Downtown Soul

Craig Kaufman

17 miles of beauty

In 1919, an article in the Los Angeles Times called Pebble Beach’s 17-Mile Drive one of the “great wonders of the world.” Close to 100 years later, its spectacular beauty […]…

There’s a reason it’s Steinbeck Country

J. Ernst Steinbeck, father of novelist John Steinbeck, was the first agent for SP Milling Company which operated a warehouse and flour mill in King City in the late 1800s; […]…

KSBW = Salad-Bowl-of-the-World

In 1953, local resident John C. Cohan paid homage to the Salinas Valley by naming his television station KSBW. He apparently selected those call letters to showcase the local ag […]…