ZIPping through Long Beach: Today, 90805 in North Long Beach
A million-dollar house, while boringly common in many parts of the city, is rare in North Long Beach, where the median price is about $650,000.
Local history: The story of Long Beach’s ‘bridge to nowhere’
For three and a half years, there were no roads leading to the J.H. Davies Bridge. Mocking headlines ensued: including “Million-Dollar Seagull Roost Gathers Guano.”
ZIPping through Long Beach: Today, real estate in the 90804
The Zaferia neighborhood in the 90804 area still retains a fairly unique vibe and has a robust business association assisting the area’s hundreds of shops, services and restaurants.
Local history: a Wilson/LBCC alum and his mysterious connection to billionaire Howard Hughes
Maybe you remember Melvin Dummar who, as the story goes, performed a compassionate act that reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes would never forget and which he would reward by bequeathing about $150 million worth of his estate.
Want to live in the 90803 ZIP? Bring money
The marquee neighborhoods in the 90803 are Naples and the Peninsula, along with Belmont Shore, lower Belmont Heights and the historic district of Bluff Park—all places where, to a large degree, you need multiple millions to buy a house you’d like to live in.
Local history: Nov. 7, 1918 was ‘False Armistice Day’ in Long Beach and the world
A mixup sparked a day that would become known as False Armistice Day, a premature celebration that brought joy worldwide four days before the ceasefire became official on Nov. 11.
ZIPping around Long Beach real estate: Today, a visit to Downtown’s 90802
Only about 7% of the structures in the 90802 ZIP code are detached single-family homes, with the majority of them in the eastern part of the ZIP, in Alamitos Beach.
Local history: Long Beach’s Baby Marie Osborne was ‘the sweetest little girl in the moving picture world’
Long before she became a teenager, Baby Marie was making $500-$750 a week in an era where the median annual wage for workers was $1,000.
Your choice in Wrigley: a $615K burned up house or a $1.1M turnkey bungalow
If you’re not in the mood to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege of starting a construction project, you can purchase a totally un-burned house down the street for $1.1 million.
Local history: The worst movie made in Long Beach — or anywhere.
The viewer is treated to glimpses of the venerable Cyclone Racer and the always sort-of-dicey Laff in the Dark funhouse, featuring the cackling animatronic Laughing Sal and Laughing Sam and Blackie the Barker.