Nov 28, 2023 08:18PM ● By Christine Lampert
Imagine San Clemente in the 1920s as a small village and the only buildings are all Spanish style architecture. The entire town of San Clemente once had over 500 buildings...
Mar 01, 2022 09:18AM ● By Tom Marshall
For the first five years of San Clemente’s existence hundreds of homes were built according to strict requirements, but the Great Depression of the 1930s changed everything.
Mar 17, 2021 10:25AM ● By Tom Marshall
Just like many of us would like to forget 2020, 1933 was an especially bad year for San Clemente’s first mayor, Thomas F. Murphine.
Jul 13, 2020 11:16AM ● By Mike Chamberlin
In 1965 I was a junior at the brand-new San Clemente High School, and to afford my surfing lifestyle, I took a job as a dishwasher at Denny’s.
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