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Photos from the Vault
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Historical photos of the Central Coast of California, from the archives of the San Luis Obispo County Tribune.
- Added on: Aug 22nd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: David Middlecamp
- Listed in: Photo Blogs Political History
- Tags: Photography history California railroad news and media san luis obispo
Recent Posts
The Melancholy Daze, Satterfield cartoon
November 8, 1918 This was the other comic on the Daily Telegram’s page two that day. As fall swept in the end of World War I was near at hand. This cartoon by Bob Satterfield shows a downcast Kaiser Wilhelm II with a can labled defeat, tied to...
Spanish Flu Cartoon #2
November 8, 1918 The Telegram of the late teens did not have a comic or sports page, newspapers have evolved many specialized features in the 90 years since. Sports pages, stock tables, advice columns, comic pages all would be part of the future. Pa...
Oops, this is what happened
November 8, 1918 Let the blames begin. The Daily Telegram crashed back to reality after the giddy extra edition. Advertising was back on the front page and three headlines tried to explain what went wrong. In today’s era of rapid communication ...
1918 Give War a Chance, premature peace announcement
November 6, 1918 It could be the biggest mistake combined history of the Telegram or Tribune’s. An hurried Extra edition was put out on Wednesday (the nameplate says Sunday) with the screaming top headline: GERMANY ASKS PEACE ON WILSON’S...
First World War, Fourth Bond Drive
October 3 and 6, 1918 War was treated differently by America in the early 20th Century as these advertisements attest. Citizens financed the war directly through bond issues. This was the fourth bond drive of the war. These ads ran on an almost daily...
World War I troop train
Red Cross canteen workers during WWI are meet one of the many troop trains which passed through San Luis Obispo. They brought snacks and a friendly smile to soldiers who were traveling on cramped cars for sometimes days at a time. This photo is fr...
