Long Beach is a city in the Pacific Coast of the United States, in the Greater Los Angeles area of ​​Southern California. In 2010, the population was 462,257. It is the 39th most populous city in the United States and the 7th most populous in California. Long Beach is the second largest city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the third largest in Southern California behind Los Angeles and San Diego. Long Beach is a charter city.
Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is one of the largest shipping ports in the world. The city also maintains a declining oil industry with small wells located both under the city and offshore. The manufacturing sector includes those in aircraft, automotive parts, electronic equipment, audiovisual equipment, petrochemicals, precision metals and home furnishings.
Long Beach is located in the southeast corner of Los Angeles County and borders Orange County. Downtown Long Beach is about 22 miles (35 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, although the two cities share the official border for several miles.
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Indigenous people have lived on the coast of Southern California for over 10,000 years, and several consecutive cultures have inhabited the current Long Beach region. At the arrival of the Spanish explorers in the 16th century, the dominant group was the Tongva. They have at least three large settlements in the city today. Tevaaxa'anga is an inland settlement near the Los Angeles River, while Ahwaanga and Povuu'nga are coastal villages. Together with other Tongva villages, they were forced to move in the mid-19th century due to mission, political change, and drastic population decline from exposure to European diseases.
In 1784 the King of the Spanish Empire, Carlos III gave Rancho Los Nietos to the Spanish army of Manuel Nieto. Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos are divided from this region. The boundary between the two ranchos flows through Signal Hill's center in the southwest to the northeast. Most of West Long Beach was originally part of Rancho San Pedro. The boundaries were disputed over the years, as floods altered the boundary of the Los Angeles River, between ranchos Juan Jose Dominguez and Manuel Nieto.
In 1843, Jonathan Temple bought Rancho Los Cerritos, having arrived in California in 1827 from New England. He built what is now known as "Los Cerritos Ranch House", the still-standing adobe which is a National Historic Landmark. Temple created a lush and prosperous cow farm, becoming the richest man in Los Angeles County. Both Temple and its ranch house play an important local role in the Mexican-American War. On an island in San Pedro Bay, the Mormon pioneers made a failed effort to establish a colony (as part of Brigham Young's plan to build a sustainable residential chain from the Pacific to Salt Lake).
In 1866, Temple sold Rancho Los Cerritos for $ 20,000 to Northern California sheep breeding firm Flint, Bixby & amp; Co., which consists of the brothers Thomas and Benjamin Flint and their cousin, Lewellyn Bixby. Two years earlier Flint, Bixby & amp; Co also purchased together with the Northern California associate James Irvine, three ranchos who would later become the city that bears the name Irvine. To manage Rancho Los Cerritos, the company chose Lewellyn's brother, Jotham Bixby, "Dad from Long Beach". Three years later Bixby bought the property and then formed the Bixby Land Company. In the 1870s as many as 30,000 sheep were kept on farms and shaved twice a year to provide wool for trade. In 1880, Bixby sold 4,000 acres (16 km 2 ) from Rancho Los Cerritos to William E. Willmore, who shared it with the hope of creating a farming community, Willmore City. He failed and was bought by the Los Angeles syndicate who called himself "Long Beach Land and Water Company." They changed the name of the community to Long Beach, at that time. The city of Long Beach was officially established in 1897.
Another Bixby cousin, John W. Bixby, was very influential in the city. After first working for his cousin in Los Cerritos, J.W. Bixby rented land in Rancho Los Alamitos. He collects a group: banker I.W. Hellman, Lewellyn and Jotham Bixby, and him, to buy rancho. In addition to bringing innovative farming methods to Alamitos (which under Abel Stearns in the late 1850s and early 1860s was once the largest cattle ranch in the US), J.W. Bixby started the development of a seaside property near the beautiful cliffs of the city. Under the name Alamitos Land Company, J.W. Bixby named the streets and laid the gardens in his new city. These areas include Belmont Heights, Belmont Shore, and Naples; soon became a self-evolving community. J.W. Bixby died in 1888 his appendix was clear. The Rancho Los Alamitos property is broken down, with Hellman earning a southerly third, Jotham and Lewellyn, the third north, and J.W. Bixby's widow and heir who guarded the third center. Townsite Alamitos is kept as a separate entity, but at first, it was primarily run by Lewellyn and Jotham Bixby, although IW, Hellman (which has the largest single share) has significant veto rights, an influence made even more powerful as J.W. The Bixby heirs began to side with Hellman even more.
When Jotham Bixby died in 1916, the remaining 3,500 acres of Rancho Los Cerritos were divided into Bixby Knolls, California Heights, North Long Beach and part of Signal Hill.
The city grows as a beachside resort with the use of light farming. Pike was the best-known beachside entertainment zone on the West Coast from 1902 to 1969, offering food, games and rides, such as in the Twin Wheel Ferris wheel and Cyclone Racer roller coaster. Gradually the oil industry, Navy shipyard and facilities and ports became the mainstay of the city. In the 1950s it was referred to as "Iowa by the sea," due to a large wave of people from the Midwestern states and others. A large picnic for migrants from each state was a popular annual event in Long Beach until the 1960s.
Oil was discovered in 1921 at Signal Hill, which broke away as a city entered separately shortly thereafter. The invention of the Long Beach Oil Field, carried by an oil well at Well's Natural Well. 1, making Long Beach the major oil producer; in the 1920s, this field was the most productive in the world. In 1932, the larger Wilmington Oil Field, the fourth largest in the United States, and most of which in Long Beach, developed, contributed to the city's fame in the 1930s as an oil city.
The Long Beach M6.4 1933 earthquake caused significant damage to the city and its surroundings, killing a total of 120 people. Most of the damage occurred to unmolested masonry buildings, especially schools. The Pacific Bible Seminary (now known as Hope International University) was forced to move classes from the First Christian Church of Long Beach and into a small local house due to damage.
