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CoastLines: Landmark is Reemerging with Public Events

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles If you’ve been hibernating at home during the pandemic, or a little less outgoing than usual, it’s exciting to see…

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CoastLines: Two San Clemente Marinas That Never Happened

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles San Clemente founder Ole Hanson’s 1928 vision of building a breakwater from the end of the pier over to Seal…

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CoastLines: If Ole Had His Way, There Might Be No Surf at T-Street, Lasuen and Riviera

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Imagine this: a breakwater that extends from the end of the San Clemente Pier south to Seal Rock. In February…

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CoastLines: Movie Palace Was a Show of Faith in 1938 San Clemente

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles As we watch the historic San Clemente Theatre being restored—reborn as an events center and food court—we can be confident…

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Historical Happenings: North Beach Makes History

Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall The federal government has now recognized what all of us in San Clemente have known for decades. Last month, it officially…

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A Place in History: North Beach Recognized as Historic District

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

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CoastLines: What’s in a Name? From El Hidalgo to Miramar

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles In the North Beach Historic District, how did we go from having an El Hidalgo Theatre to a San Clemente…

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Letter to the Editor: Publik House

LARRY CULBERTSON, San Clemente Historical Society president A proposal for a different use of the historic building at 1531 N. El Camino Real will be…

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CoastLines: Let’s Imagine Our Spanish Village’s Birth in 1925

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Sunday will mark the 95th anniversary of San Clemente. On a rainy Sunday, Dec. 6, 1925, founder Ole Hanson and…

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CoastLines: A Look Back 35 Years: How Did San Clemente Do?

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Where were you in 1985? In San Clemente? Not yet in San Clemente? Not yet born? Let’s ride a time…

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Letter to the Editor: Goodbye, Tommy’s

LARRY CULBERTSON, San Clemente San Clemente is the Spanish Village by the Sea, and I hope it will always remain so. That was Ole Hanson’s…

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CoastLines: 90 years ago: The Depression in San Clemente

Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Seven months after the infamous Oct. 29, 1929 stock market crash plunged America into The Great Depression, San Clemente was…