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12/13/2023

LACommunityOfTheDay: El Dorado Park

260-hectare El Dorado Park is the largest park in Long Beach. It was purchased by the city from the Bixby Family and opened in 1964. Not just a park, it also exists to protect nearby neighborhoods from the dangers of the potentially flooding San Gabriel River and the 605 Freeway.

12/06/2023

: Palo Verde

Palo Verde (named after Palo Verde Avenue) was subdivided between 1951 and '56 and is located around the confluence of Boulton Creek and Los Cerritos Channel - Palo Verde Lateral. It was annexed by Long Beach between 1952 and ’59. Palo Verde Square, a strip mall, opened in 1956.

12/05/2023

LACommunityOfTheDay: Jackson

The Jackson Park Land Company divided the Jackson Park Tract in early 1907. Its centerpiece is Jackson Park. There’s also the Jackson Street Dog Park. Over time, it became customary to shorten Jackson Park’s name simply to just Jackson.

11/29/2023

: Franklin

The original Benjamin Franklin High School, from which Franklin derives its name, was demolished by the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. It was replaced by Franklin Classical Middle School. The Franklin neighborhood is also home to the Museum of Latin American Art.

11/28/2023

: Lindbergh

Lindbergh is named after Charles A. Lindbergh Junior High School (now Lindbergh Middle School), famed aviator, author, anticommunist, and eugenicist. Lindbergh and the surrounding area were annexed by Long Beach in 1924. It was mostly built-out by 1948.

11/20/2023

: Little Manila

Numerous Filipinos moved to Long Beach in the 1930s to work in canneries. One of the oldest Pinoy legacy businesses in Little Manila is Gemmae Bake Shop (1979). Filipinos are by far the largest Asian demographic in Long Beach but Little Manila still lacks official recognition.

11/15/2023

: Harte

The Harte neighborhood derives its name from Bret Harte Elementary School. Born Francis Bret Hart, Harte was a short story writer and poet from Albany who lived in California in the mid-1800s. Several schools were named after him in the 20th century.

10/29/2023

: Bixby Hill

The hill on which Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens is located was known as Bixby Hill (after John William Bixby) as early as 1905. S&S Construction began developing the gated “Beverly Hills of Long Beach” on the hill in 1966.

09/21/2023

: Long Beach Airport

The Long Beach Airport opened on 20 December 1924. Notable architecture there includes the William Horace Austin and Kenneth Smith Wing-designed main terminal (1941) and the groovy Lundgren Maurer-designed Holiday Inn, Long Beach Airport (1968).

09/17/2023

: Rancho Estates

Ross W. Cortese began developing Lakewood Rancho Estates in 1953. The neighborhood was built-out with California ranch homes designed by Cliff May and Chris Choate. Its name was shortened to Rancho Estates after it was annexed by Long Beach and thus ceased to be part of Lakewood.

09/14/2023

: Poly High

The Poly High community is named after Long Beach’s Polytechnic High School, founded in 1895 as Long Beach High School. It moved to its current location in 1911. Long Beach City College opened its Pacific Coast Campus in the neighborhood in 1949.

09/08/2023

: California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach was founded as Los Angeles-Orange County State College in 1949. It moved to its current location, the site of historic Tongva village of Puvungna ("place of emergence"), in 1950.

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