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  1. 50th Burlingame High School Anniversary Pennant, 1973 - Pennant

    50th Burlingame High School Anniversary Pennant, 1973. Pennant is made of white (felt?) like fabric with a red inside border on the left hand side. Attached to the left of the pennant are two by two cotton flaps each on one end . On the front of pennant, surrounded by a circle of red, is a printed image of a panther's face with some medium and bold, red lettering above that reads "1923-73", and below with some medium and bold, red lettering that...

    Record Type: Object

    Burlingame Anniversary Pennant, 1973
  2. Barb Beainy Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Barb Beainy being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 25, 1995. Plaque includes image of Beainy and a brief biography: "Barb Beainy, Burlingame High alum, was a role model for the Peninsula's young female basketball players in the 1980's. She led her 1988 prep team to a 36-2 record and the first California state championship ever by a San Mateo County or Central Coast Section girls' unit. An hono...

    Record Type: Object

    Barb Beainy
  3. Beautiful Burlingame - Film, Motion Picture

    Beautiful Burlingame, 1937. Color silent film promotes the city of Burlingame as, "An ideal community where 20,000 people enjoy the pleasures of a suburban life in a perfect climate glorified by beautiful homes, gardens and healthful recreation." Scenes include: residential homes, apartments, and estates; flower gardens; parks; sports facilities; downtown shops; government buildings; transportation facilities; views of the landscape. Recorded on ...

    Record Type: Archive

    Burlingame
  4. Ben Eastman Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Ben Eastman being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 17, 1989. Plaque includes image of Eastman and a brief biography: "Ben Eastman took the California track and field world by storm in the late 1920s and early 1930s. While competing for Burlingame High School, the bespectacled Eastman dominated Bay Area sprinting events, setting standard after standard at the prep level. Eastman then went on to...

    Record Type: Object

    Ben Eastman
  5. Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne of Burlingame High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 5, 2001. Plaque includes images of the Van Alstyne brothers and a brief biography: "Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne became one of San Mateo County's most athletically gifted brother acts in the 1940s and early 1950s. Both were three-sport stars who attended Burlingame High School and Menlo College. Bruce, a...

    Record Type: Object

    Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  6. Burlingame Adventures: The Kohl Mansion Kaper with Davey Krockat and Kristofur Katlumbus - Johnson, Kay (K. K.)

    Burlingame Adventures: The Kohl Mansion Kaper with Davey Krockat and Kristofur Katlumbus, written and illustrated by K. K. Johnson, April 11, 2012. Self-published through AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana. The book focuses on the adventures of two cats, Davey Krockat and Kristofur Katlumbus, who scour popular landmarks around the city of Burlingame and find themselves in the middle of the city's "Crime of the Century." The story includes "Notes a...

    Record Type: Library

    Burlingame Adventures: The Kohl Mansion Kaper with Davey Krockat and Kristo
  7. Clyde Devine Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Clyde Devine of Burlingame High School and Sequoia High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 23, 2005. Plaque includes image of Devine and a brief biography: "There may not have been a more flamboyant San Mateo County athlete or coach than Clyde Devine. At 6-6 iin height, he was an out-sized presence on the football field and later on the sidelines. At Oregon State U...

    Record Type: Object

    Clyde Devine Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  8. Doc Scheppler San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015 - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Doc Scheppler of Burlingame High School and Pinewood School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on July 23, 2015. The plaque is silver acrylic mounted with golden screws onto a dark wooden base. Plaque includes image of Scheppler celebrating with a girls basketball team. He is wearing light-colored slacks and a blue sweater, the basketball players are wearing a white uniform with green numbers high...

    Record Type: Object

    Doc Scheppler San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015
  9. Drew Shiller Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2013 - Plaque, Award

    2013 Drew Shiller Sports Hall of Fame Plaque. Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Drew Shiller of Burlingame High School and Stanford University who was inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame on June 11, 2013. Plaque includes image of Shiller and a brief biography: "Arguably the most honored prep athlete in the modern history of San Mateo County, he was named California's high school Male Athlete of the Year in 2005, and for good re...

    Record Type: Object

    2013 Drew Shiller Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  10. Equipment for Shop Class at Burlingame High School, September 1949 - Negative

    Equipment for Shop Class at Burlingame High School, September 1949. Black and white negative of Burlingame High School and Rotary Club representatives looking over a new lathe machine donated to the Burlingame High School shop class. The image shows four men standing around a large lathe at center. One of the men is adjusting the machinery at center left. Tools appear on top of the lathe and wood chips are visible in the catch basin.

    Record Type: Photo

    Equipment for Shop Class at Burlingame High School, September 1949
  11. Erik Van Dillen Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Erik Van Dillen of Burlingame High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 16, 1990. Plaque includes image of Van Dillen and a brief biography: "Erik Van Dillen was a student at Burlingame High School in the 1960s when he surfaced as America's dominant junior player. He won 14 teenage national titles and took nearly every age-group trophy available. / For the next 11 y...

    Record Type: Object

    Erik van Dillen Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  12. Ernest "Mel" Moore Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2013 - Plaque, Award

    2013 Ernest "Mel" Moore Sports Hall of Fame Plaque. Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Ernest "Mel" Moore of Burlingame High School who was inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame on June 11, 2013. Plaque includes image of Moore and a brief biography: "A stellar, 160-pound All-Peninsula Athletic League guard on the Panthers' 1946 co-championship football team, he distinguished himself on the gridiron, in the classroom and later, in...

