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Early Long Beach History - Puvungna

Did you know that before California State University, Long Beach, before The Pike, and even before Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch &...

Shoot Your Shot with Dan Gooch at The Annex

We sat down with Long Beach Century Club member and sports history buff Dan Gooch at the Annex to chat about the sports figures of Long...

908's Week of Love: "No Kissing"

No one knows exactly how Valentine’s Day began, but what would it be without a kiss between lovers? Well, folks Long Beach was faced with...

908's Week of Love: "An Elopement"

It was almost like Romeo and Juliet, fifteen-year-old Jennie Thomson of Duarte thought as she eloped with twenty-four year-old Homer...

908's Week of Love: "Lost Love Found"

Stories of Love Remembered What would Valentine’s Day be like without stories of love? Tales of romance around Long Beach. Let me share a...

Long Beach Neighborhood Names Immortalize their Founders (continued)

Park Estates Boundaries: Pacific Coast Highway and Clark Avenue, Atherton Street and Bellflower Boulevard Tract 14673 was initially laid...

Pioneers of Local Education and the Names Behind our Local Schools (continued)

Burcham Elementary School 5610 E Monlaco Rd, Long Beach, CA 90808 David Burcham has been credited for the strong moral fiber that ran...

New Year's Eve in Long Beach | The Penny Scramble

Tabernacle - 3rd Street and Locust In Long Beach, New Year’s Eve has always been a popular time to celebrate. One hundred twenty years...

Ladies of Long Beach Lanes

A pioneer Long Beach resident named Elvia Bartow Astle, the daughter of a prominent hotel owner named J.V. Bartow, proposed many of the...

Other Notable Landmarks in Long Beach

Joan Van Blom Bridge By Paul Slater Pacific Coast Highway at the Los Cerritos Channel Legendary Olympic rower Joan Van Blom, who passed...

Long Beach Parks Honor History and Heroism

Drake Park 951 Main Ave, Long Beach, CA 90813 Drake Park, located west of Maine Avenue, is named after another Civil War veteran, Col....

Long Beach Neighborhood Names Immortalize their Founders...(continued)

Bixby Hill Bixby Hill is a gated community located across the street on the east side of California State University, Long Beach. The...

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