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"A line of antique cars lined up on East Vista Way Tuesday, facing west in preparation for dedication of realignment of East and West Vista Way. Hundreds of persons lined the street to see Mayor Orbee Mihalek's car crash through large paper screen at dedication point. The street connection, the second major Vista street project, cost about $151,000 and took about three months to complete. Work began in June."

Scope and Contents "Chuck Hill (left), and Gil Scott, electrical engineers, made final adjustments in control box on South Santa Fe Avenue which set in motion an eight-phase traffic light system at the new alignment of East and West Vista Way. The system, which cost $44,000, was part of the $151,000 cost used to complete the project at Santa Fe Avenue." Similar images in envelope, as well as additional images related to 1970-09-03 article with photography by Daniel Flores Rio with following caption for the...

Scope and Contents "Chuck Hill (left), and Gil Scott, electrical engineers, made final adjustments in control box on South Santa Fe Avenue which set in motion an eight-phase traffic light system at the new alignment of East and West Vista Way. The system, which cost $44,000, was part of the $151,000 cost used to complete the project at Santa Fe Avenue." Similar images in envelope, as well as additional images related to 1970-09-03 article with photography by Daniel Flores Rio with following caption for the...

Scope and Contents "Escondido police officers begin to gather data after an incident near the intersection of Washington Avenue and Escondido Boulevard Tuesday in which a laborer Vance Peel 34, was shot and killed by two Escondido patrolmen after he attacked them with an axe. When apprehended by the officers, Peele was chopping at a power pole (right) with an axe which he apparently had just bought". [Other images in this folder taken after the incident and relate to the police investigation including various...

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"Alan P. Chamberlain, Escondido contractor and president of the Escondido Rotary Club, (right) puts the finishing touches on a "teeter-bob" in the children's play center in Kit Carson Park"

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[Images 001-004: Elderly man and woman both wearing glasses each holding a Western Auto newspaper with headline "Grand Opening Sale". They are standing in a Auto shop behind the register.]

Scope and Contents "Shelly Smith, as an independent-minded spinster in the Patio Playhouse production of Agatha Christie's mystery, 'The Mousetrap,' has a surprise for Kerry Duse, who plays a police inspector investigating a murder in rural Britain." Similar images in envelope, as well as additional images related to 1970-09-10 article by Kathlyn Russell with following caption for the published image: "Dwight Burgess and Donn 'Connell are pictured in a scene from the Patio Playhouse September Production,...

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"The body of Narciso R. Inglesias of Vista, an avocado picker, was carried by coroner's corpsmen from the El Norte Parkway grove where Inglesias was electrocuted Wednesday when his aluminum fruit cutting pole came in contact with a 12,000-volt power line. Inglesias' son, Miguel, was burned attempting to rescue his father."

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"Amelia Paul, a longtime resident of Escondido, will observe 75 years of membership in the Order of Eastern Star next year. She holds a dress made of black net and lace which is nearly that old. She ordered the dress more than 70 years ago from a Sears Roebuck catalog and wore it to a special OES function earlier this year."

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"Paul J. Stout has opened Escondido's newest real estate agency, Paul J. Stout & Associates, in offices at the corner of East Grand Avenue and Juniper Street, formerly occupied by a stock brokerage firm."