Ford Motor Company built a factory called the Long Beach Assembly and then addressed in 1929 as "700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach" where the factory began to build Ford Model A. Ford's vehicle production continued after the war until 1960 when the plant was closed due to fire, and January 1991 when the plant was partially destroyed due to air quality remediation efforts. Ford had previously opened a Factory in Los Angeles at 12th Street and Olive, with a factory later built on East Seventh Street and Santa Fe Avenue after 1914.
The city was the site of "The Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942" during World War II when observers for the Air Force Air Corps reported bullets fired from the ocean. An anti-aircraft battery was fired into the night sky, though no aircraft were ever seen.
Before the war, Long Beach had a sizeable Japanese-American population, working in a fish canning factory on Terminal Island and had a small truck (produce) farm in the area. Due to over-fear on the beach and racial prejudices, state officials persuaded the national government to remove Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to internees in 1942 to inland facilities. Most did not return to the city after they were released from the camp. Due to this and other factors, the Japanese Americans now only have less than 1% of the Long Beach population, but the Japanese Community Center and the Japanese Buddhist Church survive. The Japanese-American Cultural Center is located above Gerald Desmond Bridge and Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro.
Douglas Aircraft's largest facility is the Long Beach factory, with a total of 1,422,350 square feet. The first aircraft was launched on December 23, 1941. The plant produces C-47 Skytrain transport, B-17 Flying Fortress, and A-20. Hunters Havoc attack simultaneously. Douglas joined the McDonnell Aircraft Company in 1967 where Douglas DC-8 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 were built. In 1997 McDonnell Douglas joined Boeing, who still makes the C-17 Globemaster transport plane in Long Beach, although the program is scheduled to end and the plant may be closed.
In 1970, the Census Bureau reported the Long Beach population as 6% Hispanic, 5.4% Black, and 86.2% non-Hispanic White.
The Pacific non-profit aquarium, located in downtown Long Beach, opened to the public in 1998. It has been a major attraction visited by over 13 million people since its opening. Kajima International is the developer of Aquarium of the Pacific and architects including Los Angeles Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum offices and Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis of San Francisco.
In 2010, the Census Bureau reported the Long Beach population as 46.1% White, 13.5% Black, 12.9% Asian, and 27.5% Other or Multiple Races. 40.8% identified as Hispanic, 4/5 of those with a Mexican background.
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Geography
Long Beach is located at 33 Â ° 47 'North, 118 Â ° 10' West, about 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown Los Angeles. According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​51,437 square miles (133.2 km 2 ), with 50,293 square miles (130.3 km 2 ) of its territory land and 1.144 square miles (2.96 km 2 ) of it (2.22%) is water. Long Beach completely surrounds Signal Hill.
Nearby Areas
Long Beach is made up of many different environments. Some neighborhoods are named after the highway, while others are named for nearby parks, schools, or city features.
Climate
Long Beach, depending on the location of reporting, has a Mediterranean climate, with a strong semi-dry climate characteristic. In general, the city has warm and hot summers, dry summers and cool and damp winters. The days in Long Beach are mostly sunny, as in Southern California in general. Temperatures recorded at weather stations in Long Beach Airport, 4.0 miles (6.4 km) to the mainland from the ocean, are much wider than along the immediate coast. During the summer months, low clouds and fog often occur, evolving overnight and blanketing the area in many mornings. This mist is usually lost in the afternoon, and the western sea breeze often develops, keeping the temperature light. Heat and humidity rarely coincide, making heat waves more tolerable than vice versa.
The geographic location of Long Beach just east of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, paired with a largely south-facing coastline, produces a city that has very different weather patterns than coastal communities in the north and south. The 1,200m Palos Verdes hill blocks the western airflow to the east and, with it, a large amount of coastal moisture that marks other coastal cities, such as Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, and Newport Beach.
As in most locations in Southern California, most of the rain occurs during the winter months. The storm can bring heavy rain.
Environment
Pollution
Long Beach suffers from the worst air pollution in the entire United States. Most of the cities are near the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the west-west-south-west winds carry most air pollution of the twin ports directly to Long Beach before spreading northwards eastwards. Heavy sources of pollution at the port include the vessel itself, which burns high-sulfur, high-sulfur-fueled bunker fuels to guard internal power at anchor, as well as heavy diesel pollution from drayage trucks at ports, and short-range tractors-cargo trucks carrying cargo from ports to inland warehouses, railway bases, and delivery centers. The average rate of long-term toxic air pollutants (and the corresponding carcinogenic risks they create) can be two to three times higher in and around Long Beach, and in the windward region to the east, than in other parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, such as Westside, San Fernando Valley, or San Gabriel Valley. While overall regional pollution in the Los Angeles metropolitan area has declined in the last decade, pollution levels remain very high in most of Long Beach due to harbor pollution, with the disposal of diesel from ships, trains, and trucks as the largest source.
In addition, the Long Beach area is directly against the wind from some of South Bay's oil refineries. Any refineries or interruptions that cause the release of atmospheric refineries (typically sulfur dioxide) will usually affect air in Long Beach due to prevailing west-south-west winds.
Similarly, water quality in the Long Beach section of San Pedro Bay, which is confined to the Federal Breakwaters, was generally among the poorest across the West Coast during the rainy period. Many Long Beach beaches average D or F grade on coastal water quality during the wet season at Beach Report Card published by Heal the Bay. However, during dry periods, water often reaches rank A in the same report. The Los Angeles River releases directly to the Long Beach side of San Pedro Bay and passes most of all urban runoff from across the Los Angeles metropolitan area directly to the harbor water. This runoff contains most of the debris, garbage, chemical pollutants, and biological pathogens that are washed into a storm channel in every upstream city whenever it rains. Because the breakwaters prevent the normal tidal and wave rinse action, these pollutants are formed in the harbor. Water covered by breakwaters, along most of the city's beaches, can be exposed to red waves due to this stagnation as well. Due to these factors, water in Long Beach is not safe to swim for several days or weeks every year.
