OB Elementary School Celebrates Its 100 Yr. Anniversary

LOOKING FOR….
O. B. Elementary alumni between 1919 & 1999 who would like to participate in our Ocean Beach Historical Society presentation and celebration , Please contact ASAP : STEPHANIE (619) 602-0771 or luckyme3@cox.net
The Ocean Beach Historical Society presents:
The Ocean Beach Elementary School
Celebrates Its 100 Year Anniversary
The Alumni Rejoice in the School’s [...]

10/15/09- HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS by Katheryn Rhodes

Katheryn Rhodes of La Playa Heritage Presented
HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS AND HOW TO WRITE A HISTORIC DESIGNATION REPORT
Oct. 15th, Ms. Rhodes discussed the beautiful historically designated homes in the La Playa neighborhood which was established in 1849.
The City of SD, State, and Federal government all have the same basic guidelines for Historic Designation report. Katheryn [...]

Sept. 17, 2009 presentation THE PRESIDIO DE SAN DIEGO

THE PRESIDIO DE SAN DIEGO: ABU GHRAIB, GUANTANAMO BAY OR CITADEL OF CIVILIZATION?
Author Richard Carrico: Thurs., Sept 17th, at 7 p.m.
At PL United Methodist Church, 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd., O.B.
In their review of frontier colonial history, many scholars, and especially more recent revisionist views, following the lead of Sherburne F. Cook, have portrayed the [...]

Our Legendary Men and Women Surfers

The Masonic Center was packed for the August 14th program on “ Our Legendary Men and Women Surfers from the 1930s-Early 1960s”. This was the 2nd annual local surf program with the Sunset Cliffs Surfers. Due to previous year’s huge attendance this years event was be held at the Masonic Center. Surfer Cher [...]

OB HISTORICAL WALK, JULY 18, 2009

We  started this annual event in front of OB Library. The Tour was given by Ned Titlow and Carol Bowers. Ned, a former OB Elementary alumni, spoke about the “100 Year Anniversary” of the school and his personal accounts. At the foot of Newport Ave., OBHS Pres. Pat James showed our newest addition to our [...]

OUR LOCAL POTTERY HISTORY

Dedi Ridenour presented fascinating personal accounts of local history of pottery.
Dedi ’s father Dr. PaulWedgewood helped legitimize pottery as an art form by demonstrating pottery making at the Panama Exposition of 1935 that took place in Balboa Park.
Dr.Wedgewood turned the garage of his Sunset Cliff Spanish style home into a studio where he “threw [...]

June 18th- Karen Scanlon presented Lighthouses of SD

Lighthouses of San Diego by Authors Kim Fahlen & Karen Scanlon, was presented by Karen at the OBHS Meeting June 18, 2009. Twin sisters Karen Scanlon and Kim Fahlen have lived many years in San Diego. Kim’s preoccupation with lighthouses began in childhood when the family camped in the sand under Cape Hatteras [...]

15th Annual OB EXPOSED

Roughly 300 of the “WHO’S WHO” of OB attended the May 15th Friday night reception of OB Exposed.
What made this year’s event specialwas: Our local Wonderland documentarian Noah Trafolla presented the awards, a special tribute to Maddie Dibble, photographer Steve Rowell’s exhibit of his work starting in the 1960’s, and incredible food. The quality of [...]

OBHS Wins Award

Congress of History of San Diego & Imperial Counties
Award Winners Include: the Award of Merit to the Ocean Beach Historical Society and the Media Award to Noah Tafolla, Documentarian of the Wonderland Series
These awards given at the annual History Conference are for major contributions to the preservation and development of the history [...]

Apr. 16th OBHS A Celebration of Our Founder Ruth Held

Two Classy Dames from the old Days, was the title of the presentation at the first Ocean Beach Historical Society meeting  in February 1994. Featured was our founder Ruth Varney Held and her friend Helen Lowry Gute.
The OBHS’s meetings started at the
Ocean Beach Women’s Club and weeks at
various coffee houses around OB. We later settled [...]