Photos from the Vault column reminds us times are always changing

David Middlecamp’s interesting article Feb. 20 outlining the “rapidly changing ’50s” illustrates not only a period of rapid growth on the Central Coast, but also the more important lesson that “times are always changing.” The original announcement from the Telegram-Tribune read: “Some 3,200 acres of unproductive sand dunes are being converted into an industrial plant.”

This facility, the now-infamous Nipomo Mesa oil refinery, stands in a place that would currently never be approved, and it wants to launch an oil-by-rail program diametrically at odds with the community around it.

This story was originally published February 26, 2016 at 8:17 PM with the headline "Photos from the Vault column reminds us times are always changing."