Video. In its first collaboration with the Odd Fellows Lodge, the Half Moon Bay History Association presents another unique speaker’s event on February 11, 2020. Archaeologist Mark Hylkema returns to discuss a new topic centered on the Ohlone and their endurance from early colonial times to the present. The room was packed! Date: Tuesday, February […]
Half Moon Bay Coastsider History
Coastside Buzz works with Dave Cresson and the Half Moon Bay History Association to bring Coastsiders stories from the past. Here we see the restaurant The Reefs which is sitting right where Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is today!
Did You Know There is a Road From El Granada Blvd. to Milbrae?
ARTICLE. Authored by Andy Howse from the Open the SF Watershed website The Road to El Granada. Hmmmm. As the crow flies, Millbrae, California, which sits on the bay side of the northern San Francisco Peninsula, is roughly eight miles from the town of El Granada, which sits on the Pacific. To drive from Millbrae […]
Wrecks at Franklin Point and the Shipwreck Cemetary ~ HMB History Lecture
VIDEO. “Perils of a Leeward Shore”; Franklin Point Historic Shipwreck Cemetery at Año Nuevo State Park, presented Tuesday, December 17, 2019, at the Portuguese Culture Center The public was welcome. HMB Coastside History Association presents maritime history event with Mark Hylkema, Cultural Resources Program Manager & Tribal Liaison/Archaeologist, Santa Cruz District, California State Parks. Mark […]
HMB Coastside History Association Asks City for 25 Year Lease to Build Museum
VIDEO. Half Moon Bay Coastside History Association’s, Juliette Applewhite, answers questions for the City Council. Visitors from 81 countries have visited the jail in the last year. The capital campaign to turn the Johnston Barn/Garage has raised $1.28 million, needing $1.6 . DONATE Half Moon Bay Jail Museum Remote Tour APRIL 4, 2019 BY MICHELLE (EDIT) […]
Primary Record of History of the Ohlone-Portola SF Bay Discovery Trail
ARTICLE/ PRIMARY RECORD. The uniqueness of the Heritage Trail is that it is based on two cultures, the Ohlone and the Spanish, that were unknown to each other until 1769. This is the story of two peoples—the indigenous population and their culture, and the coming of the Spanish and European colonization. This trail contains historic […]
A Review of the Half Moon Bay Review in 1969
PHOTO-ESSAY. Last Thursday, 9/26/19, Comcast was down and I had some free time so I headed down to the Archives of the HMB Review. I had seen a blurb in the page 2, Historic Headlines, that identified a story in 1969 that might inform why we have a homeless problem today. Low income housing proposal […]
The Wreck of the Glenesslin: Insurance Fraud, or Just Drunken Incompetence?
ARTICLE / PODCAST. For the full story go to >>> Offbeat Oregon History: (Originally published July 3, 2011). A Windjammer still holds a world speed record for sailing ships, but by the time of her demise, had been losing money for years; the age of steam had made her obsolete. So when she sailed onto […]
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