By Jenni Dimon HOW WE GOT HERE Both my parents came to Long Beach during grade school, which was sometime in the 1940s. My mom came from...

By Carleigh Latimer HOW WE GOT HERE Horace and Jessie Green became Long Beach residents in 1896. Horace’s family came from England in...

By Kelsey Hoppe Mobers HOW WE GOT HERE My great-great-grandparents Richard E. Dewire and Jennie S. Dewire came to Long Beach from...

By Monique Garcia “As a city that started out in the late 1800s, it’s amazing how it’s changed over so much time in so many ways.” – Jen...

By Jenna Wolfson HOW WE GOT HERE My great-grandmother came to California from Oklahoma during the dust bowl, settled in Sacramento, then...

By James and Jessica Luyben HOW WE GOT HERE The start of the Luyben Family in Long Beach was when my grandfather John George Luyben Jr....

By Heather Norris HOW WE GOT HERE My grandparents on my mom’s side came out in 1949 from Illinois to find a better job. My grandfather...

By Monique Garcia “[Rancho Los Alamitos] has several areas that speak to the lengths of time that the Tongva people have been at...

By Erica Beebe HOW WE GOT HERE My great-great-grandmother brought my great-grandfather and his brother to Long Beach in 1914. They came...

By Jennifer Newton It was the summer of 1952 and Long Beach was a buzz with excitement. The city had been chosen – over Catalina Island...

The oldest Long Beach Christmas traditions—just in case you were wondering—date to the era of the Spanish ranchos. On Christmas Eve, the...

The history of tattoo culture in Long Beach is a rich tapestry, much like the skin of our inked comrades in tattoo parlors and the walls...