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A big storm in Merced

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Rain
Streets flooded
Jan. 25, 1958


Here's a fairly routine photo of flooding in Merced but a closer look offers interesting details. The location is possibly 13th Street at V Street, looking east down 13th. The old-fashioned Highway 140 sign with a bear on it is great. The road flares in the middle of the photo look like cartoonish cannonballs.The billboard at the left says "Sports time is Fallstaff time. Fallstaff Beer." Never heard of that beer before.


HAB_FLOOD_03.jpg

Rain
Streets flooded
Jan. 25, 1958

Another rain photo shot on the same day, likely also on 13th Street.

Aerial views of Merced

Aug. 2, 1962


Here's an aerial view of Merced in the early 1960s. Highway 99 is being built in the foreground and M Street runs through the middle of the picture from top to bottom.

The Merced County Office of Education is in the foreground on the left.  


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This page is an archive of entries from December 2009 listed from newest to oldest.

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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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