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Sports
Atwater Plunge
May 7, 1962

Here's a shot from the opening day for the season on May 7, 1962. 

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Sports
Atwater Plunge
May 7, 1962

Here's a second shot from the same day.

Packing tomatoes

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Ag

Bob Bryant loads tomatoes into a truck at Central California Tomato Growers

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Greenough Farms

Workers at Greenough Farms get cattle ready for shipping to Mexico. 
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Sun-Star

CBS Hookup of Phones

Nov. 6, 1962


Election Day at the newspaper office in 1962. 

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Bear Creek Drive and G Street in Merced

Dec. 20, 1961


Here's a simple view looking north at the intersection of G Street and East South Bear Creek Drive in Merced. 

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Flood
Nov. 19, 1950

I wish there was more information about this photo. Can't figure out where it was taken. Don't know where Drive-In Liquors was located. It's one of the oldest photos in the collection. 

UPDATE: Several e-mailers report that this store was at East 21st Street and Keely Avenue at the very east end of 21st Street.
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Mercy Gulch Day
July 7, 1961

Does Merced still celebrate Mercy Gulch Day? Looks like a lot of fun. They would throw people in the "hoosegow" and have friends bail them out, all in the name of charity, of course.  Love the "Mixatorium" in the background. 
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Merced County Hospital
October 1965

It looks like work was being done on the hospital on 13th Street. Patients will be moved this weekend coming up to the new facility on G Street in North Merced. 


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Merced County Hospital
October 1965

Another view of the hospital on 13th Street. 
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Seasons

Spring

Mike Lafon and Melanie Presley

March 19, 1958


Years ago, newspapers liked to set up photo shoots like this one to mark the changing of the season. 


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Seasons

Spring

Mike Lafon and Melanie Presley

March 19, 1958


These two were taken to a park in their best clothes for the photos. The moms are probably just off camera, making sure everything looks perfect. 


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Income Tax Return Deadline
April 15, 1959


This year's tax deadline is coming up this week. Here's a photo from
1959 making sure folks were aware of the approaching deadline back then.

Jesse Chenault is the copy desk chief at the Sun-Star and a former staff photographer. The purpose of this blog is to share photos from the newspaper's archives that hopefully spur a discussion about our area's history, photography or the events, people and places pictured here. Feel free to log in and contribute information about the pictures. He'll try to give as many details as he can about names, dates, places but some of the information is fairly sketchy. E-mail him at jchenault@mercedsun-star.com. Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

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