Tag: Historical Happenings

The San Clemente Historical Society created the Matriarch and Patriarch program with the approval of the City Council in 1989. ...

A suspected gang-related shooting this past summer in Max Berg Plaza Park prompted San Clemente city officials to remove objects ...

How Nixon came to choose San Clemente as his base is as interesting as it was improbable, Tom Marshall reports ...

Though Loch Ness in Scotland has garnered much of the media attention for nearly a century as the site of ...

Though just about everyone who’s lived in San Clemente knows that the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens originally belonged ...

In this month’s Historical Happenings, Tom Marshall looks back at the past 85 years of the Casino San Clemente, the ...

In anticipation of Independence Day, Tom Marshall this week takes a closer look at a bit of the history behind ...

In this month’s Historical Happenings column, Tom Marshall highlights only a small fraction of what David Matuszak covers in his ...

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Several Native American tribes in California are mounting a campaign to remove symbols marking El ...

By Tom Marshall It was 39 years ago this month—March 2, 1983 to be exact—when a major, late-winter storm nearly ...

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Completing years of effort, the San Clemente Historical Society, the City Council and planning department last ...

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Last month, we told you how San Clemente’s first newspaper, the weekly El Heraldo de ...

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Local newspapers were there from the very beginning to chronicle our beautiful city’s history, starting ...

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Starting this week, the official holiday shopping season will open for business. The San Clemente Historical ...

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Attached to a wall outside the Andalusia Restaurant in San Clemente’s Old Town Plaza is an ...