Main Street Self-Guided Tour

Donated by the Seal Beach Lions for the 2015 Centennial celebration. The Lions are the largest Lions club in California, maybe the US. Club It was chartered in 1939.

See the statue of Slick the Seal and hear info about the history of the pier, the Joy Zone, and the many Gambling Ships 3 miles offshore.

while walking you will hear info about the first stores on Main Street’s 100 block. At O’Malley’s, which was seen in the movie “American Sniper,” we will hear of other movies shot in SB. Then we sneak out the back door into the alley and to:

See the house that belonged to Bay City’s first resident and merchant, John C. Ord 10th & the city’s first church, the Community Methodist Church.

At the four corners – Bank of America/Gambling Hall, Seal Beach Inn/Hennesey’s, Walt’s Wharf/Bordello .

Grace Church, old Fire Station and City Halls old & New. All on land bought from the town’s madam and largest landowner.

Learn the story behind the Pacific Electric Railroad and why it came to Seal Beach, as well as the story of Car 1734 and how it came to be the city’s museum. And what’s the importance of the green house — or is it blue? And why is on the Green Belt?

For a guy who wasn’t a great surfer, Rich Harbour revolutionized the sport. Check out the world’s longest continuously operating surf store and learn a little about Seal Beach surf culture.

The Bay Theatre has a real cool story of its own, but it’s also just a part of the explosive growth of Seal Beach at the end of World War II.

The Proctor House is one of the best examples of Seal Beach architecture in the early 1900s.

While walking brief background on 200 block – Bay Hardware, restaurants at 209 (originally a Bank, but then Spanish Foods, Green Pepper, BJs, Woody’s Avila’s. Masonic Hall & urn story.

Show the urn at O’Malley’s end of tour.

Some text on the pier