{"id":6142,"date":"2007-12-27T05:32:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T05:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/neighborhoods-inside-the-hidden-carroll-park\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T05:32:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T05:32:28","slug":"neighborhoods-inside-the-hidden-carroll-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/neighborhoods-inside-the-hidden-carroll-park","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhoods \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Inside The Hidden Carroll Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/photo3196777.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Neighborhoods provide perhaps the most defining characteristics of a city, whether they are made up of dense, multistory apartments or large lot, single family sub-divisions.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><st1:city w:st=\"on\">Long Beach<\/st1:city> is fortunate to have a diverse mix of residential neighborhoods large and small, new and old (relative to the historical context of <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Southern California<\/st1:place>).<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Occasionally, I will take the opportunity to write about observations regarding specific neighborhoods in the city.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>There will be a focus on the character of the housing, properties and the public right of way, including the streets, sidewalk and parkways, all of which define one neighborhood from another.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>There was a bit of debate about which community to initially write about, <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Carroll<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Park<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> being a clear choice.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';\">Avoiding the obvious, I chose to write instead about a single property in <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Carroll<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Park<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, a series of eight duplexes flanking either side of an intimate walk street.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Built in 1926, these two-story Spanish Revival buildings each consist of two small one-bedroom apartments stacked over each other.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>They are barely far apart enough to be considered legal by modern building codes.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Built in the first part of this century, on-site parking is unheard of and there is a common dumpster that terminates the end of the pedestrian way.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Outside of this context this property could be considered 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