Dec. 10 will mark the 107th anniversary of the landing of the first transcontinental flight in Long Beach – in the water off Seaside and Linden. This historic flight was important to aviation history and to the history of the City of Long Beach.
In November 1929, the Los Angeles Grand Jury turned its attention to the alleged graft, vice, gambling, boot-legging and corruption in Long Beach City government.
While most California women finally got the vote in 1911, several Long Beach women were allowed to vote in 1909 when property owners were asked to decide an issue in Long Beach.
It was a dark, summer night in August when Mrs. Ella Hendersen, reported to the Marshal J.C. Baker and Constable Harry Wilson, that she had come upon the body of a dead baby adjacent to the old haunted Bailey house located near the old Alamitos school house.
I must have been around nine years old when I asked my mom if we could have a cat. She responded, “absolutely not.” When I asked “why” she gave me that look that said she didn’t want to talk about it and neither should I.
In the early 1900s, as the use of the automobile increased giving riders independence, passengers of Long Beach trolleys grew bored at the fixed routes and slowness of this mode of transportation.
Early aviation was exciting and horribly dangerous. The planes were made of wood and cloth and held together with wire. The open cockpit threw many a flyer out and onto the ground below. The earliest aeroplanes were gliders and relied solely on the wind for power.
Long Beach is currently hearing the rumblings of an effort to recall Second District Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce. Efforts to recall elected officials are not uncommon. But in 1922, Long Beach voters actually recalled the city manager.
Back in the days when the Teachers Association of Long Beach (TALB) was known as the City Teachers’ Club of Long Beach, much was written by that organization regarding the impact of war on the local educational system.
