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The arts & culture section of the Long Beach Post that tells you what to do, eat, hear, see and experience in the LBC.

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Long Beach Lost

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Long Beach Lost: The three roller coasters of the Pike amusement park

Avatar photo by Brian Addison February 4, 2020February 10, 2020

With a massive budget of $140,000, one of the costliest build-outs for an amusement ride in the country, the Cyclone Racer opened on Memorial Day in 1930.

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Long Beach Lost: The mid-mod county courthouse building of 1960

Avatar photo by Brian Addison April 23, 2019October 17, 2019
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Long Beach Lost: Downtown’s ‘Gray Ghost,’ the Art Deco masterpiece known as the Wise Building

Avatar photo by Brian Addison April 4, 2019October 17, 2019
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Long Beach Lost: The Jungle, Downtown’s play den for ‘immorality and sexual deviation’

Avatar photo by Brian Addison January 15, 2019October 28, 2019
A rendering of the proposed Port Disney complex. Rendering courtesy of the Walt Disney Company.
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Long Beach Lost: The dramatic tale of the Disney theme park in Downtown

Avatar photo by Brian Addison December 4, 2018October 17, 2019
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Long Beach Lost: The Buffums’ department store in Downtown

Avatar photo by Brian Addison November 10, 2018September 1, 2020
The interior of the former Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool. Photo by Brian Addison.
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Long Beach Lost: The Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool

Avatar photo by Brian Addison October 2, 2018October 28, 2019
A final rendering of the SeaPort Marina Hotel, initially called The Edgewater Inn.
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Long Beach Lost: Famed mid-mod SeaPort Marina Hotel was once the gem of the Shore

Avatar photo by Brian Addison September 2, 2018October 28, 2019
The Jergins Tunnel as it currently sits. Photo by Brian Addison.
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Long Beach Lost: The Jergins Tunnel was Downtown’s gateway to the beach

Avatar photo by Brian Addison August 19, 2018October 17, 2019
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Long Beach Lost: The gentleman’s club that opened with a five-day long party and bankruptcy

Avatar photo by Brian Addison July 22, 2018October 17, 2019

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