    Record Type: Object

    2013 Ernest "Mel" Moore Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  13. Haley Woods Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Haley Woods of Burlingame High School and Sacred Heart Prep being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 14, 2011. Plaque includes image of Woods and a brief biography: "When Haley Woods stepped into the batter's box, pitchers tended to think twice. As a softball player, she is regarded as one of the most devastating and feared power hitters ever produced on the Peninsula. She was the scourge of tw...

    Record Type: Object

    Haley Woods Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  14. Jacklyn O'Connor Friedland, Jennifer Horgan Nieto, and Steve Picchi Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Jacklyn O'Connor Friedland, Jennifer Horgan Nieto, and Steve Picchi of Burlingame High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 19, 2008. Plaque includes images of Friedland, Nieto and Picchi and a brief biography"As three of the linchpins of Burlingame's 1988 basketball state titlists (the only Central Coast Section public school ever to accomplish that feat), they went...

    Record Type: Object

    Friedland/Nieto/Picchi Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  15. Jim Whitney Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Jim Whitney of Burlingame High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 14, 2011. Plaque includes image of Whitney and a brief biography: "A fearless blocker, rugged defender and slashing runner, Jim Whitney is regarded as one of the best football players ever to wear the red and white at Burlingame, where he was the Peninsula Athletic League Player of the Year in 1948 and an all-Northern ...

    Record Type: Object

    Jim Whitney Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  16. Katie May Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Katie May Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque. Plaque commemorating Katie May of Burlingame High School being inducted into Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame, sponsored by The San Mateo County/ Silicon Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, on June 13, 2012. Plaque includes image of May and a brief biography: "In the mid-1990s, she was a three-sport standout at Burlingame. But her softball prowess proved to be her greatest strength. She was a four-...

    Record Type: Object

    Katie May Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  17. Linda Gates Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Linda Gates of Burlingame High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 22, 2004. Plaque includes image of Gates and a brief biography: "A powerhouse on the tennis court, Linda Gates dominated her sport at the high school level in the late 1970s. At Burlingame High School, she led the Panthers to a pair of Central Coast Section team titles. She added a CCS singles chapio...

    Record Type: Object

    Linda Gates Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  18. Mark Walen Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Mark Walen of Burlingame High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 23, 2005. Plaque includes image of Walen and a brief biography: "As a young teenager, Mark Walen didn't cotton much to football. But a high school teacher, who happened to be the varsity football coach, convinced Walen to give the sport a try. It didn't take long for him to be successful. Big and qui...

    Record Type: Object

    Mark Walen Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  19. Peter Diepenbrock Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2014 - Plaque, Award

    Peter Diepenbrock Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2014. Plaque includes image of Peter Diepenbrock and a brief biography: "For Peter Diepenbrock, basketball is much more than a game; it's a vocation. A standout player at Burlingame and later at Menlo College, he moved on to coaching after graduating from UCLA. He coached and played in Denmark during two separate stints, a total of six years. At one point there, he coached the Danish nationa...

    Record Type: Object

    Peter Diepenbrock Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  20. Peter V. Ueberroth San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015 - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Peter V. Ueberroth of Burlingame High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on July 23, 2015. The plaque is silver acrylic mounted with golden screws onto a dark wooden base. Plaque includes image of Ueberroth wearing a dark blue suit coat with a light blue shirt underneath. His arms are folded, he is wearing a wristwatch and is facing the camera. A brief biography is also on the front, "It ...

    Record Type: Object

    Peter V. Ueberroth San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015
  21. San Mateo-Burlingame Football Game Ticket, 1977 - Ticket

    San Mateo-Burlingame Football Game Ticket, 1977. Un-used ticket #0206 for a closed circuit TV viewing in the San Mateo High cafeteria of the San Mateo-Burlingame Football game to be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, 24 November 1977. Admission price was $1.25.

    Record Type: Archive

    San Mateo-Burlingame Football Game Ticket, 1977
  22. San Mateo-Burlingame Football Game Ticket, 1977 - Ticket, Admission

    Admission Ticket, 1977. Red-orange paper ticket number 4575 for the 50th annual San Mateo vs Burlingame football game, held as part of San Mateo High School's 75th anniversary reunion. The game was held Thanksgiving Day, November 24 1977, at 11 AM.

    Record Type: Archive

    Admission Ticket, 1977
  23. San Mateo-Burlingame Football Game Ticket, 1977 - Ticket, Admission

    Admission Ticket, 1977. Red-orange paper ticket number 4576 for the 50th annual San Mateo vs Burlingame football game, held as part of San Mateo High School's 75th anniversary reunion. The game was held Thanksgiving Day, November 24 1977, at 11 AM.

    Record Type: Archive

    Admission Ticket, 1977
  24. Scott Feldman Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2022 - Plaque, Award

    Scott Feldman Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2022. MDF wooden plaque with a walnut laminate finish. Front has beveled acrylic rectangle over a printed silver metal dedication affixed to plaque with brass-colored brads in the corners. Top left corner has the Peninsula Sports 2022 Hall of Fame logo with a gold trophy, blue ribbon and blue stars. Bottom center has the San Mateo County Historical Association logo with the dome for the San Mate...

    Record Type: Object

    Scott Feldman Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2022
  25. Vic Mangini Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Vic Mangini of Burlingame High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 5, 2001. Plaque includes image Mangini and a brief biography: "During his 35-year career at Burlingame High School, Vic Mangini, a native of New York, became synonymous with both the institution and the town itself. As a track and field coach, his teams won eight Peninsula Athletic League titles. As a teacher and dean ...

    Record Type: Object

    Vic Mangini Sports Hall of Fame plaque

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