I will never understand why they tore the Pike down, it was here before Disneyland if anyone had foresight they should have cleaned it and expanded it. I enjoyed it alot. I remember my grandmother would always take us down on Wed, during the summers. At that time it was the SoCal place to go. That was in the 50s, yep I'm old.
do you memember a waterfall in long beach. It looked like a wall with qiant seashells embeded in it, with water pouring down into the seashells and water cscading down the seashels till it reached pool of water at bottom?
WHY did they tear down the Municipla Auditorium? What a beautiful structure - no lost. I played at the opening of the Spruce Goose - what a wonderful sight -also gone... moved up north. thanks for posting.
My great aunt lived in Long Beach by 1920, probably earlier. I remember seeing pictures of her on the beach, wearing black stockings while shoveling sand in a pail with her toddler son. My mom was born in 1930 Pasadena, and stayed with her aunt in Long Beach every summer growing up. She told me when she was 3, her cousins would walk to the beach carrying a beach umbrella across that my mom would sit on like you ride a horse. When she was a few years older, her mom moved her there and she would go to the Pike. She told me that she would talk to this very nice man who worked there, he had a wife and kids. She said he was really super hairy, and when the crowds would come over, he would shoo my mom away to rattle his chains and growl. He was a side show performer at the Pike during the Depression, just an ordinary guy trying to feed his family. My mom graduated from LB Polytech in 1947, she said it was an amazing school. RIP mom, I love you.
2:08 my great great grandfather played clarinet in the long beach municipal band. he also taught at some music school I've been searching for info on...
The Video was Wonderful, My mother grew up in Long Beach and was 2 years old in the 1933 earthquake. I went fishing & Swimming when I was child. Really Loved it there.
Lived in Long Beach late 80s and really enjoyed the area...Queen Mary was a fun ship to visit, they had a restaurant on the main deck called Promenade where I had lunch with my parents, great times! We also visited the Spruce Goose nearby...
Thank you. I haven't seen a lot of those pictures in so long. I use to have a book of Long Beach. Telling the whole history how it got its name and so on. It had a lot of those pictures in there. And all the all names of the names of the streets. Thank you so much.
LOVE this, I grew up in Long Beach in the 60s and 70s. I wouldn't change that for the world. BUT...these pictures go too dang fast! U can't read it all and have to keep pausing....just sayin...
I was born in Long Beach in 1941, and my brother, sister, and I all went to Poly High School. That school was established in 1895. I don't know if that is the oldest school there, but it is one of the oldest. Woodrow Wilson was not established until 1926. The tents you see in some of those old photos were taken after the 1933 earthquake.
sherbertdjones Yes, the earthquake was in 1933 and destroyed a major part of the city. I had not been born yet, but my mother told me about what happened. The family was living in an upstairs apartment at the time, and my mother was home with my sister. She had to jump out the window and broke her foot. I believe she said they were without power for a week or two. I remember several earthquakes, some with major damage. I do not miss California.
I been looking for that picture that the video shows of the Riviera Villa but cant find it any where and i cant find any construction pictures of it so I agree it is possibly a mudflood building in my opinion
I grew up in Long Beach in the 60's and 70's, and it was a paradise to me. If I'd only known back then how beautiful life was in that city, I'd have done much better. But...you're a kid, and you don't appreciate things like you should.
I agree with you! Long Beach was BEAUTIFUL back then!! I was a young boy in the 1960s, and your right about not appreciating things when your a kid.I view many historical photos of Long Beach from the years of the 1930s thru the late 1960s. What a beautiful city it was!!! It was AWESOME!!
Hi, I grew up in Redondo Beach and graduated at Redondo Union High School. We went to the Pike in the mid 1960s with my parents. What a great place that was. I veiwed many photos of Long Beach of it's past and it was amazing. They tore down many historical buildings and that's a shame! If they only keep the Pike and The Cyclone Racer and restored it, it would have been a historical landmark!! People would have visit it from all over the world!
