Seal Beach Historical & Cultural Society newsletters

Thanks to Rick Murphy who used to live in Seal Beach and did graphics and T-shirt designs for the car show (1999-2003) and for the old, now defunct Historical & Cultural Society, we have added some old newsletters to our collection.

You can view them here:

1999

April 1999 newsletter

  • April General Meeting recap (Earthquake of 1933)
  • Jewel City Gems (Jewel Cafe silverware)
  • White Elephant Sale
  • Takin’ It to the Streets
  • Orange County History Date
  • Photo Contest

Sept-Oct 1999 newsletter

  • Community Meeting Update (mini-reunion of lifeguards)
  • Red Car Stamp Unveiling Ceremony
  • Articles from the Attic: Good ol’ Days

2000

Jan-Feb 2000 newsletter

  • Photo Contest winners
  • The 1920s roar again
  • April White Elephant Sale
  • It’s Time to Vote Again
  • Get Ready to Roll (Jan Gen Meeting featured speaker)
  • We Ned Room to Grow
  • Articles from the Attic: Bay Theater Opens
  • Hennessey’s Redc Car Fundraiser
  • Articles from the Attic: “Movie Day” in SB 1916

March-April 2000 newsletter

  • Articles from the Attic: Silk Stocks Needed by Government
  • LA Basin: The Way We Were
  • Articles from the Attic: Dick dales Makes Bid to Seal Beach
  • Seal Beach Oral History Project
  • Merchandise for Sale (t-shirts, books, placemats, 8X10 matted photos)

May-June 2000

  • The DWP Building
  • Seal Beach Oral History Project
  • On Track (Disney California Adventure Red Car researchers)
  • Docents needed
  • The Little Blue House is Still Standing
  • Articles from the Attic: Red Car Museum Finally on Right Track (LB Independent, 1978)
  • Articles from the Attic: Gambling in Seal Beach

July-August 2000 Newsletter

  • Celebration of Life: Nathan Cohen and Dave Stangeland
  • Articles from the Attic: City Hall and 1939
  • Many Thanks
  • APB: Seal Beach Police Blotters
  • PE Railway Time Tables

Sep-Oct 2000 newsletter

  • Photo contest
  • Seal Beach Movie Night
  • 1991 SB Surfing Pioneer “Blackie August” passes away

2001

Jan-Feb 2001 newsletter

  • 2000 photo contest
  • Happy Birthday, SBH&CS
  • The Next 100 years
  • White Elephant Sale
  • A Tree Grows in Seal Beach (update on presentation by Jim Caviola)

March-April 2001 newsletter

  • Legends of Seal Beach Surfing
  • Postcards from the edge
  • Seal Beach Then and Now
  • Seal Beach’s first Surfer Girl (excerpts from Joan Stegman oral history)
  • Any Publicity is Good Publicity

If you have issues of old newsletters from the old Historical Society and are willing to let us copy them, please contact us.

Seal Beach Historic Resources Foundation