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Community Hospital of Long Beach was founded in 1924 as Long Beach Community Hospital with 100 beds and 175 surgeons and physicians on staff. Long Beach councilman and mayor Fillmore Condit donated $50,000 to the Long Beach Community Hospital Association to assist with its development. [6] Hugh Davies designed the original Spanish Colonial ...
Although California's surfing scene is said to have gotten its start in Long Beach when in 1911 two surfers returned from Hawaii and the city hosted the first National Surfing and Paddleboard Championships in 1938, surfing is now uncommon in Long Beach due to a 2.2-mile (3.5 km) long breakwater built in 1949 to protect the United States Pacific ...
Atlantic Boulevard starts off as a southerly continuation of Los Robles Avenue at Huntington Drive in northern Alhambra, and ends on East Ocean Boulevard in Downtown Long Beach. [2] Through most of its route from Maywood south, Atlantic travels parallel to the Long Beach Freeway and the Los Angeles River. South of Randolph Street, Atlantic ...
Location of Los Angeles County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California, excluding the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
The Los Alamitos Traffic Circle, informally known as the Long Beach Traffic Circle (or just the Traffic Circle, as there is only one other high volume traffic circle in Southern California [citation needed]), is a roundabout at the intersection of Lakewood Boulevard (State Route 19), Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1/former U.S. Route 101 Alternate) and Los Coyotes Diagonal in Long Beach ...
Long Beach: 3.50 [N 1] Berth T136 Gate 2: Continuation beyond SR 47: 3.50 [N 1] I-710 north / SR 47 south – Downtown Long Beach, Piers B-J and T, San Pedro: South end of SR 47 overlap; south end of SR 103 South end of freeway: 3.58 [N 1] 4: New Dock Street: Southbound exit & northbound entrance: Long Beach–Los Angeles line: 3.88 [N 1]
Long Beach Memorial was first established as Seaside Hospital in 1907, co-founded by Fanny Bixby Spencer and Dr. A.C. Sellery. [5] Seaside Memorial Hospital was incorporated on June 23, 1937. In 1960, the hospital moved to its present location; Seaside Park now occupies the original site. [ 5 ]
Murphy Pacific fabricated the complete superstructure in their Richmond, California yard and shipped it to Long Beach in 30 sections via barge. [7] Six segments were erected on the harbor side in late January 1970; the six mirror-image segments were erected on the Long Beach side in early May 1970; finally, the largest and heaviest 290-foot (88 ...