Some wonders of Long Beach: The Joe Jost\u2019s pickled egg, the Walter Pyramid, the 3.1-mile Shoreline Pedestrian Bike Path, the roller-coaster ride on Loynes Drive, the sixth hole at Virginia Country Club, the Moreton Bay fig trees at the ranchos Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos, the koi pond at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, Long Beach Airport, the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Villa Riviera, the Ocean Center Building, the Pacific Room in the Long Beach Arena, the Long Beach Casting Club clubhouse in Rec Park, the Portuguese Bend Distillery, the Nature Center at El Dorado Park, the Traffic Circle. Oh yeah, and the Queen Mary.<\/p>\n
Long Beach is full of wonders, and asking you to pick the top seven might seem daunting, especially when you consider the contenders can be anything from an egg to an airport.<\/p>\n
Still, that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeking here: The Seven Wonders of Long Beach. Just be happy we\u2019re limiting it to Long Beach, and things and places that currently exist here, saving you the heartache of having to decide between the Colossus of Rhodes and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not, however, limited to those things we mentioned in that top paragraph. Those are just wonders we came up with by looking out our office window (yeah, it\u2019s a lovely view). Maybe you\u2019d prefer the canals of Naples, the Los Cerritos Wetlands, the Lone Sailor Memorial or the Belmont Pier; we\u2019re not trying to put thoughts into your head or do some sort of Russian shenanigans to influence voting, we\u2019re just amazed at the scope of our city\u2019s wonders.<\/p>\n
So, ignoring everything you\u2019ve read, we\u2019re asking you to send us your own list of the Seven Wonders of Long Beach. You can do that by sending your list to us at tim@lbpost.com<\/span><\/a>, or by responding to our post on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long Beach is full of wonders\u2014from famous pickled eggs to an airport\u2014but we need your suggestions to narrow down the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":70353,"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":[2002],"tags":[69],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[1807],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-tim-grobaty","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}