Ecology
The area now Long Beach has historically included several ecological communities, with dominating coastal dominance. A number of native plant areas can still be found in the city. These include California soba ( Eriogonum fasciculatum ), California sagebrush ( Artemisia californica ), and California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ). Some of the oak shore stands (Quercus agrifolia ) remain at the El Dorado Nature Center. California fan palm ( Washingtonia filifera ), the original plant farther inland, was introduced to the city as an ornamental garden and is now naturalized. Several species of birds, mammals, and other wildlife have adapted to the development.
Since the arrival of Europeans, many foreign species have become naturalized in the area. Introduced plants include yellow mustard, eucalyptus, wild radish, and tumbleweed. Plants like that now far exceed the native plants and spread rapidly in the vacant lot and the city's oil fields.
The city and its inhabitants have the initiative to preserve and reclaim part of its ecological heritage. The RiverLink project has begun revegetate the Long Beach stretch of the Los Angeles River with native plants. Parts of the remaining Pacific Electric right-of-way are cleared of non-natives, planted with native plants, and made accessible by foot and bicycle. This open space community is now known as Long Beach Greenbelt and is the focus of ongoing efforts in community recovery and education.
El Dorado Nature Center has changed its original "hands-off" approach and has started actively introducing native species. The Los Cerritos Cigarette Research Group, state government agencies and grassroots groups are collaborating on plans to preserve the last wetlands of Long Beach. Long Beach is the first city in California to join the EcoZone Program, which is intended to improve environmental conditions measurably through public-private partnerships. Such projects seek to reduce pollution, restore native habitat, and provide green areas for city dwellers to enjoy.
Other places in Long Beach to see the natural areas include Bluff Park (coastal cliffs), Golden Shores Marine Reserve, Jack Dunster Marine Sanctuary, Shoreline Park and DeForest Park.
Long Beach leads Southern California in access, size and park expenditure, ranked 16th among surveys from 75 major US cities, with Los Angeles and Anaheim tied for 51 and Santa Ana to 69th, according to a study released by the national conservation group.
Demographics
2010
The 2010 US Census reported that Long Beach had a population of 462,257. Population density was 9191.3 people per square mile (3.548.8/km²). Long Beach racial makeup is 213.066 (46.1%) White, 62.603 (13.5%) Black or African American, 3,458 (0.7%) Native Americans, 59,496 (12.9%) Asian (4.5% Philippines, 3.9% Cambodia, 0.9% Vietnam, 0.6% China, 0.6% Japan, 0.4% India, 0.4% Korea, 0.2% Thai, 0.1% Laotian, 0.1% Hmong), 5.253 (1.1%) Pacific Islands (0.8% Samoa, 0.1% Guamanian, 0.1% Tonga), 93.930 (20.3%) of other races, and 24,451 ( 5.3%) of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 188,412 people (40.8%). 32.9% of the city's population is Mexico's heritage. Non-Hispanic whites were 29.4% of the population in 2010, down from 86.2% in 1970.
Cambodia's ethnic population of about 20,000 is the largest outside Cambodia.
The Census reported that 453,980 people (98.2% of the population) lived in households, 5,321 (1.2%) lived in unembienced groups, and 2,956 (0.6%) were institutionalized.
There were 163,531 households, of which 58,073 (35.5%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 61,850 (37.8%) were married couples living together, 26,781 (16.4% ) has a female household without a husband now, 10,598 (6.5%) owns a householder male in the absence of a wife. There are 12,106 (7.4%) unmarried partnerships of the opposite sex, and 3,277 (2.0%) married couples or married couples. Of households, 46,536 (28.5%) consist of individuals and 11,775 (7.2%) have a person who lives alone aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.78. There are 99,229 families (60.7% of all households); the average family size is 3.52.
The age distribution of cities is as follows: 115,143 people (24.9%) are under 18, 54,163 persons (11.7%) aged 18 to 24, 140,910 people (30.5%) aged 25 to 44, 109,206 people (23 , 6%)) aged 45 to 64 years, and 42,835 persons (9.3%) aged 65 years or older. The median age was 33.2 years. For every 100 women, there are 96.1 men. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 93.8 men.
There are 176,032 units of homes with an average density of 3,422.2 per square mile (1,321.3/km²), of which 67,949 (41.6%) are occupied owners, and 95,582 (58.4%) are occupied by tenants. Homeowner vacancy rate is 2.0%; the vacancy rate of rent is 7.2%. 195,254 people (42.2% of the population) live in housing units occupied by owners and 258,726 people (56.0%) live in rental housing units.
During 2009-2013, Long Beach had an average household income of $ 52,711, with 20.2% of the population living below the federal poverty line.
By 2014, the Long Beach population is 473,577.
2000
At the 2000 census, there were 461,522 people, 163,088 households, and 99,646 families living in the city. Population density is 9,149.8 residents per square mile (3,532.8/km²). There are 171,632 housing units with an average density of 3,402.6 per square mile (1,313.8/km²). City racial makeup is 45.2% White, 14.9% Black or African American (US census), 0.8% Native Americans, 12.1% Asia, 1.2% Pacific Island, 20.6% of race another, and 5.3% of two races or more. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 35.8% of the population.
The city has changed since the 1950s, when its population is predominantly European-Americans and the city is nicknamed "Iowa by the Sea" because it has a slower pace than in neighboring Los Angeles. In 1950, whites represented 97.4% of the Long Beach population. Since the second half of the 20th century, the city has become a major port of entry for Asian and Latin American immigrants headed for Los Angeles. The Harbor section in downtown Long Beach was once home to people of Dutch, Greek, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish descent, most of whom worked in factories and cannery until the 1960s.
According to a report by USA Today in 2000, Long Beach is the most ethnically diverse city in the United States. Non-Hispanic White Americans comprise 30.0% of the city's population. Its Asian community includes the largest Cambodian community in the United States, and the second largest Cambodian community outside Asia (after Paris). The neighborhood along Anaheim Street is called "Little Phnom Penh". There is also a large population of immigrants and descendants from Vietnam and the Philippines.
Long Beach has offered many industrial jobs to African Americans during the years of World War II. This resulted in increased blacks in Long Beach caused by the Second Big Migration. There are black communities in Eastside and North Long Beach.
