Events & News

February 9, 2023 6pm - 8:30 at the Burlingame Community Center "Sequoia Room" 850 Burlingame Avenue, Burlingame-- "Design is Underway, Caltrans Needs your Input"...www.ElCaminoRealProject.com for event details

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2023 from 1- 2:30pm  Burlingame Community Center, Maple Room 850 Burlingame Avenue, Burlingame Admission is free. “How the News is Made” will be presented by Jon Mays, editor-in-chief of the San Mateo Daily Journal for over 20 years. During that same two decades, we have all seen the delivery of our news totally upended by social media and digital formats, with Jon having a front row seat.  Hear him relate the challenge of making and delivering the news in the 21st century.  Our local newspapers are in the business of recording and preserving local history each and every day.  Come to this exciting presentation to hear how it’s done!  We will meet in MAPLE ROOM of Burlingame’s new Community Center (second floor; handicapped accessible; elevator from garage)  We will wrap up by 2:30 — well in time for the Super Bowl kick off at 3:30 p.m. For more information contact Carl Martin, Burlingame Historical Society board member, at carl@thestudioshop.com or 650-703-8395

This is a recorded moderated panel discussion featuring BHS alumni representing different years from the past discussing highlights of their tenure there. This is part of the Burlingame High Centennial Celebration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJho57fWaOI

October 2022- What is now the META site was filled in the mid- to late 1960s by the Anza-Pacific Corporation out of illegal fill placed into the Bay that formed a roughly 146-acre peninsula, part of which became a 2-screen drive-in facility. The theatre facility opened at 350 Beach Road in 1965. Structures were designed by prolific architect Vincent G. Raney; one side was named the Burlingame Drive-In and the other side was named the Peninsula Drive-In. Eventually the whole complex was renamed Burlingame Drive-In Theatre. Many longtime residents have fond memories of escapades with friends and family at the Burlingame Drive-in during its nearly 50-year run in Burlingame. After several attempts to redevelop the site throughout the 1990s, Burlingame Drive-in closed in 2001 and its structures were demolished in 2002.  The Society is grateful for the City of Burlingame Community Grant that helped to make our vision a reality, and in particular, to the Dept. of Public Works staff without whom the project would not have been possible.

Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 1pm:  Please Join us for Burlingame’s addition to the annual San Mateo County Historical Association Victorian Days Walking Tours This tour will describe the planting of the eucalyptus and elm trees that gave Burlingame its distinctive look, as well as the building in 1892 of a planned development of five homes that sought to jump-started a community of San Francisco summer dwellers.  We will discuss original owners of the cottages, as well as the country club they formed. Bring a hat or sun protection and water. Meet at Hillsborough Town Hall parking lot.  Our ¾ mile tour will last approximately one hour and will conclude in front of St. Paul’s Episcopal church.