I was born in Lakewood hospital, but pretty much born n raised in long beach my whole life. I'm always curious to see how it used to be here, like I'm nostalgic for an era/time that I didn't exist in. Its really interesting hearing all your stories of being born there years ago and going to school there. I recently found some old yearbooks online, (from long beach schools) so if anyone is curious to find theirs, let me know :)
wow, this was really AWESOME thanks for sharing. I love the slideshow. Great history to share. No pictures of the Tsunami? Now you are going to make me go out and research abit more about the History of Long Beach! Joe
Born in 1981 in Long Beach, St Marys Hospital! Grew up off of Junipero and Anaheim, East Long Beach. Last child of my parents, whom were among the 50,000 Southeast Asian refugees settled in East Long Beach, (Cambodians, Hmongs, Laotians, Vietnamese, Korats, Chams). Us Southeast Asian refugees and their children have had to put up with alot of bullshit since we landed in Long Beach especially going to war with the Mexicans in the 90s. The Mexicans couldn't push us out of Long Beach! Its 2014, and guess what? We're still here! And guess what now? We got Cambodia town off of Anaheim!!! Im a Long Beach 80s baby. MTV, He-Man, Go See Cal commercials, flock of seagulls. Dad taking us to Queen Mary, the beach, dad dropping off big brother at Wilson high in 1985 (he ended up dropping out, but is now a millionaire). Believe it or not Long Beach was majority white in the 80s, it was nice and diverse. Long Beach has changed alot since my beloved childhood in the 80s....I dont live in in love Long beach anymore but I still love Long Beach!!!.
I grew up in LB. I lived at 1825 Ostrom Avenue right across from Tincher Elem.. I went to Tincher for only one year and then went to St. Joseph's Elementary and graduated in 1965. Our summers were spent hitchhiking to Seal Beach. Sometimes hitchhiked with surfboards. I recall listening to the Beach Boys and Jan n Dean,Ventures, and a lot of other surf music. I can still smell the fishy/salty smell of the air and hear the sounds of the caliope at Pierpoint Landing in my mind.
My mother was born in nearby San Pedro 2/3/1928. Going to stay on RMS Queen Mary today and for a couple days (!). Mom spent much time in LBC as a child and teenager. This trip is in her memory.
I too grew up in LB in the 60's and 70's. Even back then keys were left in open cars and front doors and back alike were left open all night. I was a paper boy and at 4 or 5am I would see front doors open all the time. I went to Keller Elementary which just closed its doors this year. DeMille Jr High which is closed torn down and gone forever. I remember hitchhiking to the beach in mid 70's and still there was no danger. Did hundreds of times. I miss that Long Beach.
My family moved with the Navy to Los Altos, where my parents bought their first home on Gondar. I grew up through the 50s in the most wonderful extended neighborhood family a kid could ever hope for. Thank you for reviving those memories with this incredible record of a beautiful community. I think I even spotted myself at the grand opening of the shopping center, 'driving' a little red car as it circled round and round on the ride!
Born and raised here 70 years now. It use to be a heck of a lot safer and nicer. Now it's just like any other city in SoCal, over crowded and you have to always watch your back. Definitely not pleasant. Too many a holes pass through this city all the time.
Hey there...did you graduate from a L.B. high school? I was a Millikan '69 grad. I grew up going to Pierpoint Landing as a litttle kid, going to Seal Beach during the summers as I got older, and raised myself on all the Long Beach golf courses...played most every day. Greetings from a former LB'er.
I lived at 1429 Pine Avenue from 1965 to 1969. A two bedroom house and it is still there--my parents paid $135 rent. I went to Roosevelt Elementary. I was in the small group of white kids. Not a very pleasant time for me in grades 3 to 6. Ms. Williams taught fifth grade. She was a tall, slender, very attractive African-American woman--only out of college a year or two. She used a variety of methods to inflict corporal punishment on the students, which was common at that school.