It has a relatively high proportion of Pacific Islands (more than 1% in the 2000 Census), from Samoa and Tonga. Most American Indians, about 0.8% of the city's population, arrived during the city relocation program of the Department of Internal Affairs of India in the 1950s.
Long Beach used to have a sizeable Japanese American population, mostly working at fish canning at Terminal Island and on a small truck farm in the area. In 1942, shortly after the Pearl Harbor Raid and subsequent Japanese war declarations in the United States and the United Kingdom, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the United States Executive Order 9066 which allowed military commanders to appoint areas "from anywhere or everyone possible excluded. "Under this order, all Japanese and Japanese descendants were categorically excluded from the west coast and sent to the internment camp, regardless of legal process. Most did not return to Long Beach after they were released from the camp. The Japanese Americans have less than 1% of the population of Long Beach, but the city still has the Japanese Community Center and the Japanese Buddhist Church from previous history.
In the 2000 census, there were 163,088 households where 35.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 16.1% had non-husbands female households, and 38.9% no-family. Of all households, 29.6% were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.55.
In the city, the population is spread by 29.2% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 32.9% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% years or more. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there are 96.6 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 93.5 men.
The average income for households in the city is $ 37,270, and the average income for families is $ 40.002. Men have an average income of $ 36,807 compared to $ 31,975 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 19,040. Approximately 19.3% of families and 22.8% of the population are below the poverty line, including 32.7% of those under the age of 18 and 11.0% of those aged 65 and older. In 2008, the Census Bureau showed the number of people living below the poverty line had dropped to 18.2%.
Economy
The economic base has changed over the years. The oil extraction created an explosion and this was the city of the Navy for many years before the base was closed. Aerospace industry plays an important role. Douglas Aircraft Company (later McDonnell Douglas and now part of Boeing) owns a factory at Long Beach Airport where they built aircraft for World War II, and then built DC-8, DC-9, DC-10, and MD-11. Boeing built Boeing 717 to 2006 and the strategic C-17 Globemaster III airlifter plant will be closed. Even after greatly reducing the number of local employees in recent years, Boeing is still the largest private company in the city. Polar Air Cargo, an international cargo carrier, was based in Long Beach. TABC, Inc., part of Toyota, manufactures various auto parts, including steering column and catalytic converter, in Long Beach.
Epson America, Inc., a US affiliate of Seiko Epson Corporation based in Japan, is headquartered in Long Beach. Pioneer Electronics, a US affiliate of Pioneer Corporation based in Japan, is also headquartered in Long Beach along with SCAN Health Plan, a non-profit HMO "Medicare Advantage" for seniors. Molina Healthcare, Inc., Medicaid's health care program, is headquartered in Long Beach. HCP real estate company based in Long Beach. Jesse James' West Coast Choppers custom motorcycle shop is located in Long Beach, and many of the Monster Garage cable TV shows are taken in Long Beach. The Long Beach Green Business Association is an organization that works to create economic growth through green business promotion and promote local buy programs for Long Beach.
Top entrepreneurs
Aquatic Capital of AmericaIn 2008, Long Beach, California, City Council approved the local movement to designate the city as "Aquatic Capital of America."
According to the nonprofit American Capital Foundation, Long Beach has a temperate climate throughout the year, ideal offshore waters, protected Marine Stadium competition zones, and diverse populations filled with active athletes and beach seekers. Long Beach has produced a list of Olympians, world champions and world record holders in water sports ranging from diving, swimming and indoor water polo, to rowing and sailing outdoors.
Long Beach is also home to beach volleyball player, Misty May-Treanor, three-time Olympic gold medalist.
In addition, The Port of Long Beach is one of America's major ports and a pioneer in the movement of goods and environmental management. Trade is rewarded annually with over $ 140 billion moving through Long Beach, making it the second busiest port in the United States. The main economic power, the Port supports more than 30,000 jobs in Long Beach, 316,000 jobs across Southern California and 1.4 million jobs across the United States. This generates about $ 16 billion in annual statewide trade-related wages.
Culture
Art
The Long Beach Art Museum, located in the historic Elizabeth Milbank Anderson residence, is owned by Long Beach City, and is operated by the Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation. Long Beach also features the Museum of Latin American Art, founded in 1996 by Dr. Robert Gumbiner. It is the only museum in the western United States that exclusively displays modern and contemporary Latin American art.
Long Beach's newest museum is the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (PieAM). This museum is the project of Robert Gumbiner at the time of his death. The museum opened October 15, 2010.
In 1965, Long Beach State hosted the first International Statue Symposium held in the United States and the first in college or university. Six sculptors from all over the world and two from the United States created many monumental sculptures visible on campus. Now there are more than 20 statues on campus.
Long Beach is known for its street art. Some of the murals were created along with the Municipal Arts and Mural Arts Program, but many others did not.
On the outside of the Long Beach Sports Arena is one of Wyland's Whal Walls artists. With an area of ​​116,000 square feet (11,000 m²), it is the largest mural in the world (according to the Guinness Book of Records).
Shops and galleries in the East Village Arts District, downtown Long Beach hold monthly art exhibitions and artist exhibits at street galleries on the second Saturday of each month during the Artwalk.
Long Beach has a gratuity for an art program run through the Long Beach Art Council and Rebuilding Agency that ensures that new personal developments contribute to art fund or commission artwork for their new projects.
Music
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, a recently renamed music school in CSULB, presents a variety of classical music concerts, jazz, and the world every year. The Conservatory is part of the renowned College of Arts at CSULB.
The Long Beach Symphony plays many classical and pop concerts throughout the year. Symphonies are played at the Terrace Theater at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.
Long Beach Opera, founded in 1979, is the oldest professional opera company serving the Los Angeles and Orange County areas. It features standard and non-standard opera repertoire performances at various locations, including Terrace Theater and Theater Center of the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center and Richard Performing Arts Center and Karen Carpenter at CSULB.
