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Morro Bay Aerial circa 1963
Aerial of Morro Rock, power plant and harbor from August 29, 1963.© The Tribune Conspiracy theories. I recall fielding a call several years back from a subscriber who insisted that the newspaper had...
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War declared on Germany, Japanese internment, World War II week by week
America declares war with Germany as World War II headline fill the Telegram-Tribune December 11, 1941. December 11, 1941 Two days after war was declared with Japan the European Axis powers declared...
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Japanese internment resolutions, Baywood Park gets electricity-World War II...
The United States had been fighting for seven weeks and the news was bad everywhere in the Pacific and in much of Europe and Africa. The plain facts were that America was woefully under-prepared and...
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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,...
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Reddy Kilowatt, at your service
Advertisement for PG&E from June 12, 1965 with a good looking stove and a good cooking woman. Better living through technology. This July 12, 1965 advertisement shows Pacific Gas and Electric still...
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Morro Bay Power Plant parts on parade
INCHING THROUGH MORRO BAY... The huge generator stator, aboard its 82-tire trailer, touched state highway 1 for the last time as it crossed the coast route at Sixth street in Morro Bay yesterday...
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Dimout ordered for the West Coast, World War II week by week
Telegram-Tribune August 18, 1942.A county-wide dimout was ordered for the county as part of a West Coast program to limit navigation aids for enemy aircraft and ships. Barbecue fires were also...
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Diablo Canyon adobe and cattle, before construction of the atomic plant
Over forty years ago an adobe ruin was the biggest structure at Diablo Canyon. At the time every major California utility was in pursuit of a nuclear option to serve California’s expanding population....
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Atomic Adobe, Diablo Canyon construction site
The nuclear age dawned almost exactly 70 years ago under an abandoned University of Chicago football stadium on Dec. 2, 1942. Physicists Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi conducted the first nuclear...
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U-Boat threat World War II, week by week
May 16, 1943 Telegram-TribuneMarch 16, 1943 One of the many problems to be solved during the war was that of the German U-Boats. They threatened to choke off the sea-lanes between North America and...
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