08.30.26 An Open House at the Costa Mesa Historical Society Museum 4 PM - 5:30 PM Followed by a Gala at the Hertzog Community Center 6 PM - 8 PM Sign up for our newsletter
08.29.26 Food, music and fun to celebrate our 60th Anniversary at the Diego Sepulveda Adobe 11 AM - 3 PM Stay informed, sign up for our newsletter
🗳️ Costa Mesa Historical Society Board Elections – 2025 It’s election season at the Costa Mesa Historical Society! We invite members to help guide our mission of preserving and celebrating Costa Mesa’s rich history. 🔹 Open Board Positions 1st Vice President (Programs): Open 2nd Vice President (Membership): Open Secretary: Mari E. Page – Candidate Treasurer: Harla Wood – Candidate Director, Archives: Mary Ellen Goddard – Candidate Director, Adobe: Cindy Humphries – Candidate Director, SAAAB: Bob Palazzola –…
As some of you may have already noticed, we're updating our online gift shop! There are still many more items to be uploaded, so be sure to keep checking back in here. If you don't see something on the online shop that you're sure we sell, please give us a call! It's likely that it's still in the queue to be uploaded.
Dear Fellow Members - It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you of the passing of Art Goddard, one of our long time volunteers, due to cancer on February 13, 2021. He was 78. Art and his wife Mary Ellen moved to Costa Mesa in 1977 and she started volunteering at the Society shortly after that. "Art began volunteering for computer stuff, when we first got our Apple (the little one with the tiny…
November is fast approaching and so are our annual elections. This is where you, our members, have the opportunity to become a candidate or nominate another member to serve on our board and help set the direction of the Historical Society.
Society VP Bob Palazzola says: "We knew that the need for volunteers was always an ongoing problem. However, I was surprised to find out that it was even a concern for ghosts of our building."
Every week it gets a little bit easier to uncover a bit of history thanks to the Costa Mesa Historical Society’s digitization project.
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the annual Artistic License Fair in Estancia Park. Makers and buyers alike praised this year’s event featuring the work of dozens of Southern California artisans. The event was great for Costa Mesa history, too. Volunteers at the Diego Sepulveda Adobe introduced a steady stream of visitors to local history. Thank you to all who participated for helping to make this event a success!
Happy birthday to Gladys Refakes, the longtime society volunteer who turned 100 this past October! On October 25, representatives from OneOC hand-delivered a bouquet of flowers to Gladys while she was hard at work. Fresh fruit was served over lunch — this healthy lady doesn’t eat cake. A couple days later, family, friends, and colleagues gathered at Zov’s in Tustin for more festivities. Gladys has volunteered for the society since the early 1980s. In that time the…