Why a DC-8 flew so low over Long Beach this week
The Palmdale-based plane can carry 30,000 pounds of scientific instruments and equipment and can seat up to 45 experimenters and flight crew.
First-time homebuyer? Here are some choices for less than a half-million
For our search today, we’re looking at single-family homes with at least 1,000 square feet of living space and a price tag south of $500,000.
The readers’ guide to the Seven Wonders of Long Beach
We asked readers of the Long Beach Post as well as social media users on Facebook and Instagram, to submit their lists of the Seven Wonders of Long Beach and we received nearly 300 separate lists that included several hundred different features of our town.
The ‘Big One’ hit Long Beach 86 years ago, and it wasn’t pretty
Throughout the Southland, 1,803 homes were destroyed. Thousands of residents, continually rattled by the 34 aftershocks in the six hours following the main jolt, slept in their yards, cars and parks that night and for weeks afterward.
Rich people’s problems: Not enough high-rent choices
If you want to dip below the $18,000 mark in payments, it hardly needs to be said you’ll have to make some perhaps painful sacrifices.
Take away tennis and I can give Billie Jean King a good fight for the new library name
Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce, who will be recommending the name in Tuesday’s Council meeting, said in a statement that King “is more than an athlete.” Well, so am I. So much so that “athlete” isn’t even the first word that pops into your head when you hear my name.
City is poised to take over Sunnyside Cemetery
Ultimately, the City Council will make the decision of whether to acquire the 13-acre cemetery.
LSD, giving advice, tying your shoes and other things you shouldn’t do when you’re 64
It’s a cruel little part of evolutionary law that our bodies and former stunning looks go all to hell once we have nothing more to contribute to the population.
Former East Long Beach ‘starter homes’ now going for better than $600,000
Many of the original amenities are still there, including the wood-burning fireplace and wood floors which, if they’re typical of other floors in the area, spent a few decades protected in hibernation by the once-ubiquitous wall-to-wall carpeting.
Going a little crazy over the 2nd District election
Robert Fox is a sometimes compelling, if not relentless, speaker and he is more than willing to debate anyone about anything anywhere. The incumbent, Jeannine Pearce, has earned a certain amount of local fame for being difficult to reach.