The Record

The Burlingame Historical Society quarterly newsletter is one of the benefits of membership.

Articles reveal facts and folklore never before available to the public and written by local researchers using information gathered from the Burlingame Historical Society archives.

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Winter 2024, Issue 177 (1MB PDF)

  • Burlingame Movie Theaters
  • Acquisitions
  • Accomplishments

Spring 2024, Issue 178 (9MB PDF)

  • Early Photographers, Dorothy Crawford, Eugene Demiddeler
  • Quarterly Presentation, “Ansel’s Town of Easton”
  • “Old Post Office Hosts Stunning Restaurant”

Summer 2024, Issue 179 (5MB PDF)

  • Burlingame Train Station celebrates 130 Years!
  • Two new History Panels in Washington Park

Winter 2023, Issue 173 (1 MB PDF)

  • Burlingame’s Inventor, Adelard F. Martel

Spring 2023, Issue 174 (2 MB PDF)

  • Photography of Gabriel Moulin
  • Sarah Winchester

Summer 2023, Issue 175 (2MB PDF)

  • Historic Architecture on El Camino
  • Architect Mogen Mogensen
  • Wilborough English Neighborhood in Burlingame

Fall 2023, Issue 176 (3MB PDF)

  • Burlingame High Turns 100
  • Famous Alumni of Burlingame High
  • Architect William Whifler

Winter 2022, Issue 169 (1MB PDF)

  • “Magic of Neon” (past signs in Burlingame)
  • Program:  “Tales from Auto Row”
  • Accomplishments for 2021

Spring 2022, Issue 170 (2 MB PDF)

  • Shirley Jackson, author
  • Online Program: “The Forensic” (Regan book on Fall of Airwest and Howard Hughes)

Summer 2022, Issue 171 (2 MB PDF)

  • “Roots of Rock Music on Peninsula”
  • “Roots of Jazz on Peninsula”
  • Latest update on ECR redo
  • Program:  Walking Tour of Country Club cottages

Fall 2022, Issue 172 (2 MB PDF)

  • “Whittells in Burlingame” (and Tahoe
  • “A Hospital in Hillsborough?”
  • Program:  Burlingame High Panel of teachers and students
  •  Memory photo:  Grateful Dead at La Dolphine

Winter 2021, Issue 165 (7MB PDF)

  • Our “Avenue Into Paradise” (ECR Trees)
  • Online Program:  New Places for Old Homes (House-moving)
  • Accomplishments for 2020

Spring 2021, Issue 166 (9MB PDF)

  • “Remembering Agnes” (Poett Howard)
  • Online Program:  An Interview with Cathy Foxhoven (drama)

Summer 2021, Issue 167 (11MB PDF)

  •  “Burlingame’s Chemical Wagon” (Fire trucks)
  •  Deaths of Pioneer Families:   Jack Gates, Duffy Offield and Bobby Henderson, Jr.
  •  Program:  Walking Tour of Burlingame High School with John Horgan

Fall 2021, Issue 168 (8MB PDF)

  • “Beasts of Burlingame” (Pets and other animals)
  • Online Program: “What’s your story?”  (How to create your own memoir)

 

Winter 2020, Issue 161 (9MB PDF)

  • Banking on Burlingame
  • Incorporation of Burlingame
  • Hatch Lane display – Dewey Land Company
  • Quarterly meeting: Six Legacy Businesses
  • Peninsula Life Magazine advertisements (1948)

Spring 2020, Issue 162 (6MB PDF)

  • Martha Rosman May remembered
  • Photos: John Donnelly’s 1870s home, J. D. Grant residence (Villa Rose, Strawberry Hill), 1918 Spanish Flu
  • Letters: George Howard

Summer 2020, Issue 163 (7MB PDF)

  • All about Martha (Rosman)
  • Society archives, Centennial book, museum
  • Horsing around Burlingame

Fall 2020, Issue 164 (6MB PDF)