The Long Beach Community Concert Association is a 49-year-old volunteer organization that provides quality musical entertainment that appeals to seniors and others, four Sunday afternoon a year at Carpenter Performing Arts Center in CSULB. LBCCA also has an outreach program that takes entertainment music for elderly care and senior housing facilities around the wider Long Beach area.
KJAZZ 88.1 FM (KKJZ) broadcasts from California State University, Long Beach. The station features jazz and blues music exclusively and can also be heard over the Internet. Kbeach is a radio owned and operated by web only in CSULB.
Long Beach City College operates two student-run internet radio stations, KCTY FM and KLBC AM.
Long Beach is host to a number of long-running music festivals. They include the Bob Marley Reggae Festival (February), Cajun & amp; Zoologic Festival (May, El Dia De San Juan) Puerto Rican Festival (Salsa music, June) Aloha Concert Jam (Hawaiian music, June), Long Beach Jazz Festival (August), Long Beach Blues Festival (September, 1980), and Brazilian Street Carnaval (Brazilian music, September).
Long Beach Municipal Band, founded in 1909, is the longest band supported in the city. In 2005, the band played 24 concerts in various parks around Long Beach.
Long Beach is also the starting point for bands and musicians like The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jenni Rivera, TSOL, Sublime, Snoop Dogg, Tha Mexakinz, Nate Dogg, Warren G, Tha Dogg Pound, Knoc-Turn'al, Long Beach Dub Allstars , Avi Buffalo, Crystal Horns, Emperors, Pyramids, Crooked Me, Sticking On Your Weapons, War and Vince Staples.
Theater
Long Beach has several professional and semi-professional theater companies, specifically:
Musical Theater West, one of the largest regional theater producers in Southern California, who performed at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the CSU Long Beach campus;
International City Theater, which produces drama and musicals at the Center Theater (part of the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center);
The Long Beach Playhouse, in continuous operation for over 75 years, has shown runs of 50 weeks out of the year at two stages.
Long Beach Shakespeare Company for over 20 years has been providing free outdoor Shakespeare Festivals in the Summer.
In addition, Long Beach is home to a number of smaller theaters and "black boxes", including Theater Found, Alive Theater, Garage Theater and the California Repertory Company (part of the graduate theater program at CSULB) currently performing at the Royal Theater above Queen Mary in downtown Long Beach. Many tours and other stage shows come through Long Beach, especially at Terrace Theater and Carpenter Center, and both CSU Long Beach and Long Beach City College maintain an active theater department.
Cultural event
The Pacific Aquarium believes that bringing people together from diverse backgrounds and interests to understand and respect each other's differences is the key to solving environmental problems. As a result, Aquarium also offers cultural festivals with dance, music, art, and special educational activities. The aquarium started a cultural festival in 2002. Through the festival, the Aquarium works with members from diverse ethnic communities in the region to create events that celebrate their traditions and connections to the sea. Pacific Aquariums reach people with disabilities to create weekend festivals to celebrate their creative abilities. In 2004, the Aquarium debuted the annual Festival of Human Abilities featuring hip-hop wheelchair-dancers, mouth painters, inspirational speakers, and various disabled musicians. The festival was highlighted at the National Zoo and Aquarium Association conference in 2007. In addition to the cultural festival, the Aquarium also featured other events to reach special interest groups such as Day Divers and Senior Day.
Generally held in March, Long Beach offers an annual Native American festival held at Shoreline Village. This is a free show that offers Native American dances, singing, playing drums, flute music, storytelling, native American bands, food, crafts and vendors etc. They also offer different free events for children such as dream catcher, face painting and/or balloon artist.
In October, the State of Long Beach hosted the CSULB Widescreen Film Festival, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. The festival began in 1992 as a showcase for films recorded in widescreen format, but has since turned into an artist-in-residence show. A great video artist and film (like former CSULB student Steven Spielberg) filters and discusses their own work and the ten productions that most impact their cinematic vision.
The Christmas boat parade is a Southern California tradition, with at least one held every weekend night from 1 December until Christmas. The "Naples Island Christmas Parade" has been held since 1946, and passes through the Naples canals and around Alamitos Bay past Belmont Shore. The "Thousand Lights Parade" is in the Shoreline Village area (near downtown Long Beach and RMS Queen Mary). There is also a Christmas boat parade in the nearby Los Angeles/San Pedro Harbor area, and another in the Huntington Harbor community near Huntington Beach.
The Long Beach Lesbian & amp; Gay Pride Parade & amp; The festival has been held in May or June since 1984. This is the second largest event in Long Beach, attracting over 125,000 attendees during a two-day celebration. This is the third largest Gay Pride Parade in the United States.
Long Beach Sea Festival is held during the summer (June to August). It features an event centered on the sea and beach. These events include beach volleyball, beach movies, and a tiki festival.
Sites of interest
The RMS Queen Mary is a 1936 Art Deco ship docked permanently in Long Beach. About 200 feet (61 m) longer than RMS Titanic, the former Cunard Liner was renowned as the world's fastest from 1936 to 1952, due to its distinctive art deco design and for its use during World War II as troop transport. It was purchased by the City of Long Beach in 1967 for conversion to hotels and maritime museums.
The Aquarium of the Pacific nonprofit is located on a 5-acre (20,000 m 2 ) site at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, California - across the water from Long Beach Convention Center, Shoreline Village and Queen Mary Hotel and Attraction. The aquarium has a collection of over 12,500 animals representing over 550 different species. The facility focuses on the Pacific Ocean in three major permanent galleries, Southern California and bright Steel, the cold waters of the North Pacific and colorful coral reefs in the Tropical Pacific. Aquarium's favorite exhibits also include an interactive Aquarium Shark Lagoon (guests can keep sharks and stinging rays) and Lorikeet Forest (guests can feed the nectar for colorful lorikeet birds). The Aquarium exhibit introduces Pacific residents and seascapes, while also focusing on specific conservation messages associated with each region. The size of the exhibit is in size and capacity from about 5,000 to 350,000 gallons. The Pacific Aquarium has been visited by more than 13 million people since its opening. The Aquarium is rated # 2 Family Destination in Los Angeles Area in Zagat U.S. Family Travel Guide the latest, second only to Disneyland. The Aquarium of the Pacific is also the only major non-profit aquarium in the country that has increased its attendance for six consecutive years. More & amp; Peer research places the Aquarium of the Pacific ranking as the number one in visitor diversity among all the nation's leading aquariums.
