April 2010 Archives

The hospital's last days

By Jesse Chenault on April 26, 2010 11:47 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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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. 

Celebrating the start of spring

By Jesse Chenault on April 20, 2010 12:37 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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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. 


Tax deadline coming up

By Jesse Chenault on April 13, 2010 3:57 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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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.
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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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