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Pre-Holiday Hike at Oso Flaco

November 28, 2023

Pre-Holiday Hike - December 23, 2023 Step into the holiday spirit with the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center🌲 Join us for a Pre-Holiday Hike at Oso Flaco Lake on Saturday, 12/23/23 at […]

Raising the sphinx, meet the people behind a movie set restoration project

October 9, 2018

It started as a piece of one of the biggest movie sets ever created. Nearly a century ago, Cecile B DeMille commissioned a set 12 stories high and 800 feet […]

Unearthing the mysteries of 'Egypt' in the dunes of the California Coast

October 8, 2018

The 300-pound head of a sphinx that emerged from the dunes on California’s central coast traces its roots to Hollywood, not Egypt. The artifact is now on display at a […]

Dunes Center to host soiree with artifacts from 1923 movie set in Guadalupe

October 8, 2018

The Dunes Center will unveil recent artifacts derived from a nearby movie set site Saturday night, and the center has opened the event to the public. "Sphinx and Drinks: Gala, […]

Long-Buried Sphinx Head Unveiled at Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center Gala

October 8, 2018

Movie fans and history buffs got a glimpse of a rare Hollywood relic Saturday at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center: a giant sphinx head. The Dunes Center showed off its latest […]

Buried for nearly a century, this Hollywood movie set will soon be displayed on Central Coast

October 8, 2018

For more than 90 years, the set for Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film “The Ten Commandments” has been buried in the shifting sands of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. Archeologists have been […]

Guadalupe Mural Debut

October 8, 2018

One of the Squire Foundation’s Artists in Residence, Ruben Espinoza, will soon begin working to install a new temporary mural on the side of the former Far Western Tavern building. […]

New mural in the works at former Far Western tavern building in Guadalupe

October 8, 2018

Local artist Ruben Espinoza is working on a new, temporary mural on the side of the former Far Western Tavern building in Guadalupe. The project is a joint effort between […]

Guadalupe's old Far Western Tavern building getting new mural

October 8, 2018

With the goal of bringing the community together using public art projects, two area nonprofits collaborated to have Santa Maria artist Ruben Espinoza paint a mural at a Guadalupe landmark. […]

New Guadalupe Mural Displays ‘Small Town, Big Heart’ at Old Far Western Tavern

October 8, 2018

A temporary mural, created by an artist with roots in the Santa Maria Valley, now adorns the side of the former Far Western Tavern building in Guadalupe. The mural involved […]

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