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Local History

Posted inLocal History, News

Downtown’s Charles A. Buffum House is Long Beach’s newest historic landmark

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatySep 4, 2020Sep 3, 2020
Posted inLocal History

OLD NEWS: The 1920 Peek Ordinance was Long Beach’s big cover-up

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyAug 18, 2020Aug 17, 2020
Posted inLocal History

OLD NEWS: The 1920s brought two kinds of power to women in America

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyAug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020
Posted inLocal History, News

From Kennebec to Kalamazoo, how Long Beach named its streets

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyJul 28, 2020Jul 28, 2020
Posted inLocal History

OLD NEWS: Long Beach’s century-long problem of pronouncing ‘Junipero’

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyJul 21, 2020
Plans for a 200-acre park that was to have been located on the north side of Signal Hill. The plans were scrapped after the discovery of oil on the hill in June 1921. Photo courtesy of Larry Rich, City of Long Beach.
Posted inLocal History

Discovery of oil in 1921 scrapped plans for an ambitious park in Signal Hill

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyJul 18, 2020Jul 15, 2020
Posted inLocal History

OLD NEWS: Sow cedes son to prize-winning fox-trotters

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyJul 13, 2020
Posted inLocal History

Cal Rodgers’ 1911 historic, and bumpy, transcontinental flight ended in Long Beach

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyJun 27, 2020Jun 26, 2020
Posted inCommentary, Local History

Calling all vexillologists (or artists): Please design a new and better city flag

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyJun 17, 2020Jun 17, 2020
Posted inLocal History

A brief history of Terminal Island, from canneries to convicts

Avatar photoby Tim GrobatyApr 29, 2020Apr 29, 2020

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