For a brief time with the recent rains, Willow and other residential streets on the eastside were flooded. Tides were high in the Naples and Belmont Shore areas. But unlike earlier days in Long Beach, no one lost their homes or property and flooding didn’t last too long.
By the late 1920s, local aviator Earl Daugherty ran a successful school of aviation and airplane operations at the Chateau Thierry Field (American Avenue and Bixby Road) near Bixby Knolls. He had moved his operations from the sand facing Seaside Avenue.
Noisily. In 1910, crowds gathered on and adjacent to the Seaside Pleasure Pier and used "horns, whistles, and noise producers" to bring in the New Year.
When we think of the holidays we usually think of lights. Bright, sparkling lights. But we don't give much thought as to who generates the electricity to run those lights. So it doesn't surprise that few can name who started Long Beach's first electricity utility back in 1895.
