A scanned newspaper page from the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), dated Monday, January 10, 1955, page 19. The clipping was sourced from Newspapers.com and downloaded on April 5, 2025. The PDF text layer contains only source metadata with no recoverable article text.
This date is particularly significant in Dick's biography: January 10, 1955 is the exact date of the Oakland Tribune article "Local Kid Makes Good," one of the earliest known newspaper profiles of Dick, later reprinted in the Melville House Last Interview collection. Dick was living in the Berkeley-Oakland area at this time and was actively publishing science fiction short stories. If this is indeed that article, it represents a foundational document in Dick's public biography, capturing him at the very beginning of his career.