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PRESS ROOM

End of an Era • Santa Maria California Times, July 6, 1973
The Southern Pacific Transportation Co. intends to close its Oceano Depot...
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Oceano Depot Preservation Wins Support of Civic Body • Santa Maria, California Times, March 1, 1974
A scheme to acquire and preserve the abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad depot at...
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Improvement Association to Acquire Oceano Depot • Times, County Line News, March 29, 1975
The old Southern Pacific Railroad depot at Oceano will not be dmolished but purchased for $1...
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Old Safe Donated for Oceano Depot • Five Cities, July 20, 1977
An old safe origanlly built for the Southern Pacific railroad station in Lompoc was donated...
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Oceano Rail Depot Repairs on Track  • Five Cities Times-Press-Recorder, March 3, 1978
Plans to relocate and renovate the old Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in Oceano into a coummunity meeting hall, area museum, and...
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Almost Home • Oct 18, 1978
The old Oceano train depot made it home yesterday to a new location less than a quarter mile north...
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Train "Sound" Almost Audible at Old Depot • Five Cities - Santa Maria Calif, May 15, 1982
Trains rolled into the station here, once upon a time...
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Next Stop Oceano • San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune, August 1, 1984
Oceano's 80-year-old  railroad depot is getting a face lift, courtesy of the Oceano Improvement Association...
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Oceano's Depot Nears Destination for Restoration • Five Cities Time, Jan. 6, 1991
Harold Guiton said the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter...
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Oceano Depot is Still his Playground • South County Tribune, Feb. 21, 1991
Romance of the rails stimulates restoration efforts by Guiton, others...
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Preservation Efforts Pay Off for Oceano Landmark • San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune, July 10, 1998
A building that has been at the center of Oceano...
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Depot Restoration Continues on the Fast Track • Five Cities Time Press Recorder, August 4, 2000
Depot restoration continues on the fast track...
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Historic Train Depot's No. 1 Fan Dies  • March 1, 2001
He worked tirelessly and painstakingly on...
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Heart and Soul of Depot Dies  • 2001
Harold Guiton, part of a third generation...
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Oceano Guiding Star Guiton dead at 71  • 2001
Harold Guiton, part of a third generation...
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Depot Flowers  • The San Luis Obispo Model Railroad Club, April 2001
Article by Norm Hammond...
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An Engine for Harold  • Five Cities Time Press Recorder, Sep. 7, 2001
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Memorial to War Dead Settle Into New Home  • San Luis Obispo Tribune, September 14, 2001
Thelma Anderson still remembers the December Day...
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Oceano Hopes to Solve Photos Mystery at Memorial Dedication  • Times Press Recorder, Sep. 7, 2001
Thelma Anderson still remembers the December Day...
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Photos From Another Time/ A Barber and a Historian  • San Luis Obispo Tribune, September 16, 2001
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A Good Name for Oceano's Depot  • San Luis Obispo Tribune, Sep. 9, 2002
It will be dedicated to Harold Guiton...
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Oceano Depot Open House, Dedication This Week  • Times Press Recorder, Sep. 13, 2002
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Bouquets and Brickbats  • The Tribune, Sep. 14, 2002
Talk about a one-track mind. Harold Guiton gave 30 years of his life - "24/7" as historian Dan Krieger noted...
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A New Beginning for Antique Depot  • San Luis Obispo Tribune, September 16, 2002
A crowd gathers this weekend at the dedication of the Oceano Train Depot...
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Oceano Depot Dedicated to Harold Guiton  • Time Press Recorder, September 18, 2002
The restoration of the Oceano Train Depot can be seen as a lasting tribute to what a small community can do when it stands united for a purpose... 
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Moving History - John Loomis Donates Caboose • Time Press Recorder, April 14, 2004
Century-old Caboose Relocated to Oceabo Depot from Tar Springs Ranch...
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Historical Landmark Celebrates 100 Years of Service  • Time Press Recorder, Aug. 4, 2004
Harold Guiton's longtime love affair with his hometown's train station started...
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Next Stop: Oceano Depot, Once Near End of the Line, Celebrates 100 Years This Weekend  • Santa Maria Times, Aug. 5, 2004
Harold Guiton's longtime love affair with his hometown's train station started... Read More

A Look Into Oceano's History  • The Tribune, Aug. 9, 2004
Oceano's Railroad Depot, a once popular train stop that's matured into a clearinghouse of times past... Read More

