Historical Happenings: Only 2 Vintage Seaside Hotels
San Clemente and Capistrano Beach have only two vintage beachfront hotels, and one has been shut down for years. Now, ...
Tag: San Clemente History
Historical Happenings: What Is Historic Is Often Relative
Tom Marshall pens one last Historical Happenings column for the San Clemente Times, as he is resigning from the Historical ...
Historical Happenings: Historical Society to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
On March 19, from 4-7 p.m., the San Clemente Historical Society will celebrate its Golden Anniversary party at Casa Romantica, ...
San Clemente Historical Society to Host Gala for 50th Anniversary Celebration
To celebrate its “golden anniversary” on March 19, the San Clemente Historical Society will host a gala at Casa Romantica, ...
City to Honor Late Fred Swegles with Photo Display in City Hall
To recognize longtime reporter and late San Clemente figure Fred Swegles, the City Council on Tuesday night, Feb. 7, approved ...
Council to Discuss Photo Display for the Late Fred Swegles
To recognize longtime reporter and late San Clemente figure Fred Swegles, the City Council on Tuesday night, Feb. 7, will ...
Historical Happenings: The Last Great Train Robbery of Orange County
In this month’s Historical Happenings column, Tom Marshall shares the tale of the last “Great Train Robbery” in Orange County ...
Historical Happenings: The Divel Dynasty
The San Clemente Historical Society created the Matriarch and Patriarch program with the approval of the City Council in 1989. ...
Historical Happenings: The War of the Roses
A suspected gang-related shooting this past summer in Max Berg Plaza Park prompted San Clemente city officials to remove objects ...
Historical Happenings: When San Clemente Was the Center of the Political World
How Nixon came to choose San Clemente as his base is as interesting as it was improbable, Tom Marshall reports ...
Legendary Local Newsman Fred Swegles Dies at 74
Fred Swegles, the longtime newsman who spent his career covering San Clemente and its neighboring towns, died peacefully in his ...
Historical Happenings: The Legend of the San Clemente Monster
Though Loch Ness in Scotland has garnered much of the media attention for nearly a century as the site of ...
Historical Happenings: Casa Romantica’s Most Famous Owner
Though just about everyone who’s lived in San Clemente knows that the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens originally belonged ...
Letter to the Editor: Fred Swegles’ Gift to San Clemente
RICK J. DELANTY, San Clemente Fred Swegles has given more to San Clemente than can possibly be acknowledged in a ...
Historical Happenings: How Local Newspapers Shaped San Clemente’s History
Tom Marshall By Tom Marshall Last month, we told you how San Clemente’s first newspaper, the weekly El Heraldo de ...
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