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March 2024

Saving Carmel Valley History So, Who Did Name The Carmel River? A Field Trip to the Museum Carmel Valley’s Red Cross Unit, The Muriel Vanderbilt Story “The Carmel”, a Carmel River Poem Download (8...

December 2023

From Carmel Valley to Hawaii, The Stonepine to Westin Kauai Draft Horse Story Joe Hitchcock’s Parents Joseph and Anna Hitchcock Joe Hitchcock, Carmel Valley Old-Timer, His Stories are Online in the Outlook Christmas Party and 10th Anniversary Celebration Download (8...

The History Center’s “Talking Machine”

Play Many millions of 78 rpm recordings were pressed on shellac (beetle resin) records between 1898 and 1950. Records are played on the museum’s 1909 Columbia Disc Graphophone that is wound up like a clock to play – no batteries needed or electricity attached. For the...
The History Center’s “Talking Machine”

The History Center’s “Talking Machine”

A Living History to the Sounds of the Past Many millions of 78 rpm recordings were pressed on shellac (beetle resin) records between 1898 and 1950. These particular recordings were made by the OKEH Phonograph Corp. of NY in the 1920s with one 3-minute recording on...
October 2023 Update to “Jamesburg Earth Station”

October 2023 Update to “Jamesburg Earth Station”

Many Valleyites may not be aware that Carmel Valley’s Earth Station played a vital role in Intelsat’s world-wide communications global network from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Among its historic transmissions was the famous “first step” TV pictures of Apollo 11’s...