Drake Park 951 Main Ave, Long Beach, CA 90813 Drake Park, located west of Maine Avenue, is named after another Civil War veteran, Col. Charles R. Drake. Col. Drake was the proprietor of the Old Virginia Hotel in Long Beach and the president of the Long Beach Amusement Company. Additionally, he played a major role in bringing the Pacific Electric Company to Long Beach in 1902 and opening the old bathhouse in Belmont Shore. Drake moved to California to make investments in Lon

Whaley Park 5620 Atherton St, Long Beach, Ca. 90815 Without Lloyd Whaley, there would be no East Long Beach. So it’s only fitting that he should have a park named after him. However, it wasn’t originally that way. Though Lloyd S. Whaley himself donated the land for the park to the City in 1950, it was originally named Los Altos Recreation Center. In December 1954, the name was changed to Whaley Park in honor of the man who built more than 11,000 single family home residenc