The Long Beach, Garden, Recreation and Sea Department received the Gold Medal award from the National Parks and Recreation Association in 2002, 2003 and 2004, recognizing the Department's "exceptional practice and program management". The Department manages 92 parks covering over 3,100 hectares (13 km 2 ) throughout the city, including 815 acres (3.30 km 2 ) El Dorado Regional Park, featuring lake fishing , range of archery, youth camp, bicycle path, and picnic area. The department also operates four public pools, and four slopes of launch for sailors to access the Pacific Ocean.
102.5-acre (0.4 km 2 ) The El Dorado Nature Center is part of the larger El Dorado Regional Park. The center has lakes, rivers, and walkways, with meadows and forest areas.
The Municipal Fly Casting Pool at the Recreation Park in East Long Beach is clear water as high as 260 feet to 135 feet, a fishless pond built and operated since 1925 by the Long Beach Casting Club because only one of the two Southern California cities operates a casting pool else in Pasadena). Described recently as a tranquil pool "surrounded by an endless expanse of green grass with a mountainous backdrop and palm trees," some movie stars from the 1940s were taught to fly in the pool, including Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Jimmy Durante, and Barbara Stanwyck. In 1932, a flying fish club adjacent to a fishing pond was used for the Summer Olympics and military personnel during World War II.
Long Beach Greenbelt is part of the old Pacific Electric toll road, restored by community activists as the native habitat. It currently supports about 40 species of native California plants as well as a number of urban wildlife. The relaxed and pleasant atmosphere provides an open space for the community while educating citizens about what the land was before industrialization and urbanization.
Rancho Los Alamitos is a historic 7.5-hectare (30,000 feet 2 ) site owned by Long Beach City and close to the Long Beach campus of the California State University system. The site includes five farm buildings, including a working blacksmith shop, 4 acres (16,000 m 2 ) gardens, and a leafy farmhouse dating from around 1800. Rancho is in a gated community; visitors have to pass through the security gate to get there.
Rancho Los Cerritos is a 4.7 hectare historic site owned by Long Beach in the Bixby Knolls area near the Virginia Country Club. The building dates from the 1880s. The site also includes a California history research library.
Long Beach is home to the leanest house in the country.
The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden terletak di kampus California State University, Long Beach.
Long Beach offers singing gondola trips through the romantic canals of Naples. Along with gondola rides on Lake Merritt, on the Napa River, in Huntington Beach, on Newport Beach, in Redondo Beach, and at The Venetian (Las Vegas), Long Beach is only one of seven places in the Western United where tourists can ride the gondolas.
The beach front area of ​​the city was once home to an amusement park that is now dead. The first Rollercoaster was opened for business in June 1907. It was named Fig. 8 after the trajectory, and built on a pole that reached over the water. In 1914, the Pike Amusement Zone made several improvements and a new roller coaster named Jack Rabbit Racer was opened in May 1915 to become the second largest racing coaster in the country. It is part of the Silver Spray Jetty which includes several new rides and concessions. In the mid-twenties, several expansions were made to the area and Jack Rabbit Racer was renovated to increase the dips up to higher altitudes and steep but it was soon removed to make way for the Cyclone Racer roller coaster that opened in May 1930. New coasters were also built on poles over the ocean, but when the breakwater was built and the harbor widened, the sandy beach was elongated. Finally the whole pier stood on the beach. When it was destroyed in September 1968, Cyclone Racer was the only two-track roller coaster in the United States.
Although the California surf scene is said to have started at Long Beach when in 1911 two surfers returned from Hawaii and the city hosted the first National Surfing Championship and Paddleboard in 1938, surfing is currently rare in Long Beach because it is 2.2 miles (3, 5 km) long breakwater that was built in 1949 to protect the US Pacific Fleet. The wave breaker reduced the "big waves into the lake as it billowed along the city shore." Some residents of Long Beach also mention the breakwaters as the reason of the water filth in Long Beach, because water can not circulate. The fleet was left in the 1990s, and now some residents are calling for it to be lowered or eliminated and the city has commissioned a $ 100,000 study for this purpose.
Long Beach is home to the "Rosie Dog Beach" - the only legal free area on the beach for dogs throughout Los Angeles County. It's named after the "Rosie" bulldog that inspires the creation of the beach. This 3 acre (12,000 m 2 ) area is located in Belmont Shore between Roycroft and Argonne avenues. The off-leash area is open daily, all day long.
Long Beach Plaza is a mall located in the city. It has been redeveloped as a mall.
Sports
Grand Prix of Long Beach
The Grand Prix of Long Beach in April is the biggest event in Long Beach. It started in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race on downtown streets, and became Formula One racer, the US Grand Prix, the following year. From 1984 to 2008 it was the Champ Car event, and is now an IndyCar race. During the same weekend with the Grand Prix, there are also SportsCar IMSA race competitions, Formula D rounds and Pirelli World Challenge.
The Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame is located on South Pine Avenue in front of the Long Beach Convention Center adjacent to the Long Beach Grand Prix circuit. The Walk of Fame was created in 2006 to honor major contributors to motor sports and annually incorporates new members in conjunction with the Long Beach Grand Prix. A 22 inch (560 mm) bronze medal is placed on the sidewalk for each new person. Medals include racing car racer and top achievement list in motor sport.
Long Beach Marathon
The Long Beach Marathon is run annually in October throughout the City of Long Beach. The annual event includes various races including Fun Run Kids, Bicycle Tours, 5K, Half Marathon, and Full Marathon. All races start and end around the Shoreline Village area in downtown Long Beach. 25,000 runners and cyclists participated in a 2013 celebration that drew nearly 50,000 people to attend the event as a whole. The full Marathon is a quick Boston qualifying course featuring beautiful views of Long Beach Harbor and past sandy beaches, Belmont Shore, and Cal State Long Beach campus.
