Moment In Time: Jan Siegel
A Year to Remember
This entire year was a Moment in Time, as the community celebrated 50 years of incorporation. Although the area we call San Juan Capistrano had been a population center for over a 1,000 years, it d...
Dec 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Take a Historical Tour of Camp Pendleton
December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” was the way it was described by President Franklin Roosevelt. Today, 70 years later, not so much. In recent years the date has pretty much gone...
Nov 11, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ghost Tales, and Ghostly Walks
One of the wonderful things about San Juan Capistrano is how history and the present are always coming together. And this time of the year is the best example of that. And this year, the past and p...
Oct 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thanks to Early Leaders for Vision
As we continue to celebrate our city’s 50th year of incorporation, we need to look back at the first City Council and realize how much we owe them for their vision of San Juan Capistrano. In Augus...
Jul 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mission Unveils Treasures
The past and the present are never separated in historic San Juan Capistrano. People, places and things, which share a history, have a unique way of coming together in our community. Currently, ...
Jun 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Juaneños Suffered from Smallpox, but Thrive in Town
It is not often that history and the present come together in a neat little package. But when you have as much history as our community has that happens more than you might think. 1862 was a pivo...
May 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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After Cityhood Approved, Capistrano Moves Forward
The election to incorporate San Juan Capistrano had passed. A new City Council had been elected. Now what? How does a city start to govern? On April 24, 1961, the first City Council meeting was he...
Feb 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Is the Montanez Adobe a Spirited Place?
The Montanez Adobe on Los Rios Street in San Juan Capistrano is a national treasure. It really is. It is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and is on a street which also shares that...
Oct 20, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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O’Sullivan Launched Mission School
As students start a new term, it is important to remember the vision that Father St. John O’Sullivan had for creating a parochial school among the ruins of the Mission. Fr. O’Sullivan considered t...
Sep 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Committee Preparing for City’s Birthday
Next year the city of San Juan Capistrano will celebrate its 50th anniversary of incorporation. More stories next year on how it all came about…but in the meantime a group of residents have been me...
Aug 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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