Thursday, June 25, 2015

Morse Fire in Pebble Beach, May 1987

Firefighters from the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey work on the "Morse Fire" as it begins to cross Los Altos Drive in Pebble Beach on May 31, 1987.  The Morse Fire in Pebble Beach consumned over thirty homes  (Orville Myers - Monterey Herald archives)

Friday, June 12, 2015

Ornette Coleman, Monterey Jazz Festival, 1967

Ornette Coleman performs at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival.  Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

The Paupers at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967

The Paupers from Canada, Denny Gerrard, Chuck Beal, Skip Prokop and Adam Mitchell arrive at Monterey Airoport to play at the Monterey Pop Festival.
(Photo: Monterey County Herald,  June 15, 1967)