Monterey County has a rich and colorful history. The Monterey County Herald has been there to cover the names and places that make our county unique. With some “never seen before” images from our archives, The Herald hopes to jar your memory and to participate in this ongoing look back on the history of Monterey County.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Aerial of Seaside, 1967
A 1967 aerial photo looking north over Roberts Lake in Seaside and Canyon Del Rey Blvd., prior to Highway 1 and the Monterey Beach Hotel being constructed.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Ed Leslie Racing, 1964
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Pope John Paul II, Sept. 1987
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Monterey Jazz Festival, 1967
Friday, November 27, 2009
Sen. Barry Goldwater, 1964
Barry Goldwater was in Monterey on Tuesday May 26, 1964 - grim and fighting and locked in a desperate race for the Republican nomination over Nelson Rockefeller in Tuesday's presidential primary. The 55-year-old Arizona senator, the champion of the conservative movement in America, addressed more than 2,500 of his fans in front of Monterey's historic Colton Hall.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Crosby Pro/Am, 1964
Friday, November 13, 2009
Big Sur Mudslide, 1972
Friday, November 6, 2009
Eldon Dedini, Sept. 1967
Eldon Dedini was a cartoonist whose work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere. He received the National Cartoonists Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1958, 1961, 1964 and 1988 for his work. Mr. Dedini did around 1,200 cartoons for Playboy and 630 for The New Yorker in a career that also included Disney cartoons, ads for broccoli and thirteen posters for the annual Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance. "The gag is the whole secret of cartooning" he once said. "Style alone will never sell a bum joke. So you can drwa. A million people can draw. The question is, are you funny?"
Friday, October 23, 2009
Grateful Dead, May 5, 1987
Monday, October 19, 2009
Kalisa Moore, Aug. 13, 1999
Kalisa Moore, owner of Kalisa's on Cannery Row across the street from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Moore opened the restaurant on July 5, 1958. Downstairs was the dining room while upstairs was reserved for everything from belly dancing to jazz music. Celebrities such as Clint and Maggie Eastwood, Kim Novak and Dizzy Gillespie frequented her place.
Monday, October 12, 2009
CHOMP construction, 1971
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Portola-Crespi Cross, 1969
Harry Henry John Downie, curator and restorer of the Carmel Mission was orginally a San Francisco cabinetmaker. Father Michael O'Connell brought Downie to Carmel in 1931. Downey spent the rest of his life working on Carmel Mission. Downie hewed the replica Portola-Crespi cross out of local redwood. It was erected on December 9, 1969 to celebrate Monterey's Bicentennial. The cross was located at the spot where the Portola expedition had an overlook of the natural harbor in Monterey Bay.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
1967 Monterey Jazz Festival
Rock/blues guitarist, B.B. King, performs on the main stage during the Monterey Jazz Festival, Saturday, September 16, 1967. The lineup during the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival took a decidedly harder edge with such groups as Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, which rocked the Saturday crowd. Years later Jimmy Lyons would admit that he submitted to pressure to include rock groups and that more patrons were alienated than attracted to the Monterey Jazz Festival from the “new” music.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Del Monte Center construction, May 1967
May 15, 1967 construction of the $15 million Del Monte Shopping Center on Carmel Hill in Monterey. The design of the mall was by architect John S. Bolles, who was an authority on Mayan architecture. S.F.B. Morse, president of Del Monte Properties, dedicated the center on September 14, 1967. The shopping center’s anchor tenant was and still is Macy’s department store. Over 80 stores are expected to occupy the mall. (Photos by Herald staff photographer Teresa Zabala)
Monday, August 31, 2009
"Where the Action Is" June 1966
Percy Sledge (center) performs at Nepenthe in front of the ABC television cameras during a filming of the show "Where the Action Is" on June 20, 1966. The show produced by Dick Ckark, was filmed in Monterey County at Fisherman's Wharf, the Beach Club in Pebble Beach and Nepenthe for airing later in the Fall. Other groups appearing were, Tommy Sands, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Isley Brothers and The Syndicates of Sound and Jimmy Hughes. (Monterey Herald Archives)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Soledad Prison Murder, 1971
Soledad State Prison inmates James Wagner and Roosevelt Williams, both 24, arrive at Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas on May 26, 1971. Williams and Wagner were among seven black inmates who gained notoriety in the case as the "Soledad Seven," who were tried in the murder of prison guard William C. Shull, who was stabbed to death on the grounds of the prison. Charges were later dismissed by the District Attorney when it was determined that a key witness had lied when questioned by an investigator.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tom Watson, 1982 U.S. Open
Of all the remarkable moments from the 1982 U.S. Open, one is indelibly etched in memory. Twenty-seven years ago Tom Watson called his shot and danced around the 17th green at Pebble Beach after holing a miraculous chip shot. This photo was taken by former Monterey County Herald staff photographer Robert Fish with a 500mm f/8 mirror lens.
