Jury Finds
James Dean accident 9-30-1955 at the intersection of Highway 41 and 446.Photo by Sanford Roth, courtesy Seita Ohnishi I attended the 50th anniversary of the fatal crash September 30, 2005. It was a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fabulous Aerodynamic Styling – Plymouth 1956
November 2, 1955 With all the current excitement over the Cash for Clunkers program, here is a look at a vintage car ad. This is genuine Detroit iron and was the most up to date style of the day....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, 1955 Men’s fashion
November 2, 1955 Telegram-Tribune ad Dave Berg was a cartoonist for Mad magazine for more than 40 years. He created the magazine’s feature “The Lighter Side of” feature that poked fun of current...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Morro Bay Power Plant smokestack
THE STACK IS HIGH…This dramatic photo of a rigger, Arval Ady, dangling 15 feet below the top of PG&E's 450-foot smokestack was taken last March by Telegram-Tribune photographer Fen Truebridge who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Armageddon in the sky, nuclear testing
March 29, 1955 The pre-dawn stillness of the Nevada desert was torn with a brilliant flash followed by a shock wave and roar. Atop a 500 foot steel tower, atoms collided violently at 4:55 am. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Morro Bay Power Plant
PG&E's Morro Bay Powerplant. The first smokestack. From 7-7-1955 dedication edition of the Telegram-Tribune When the Morro Bay Power Plant generated its first kilowatt it was an engineering marvel,...
View Article