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ORAL HISTORY: Sherry Liss Baum
SBHRF Interview by Leigh Sentenac with Sherry Liss Baum (July 15, 2025) LEIGH: The purpose of our interview is to capture the historical information related to your life in Seal Beach. Do I have permission to record our conversation and share the content for purposes of the Seal Beach Historical Resources Foundation? SHERRY: Yes, subject…
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The Safest Beach in California? Seal Beach’s Bold Claim in 1939
In Spring 1939 the Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce began a campaign to reclaim the city’s lawful ownership of the title “the safest beach in California.” The campaign included calling out both Manhattan Beach and Carpinteria who also claimed the title via newspaper articles, sternly-worded letters to editors making the claim that nobody had ever…
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We’ve digitized some old local newspapers
The Historic Resources Foundation is pleased to announce we have begun digitizing copies of the Post & Wave, the town’s main newspaper from 1916 to the mid 1950s. We have obtained copies from nine different years between 1941 and 1955. We have done this in partnership with Newspaperarchives.com, one of the three largest companies which…