Baseball
The Long Beach State 49ers baseball team has been playing since 1954. They played at Blair Field, across the street from Wilson High School. They are called Dirtbags by many fans and are the team's official nickname.
Basketball
Long Beach was the home of the American Basketball Association's Long Beach Chiefs team during the 1962/1963 season. They play in the newly opened Long Beach Arena.
The Little League American Basketball Association team, Long Beach Jam, played at the Walter Pyramid (the pyramid-shaped gym) on the Long Beach State campus) from 2003 to 2005.
The Southern California Summer Pro League is a showcase for current and prospective NBA basketball players, including recent draft picks, NBA players currently working on their skills and conditioning, and international professionals hoping to become NBA players. The league played at the Pyramids on the Long Beach State campus during July.
Sailing
Since its founding in August 1964, the Congress Congress Cup has evolved into one of the major international shipping events. Now held in April, this is the 1st class competition contest held in the United States. The one-to-one race format is the same as the American Cup, and many winners of the Congress Cup have won the American Cup as well.
The Leeway Sailing and Aquatics Center at Alamitos Bay at Belmont Shore is a youth sailing program established in 1929.
Ski water
In July, there is the annual Catalina Ski Competition, which starts from Long Beach Harbor and goes to Catalina Island and returns to complete the 100 kilometer (62 mi) circuit. The race is held every year since 1948 and features skiers from up to seven teams from around the world.
Rugby union
The Belmont Shooting rugby team plays in the US Super Rugby League. They have been in seven league finals, and have become champions three times.
College sports
The Long Beach State team mascot is the 49ers. Schools have participated in national championships in Princess Voli (5), Male Volleyball (1), Trajectory and Field (1), Tennis Men (1st Division II), Swimming (Division-1 II), Badminton Women (2), and Women's Field Hockey (1). Schools have also been regularly appearing in NCAA tournaments in Men's Baseball, Men's Softball, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Men's Golf, Women's Tennis, Men's Water Polo, and Women's Water Polo. Their Cheer Team has also become the national champion in 2003, 2004 and 2006. The Hockey Roller D1 team is the 2011 national champion after beating Lindenwood University.
The other collegiate sports team in town is Long Beach City College. Schools have appeared in national championships at Men's Gymnastics (6), Football (5), Women's Football (3), and Tennis Ganda Putra dan Tunggal (1 each). They also have state championships in various sports, including the 2006-7 championship in Polo Air Men and Women.
Archery
The El Dorado Regional Park is located on the Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984.
CSU Long Beach has one of the few teams of university universities left in California.
Pep flag
Pep's flag team at Long Beach Poly (known as "Peppers") recently won their first US Nationals title in Division One and Two Flags in 2008. This is the first year in the history of Long Beach Poly who became the leader of the spirit has won the title National. They have been placed in the top ten schools for the last five years and are now the US National Champion for 2008.
2028 Summer Olympics
Various sports will be held in Long Beach during the Summer Olympics in 2028. Long Beach will host BMX Cycling, Water Polo, Triathlon, swim in the open water, sail and handball.
Government
Municipal
Long Beach is a California charter city, and is governed by nine members of the City Council, elected by the district, and the Mayor, who was widely elected since the city initiative was adopted in 1988. The City Attorney, City Auditor, and City Prosecutor are also elected positions. The city is supported by a budget of $ 2.3 billion, and has more than 5,500 employees. Long Beach was first established in 1888 with 59 buildings and a new school. Nine years later, dissatisfaction with high prohibition and taxes led to a short-lived and short-lived dissemination. Before 1897 came out, residents chose to rejoin, and the date of establishment of 1897 was shown on the city seal.
Long Beach is a full-service city that provides virtually all of its own city services, in contrast to city contracts. The city hall provides a variety of traditional city services through various departments that make up civil servants. In addition to the police and firefighters themselves, Long Beach provides:
- Water supply and municipal sewer service through the Long Beach Water Department, which has a water treatment plant located within the city;
- Gas & amp; The Ministry of Oil, which manages the services and infrastructure of natural gas consumers, as well as controlling the reduction of crude oil extraction;
- Health care through Long Beach Health & amp; The Human Services Department, which deals with environmental health (such as restaurant/food inspection) and public health services. It is one of only three city health departments in California (the other two are Pasadena and Berkeley);
- Sanitation and recycling services through the Environmental Services Bureau at the Ministry of Public Works;
- Animal control service which, in addition to serving Long Beach, also serves nearby cities including Signal Hill and Seal Beach;
- City Auditor;
- A City Attorney;
The main exception to a range of municipal services is electricity, provided by Southern California Edison.
Federal and state representations
In the State Senate of California, Long Beach is divided between the 33rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Ricardo Lara, the 34th Senate District, represented by the Republic of Janet Nguyen, and the 35th Senate District, represented by Democrat Steven Bradford. At the State Assembly of California, it is divided between the 63rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anthony Rendon, 64th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Mike Gipson, and 70th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Patrick O'Donnell.
In the United States House of Representatives, Long Beach is divided between California's 44th congress district, represented by Democrat Nanette Barragón, and the 47th congress district in California, represented by Democrat Alan Lowenthal.
Politics
Until 1992, Long Beach was considered the Republican stronghold in the presidential election. Like many of the rest of Los Angeles County, however, Long Beach has been a Democratic stronghold in the presidential election since 1992.
Infrastructure
Police Department
The Long Beach Police Department provides law enforcement for the City of Long Beach.
