THEN AND NOW: 223/225 Main St — Peppermint Playhouse & Nicks
223 and 225 Main Street has been a happening place in Seal Beach for decades. In the 1960s it was best known
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SBHR Foundation Scores 11 years of old Seal Beach newspapers; to digitize and index them
By Larry Strawther One of our first goals for the Historic Resources Foundation was to acquire and make available to the community digitized copies of old Seal Beach newspapers. We are happy to announce progress on that front. In addition to digitizing some early issues of the Seal Beach Surf & Sun and The Mariner earlier … Read more
Old issues of SB Surf & Sun and Mariner available at SBHRF
One of the goals of the SBHRF is to provide a home for old Seal Beach newspapers, and them to digitize them and make them available to all. This week we are adding two early issues of the Seal Beach Surf and Sun – a paper started in 1960 by Jerry Brockman, the owner of … Read more
SBHRF Receives Two $1,000 Donations
The Seal Beach Historic Resources Foundation is proud to announce it is the recent recipient of two generous donations. In late November, the Seal Beach Historic Resources Foundation (SBHRF) received $1,000 from the Sarah Childs Krueger Foundation Charity Fund at the Long Beach Community Foundation. The donation was the second monetary donation received since the … Read more
Foundation works to make old local newspapers available online
[THIS IS A SAMPLE POST. It will be polished up] The Seal Beach Historical Foundation is in talks with the Newspaper Archive company, the Sun and other local papers to digitize back issues and make them available for viewing online. The plan is to make them available to anyone who purchases a one-year membership in … Read more
Foundation, SB Lions reach accord on Red Car restoration
News release that will be in the papers
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Early contributors to collecting Seal Beach history
Preserving Seal Beach History has often been a tricky proposition. For starters many of those involved with the early days of the town did not leave a lot of their records in easily accessible places, or in easy-to-find filing systems — understandable, I suppose, since much of Seal Beach’s early history involved multiple failed real … Read more