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The Ship Cafe in Morro Bay, shipboard dining in the 1920s
Morro Bay in the late 1920s had far fewer business options. Here is a quirky design lost to history. Ship on a stick, or sticks. The rock is familiar but today there is a more solid causeway leading...
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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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Snow blankets the hills on Highway 41 between Atascadero and Morro Bay
Snow covers fields along Highway 41, winter scene at Antone J. Chves ranch between Morro Bay and Atascadero. December 19, 1967 ©Jim Vestal/Telegram-Tribune Afternoon papers put special pressure on...
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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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Morro Bay Power Plant construction
POWER PLANT'S HEAVIEST PART...A huge generator stator, weighing nearly one-half million pounds, was brought out from General Electric's Schenectady, N.Y. plant on a special rail car to a Camp San Luis...
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Amphibious Training Base in Morro Bay, World War II week by week
August 28, 1942 Telegram-Tribune tells of an accident at Morro Rock that killed a construction worker. A Navy amphibious landing training facility was being built there.The third anniversary of the...
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Morro Bay Museum opens 50 years ago
Morro Bay Natural History Museum under construction July 19, 1961. © The TribuneFifty years ago the Morro Bay Natural History Museum was dedicated. Admission was 25 cents for adults. Adult admission...
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The end of horse and buggy days, the stage from San Luis to San Simeon
A.M. Bert Pettenger was a stage driver in 1905. This photo from 1968 finds him going strong at age 92. After the stage business folded he later owned a hamburger stand at the corner of Osos and Marsh...
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Underwater Easter egg hunt Morro Bay
When this story was first posted in Photos From the Vault the original 1968 story was not included. Family Editor Linnea Waltz wrote this story April 11, 1968: MORRO BAY— Clear water, warm weather and...
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