Restrictions on registered sex offenders
On March 18, 2008, Long Beach became the first city in California that severely limits residence and visitation rights for sex offenders registered in California. Fueled by local protests from multi-apartment residences that rent out some registered sex offenders, and triggered by local radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou from the show John and Ken KFI, city council members voted 7-0 to impose 18 ordinances, from the most forbidding residence by all registered sex offenders, whether they are conditional or not, within 2,000 feet (610 m) of any child care center, public or private school, or park. Google map measurements show that the total exclusion area covers over 96% of the Long Beach area currently categorized for residential use. Registered sex offenders currently in the exclusion zone were granted until September 2008 to clear the forbidden area. After this happens, no sex offender can legally live in most of Long Beach. While some other rules limit the number of registered sex offenders that may reside in the apartment complex, there are no apartment complexes within the city limits that are outside the exclusion zone. In addition, the procedure prohibits all registered sex offenders using any park, beach, or facility that caters to children, such as amusement parks and restaurants with children's playgrounds, or even travels 500 feet (150 m) from those places.
Fire Department
The Long Beach Fire Department LBFD , Class ISO 1, provides emergency fire and medical protection services to Long Beach City. The Long Beach Fire Department currently operates from 23 Fire Stations, located throughout the city.
Territory
- The Los Angeles Superior Court, which includes all of Los Angeles County, operates the Long Beach Courthouse in downtown Long Beach. This is one of 50 courthouses in this area.
- The Los Angeles County Health Services Department operates the Torrance Health Center at Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles, near Torrance and serves Long Beach.
State and federal
- The Federal Building of Glenn M. Anderson Long Beach, located in downtown Long Beach at 501 West Ocean Blvd., houses offices for NOAA and other federal agencies, although NOAA plans to divert the leadership of the Fisheries office to the Pacific Northwest and shrink this office through attrisi.
- The Long Beach Main Post Office of the US Postal Service serves as a major postal facility for Long Beach.
- The Long Beach Navy Shipyard was established in 1943 and closed in 1997, employing over 16,000 people at its peak in 1945.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
Long Beach Unified School District serves most of Long Beach City.
Other school districts serving part of Long Beach include:
- Unified ABC School District
- Paramount Unified School District
- Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
Private school
Colleges and universities
Long Beach, California has two public institutions dedicated to higher education: California State University, Long Beach and Long Beach City College.
Founded in 1949, California State University, Long Beach is a comprehensive public university located in a tree-lined Los Altos neighborhood. Long Beach State is three miles from the Pacific Ocean and is known for their artistic resources, such as the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
Long Beach City College is a community college founded in 1927. LBCC consists of two separate campuses; The Liberal Arts Campus is located in the Lakewood Village residential area, while the Pacific Coast Campus is adjacent to the Eastside neighborhood.
Transportation
Ports and submissions
In 2005, Long Beach Port was the second busiest port in the United States and the tenth busiest in the world, sending about 66 million metric tons of cargo worth $ 95 billion in 2001. The port serves shipping between the United States and the United States. Pacific Rim. The combined operations of Long Beach Port and the Port of Los Angeles are the busiest in the United States.
Train deliveries are provided by Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway, which carries about half of shipments from the port. Long Beach contributes to the Alameda Corridor project to increase the capacity of rail lines, roads, and highways that connect the port to the Los Angeles railroad. The project, completed in 2002, drilled a 20-mile (32 km) and 33-foot (10 m) deep ditch to remove a 200-degree crossing and cost about US $ 2.4 billion.
- Long Beach Cruise Terminal
Operated by Carnival Corporation, the Long Beach Cruise Terminal is the year-round home of three cruise ships carrying over 600,000 passengers annually. Passengers are processed in a vaulted structure that previously became Spruce Goose.
Public transport
- Bus and coach services
Long Beach Transit provides local public transport services within Long Beach, Lakewood, and Signal Hill. Long Beach Transit regularly operates 38 bus routes. Most regular service bus routes start or end at the Long Beach Transit Mall in downtown Long Beach.
Long Beach Transit also operates a Paspor shuttle within downtown Long Beach. Free shuttle takes passengers to Aquarium of the Pacific, Pine Avenue, Shoreline Village, Long Beach Convention Center, Queen Mary, Catalina Landing, various hotels and other points of interest. During the summer, Long Beach Transit operates AquaLink, a 68ft (21ft) catamaran carrying passengers between Long Beach's seaside in downtown and Alamitos Bay Landing. In addition, during the summer, a 49-passenger water taxi called AquaBus is provided. At a rate of $ 1, AquaBus serves six different locations in downtown Long Beach beach.
Some transit operators offer services from Long Beach Transit Mall. Torrance Transit offers bus service to South Bay. The Los Angeles Transportation Department (LADOT) offers a bus service to San Pedro. LA Metro operates other regional bus lines. Orange County Transport Authority offers a limited bus service to Orange County. Route 1, from Long Beach to San Clemente is the longest bus route on the OCTA system. Traveling along the Pacific Coast Highway for most routes, it takes 2-2.5 hours to complete. Amtrak Thruway offers buses that start in San Pedro, with stops at Queen Mary and downtown Long Beach, then drive to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, and end up in Bakersfield. Greyhound Lines operates Long Beach Station in Long Beach. The FlyAway bus route to Los Angeles International Airport begins operating on December 30, 2015. The bus to LAX departs 30 minutes past the hour every hour from 5:30 am to 9:30 am.
- Light rails
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport Authority (LA Metro) operates the Blue Line, a light rail service that runs between Downtown Long Beach Station (known as Transit Mall Station until July 2013) and 7th Street/Metro Center station in downtown Los Angeles. From Station 7th Street/Metro Center, passengers can connect to Hollywood, Union Station, Pasadena, East LA, Universal Studios, Chinatown, and other points of interest along the Los Angeles Rail Metro network. From Union Station in downtown L.A., public transit users can access the regional Metrolink (Southern California) rail system to access large areas of Southern California, and connect to the national Amtrak train as well. Metro Blue Line also offers connections to the Metro Expo Line either on Station 7th Street/Metro Center and Pico Station with service to Santa Monica. In addition, at Willowbrook Station, passengers can move to the Green Line Metro with service to Redondo Beach, Norwalk, and Los Angeles International Airport
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