Bill Lemei – Island Icon
Written by Hope Baker This article was originally published in the May 2025 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click the button below. Ask recent Coronado High School grads about their favorite teachers, and one name is sure…
Susie Vetter – Island Icon
Written by Berie Grobe This article was originally published in the June 2025 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click the button below. Many wonder what it might have been like to live in Coronado during a simpler…
Beverly Bass – Island Icon
Written by Elizabeth Brunton This article was originally published in the April 2025 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click the button below. As a young 20-year-old in the 1970s, Beverly Bass moved from Pomona to San Diego…
Ron Mandelbaum – Island Icon
Written by Ann Bancroft This article was originally published in the July 2025 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click the button below. When Ron Mandelbaum first saw Coronado in 1969, he appraised the view south of the…
Doug St. Denis – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Karen Scanlan This article was originally published in the September 2024 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, the button below. It’s a colorful welcome at the home of Coronado resident Doug St.…
Bill Hiscock – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Berie Grobe This article was originally published in the July 2024 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, the button below. If asked who he is and what he does, William C. Hiscock…
Susan Keith – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Carol Pastor This article was originally published in the March 2024 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, the button below. Susan Keith, a name familiar to all who have lived in Coronado…
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Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Louisa Galbo This article was originally published in the October 2024 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, the button below. Joe Talbert was born and raised in Coronado to a Navy family…
Marco Palumbo – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Carol Pastor This article was originally published in the December 2024 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, the button below. How does one separate Marco Palumbo, the man, from Marco’s the restaurant?…
Sherry Martin – Island Icon
Written by Taylor Baldwin Kiland; 2024 Portrait by Jamie Howren This piece was reprinted with permission from the St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School magazine, The Saints Life. A condensed version of this article was published in the April 2024 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To…
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Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Zoraida Payne, Public Historian This article was originally published in the October 2023 issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click the button below. History tells us that the most accomplished among us are…
Lois Rosania – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Karen Scanlan This article was originally published in the December 2023 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click the button below. Coronado villager Lois Rosania is celebrating her 100th year. A delightfully…
Don & Leslie Budinger – Island Icons
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer: Mary Jane Braun This article was originally published in the September 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click the button below. Soon after moving to Coronado from White Mountain, Arizona, Don…
Nancy Cox – Island Icon
Written by: Gail Babbs with contributions by Mary Ellen Cortellini, Coronado Historical Association Volunteer This article was originally published in the October 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine, To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. My mother, Nancy…
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Written by Coronado High School Intern Cate Gregory This article was originally published in the June 2023 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. “Happy memories occur here all the time,” is what…
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Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer: Taylor Baldwin Kiland This article was originally published in the March 2023 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. “This is one of my favorite appetizers. In…
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Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer: Kimbelie Guerrieri This article was originally published in the December 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. Molly McGowan is a well-known name in Coronado. One…
Mel Moore – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer: Taylor Baldwin Kiland This article was originally published in the April 2023 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. He catalogs his collection by geographic origin—country or…
Kelly Purvis – Island Icon
Written by Coronado High School Intern: Lilly Adams This article was originally published in the July 2023 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. Take a stroll down Orange Avenue, maybe find yourself…
Dixie Beth Stern-Talbot – Island Icon
Written by Coronado High School Intern: Jasmine Lo This article was originally published in the August 2023 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. “The spirit hasn’t changed a bit. People are still…
Wayne Strickland – Island Icon
Written by Coronado High School Intern: Virginia Ryan This article was originally published in the September 2023 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. You probably know Retired Coronado Fire Captain Wayne Strickland…
Aida Baker – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Kimberlie Guerrieri This article was originally published in the July 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. Click here to read the digital article and more from Coronado Magazine. There are many reasons why people find themselves living in Coronado. But…
Tom Rice – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Peggy Eddy This article was originally published in the November 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. On August 15, 2021, long-time Coronado resident and WWII…
Grimaud Family – Island Icons
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Karen Scanlon This article was originally published in the January 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. The Coronado Historical Association’s “Island Icons” monthly column is…
Julia Viera – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Zoraida Payne This article was originally published in the September 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. “Stand by, because there are going to be a…
Phil Monroe – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Kimberlie Guerrieri This article was originally published in the (MONTH) Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”…
Ralph & Mary Ann Thomas – Island Icons
Written By Jan Cobertt, Coronado Historical Association Volunteer & CHA Staff This article was originally published in the April 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. The monthly column, Island Icons, of…
Lionel Rowe – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Carol Pastor This article was originally published in the May 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. Not often does one meet a person who is…
Kat Carlin – Island Icon
Written by the Coronado Historical Association Katherine Carlin, Coronado’s unofficial historian, is remembered fondly for co-authoring the book Coronado: The Enchanted Island, which she envisioned as “the telling of the story of our people, their names, accomplishments, and contributions.” Born ‘Katherine Eitzen’ in 1903 in…
Ray Brandes – Island Icon
Written by the Coronado Historical Association Ray Brandes was an influential San Diego historian, who, over his 30-plus year career, surveyed historic buildings that covered every corner of the county, from Rancho Santa Fe and El Cajon to downtown San Diego and Coronado. Born on…
Peggy Price – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Carol Pastor This article was originally published in the March 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. I recently had an opportunity to interview a local…
Midge Peltier – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Jan Corbett This article was originally published in the May 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. The monthly column, Island Icons, of historical vignettes from…
John Drehner – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Karen Scanlon This article was originally published in the September 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. If you would like to read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. An old, beige princess phone…
Helen Hansen – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Peggy Eddy and CHA Staff This article was originally published in the June 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. If you would like to read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. The monthly…
Dorothy Stanley – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Kimberlie Guerrieri This article was originally published in the February 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. Navy Wife. Navy Daughter. Community Cultivator. If you’ve visited…
Carl Turnipseed – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Peggy Eddy This article was originally written in the March 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. The monthly column, Island Icons, of historical vignettes from…
Carol Pastor – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Peggy Eddy This article was originally published in the July 2022 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. Word such as “amazing,” “exceptional,” and “extraordinary” are not…
Bunny McKenzie – Island Icon
Written by the Coronado Historical Association This article was originally published in the February Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read the article and more from Coronado Magazine, click here or the button below. The eldest of four children, Bunny Olson was born in Coronado in…
Bill Davidson – Island Icon
Written by Karen Scanlon, CHA Volunteer This article was originally published in the October 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. To read this article and more, click here or the button below. Barely a step through the front entrance of the Temecula, California home of Bill…
Betty Reynolds – Island Icon
Written by Coronado Historical Association Volunteer Zoraida Payne, Public Historian This article was originally published in the December 2021 Issue of Coronado Magazine. Click here to read this story and more from Coronado Magazine. At the end of the summer of 2021, an elegant Mrs.…
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