Word: obispo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will continue to spend, many millions of dollars, are to be closed down. Some sprawling manned-aircraft installations, of diminishing usefulness in the reign of the guided missile, will go. So will four Army training bases (Camp Atterbury, Ind., Fort Custer, Mich., and Camp Parks and Camp San Luis Obispo, both in California) that have, in the absence of full-scale war, been inactive for months, and are now inhabited only by caretakers and cobwebs...
...almost deserted Richmond-Oakland hills are only a few minutes away from the roar of U.S. 40. Motorists driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco can turn off U.S. 101 and, at the price of a few extra hours, follow California Route 1 along the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like...
...wonder how long it has been since the author of the article on Big Sur [Dec. 28] has visited San Luis Obispo. I take exception to his statement that ''San Luis Obispo is a well-known eyesore...
...ETHEL W. SCHNEIDER San Luis Obispo, Calif...
Master Plan. The population is still sparse-less than 700 in some 125,000 acres. But alert Big Sureans could discern the beginnings of encroachment: Carmel Highlands, just above Big Sur. has been blotched by free-for-all development, and San Luis Obispo to the south is a well-known eyesore. Tourism began to boom; in 1952 only 2,500 tourist cars passed through Big Sur on an average summer Sunday' in 1961 it was up to 6,000. and last year 8,863 cars were turned away at Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Park for lack of camping facilities...