San Jose Mercury News, 60s and 70s

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In the Sixties, Dad became the education writer for the San Jose Mercury News and won some awards.  This post contains a selection of articles from the early 1960s and mid to late 1970s.   The articles from the sixties are focused primarily on education, while those in the seventies seem to focus mostly on the elderly, especially the ones written shortly before his own retirement.  (Dad was a "Gray Panther.")

(Should you choose to access these documents, you will see that the gentleman using the scanner used a Knight Library brochure as a place holder.)

Mixed dates, including September 1962, September 1963 (clipped articles)

Fall, 1963, (clipped articles) (including reaction to Kennedy assassination)

Mixed dates, including September 1963 and February 1964 (clipped articles)

Winter, spring, 1964 (clipped articles)

Summer, 1964 (clipped articles)

Fall, 1974 (full pages)

December, 1974 into spring, 1975

Spring into Summer, 1975

October to December, 1975

December, 1975 to January, 1976

San Jose Evening News 1956-57

(For information about what this is, please see previous posts.)

Dad eventually got a job at the large paper from which he would retire in 1976:  The San Jose Evening News which later became the San Jose Mercury News.   He brought along his "Off the Beat" column to the News.

Downtown San Jose, 1950s, From SPUR

On a personal note, I well remember the old, old Mercury building, and not only because Dad took me to visit there.  I remember vacations that began in the morning dark when Mom would bundle us into the car, giving me and my younger sister half-tabs of Dramamine to make sure we slept.  Nevertheless, I would wake up just twenty minutes later as Dad absent--mindedly allowed the car to take as to the front of his workplace in downtown San Jose.  I would look up and see the spinning planet above the front doors.  Later, this home was replaced by a larger building which itself has now been abandoned.   


July, August, 1956, (columns in scrapbook)

August, September, 1956 (columns in scrapbook)

October, 1956 and March, April, 1957

August, October,  November, 1956 (columns in scrapbook)

November, December, 1956 (columns in scrapbook)

December, 1956 - January, 1957 (columns in scrapbook)

January, February, 1957 (columns in scrapbook)

San Jose Mercury News HQ, 1966-2014