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6 unusual facts about San Luis Obispo


Acoustic bass guitar

--What does "show up again" mean? Was it in production earlier?--> in a production instrument until the early 1960s when Ernie Ball of San Luis Obispo, California began producing a model.

Cathode bias

In 1985, The Department of Engineering and Technology at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California was presented with a "C" battery date stamped 1927.

Jim Merkel

He founded the Alternative Transportation Task Force in San Luis Obispo, California and served briefly as an elected officer of the Sierra Club; he conducts approximately 60 workshops each year on sustainable living and "radical simplicity" in the United States, Canada, and Spain.

San Luis Obispo Handicap

There was no race from 1963 through 1967 but returned in 1968 as the San Luis Obispo Handicap, named for the city of San Luis Obispo further up the Central Coast of California from Santa Anita Park.

Swift Aire Lines

Swift Aire Lines was a U.S. commuter air carrier that was based in San Luis Obispo, California.

Western gray squirrel

There are three geographical subspecies: Sciurus griseus griseus (central Washington to the western Sierra Nevada in central California); S. g. nigripes (from south of San Francisco Bay to San Luis Obispo County, California; and S. g. anthonyi, which ranges from San Luis Obispo to northern Baja California).


Carol Sklenicka

Sklenicka was raised in Santa Maria, California, attended college California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo and received a Ph. D. in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Naomi Lebowitz, Stanley Elkin, and Howard Nemerov, in 1986.

Casmalia Resources

Local student Bill Buck was quoted in an article in the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune saying that the health problems of Casmalia residents were indeed real and there had been “strange odors” at his school.

David Kerley

Kerley began his broadcasting career in radio, as the news director for KCPR-FM in San Luis Obispo.

Jenifer Alcorn

Jenifer Lynn "All-American" Alcorn (born July 15, 1970 in San Luis Obispo, California) is a retired, undefeated WIBA, IWBF, and IBA World Champion female professional boxer.

Jim Criner

He attended Palo Verde Junior College where he was a junior college All-American at linebacker, then transferred to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, where he was an All-American at linebacker, and played fullback as well.

KCLM

On January 25, 2013, Family Radio filed an application with the FCC requesting authorization to sell KHFR and translator K209CE (licensed to San Luis Obispo, California) to California Lutheran University for $475,000.

Reynolds Wolf

He has worked in many television stations across the United States, including KMOV in St. Louis, Missouri, WDIV in Detroit, Michigan, WKMG in Orlando, Florida, KXAN in Austin, Texas, KSBY in San Luis Obispo, California, and WJSU (former CBS affiliate, current satellite station of ABC affiliate WBMA-LD) in Anniston, Alabama.

Ryland King

Over the past four years, Sprout Up, formerly known as Environmental Education for the Next Generation (EENG), has expanded from 25 college students at UCSB in five different classrooms, to four other California chapters: San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Davis.

The Deuce

RTC Transit is one of five transit agencies that operate double-decker buses in the United States for fixed-route services, the others being Unitrans of Davis, California; Community Transit of Snohomish County, Washington; Antelope Valley Transit Authority of Palmdale, California and Lancaster, California; and SLO Transit of San Luis Obispo, CA.

William Randolph Hearst II

New York Times; October 23, 2005; Heather Disbrow Carlton, 33, the daughter of Christina and Merritt Carlton of Fernandina Beach, FL, was married yesterday at the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California, to Jason Gooch Hearst, the son of Jennifer Rowe of Hope, Maine, and William Randolph Hearst II of San Luis Obispo, California.


see also

Buchon

Mount Buchon a mountain range in San Luis Obispo County, California

Cal Poly

California Polytechnic State University or Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, a public university in San Luis Obispo, California

Cal Poly College of Engineering

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Engineering, a college of engineering in the city of San Luis Obispo, California

Cal Poly College of Environmental Design

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Architecture and Environmental Design, an environmental design college in the city of San Luis Obispo, California.

California State Route 166

This stretch follows the Cuyama River through a canyon separating the Sierra Madre Mountains from mountains in San Luis Obispo County, and then opens out into the Cuyama Valley, passing cattle ranches, going through the Russell Ranch Oil Field, and passing Aliso Canyon Road, the turnoff to the South Cuyama Oil Field.

Chorro

Chorro, an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA

Craig H. Russell

Middle Earth, a suite after J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony.

J.C. Barthel

He made an application to the city of Santa Monica in July 1922 for lease on a plot of land next to the "new government aviation field on Central Avenue" to establish "an aerial passenger service to San Francisco, by way of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Salinas."

Milking the Rhino

Produced by Kartemquin Films and directed by David E. Simpson, Milking the Rhino won numerous awards at multiple international film festivals, including Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival and San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Luis Obispo and San Luis Obispo County.

Monika Steiner

Major collections of Monika Steiner's artwork are held by the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in San Luis Obispo, California, the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City, Panama, the JW Marriott Hotel Ankara, in Ankara, Turkey, and the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California, as well as by the Ashlyn Dyer Foundation, Ron Gutman, Dorfmusem Bönigen, and John Jaber.

Pacific Coast Railroad

Pacific Coast Railway, a former narrow-gauge system near San Luis Obispo, California

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Major subject areas in the collections include: book arts, environmental history, ethnic studies, fine printing, graphic arts, Julia Morgan's and John Steinbeck's first editions, landscape architecture in California, Robinson Jeffers' first editions, San Luis Obispo regional history, social history, William Randolph Hearst, and San Simeon.

San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce

In its third major revision since 1992, the Chamber’s vision of San Luis Obispo’s economic future features long-term objectives, core values and economic principles, and a six-point economic strategy for the future.

San Luis Obispo County, California

On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashed in San Luis Obispo County after a passenger shot 5 people on board, including the pilots, then intentionally crashed the plane.

San Luis Obispo Creek

North American beaver (Castor canadensis) have been thought to be non-native to San Luis Obispo Creek but Bolton recorded in "Anza's California Expeditions" that in April 1774, Father Cavaller of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa gave Juan Bautista de Anza "thirty-odd beaver skins" along with other local gifts including fine Indian baskets and "the skins of eight bears, the animals for which the region was renowned".

The Tides of Manaunaun

The production was staged in the summer of 1917 at a convention of the theosophical community of Halcyon in coastal San Luis Obispo County, California; Varian was a leader of the group, to which he had introduced Cowell.