Eddie Esteban from Pacific Grove was one of forty-four players who turned out for the first day of football practice on September, 2, 1959 at Monterey Peninsula College with coach Tor Spindler.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Nikita Khrushchev in Salinas 1959
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, traveling by train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, stopped in Salinas on Sunday, September 20, 1959. Accompanied by U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, the northbound train rolled in to the Salinas train station at 3:45 p.m. The six-minute stop failed to yield a glimpse of the Soviet Premier to the hundreds of people who gathered around W. Market Street.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Great White Shark, 1959
Eight-year-old Scott Lemon mugs for the camera as he looks over a ten-foot, five-hundred-pound great white shark that was caught by his father, Jerry Lemon, on August 24, 1959, from their party boat "Sea Otter" off Lovers Point in Pacific Grove.
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