The company was known for its benevolent treatment of employees, offering profit-sharing, pensions, holiday baskets for everyone at Christmas, an 18-hole putting green and a cafeteria that provided lunch for all workers and officers at no cost.
The launch went smoothly, perhaps better than expected as the 73-ton vessel slid stern-first down its slipway at John Brown & Co. Shipbuilding into the water, sending giant waves up and down the River Clyde.
Alamitos Associates, the company that owns the historic building, is working to get parts to fix the iconic clock that adorns the First National Bank of Long Beach in Downtown Long Beach. The company hopes it will be up and running again by October or early November.
The Pacific Southwest Exposition was Long Beach’s own World’s Fair-style event. When it wrapped up, it had drawn more than a million people.
Housing for the influx of defense workers was deemed of primary importance to the military, so the San Antonio Heights housing project was given a high priority rating by the Office of Emergency Management in Washington
Wildlife came slowly. Initially, the Nature Center was stocked with three foxes and three opossums that had been captured within the city limits.
The process of destroying the island in 1928 unearthed several graves, including those of two Spanish soldiers who may have lived in the 17th century, a blonde woman and a man with an arrowhead through his head.
Police officers phoned the fledgling Long Beach Airport’s first manager William J. Putnam, who turned on the airfield lights allowing Lindy to land safely, or, as the Los Angeles Evening Express hollered with its front page headline: “‘Lindy Escapes L.A. Death Landing.”
From 1917 until about 1924, the health resort, run by osteopath Dr. Arthur E. Pike, used a combination of sunlight, milk and an arsenal of electronic gizmos to treat an array of illnesses and maladies.
Market manager Squire DuRee presided over a grand opening on March 23, 1913, as thousands of people showed up to shop along the stretch of Pacific Avenue from Ocean to Broadway alongside Pacific Park (now Lincoln).
