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1963

Donald Bren, Philip J. Reilly, and James Toepfer purchase the northern 10,000 acres of Rancho Mission Viejo from the O'Neill family.

Mission Viejo Company is formed as a land development and home building firm, comprising three executives, one bookkeeper and one secretary, who begin the planning of the community of Mission Viejo.

James Toepfer begins formulating the master plan and design guidelines.

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Arts

  • Alexander Street Performing Arts Collection - A collection of music, dance, and theater content spanning hundreds of genres and a wide range of subject types. Enjoy instructional videos, performances, and more from leading providers such as the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Qwest TV, Smithsonian, L.A. Theatre Works, and Broadway On-Demand.
Freegal Freegal Music+ offers free access to ad-free music streaming from a collection of over 15 million songs from over 200 genres.

Book Titles for the 2016 Club Meetings

January 27, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

February 24, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

What makes a great library even greater! New books and up to date resources! Your tax-deductible donation to the Friends of the Mission Viejo Library goes directly toward the purchase of new library materials.

The Mission Viejo Library & Cultural Services department offers a variety of volunteer opportunities for teens and adults. For more information, contact Volunteer Coordinator Sandy Brimer at 949-470-8488 or libvolunteers@cityofmissionviejo.org.

Mission Viejo Library staff and the Mission Viejo Heritage Committee have completed a year-long grant project capturing oral history interviews from key members of the Mission Viejo Company. These interviews describe the unique history of Mission Viejo and provide an inside look at what it took to build one of the first planned communities in the nation.

 The following interviews were filmed in the MVTV studio and full transcripts were created from these interviews. 

Sports are an important pastime for Mission Viejo residents, and our community has been home to Olympic athletes and the Olympic Games themselves.

The Mission Viejo Company initiated a highly innovative, aggressive marketing campaign that was brilliant in its conception and bold in its implementation. It was designed to put Mission Viejo on the map and to convince prospective home-buyers, corporations and businesses that they should come to Camelot., as Mission Viejo was described in the press. It also created a sense of pride for those who were already sold on the Mission Viejo way and had already bought into the California Promise.

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