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…

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…

The Historic Resources Foundation is pleased to announce we have begun digitizing copies of the Post & Wave, the town’s main newspaper from 1916…

Like most of Seal Beach’s beginnings, the history of the Bay Theatre has been shrouded in mystery and inaccuracy. Numerous newspaper articles had repeated the…

The Seal Beach Historical Society and Red Car Museum disbanded in 2021 and removed all items that had previously been donated or acquired.  In…

William Taylor – Oral History – interviewed by Libby Appelgate  William Taylor was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1918.  In 1924 his father brought…

Seal Beach Police Officer Sergeant Pat Sullivan was interviewed by Libby Appelgate for the 90th Founders Day celebration in 2005. Her articles were…

This story ran in the Sun on February 2, 2018. Although uncredited, we suspect it was one of Elizabeth Kane’s many local profiles…

223 and 225 Main Street has been a happening place in Seal Beach for decades. In the 1960s it was best known…