Tag: Ole Hanson

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

Featured Image: Ole Hanson, circa 1928. Photo: Courtesy of San Clemente Historical Society Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles There was ...

MARY ANN COMES, San Clemente This building really pushes boundaries and doesn’t maintain tradition. It is really huge and overbears ...

By C. Jayden Smith Passersby of the structure that is under construction right in the heart of Avenida Del Mar ...

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

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles From 1926 to 1930, Southern California’s fashionably growing “Spanish Village by the Sea”—known as San ...

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles If you’ve been hibernating at home during the pandemic, or a little less outgoing than ...

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles San Clemente founder Ole Hanson’s 1928 vision of building a breakwater from the end of ...

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Imagine this: a breakwater that extends from the end of the San Clemente Pier south ...

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles As we watch the historic San Clemente Theatre being restored—reborn as an events center and ...

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall The federal government has now recognized what all of us in San Clemente have known ...

By Shawn Raymundo San Clemente’s North Beach corridor has earned its place on the National Register of Historic Places as ...

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles In the North Beach Historic District, how did we go from having an El Hidalgo ...

LARRY CULBERTSON, San Clemente Historical Society president A proposal for a different use of the historic building at 1531 N. ...

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Sunday will mark the 95th anniversary of San Clemente. On a rainy Sunday, Dec. 6, ...