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OBITUARY- SHERI ANN GILBERT BEEBE

Long Beach civic leader Sheriden Ann Gilbert Beebe, 87, passed away peacefully on July 27 in the presence of her loving family. Sheri was...

The Graves Family

By Laura Graves Smith HOW WE GOT HERE Both my sets of great grandparents came to Long Beach before WWI. On my mom’s side, my great...

The Garner Family

By Juliette Mahoney HOW WE GOT HERE In 1913, my great, great, great grandfather, George Garner, and his wife Mary moved to Long Beach,...

EXPLORING CAMBODIA TOWN

By JeanMarie VanDine | Photos by Alexiz Gomez So —you think you know the LBC? Have you been to our city’s Cambodia Town? This part of...

The Cerulle Family

By Joseph Cerulle HOW WE GOT HERE My family came here in 1936 from Providence, RI, in search of work. It was a time of depression, and...

March Restaurant Madness Bracket 2023!

Welcome to our 2023 Bracket! Who will win on this year's #roadtothefinalfork?? No one knows, but we do know it will be a lot of fun to...

Love on the Water...Debi and Joe Bober

By John Grossi How They Met and First Date Debi, who had grown up in Long Beach her entire life, was tired of the singles scene and...

An AIDS Walk to Remember...Lisa Gonzales-Burris and Maureen Gonzales-Burris

By John Grossi Lisa and Maureen met while at UC Irvine, when they were 18 and 22 respectively. They were part of a large circle of...

From Graves into Gardens....Meet two Long Beach High School Sweethearts

By John Grossi How They Met and the First Date Val and Hector Olivares met through a youth group at the Greater Long Beach Church of...

Papalucci’s and Pickled Eggs...Michelle and Jason Stone

By John Grossi Michelle was living in Huntington Harbor in the summer of 1998. Jason happened to drive down from Long Beach that fateful...

A Date Worth Returning To, and Paying For...Jim Medina and Rick Brown

By John Grossi How They Met and First Date Rick and I met playing volleyball organized through The Center in Long Beach back in 1988,”...

A Cliff May Rancho Romance...Margaret and Don Kennedy

By John Grossi Margaret remembers first hearing about “Donnie” Kennedy when she was in 6th grade at Cubberley. Her neighbor, who was in...

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