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Looking Back to 1955: Flood project approved, county delays cloud seeding

Excerpts from the Thursday, April 28, 1955, Paso Robles Journal Flood project given approval A $7,000,000 bond issue has been approved by a vote of […]Full Article

Looking Back to 1932: Seven-year-old shoots self, largest ever voter turnout

  Excerpts from the Thursday, April 14, 1932, Paso Robles Advertiser: Tot, 7 years, shoots self with rifle Mary McCann, the seven-year-old daughter of Mr. […]Full Article

Looking Back to 1936: Gunman fires on school bus, declared insane

Excerpts from the Saturday, April 11, 1936, Paso Robles Times Merle Smith committed to Agnews Gunman who fired on school bus Wednesday declared insane by […]Full Article

Looking Back to April 1954: Local man dies in gravel pit slide

Excerpts from the Thursday, April 1, 1954, Paso Robles Journal Ross M. Knoeppel dies in pit slide A Paso Robles gravel-pit operator, buried alive Saturday […]Full Article

New baseball exhibit open at Paso Robles History Museum

Memorabilia from Pittsburgh Pirates displayed – The Paso Robles History Museum has opened their newest exhibit, which celebrates the local history of baseball; this comes […]Full Article

Looking Back to 1932: Mercantile looted, Atascadero founder E.G. Lewis arrested

Excerpts from the Thursday, March 31, 1932, Paso Robles Advertiser Mercantile entered and stock looted The lady’s ready-to-wear department of the Paso Robles Mercantile Company […]Full Article

Looking Back to March 1932: City council passes oleomargarine tax

Excerpts from the Wednesday, March 09, 1932, Paso Robles Advertiser City council passes oleomargarine ordinance with 3-2 vote The city council followed the action of […]Full Article

Looking Back to 1939: Local man rides Nacimiento River rapids

Excerpts from the Wednesday, March 15, 1939, Paso Robles Journal Walt Bonnheim rides the rapids on the Nacimiento At last, it has happened! For years […]Full Article

Looking Back to 1956: Atascadero locals survive airplane crash

Excerpts from the Thursday, March 8, 1956, Paso Robles Journal: Two Atascaderans escape injury in plane crash – Two Atascadero men miraculously escaped death or […]Full Article

Looking Back to February 1935: Housing program to be started in Paso Robles

Excerpts from the Saturday, Thursday, February 28, 1935, Paso Robles Advertiser Ten SERA interviewers will canvass all homes in district Supervisor E.E. Drake of the […]Full Article