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The Daly City History Museum Opens March 15
The History Guild of Daly City/Colma will have the Grand Opening of its new "full size" history museum on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm. The new museum is located at 6351 Mission St. in the original John Daly Library building at "The Top of the Hill". The hours of the musem will be Tuesdays from 12:00pm to 3:00pm and the first Saturday of the month from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. Admission will be free. Guild members will serve as greeters and hosts. The museum will have expanded displays that afford an overview of local history from 1859 to the present. Special seasonal and commemorative exhibits will be featured.


They did it...I was there. BIG congratulations to Mark S. Weinberger, President -- pictured below, preparing for the ribbon cutting on the Ken & Bunny Gillespie Room. Well done, Mark!

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