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300 Long Beach Blvd. 33°46′22″N 118°11′20″W / 33.77278°N 118.18889°W / 33.77278; -118.18889 ( US Post Office--Long Beach Moderne structure built from 1933-1934 as a project of the Works Progress Administration
In 1958, Gerald Desmond and other members of the Long Beach City Council decided to begin the process of renaming this stretch of road to Long Beach Boulevard. [2] American Avenue in Long Beach, c. 1924 Model Cleaners, 25th & Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, 1977. In the 1970s, Long Beach Boulevard was lined with gay, lesbian, and transgender ...
The building featured an international arcade on its lowest floor. The building's arcade was connected to the beach in 1927 by a 181-foot (55 m) long tunnel under Ocean Boulevard designed to protect pedestrians from the busy road. The tunnel was used until 1967, when the Ocean Boulevard was widened and the tunnel sealed off. [5] [6]
The board states that since the Lake is used for drinking water, body contact with water is not allowed, but fishing, boating, rowing and camping are permitted. [18] The "no body contact with water" lake policy was established by The Casitas Municipal Water District in the 1950s and 1960s because the lake did not have a filtration system in place.
Long Beach Unified School District serves as the managing school district fiscal agent. Today, CAMS ranks in the top ten schools in California on the NCLB Academic Performance Index; its students score well above state and national averages on the math and verbal SATs. Average student daily attendance in 2003-04 was 98%.
The Alamitos Beach neighborhood of Long Beach, California, looking southeast. Alamitos Avenue runs left to right across the center of the photo; Alamitos Beach is located above it, with the East Village below. 4th Street cuts from the top left corner to the bottom center; Alamitos Beach is to the right of it.
The Sepulveda Dam is a dry dam constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withhold winter flood waters along the Los Angeles River.Completed in 1941, at a cost of $6,650,561 (equivalent to $137,766,000 in 2023), it is located south of center in the San Fernando Valley, approximately eight miles (13 km) east of the river's source in the western end of the Valley, in Los Angeles, California.
The district is bounded on the north by Interstate 405, on the south by Pacific Coast Highway, on the east by Long Beach Boulevard and on the west by the Los Angeles River. Pacific Avenue also goes through the area with commercial strip land uses. The Los Angeles River and the Interstate 710 make up the western boundary. [citation needed]