  • Ghost Stories: Kohl Manson, Rec Department, Society Archives, Parks Yard
  • Radio stations KFQH and KFOB
  • High School fire
  • Quarterly meeting: RELEASE OF TWO NEW “BURLINGAME BEFORE” EPISODES – “You Tube Burlingame Historical Society Channel.”
  • Moving the Jessie and James R. Murphy’s family home

Winter 2019, Issue 157 (1MB PDF)

Spring 2019, Issue 158 (1MB PDF)

  • Neither Rain nor Snow – Postal Service in Burlingame
  • W. H. Crocker and horse photo

Summer 2019, Issue 159 (1MB PDF)

Fall 2019, Issue 160 (2MB PDF)

  • Burlingame by the Bay
  • QUARTERLY MEETING: 250th Anniversary of Portola’s Discovery of San Francisco Bay

Winter 2018, Issue 153 (2MB PDF)

  • Three Dancing Maidens sculpture – William Schott
  • Quarterly meeting: I. Magnin – A store to remember
  • How Rollins Road got its name

Spring 2018, Issue 154 (1MB PDF)

  • Norton Pearl Photos are now on-line
  • Burlingame City Dump

Summer 2018, Issue 155 (2MB PDF)

  • National Trust for Historic Preservation comes to town
  • Greetings from Burlingame tile mural installation
  • Wall funding – Ryan Guibara (Dewey Land Company)
  • Quarterly meeting: Kohl Mansion

Winter 2017, Issue 149 (1MB PDF)

  • Pearl Harbor – 75 years
  • Annual Meeting – Prohibition in San Mateo County

Spring 2017, Issue 150 (1MB PDF)

  • Building Burlingame
  • San Mateo train depot collapse – 1906
  • Quarterly meeting: Art Deco

Summer 2017, Issue 151 (2MB PDF)

  • San Mateo Stock Farm – William Corbitt
  • Burlingame County Club – Bakwell’s Livery
  • Grey Whipple – Memories

Fall 2017, Issue 152 (MB PDF)

  • William B. Bourn II, Builder of Filoli
  • Oral Histories and Videos – How to
  • Dining on Burlingame Avenue

Special Anniversary Addition

  • $40 for 40 years Donation Drive – Donor Listing

Spring 2016, Issue 146 (1MB PDF)

  • Out with the Old, In with the New – Infrastructure changes and improvements
  • New museum exhibit – Growing up in Burlingame
  • Quarterly meeting presentation – “The Biggest News You Never Knew”- Pivotal and Trivial Events that Shaped Burlingame

Summer 2016, Issue 147 (4MB PDF)

  • Strength in Numbers – Leveraging relationships; The Sherman Ship history and ephemera
  • Victorian Days Walking Tours – Broadway and Eastside Burlingame
  • Jennifer Pfaff Honored by the Lions Club as the Citizen of the Year

Fall 2016, Issue 148 (3MB PDF)

  • Founding Father of Burlingame William Henry Howard
  • MJB Why?  Demolition of the Consignment Center at 200 Highland Ave. reveals MJB Coffee promotional signage
  • Hillsborough: Dinos to  Denizens – Dinosaurs in Hillsborough? Quarterly meeting Sally Meakin will present images of nature’s landscaping in Burlingame and Hillsborough from 100 million years ago to 150 years ago

Winter 2015, Issue 141 (7MB PDF)

  • Norton Pearl’s images donated to the San Mateo Historical Association
  • Burlingame Historical Society’s 40th Anniversary
  • Annual Meeting Presentation – “Adding the Easton Addition”

Special 40th Anniversary Edition, Issue 142 (1MB PDF)

  • Retrospective of the Historical Society over the last 40 years and a look forward in 2015
  • $40 for 40 years Donation Drive

Summer 2015, Issue 143 (4MB PDF)

  • The 1920s: Burlingame’s Golden Age
  • The Rise and Fall of Pacific City – The Coney Island of the West.
  • Historical Walking Tours

Fall 2015, Issue 144 (3MB PDF)