Watson entered the championship as one of the clear-cut favorites. In the past few years he had supplanted Nicklaus as the game’s No. 1 player. His familiarity with the course from his college days at nearby Stanford and as a two-time winner of the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am also helped make him the prognosticators pick
In one of the most memorable moments in Open history, Tom Watson birdied the 17th hole at Pebble Beach by pitching in to the cup from off the green and won his first Open Championship. The win earned Watson top prize money of $60,000. Jack Nicklaus finished second. Watson, 32, from Kansas City, Missouri, won with the scores of 72-72-68-70-282, six under par. Nicklaus shot 74-70-71-69 -284. This was the fourth time Nicklaus finished as runner-up in the Open, tying a record shared by Sam Snead, Bob Jones, and Arnold Palmer.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Albee Rolligon, 1958
On a fishing trip to Alaska in 1950, Mr. William Albee of California observed a group of Eskimo preparing to remove a heavy wooden boat fro the artic waters. Albee wondered how the small, heavily clad men would manage the boat up the muddy bank. The Eskimos produced and inflated several air tight seal skins on which they rolled the boat out of the water and up the bank. Thus was born the concept of the Rolligon low pressure Air Bag tires. With this idea in mind, Mr. Albee returned to California and began developing the first low pressure off road tire.
Bill Albee was the driver of the above vehicle, running over his father as a demonstration of the effectiveness of low pressure combined with a very flexible bag/tire. This vehicle was designed and built in just 9 weeks at the request of the Army Transportation Corp. in 1953. Dad was not able to organize Albee Rolligon Co. until 1955 due a law suit over preliminary financing. Once that was settled, he was able to obtain financing, and designed and built several greatly improved vehicles that generated tremendous world-wide interest and publicity.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Laguna Seca Raceway, 1969
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Col. Allen Griffin, 1970
Colonel Robert Allen Griffin (1893 - 1981) and his wife, Hester Hyde Hately Griffin, former owners of the Monterey Peninsula Herald, in their landscaped garden in Pebble Beach in 1970. Col Griffin, commanded Company F, 364th Infantry Division, during World War I. He rejoined the Army during World War II and participated in the war in Normandy, Brittany and Belgium. (Monterey Herald Archives)
Friday, May 1, 2009
Jolly Rogue Fire, June 27, 1976
The Jolly Rogue restaurant fire on Sunday, June 27, 1976. 200 patrons and staff escaped injury from the fast moving fire that was reported at approximately 7:40 p.m. When the first engines \arrived on scene smoke and flames were pouring from the roof. Monterey, Seaside, Pacific Grove and Carmel Valley fire departments responded to the entrance of Monterey Wharf No. 2 Businesses also suffering damage were the Monterey Harbor Masters Office, Monterey Yacht Center, San Martin Wine Tasting Room and the Harvey Kilpatrick Insurance Company. Fire investigators first estimates were $500,000 in damages.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Beached Boats, Feb. 23, 1953
Seven ships were torn from their moorings at the Monterey Harbor and grounded on the beach by a sixty-mph northeast gale on Monday, February 23, 1953. The incident caused an estimated $500,000 in damages. The purse seiners New Hope, Cerrito Bros. and Petrina F suffered the most damage. Crews from the Granite Construction Company as well as the Army, helped in the salvage operation.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Dennis the Menace Train, Jan. 26, 1956
"Old 1285" contributed by Southern Pacific and moved to its resting place by the Army, now stands still and safe for small fry to swarm over to their hearts content. The smoke stack has been covered over so tots won't fall in. The clapper has been removed from the bell after complaints about the noise from people a half mile away.
A excerpt from a Monterey Herald article on the train that was placed at Dennis the Menace Park on January 26-27, 1956.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Fourth of July fireworks, 1958
Friday, February 27, 2009
Cesar Chavez released from jail, 1970
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Lookback on the Crosby Pro-Am
Friday, February 13, 2009
Monterey's old rail line, 1971
Friday, February 6, 2009
Operation Surfboard, March 21, 1955
Operation Surfboard consisted of 50 ships from the Amphibious Assault Force and participated in the amphibious assault landing of 5,000 troops of the Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at San Simeon Bay on March 21, 1955. The operation was completed about March 30, 1955.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Alvarado St. 1958-2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Pietro Ferrante
On this post I need your help. This is a photo from the Herald's archive with the caption reading, Mr. & Mrs. Pietro Ferrante on Sept. 13, 1951 in Monterey. We all know that Pietro Ferrante was one of the pioneers in the commercial fishing industry in Monterey. He lived from 1867 to 1954. What I need to know is the name of his wife sitting next to him. Feel free to add your information to the comments section.
Sincerely,
Vern Fisher
Monterey County Herald