{"id":4466,"date":"2012-06-29T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/the-organized-mind-naming-a-city\/"},"modified":"2012-06-29T22:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:53:58","slug":"the-organized-mind-naming-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/the-organized-mind-naming-a-city","title":{"rendered":"The Organized Mind: Naming a City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Belle Lowe. A portait of the woman who named Long Beach. Photo courtesy Gerrie Schipske<\/em><\/p>\n

Our city hasn\u2019t always been called Long Beach. During the first 50 years of its history it was known by many names. But, Long Beach, which was suggested by Belle Lowe, wife of our town\u2019s first postmaster, was the one that finally stuck.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Suggesting the name in 1884 to a land syndicate attempting to market the area at the time, Lowe believed it reflected the town\u2019s most popular asset\u2014eight-plus miles of wide-open beach along the town\u2019s southern border.2<\/sup> Lowe\u2019s suggestion won over Crescent City, a name recommended because of the shape of our coastline.3<\/sup><\/p>\n

More than a decade later, the City of Long Beach was officially incorporated on December 13th, 1897\u2014growing from a sleepy seaside community into a thriving municipality.<\/p>\n

But, what else was our city called? Find out what Long Beach was named during its formative years by solving this month’s puzzle using the ROT13 method of encryption. ROT13 is a letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the letter 13 letters after it in the alphabet.<\/p>\n

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References<\/em>
1-3. Schipske, G., Early Long Beach<\/em>. Arcadia Publishing, 2011, p. 7.<\/p>\n

The answer to last month’s puzzle comes from Greggory Moore\u2019s novel, The Use of Regret:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m tormented by the idea that it\u2019s all nothing. I accept that things exist\u2014coffee, Casablanca, you, your favorite songs\u2014and I allow for their valuations, subjective as they may be, that things matter or they don\u2019t, are wholly good or wholly bad or fall somewhere in between. But what is the Holocaust to water or to Saturn\u2019s rings, to the expanse of time and space, within which we may as well never have existed? What is tomorrow\u2019s ecstasy or horror to yesterday? Moments come and go, things happen and stop happening, that\u2019s all. I spend half my time trying to turn this nothing into something, to capture and preserve it, to bring life to lifeless dust. This is nothing, I keep saying, but here it is. Look, it\u2019s nothing, look.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Use of Regret<\/em> is available for purchase at {open}, the bookstore and performance space, located at 2226 E. 4th St., Long Beach 90814 – thestoryofopen.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Our city hasn\u2019t always been called Long Beach. During the first 50 years of its history it was known by many names. But, Long Beach, which was suggested by Belle Lowe, wife of our town\u2019s first postmaster, was the one that finally stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":69605,"comment_status":"open","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":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}