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 ...
Tag: Ole Hanson
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CoastLines: A Resort Hotel at T-Street? Ole Had Visions
Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Next time you visit San Clemente’s T-Street Beach, pause to notice the grand width of ...
Historical Happenings: The Plots to Murder Ole Hanson
Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall The decade before Ole Hanson became the founding father of San Clemente, he was the ...
Historical Happenings: The History of San Clemente Newspapers
Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall There is an old axiom that a newspaper is the first draft of history. So, it ...
CoastLines: Tiki Village by the Sea?
Fred Swegles By Fred Swegles Try to imagine a beach town master-planned around a Polynesian theme. All houses, restaurants, hotels, ...
Historical Happenings: How Ole Hanson Handled the Last Big Pandemic
Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall The last time our country faced a pandemic like the coronavirus, San Clemente didn’t even ...
CoastLines: Before He made San Clemente, Ole Hanson Made Headlines as a Seattle Mayor in 1919
By Fred Swegles One hundred years ago, Ole Hanson was one of the most famous men in America. “Fighting Mayor ...
Historical Happenings: Sometimes a House Is Not Just a Home
By Tom Marshall Tom Marshall On Dec. 5 at 6 p.m., the San Clemente Historical Society will host a free ...
CoastLines: Some of Our Spanish Street Names Are a Mouthful
By Fred Swegles How would you like to live on Pimple Street? I’m not suggesting that we have a Zit ...
Our Town, Our School: Learning from the Past
By Patricia Holloway, member of the Capistrano Unified School District Board, representing Trustee Area 3 (San Clemente) Trustee Patricia Holloway ...
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