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Apple time in See Canyon
County's only automatic apple sizer belongs to Roy Thomas The See Canyon apple man is one of several growing the fruit. © Michael Raphael/The Tribune Do you prefer crunchy or sweet? A study written up...
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Dairy workers in short supply, World War II week by week
World War II headlines include the court martial of the commanders in charge during the Pearl Harbor attack. Telegram-Tribune Feb. 28, 1942 Newspapers in early 1942 were a mixture of bad news from the...
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Olive orchard moved to Laguna Lake
Workers prepare to move an olive tree from the Tartaglia ranch to Laguna Lake. © Jim Vestal/Telegram-Tribune Olive trees were introduced to California landscape during the founding of the missions....
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What’s shakin’? Almond harvesting near Shandon
Almond leaves and nuts fall to ground as Fernando Tabin operates mechanical almond tree shaker near Shandon. ©The Tribune/Larry Jamison Technically you wouldn’t be nuts if you referred to almonds as a...
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Labor shortages and leg makeup, World War II week by week
Ad for Helena Rubinstein's leg makeup from the Sept. 3, 1942 Telegram-Tribune Anti-air craft gun production shares space on a page with a tip for applying leg makeup. From the Sept. 7, 1942...
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San Miguel fires
This photo of San Miguel appears to be from between 1909 and 1915, Mission in far background.Digging a little deeper in the San Miguel history folders I found this Lura Rawson column. The town had even...
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Corral de Piedra Threshing Co.
From the May 14, 1956 Centurama edition of the Telegram-Tribune: THRESHING TIME…This picture of the Corral de Piedra Threshing company was sent in by George Kilbern, 1639 Garden street, Long Beach. The...
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Remembering Kaz Ikeda
South county lost a patriarch of agriculture and community service on Feb. 11, 2013. Bill Morem is writing a story to be published in the Tribune tomorrow and soon on Sanluisobipso.com. Leslie E....
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Ernst Brothers storehouse and Sperry Flour Mill, Paso Robles
Wheat was once among the royalty of the cash crops in the region but now it is not even in the top 20. Look at the list of agricultural products in the 2011 crop statistics report put out by the county...
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Searching for a photo in an almond sack
Now that Photos From the Vault has been on the scene for a few years it is fairly common to get questions from folks wanting reprints of historic events. Usually the request is very specific but our...
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