{"id":22402,"date":"2020-12-21T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000017812"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:26:19","slug":"lb-heritage-wants-to-take-you-on-a-historic-holiday-lights-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/lb-heritage-wants-to-take-you-on-a-historic-holiday-lights-cruise","title":{"rendered":"LB Heritage wants to take you on a historic holiday lights cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times have changed so much that Long Beach Heritage, an organization that advocates for historic preservation, has found itself doing something it hasn&#8217;t in its own 40-year history.<\/p>\n<p>This year, for the first time, LB Heritage has created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbheritage.org\/holiday-lights-cruise\/\">Holiday Lights Cruise<\/a> that provides people with maps and information to take a self-guided tour of a dozen historic homes dressed up in all their holiday finery.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/viewer?ll=33.77213827294512%2C-118.17811255000002&amp;z=15&amp;mid=1IMwYXZ_FJEir0kEKrKOMIOUXCpN5-7yO\">map<\/a>, it&#8217;s a bit of a trek, stretching as far north as Willmore, working its way down through Downtown, then east to Carroll Park and down through Bluff Heights and Bluff Park concluding just short of Belmont Shore.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will not only take you to the Bembridge House, owned by LB Heritage, but allow you to marvel at the newly created Gingerbread Villages, presented by the Willmore City Heritage Assn., at MADE by Millworks and The Pie Bar. Here&#8217;s a peek:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Check out these giant gingerbread villages in Downtown Long Beach\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rO9INnoADpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dozen houses you&#8217;ll be dazzled by on the official cruise\u2014it&#8217;s certain you&#8217;ll see a bunch more unofficial treats\u2014are listed and illustrated below in a dandy guide that doubles as an art project. Kids can download the images below <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbheritage.org\/heritage-holidays-coloring-contest\/\">here<\/a>, color them and submit their creation in the Heritage Holiday Coloring Contest. The contest is open to all kids, K through 8th grade.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10000035671\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21141101\/hosues.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2188\" height=\"1300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Heritage&#8217;s Holiday Lights Cruise continues through Jan. 2, for a cruise map, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/viewer?ll=33.77213827294512%2C-118.17811255000002&amp;z=15&amp;mid=1IMwYXZ_FJEir0kEKrKOMIOUXCpN5-7yO\">here<\/a>. To enter the coloring contest, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbheritage.org\/heritage-holidays-coloring-contest\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its Holiday Lights Cruise comes with maps and information for a self-guided tour of 11 historic homes dressed up in all their holiday finery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":71426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31814],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2890],"class_list":["post-22402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-christmas-lights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}