  • Real Estate Mania: How it all Began – From Swelldom to Suburb
  • Remembering Fern Schmitz – Founding member of the Burlingame Historical Society
  • Presentation – Burlingame Real Estate Stories Through the Ages

Winter 2015, Issue 145 (7 MB PDF)

  • The Weather Outside was Frightful, but… did it Snow? Photos of snow in Burlingame
  • Annual Meeting – Burlingame Jeopardy

Winter 2014, Issue 137 (3MB PDF)

  • 2013 Accomplishments
  • George W. Gates House damaged
  • Helen Farkas – Holocaust Survivor

Spring 2014, Issue 138 (1MB PDF)

  • Kohl Mansion Turns 100
  • Burlingame Neighborhoods presentation
  • Cattle grazing in Burlingame

Summer 2014, Issue 139 (1MB PDF)

  • Historic Resources Ordinance passed by City Council
  • S. S. Coxe (aka The Sherman) has sailed
  • Downtown Walking tours

Fall 2014, Issue 140 (5MB PDF)

  • Then and Now Museum exhibit
  • Loma Preita Earthquake – 25 Years Ago presentation

Winter 2013, Issue 133 (1MB PDF)

  • George W. Manz vintage photos
  • 2012 accomplishments
  • “Glass Houses: Legacy of Eichler” presentation

Spring 2013, Issue 134 (5MB PDF)

  • Anson Burlingame
  • Lee Mendelson presents: 50 Years of Network Specials

Summer 2013, Issue 135 (6MB PDF)

  • McKinley and Hoover Schools
  • Architect William H. Weeks
  • Veterans Memorial research project
  • Paint Burlingame event

Fall 2013, Issue 136 (6MB PDF)

  • Our Shared Stories
  • Oral and Living Histories Program
  • Burlingame’s Municipal Water history
  • Ethel Crocker and A. P. Giannini portrayal

Winter 2012, Issue 129 (13MB PDF)

  • Old City Hall and the cupola
  • Memory Teaser and Trivia Bowl

Spring 2012, Issue 130 (4MB PDF)

  • El Camino Real Trees listed in NRHP
  • Burlingame’s Wirick Family
  • Early Grocery Stores in Burlingame

Summer 2012, Issue 131 (7MB PDF)

  • Passport to History program
  • Photo installation at Union Bank (Howard Ave.)
  • History of USPS at 220 Park Road
  • “Burlingame: The Unusual” exhibit
  • Paint Burlingame event

Fall 2012, Issue 132 (2MB PDF)

  • “Founding Families” web exhibit introduced
  • Martha May turns 90!
  • “Burlingame: True Crime” presentation
  • David Chai presents “Anson Burlingame”

Spring 2011, Issue 126 6MB PDF)

  • 40- Line Streetcar
  • 2010 accomplishments
  • “Before it was Hillsborough” presentation
  • Hoover Elementary History

Summer 2011, Issue 127 (7MB PDF)

  • The Hanchett Dredge
  • “Peninsula Royalty” – Mills Family presentation
  • Ed Roberts, Burlingame native

Fall 2011, Issue 128 (4MB PDF)

  • California Women Suffrage Centennial
  • Then and Now presentation
  • 1953 Train Wreck in Burlingame

Spring 2010, Issue 122 (820KB PDF)

  • Hillsborough’s 100th anniversary
  • Agnes Poett Howard
  • Peninsula Tennis Club

Summer 2010, Issue 123

  • Seabiscuit
  • Paul Reynoso photographer

Fall 2010, Issue 124 (752KB PDF)

  • Burlingame Square and F. D. Lorton
  • Paint Burlingame awards
  • Sandlot Baseball

Winter 2010, Issue 125

  • More on F. D. Lorton
  • Moving old buildings
  • “Leafy Legacy” presentation

Winter 2009, Issue 121 (7MB PDF)

  • Museum- New Exhibits
  • Vintage glass flasks
  • Mercy Center history