Friday, September 10, 2010

Mudslide, Feb. 1987


Vehicles get trapped in a mud slide on Highway One three miles south of Esalen on February 13, 1987. The major winter storm caused this section of roadway to be closed for weeks. (Robert Fisher/Monterey County Herald)

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Holiday Inn construction, Jan. 7, 1969


The first floor of the four-story Holiday Inn of Amercia on Monterey's Del Monte Beach near the Seaside city line is almost completed. Expected to be open by the end of June, the motel is tobe made up of five staggered buildings, all connected, with a total of 196 units. (Monterey County Herald Archives)

Friday, August 20, 2010

Monterey Jazz, 1967


Dizzy Gillespie and Carmen McRae on the main stage Sunday night at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival