San Luis Obispo, California "San Luis Obispo"
San Luis Obispo .
San Luis Obispo, California City of San Luis Obispo The town/city of San Luis Obispo looking east from the top of Bishop Peak in early 2006.
The town/city of San Luis Obispo looking east from the top of Bishop Peak in early 2006.
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State of California, positioned roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the Central Coast.
The populace was 45,119 at the 2010 census. The populace of San Luis Obispo County was 269,637 in 2010.
Founded in 1772 by Spanish Franciscan Junipero Serra, San Luis Obispo is one of California's earliest communities.
The city, locally referred to as San Luis, SLO, or SLO Town (as its county is also referred to as SLO) is the governmental center of county of San Luis Obispo County and is adjoining to California Polytechnic State University.
9.1 Born or raised in San Luis Obispo 9.2 Lived in San Luis Obispo One of the earliest villages lies south of San Luis Obispo and reflects the landscape of the early Holocene when estuaries came farther inland.
Mission San Diego was the first Spanish mission established in Alta California that same year.
On September 7 8, 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portola entered the San Luis Obispo region from coastal areas around today's Pismo Beach.
The party traveled north along San Luis Obispo Creek, turned west through Los Osos valley, and reached Morro Bay on September 9. In 1770, Portola established the Presidio of Monterey and Junipero Serra established the second mission, San Carlos Borromeo, in Monterey.
On September 1, 1772, Junipero Serra jubilated the first Mass with a cross erected near San Luis Creek.
Jose Cavaller, five soldiers and two neophytes began building Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, which would later turn into the town of San Luis Obispo.
The central community, however, remained in the same locale and formed the nucleus of today's town/city of San Luis Obispo.
After the Mexican American War took in California to the United States, San Luis Obispo was the first town incorporated in the newly formed San Luis Obispo County.
San Luis Obispo once had a burgeoning Chinatown in the vicinity of Palm St.
Laborers were brought from China by Ah Louis in order to construct the Pacific Coast Railway, roads connecting San Luis Obispo to Paso Robles and Paso Robles to Cambria, and also the 1884 to 1894 tunneling through Cuesta Ridge for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The San Luis Obispo Historical Society (adjacent to the Mission) also contains rotating historical exhibits. San Luis Obispo was also a prominent stop on both U.S.
Among San Luis Obispo's historical buildings is the former San Luis Obispo Carnegie Library, positioned at 696 Monterey Street.
The San Luis Obispo Carnegie Library was assembled in 1905 with a grant of $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie, who funded the establishment of 142 California libraries in the early 1900s.
Weeks of Watsonville, California and was assembled by contractor Joseph Maino of San Luis Obispo.
Weeks, it shares features with Carnegie libraries in close-by Lompoc and Paso Robles. The San Luis Obispo Carnegie building served as the town/city library until 1955, when a new enhance library was assembled at the corner of Palm and Morro Streets. It has been home to the San Luis Obispo County Historical Museum since 1956. The Carnegie Library building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. San Luis Obispo's biggest and earliest voluntary organization is the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, which also is the earliest and biggest voluntary organization in San Luis Obispo County.
San Luis Obispo is positioned on U.S.
San Luis Obispo is on the West Coast of the United States and in the Central Coast of California.
The Pacific Ocean is only about 11 miles (18 km) west of San Luis Obispo.
The Santa Lucia Mountains lie just east of San Luis Obispo.
These mountain peaks are the headwaters for San Luis Obispo Creek, whose watershed encompasses 84 square miles (220 km2) encircling the town/city and flows to the Pacific Ocean at Avila Beach. San Luis Obispo is a seismically active area; there are a number of close-by faults including the San Andreas Fault.
The Nine Sisters are a string of hills that partially run through San Luis Obispo.
360 panorama of Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo, California taken from the top of Poly Canyon; Cerro San Luis and Bishop Peak in the middle with Cal Poly below.
San Luis Obispo experiences a cool Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csb).
Climate data for San Luis Obispo (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1927 present) Cerro San Luis as seen from Bishop Peak.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Luis Obispo had a populace of 45,119.
The ethnic makeup of San Luis Obispo was 38,117 (84.5%) White, 523 (1.2%) African American, 275 (0.6%) Native American, 2,350 (5.2%) Asian, 65 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 1,973 (4.4%) from other competitions, and 1,816 (4.0%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 5,522 citizens (12.2%) under the age of 18, 15,670 citizens (34.7%) aged 18 to 24, 9,630 citizens (21.3%) aged 25 to 44, 8,866 citizens (19.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,431 citizens (12.0%) who were 65 years of age or older.
The median homehold income in San Luis Obispo County is $60,534, and the median family income is $72,327.
San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce San Luis Obispo is incorporated as a charter city.
It is also the governmental center of county of San Luis Obispo County.
The town/city charter provides for a "Council-Mayor-City Manager" form of municipal government. The City Council has five members, a mayor who is propel to two year terms, with each mayor limited to serving no more than four consecutive terms, and four town/city council members who are propel to four year terms, with each council member limited to serving no more than two consecutive terms. The fire department of San Luis Obispo was first organized in 1872 and now has 45 full-time firefighters and four fire stations (as of 2007). The SLO City Fire Stations are staffed with three-man ALS engine companies and a four-man ALS Truck company.
The San Luis Obispo City Fire Department also maintains a bike medic program which is used at the Farmers' Market and other special affairs throughout the city.
Four members of the Fire Department are also on the San Luis Obispo SWAT Team as SWAT Medics and respond using Squad 1 (an ALS equipped ambulance which also carries some light rescue gear and other specialty tools) The front-line members of the department are represented by the San Luis Obispo City Firefighters' IAFF Local 3523. As a result, on August 2, 1990, San Luis Obispo became the first municipality in the world to ban smoking in all enhance buildings, including bars and restaurants.
This statute has been a catalyst around the world in anti-smoking legislation. In April, 2010, San Luis Obispo strengthened its anti-smoking legislation, making smoking in public, excepting for certain conditions, a citable offense beginning on June 20, 2010. In the California State Legislature, San Luis Obispo is in the 17th Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning, and in the 35th Assembly District, represented by Republican Jordan Cunningham. In the United States House of Representatives, San Luis Obispo is in California's 24th congressional district, represented by Democrat Salud Carbajal. Six of San Luis Obispo County's top ten employers, as shown below, fall in the classification of Services, four fall in Public Administration.
Downtown San Luis Obispo is centered around the carefully restored Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa.
Takken's Shoes is headquartered in San Luis Obispo.
Ernie Ball's Music Man factory is positioned in San Luis Obispo.
Scenes from the 1990 film My Blue Heaven were filmed in commercial areas of San Luis Obispo.
Scenes from the 2002 film Murder by Numbers were filmed in and around San Luis Obispo.
2 County of San Luis Obispo 2,570 8 San Luis Coastal Unified School District 873 9 City of San Luis Obispo 583 10 Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County 403 All enhance K 12 establishments in San Luis Obispo are directed by San Luis Coastal Unified School District, which contains six elementary schools, one middle school (Laguna Middle School), and one high school, San Luis Obispo High School.
The precinct also operates a several schools outside of San Luis Obispo in close-by Avila Beach, Edna Valley, Morro Bay, and Los Osos. San Luis Obispo is home to California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), a enhance college enrolling nearly 26,000 students.
Route 101 in San Luis Obispo One of San Luis Obispo's Transit's BRT buses.
San Luis Ambulance Service, a restored 1925 Dodge.
The town/city is home to San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport which offers private air service and non-stop commercial air service to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
The Amtrak train goes north to Salinas, San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco (via Emeryville, CA), Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle, and south to Los Angeles.
Greyhound closed its doors in San Luis Obispo on March 12, 2009; it still continues to service San Luis Obispo and presently uses a transit bus stop on Railroad Avenue.
Route 101 and California State Route 1 are the primary north-south highways in San Luis Obispo, linking the town/city to the rest of the Central Coast region, San Francisco to the north, and Los Angeles to the south.
California State Route 227 provides an alternate route to Highway 101 from San Luis Obispo south to Arroyo Grande.
The town/city of San Luis Obispo with Bishop Peak on the right and Cerro San Luis on the left.
The Palm Theatre boasts solar heating and is home to the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
San Luis also has a Carnegie Library which is now home to the San Luis Obispo County Historical Museum. One of the biggest Mardi Gras parades west of the Mississippi was held in San Luis Obispo, but canceled in 2005 because of problem related to crowd control and alcohol consumption.
A sculpture of a child and bear at the Mission in downtown San Luis Obispo.
Mayor Dunin called the affairs "the worst experience in the history of San Luis Obispo." San Luis Obispo has been home of a several other affairs, including a stop on the way of the Olympic Flame Relay, the Tour of California bicycle race, Cinco de Mayo celebrations, an annual Mozart festival, held every July, and a long-standing Christmas Parade.
Other noteworthy affairs include the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, Festival Mosaic, and the Plein Air Festival. San Luis Obispo hosts a farmers' market every Thursday evening from 6 9 p.m.
Since June 2000, the first Thursday of every month is The Bike Happening (also known as Bike Nite) in San Luis Obispo.
One of the cultural focal centers of San Luis Obispo is the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center assembled on the Cal Poly campus, which was constructed utilizing the donations of small-town businesses and individuals.
The addition of the Performing Arts Center attracts many touring performances which are usually not found in communities of comparable size to San Luis Obispo.
Born or raised in San Luis Obispo Lived in San Luis Obispo For citizens who are associated with San Luis Obispo because they attended California Polytechnic State University, see List of California Polytechnic State University alumni.
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