Back in the 1950s and 60s Long Beach became a focus for the international news media when it hosted the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and International Beauty contests.
NATURE CENTER VISITORS can help create a mural to celebrate the center’s 50th anniversary by dipping their finger in the paint and adding their fingerprint to the artwork, as Naturalist Patty McCloskey demonstrates.
Wednesday we heard from the city employee at the center of the controversies over rental scooters and “traffic calming,” which reduces vehicle traffic lanes while expanding bike lanes throughout the city.
Sam Zavala is a former Long Beach Police Officer who apparently still treasures his ability to “kick ass.” He represents himself on Facebook as one whose view of police work is to make guns, handcuffs, skulls and violence the stuff of all that he stood for as a Long Beach police officer.
Long Beach Fire Station #12, erected in about 1929 at 65th Street and Gundry Avenue is famously known as the “Ghost House,” because of reports of apparitions that appeared during its occupancy. It’s the now sometimes field office of the Ninth District City Councilman.
Transparent California, the state’s largest public pay and pension database, recently published 2018 pay and benefits data for the City of Long Beach. A selected analysis of the data follows:
FAMILY FLOORS has moved into a new Huntington Beach location at 16917 Algonquin St. Participating in the June 19 ribbon cutting are Katelyn and Nathan with parents/owners Melissa and Jay Glatman. Their Long Beach flooring store is at 6447 E. Spring St.