Local Writer Prepares Detailed History of Community  • Times Press Recorder Aug. 27, 2004
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Article Featuring The Oceano Depot, by Bob Behme • San Luis Obispo Magazine, Sep. 2004
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Fulfilling a Dream  • Times Press Recorder, Oct. 22, 2004
Book envision by historian published by friend...
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History Lives  • Senior Living Magazine, Jan. 2005
Oceano's Premeir Historian... Read More

Memorial Garden Will Honor Oceano's Favorite Physician  • Lee Central Coast News, Oct. 14, 2005
When Linda Austin found a letter penned by her late father, Harold Guiton about plans for a memorial garden... Read More

Honoring the Doctor • Time Press Recorder, Oct. 19, 2005
The Oceano Depot Association held a dedication ceremony Sunday for the newly planted rose-filled Dr. Rudolf W. Gerber Memorial Park... Read More

Oceano School Reunion Planned • Community News, March 2006
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First Reunion Planned for Oceano Grammar School • Time Press Recorder, Feb. 8, 2006
Students from all classes invited to attend... Read More

Article Featuring the Oceano Depot by Bob Behme • Preservation Magazine ( Magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation) • March/April 2005
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Oceano School Reunion a Success • Community News, July, 2006
More than 275 former studens and their family gathered for an Oceano Elementary School Reunion... Read More

Carving Out Its Place in History at Oceano Depot • Times Press Recorder, Aug 21, 2008
A three-mastered galleon carved out of wood in the late 1920's or early 1930's by Dunite Arther Allman recently made its final docking at he Oceano Depot...
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All Aboard! Dedication on track for Wooden Caboose • Times Press Recorder, Oct. 23, 2008
The doors to a centruy-old wooden caboose that made its final stop, several years ago on the Oceano & Northern Railroad tracks at the Oceano Depot are open again. ...
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Last Dunite Cabin Moved to Oceano Depot • Times Press Recorder, Sep. 30, 2010
cabin was donated to the Oceano Depot Association, the dwelling finally has a permanent home. Last month, the cabin that was built in the early 1930's by Gavin Arthur; the grandson of President Chester Alan Arthur was moved to the depot property on Front Street...  
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Book Offers Oceano Pictorial History • Times Press Recorder, Sep. 30, 2010
Unless you're a South County old-timer, you might not know that Oceano used to have a Celery Festival. Or that speedboats raced and people water skied on Oceano Lagoon. Or that as late as 1961, countyr bands played in the last of the four Pavilions built in the dunes overlooking the beach...
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Our Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down Review on Recent Events and Issues • Times Press Recorder, Oct. 7, 2010
The Oceano Depot Association has earned a well-deserved thumbs-up this week for not giving up its seven-year quest to save the last remaining Dunite cabin from ruin... 
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Waiting for WWII Soldier's Return • Times Press Recorder, May 26, 2011
When George Bernard Murray was deployed overseas during World War II, his family expected the young Oceano man to return home. More than 65 years later, Murray's family is still waiting for that homecoming...
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New Layouts Will Operate at Model Railroad Days • Times Press Recorder, Jan 19, 2012 
A replica of the Santa Maria Valley Railroad's original train yard and a high school freshman's detailed modules are among the operating layouts to be dsplayed during the fifth annual Model Railroad Days at the Oceano Depot... Read More

Grandson of an American President Once Lived a Bohemian Life in the Oceano Dunes • The Tribune, August 16, 2022 
Trying to own a dune is like trying to hold onto a fist full of sand. And yet it hasn’t stopped dreamers in the Oceano Dunes.  
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END OF AN ERA
OCEANO DEPOT PRESERVATION WINS SUPPORT
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIN TO ACQUIRE
OLD SAFE
OCEANO RAIL DEPOT REPAIRS
ALMOST HME
TRAIN SOUNDS ALMOST AUDIBLE
NEXT STOP OCEANO
OCEANO'S DEPOT NEARS DESTINATION FOR RESTORATION
STILL HIS PLAYGROUND
PRESERVATION EFFORTS
RESTORATION CONTINUES
NO 1 FAN DIES
HEART AND SOUL
OCEANO GUIDING STAR
FLOWERS
ENGINE FOR HAROLD
MEMORIAL TO WAR DEAD
BARBER
PHOTO MYSTERY
SPIFFY
A GOOD NAME
OPEN HOUSE
BOUQUETS &BRICKBATS
NEW BEGINNIG
DEDICATED
MOVING HISTORY
100 YEARS
NEXT STOP 100YRS
100TH ANNIVERSARY
DELVING IN
BOOK
HISTORIAN NORM
GARDEN
DOCTOR
REUNION PLANNED
FIRST REUNION
REUNION SUCCESS
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