Expansive estate on 3 lots in Los Cerritos on the market at $3.5 million
A hidden gem in the Los Cerritos neighborhood holds its own against similarly priced mansions in the city’s seaside communities.
Local history: No soap—Procter & Gamble’s Long Beach plant closed in 1988
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.
For more affordable beachfront living consider the condo—again
You can swing something nice on the sand, or close enough to track it into your home, for less money than the median single-family house price in Long Beach, which is now a bit over $800,000.
Local History: The Queen Mary’s first day in the water
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.
A 1910 historic Carroll Park jewel on the market for $1.25 million
Carroll Park is one of the city’s earliest historic districts, and, today, much of the neighborhood remains largely unchanged since its early days.
Local history: Pine’s oldest building still trying to keep up with the times
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.
A Bluff Heights home with a moving history is listed at $3.5 million
In the late 1980s, this home was put on real estate’s death row, scheduled for demolition, unless someone wanted to pick up the two-story, 4,667-square-foot home and move it off Ocean Boulevard.
Local history: The world came to Long Beach with the 1928 Pacific Southwest Exposition
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.
Famed Lautner-designed Mid Modern home in Park Estates for sale at $2.95 million
The elegant and pristine example of the Mid Modern Century home towers over most works in the increasingly popular style in Long Beach. It’s what Cliff May homes dream about on a good night.
Local history: San Antonio Heights was built for World War II defense families
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