{"id":5051,"date":"2011-08-16T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/councilwoman-schipske-dedicated-to-informing-city-about-aviation-history\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:35:00","slug":"councilwoman-schipske-dedicated-to-informing-city-about-aviation-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/councilwoman-schipske-dedicated-to-informing-city-about-aviation-history","title":{"rendered":"Councilwoman Schipske Dedicated to Informing City About Aviation History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10:30am | <\/strong>Councilwoman Schipske of the Fifth District is dedicated to helping spread the word about Long Beach\u2019s aviation history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur beach made a good landing strip for early aviators,\u201d Schipske said. That\u2019s one reason Calbraith \u201cCal\u201d Rodgers finished his history-making first transcontinental flight here on December 10, 1911. \u201cThat and $5,000 from the Chamber of Commerce,\u201d she notes. <\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Schipske will discuss the first transcontinental flight and other important events that put Long Beach into the aviation history books , during her talk about \u201cEarly Aviation in Long Beach,\u201d based upon her book published by Arcadia Publishing. &nbsp;The August 20th &nbsp;event, at the El Dorado Branch Library, is open to the public and begins at 10 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Schipske\u2019s affection for the city\u2019s history led to her idea for Rosie the Riveter Park near the former Douglas Aircraft plant and this year\u2019s six-month Centennial Celebration of Rodgers\u2019 First Transcontinental Flight aboard the \u201cVin Fiz.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>To keep track of the events, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vinfizlongbeach.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.vinfizlongbeach.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councilwoman Schipske of the Fifth District is dedicated to helping spread the word about Long Beach\u2019s aviation history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"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-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}