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By summer 1999, there was a rivalry brewing between Catalina Cruises and Catalina Express. In May, Catalina Cruises launched the Catalina Jet, a 450-passenger, 36-knot catamaran that made the trip from Long Beach in about 55 minutes. In June, Catalina Express launched the Starship Express, a 300-passenger, 37-knot catamaran that could make the ...
Long Beach Airport's runway 30 The old terminal building in 2009. Long Beach Airport covers 1,166 acres (472 ha) at an elevation of 60 feet (18 m). It has three asphalt runways: [1] [19] 12/30 is 10,000 by 200 feet (3,048 x 61 m). 8L/26R is 6,192 by 150 feet (1,887 x 46 m). 8R/26L is 3,918 by 100 feet (1,194 x 30 m). It has four helipads:
The Long Beach Freeway was approved as a non-chargeable Interstate in September 1983 by the FHWA, and on May 30, 1984, AASHTO approved the SR 7 designations to be renumbered to Interstate 710. In October 1984, the FHWA approved an additional 1.6-mile (2.6 km) extension from CA 1 to Ocean Boulevard. [ 16 ]
Long Beach PCH & Clark Av Long Beach Catalina Landing Ocean Bl Serves Cal State Long Beach, 1st Street station and Downtown Long Beach station; 131 [18] Long Beach Wardlow station Long Beach Alamitos Bay: Redondo Av 141 [19] Compton Artesia station Cerritos Los Cerritos Center: Artesia Bl Serves Compton College; 151 [20] Long Beach Cesar E ...
Catalina Island was developed as a tourist site beginning in the 1920s by William Wrigley Jr., who owned most of the island under the Santa Catalina Island Company.In 1941 his son Philip K. Wrigley among others including Charles Hulen Moore built a runway on the island by blasting and leveling two hills and filling the canyon between them to create a leveled area.
Catalina's steamships were expropriated for use as troop transports, and the U.S. Maritime Service set up a training facility in Avalon. [7] The Maritime Service announced on September 19, 1945, that the facility would soon be abandoned and all apprentice seaman on the west coast trained aboard three ocean-going vessels at Long Beach. [17]
The Port of Long Beach was founded on 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of mudflats on June 24, 1911, at the mouth of the Los Angeles River. [7] In 1917, the first Board of Harbor Commissioners was formed to supervise harbor operations. Due to the booming economy, Long Beach voters approved a $5 million bond to improve the inner and outer harbor in 1924. [8 ...
South of this station, A Line trains exit the exclusive right-of-way (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway) and start their street running portion in the median of Long Beach Boulevard. Willow is a park and ride station with 920 parking spaces (including a multi-story parking facility) [1] and 10 bike lockers.