1927 at wilson high school when long beach city college first held its classes, the first social men's society was born. The Order of Tong created brothers and best friends for life within the club for 85 years now and has alot of history within the city of long beach.This is something not many locals know.Gerald desmond was an outstanding alumni of this club and the city named a bridge after him.Tong is as much of Long Beach than anything else that i know and im proud to be from Long Beach!
matthew vigil Im going to Wilson and im gonna save this for 2 years until then im taking a pic of what you said and showing it to them in 2 years very excited
@PMElfman79 I graduated from Redondo Union High School in 1979. In that same year my friend and I took a drive to Ocean Blvd. downtown Long Beach. I wanted to see what the Pike looked like after all these years. Prior to this visit, the last time I went to the pike was in 1967! I was 7 years old at that time when my dad and Mom took me and my three sisters to this amazing amuesment park! It had all sorts of great rides and of course the awesome CYCLONE RACER! What I saw in 1979 was emptiness!!
:40 wow i had no idea they were still using horse driven carts in 1980! OK now it make sense, the model T was invented in 1982 and everyone just ditched those poor horses for Henry Fords new gadget.
thank you for this. i have lived in and around long beach for most of my life and this is some think i have not seen very much of .what long beach look like in the past thanks again and i like the song you picked
Born and raised in the East Side of Long Beach. That's my home then and forever more. Long Beach love forever. Its who I am what I represent and what I'm respected for. I love you Long Beach
Wow good stuff iam said Velasquez I love in longbech most of my life on the north side. when to suder elementary schools the moved to 454 e 63 st longbech ca 90895 . now iam in Lasvegas
Villa Riviera is an expensive place to live, was even then. But a wonderful place too. There was a YMCA next to it, that was tore down back in the 70s. It. had been. abandon for years, and homeless people were living. in it. It had a huge 25 foot deep swimming pool in it. I remember my days at The Pike. A. K. A. Queens Park, so named after the arrival of The Queen Mary in 1967. Very good video. Would be great if didn't have to pause every photo. Slow down the picture changing, going to fast.
Dammmmmmn I Love You Long Beach even tho I move to Victorville I still keep my SPOON AND BOWL ready for when I come back vist this beautiful melting pot
one of the many pleasures growing up in the sixties was my father after discharge from the navy and my birth was frequent trips to terminal Island via the ferry, the navy shipyard to visit his ship, the Desmond bridge and especially the Ford bridge that would raise on occasion right in front of my fathers car and consequently the Thomas bridge when it first opened which ultimately induced Height Fright into me forever, I think it wasn't till I was ten years old before I stopped gritting my teeth the whole time going over, I remember my father stowing away his personal belongings in a locker at a old building by the pike and the tattoo parlors there to, I remember the pike the famous rollercoasters the arcades with real WWII fighters pilot trainers where you could shoot at enemy aircraft for a nickel, I remember the first Long Beach Grand Prix I went to where you could spectate for free along the sidewalks of L.B., I remember the THUMS islands lit up at night. there's nothing that attracts me there now, as Dale Earnhardt said, I "Got All The Good Out Of It".
So much of the magnificence is gone like the Municipal Auditorium and Jergin's Trust Building. Hopefully Long Beach will start keeping up with the maintenance of the Queen Mary.
Really liked this... Thank you. Was kinda hoping to see the old Pacific Coast Club. I met this girl who is in the Navy in 87. We used to sit on the beach at night right by that big ol creepy place. We were a lil odd and dark I suppose lol
I ended up homeless in the 1980's. Got a job at AM PM Mini Mart in Belmont Shore which got me a shared apartment. Now in my 60's and well off. Life is strange. Rags to riches.
Great pics, I grew up in Long Beach too, Poly High grad. It would be much better if you slow it down. The images are gone before you read the description.
I am a 2nd generation child from Long Beach. Growing up in the 70's and early 80's I heard a lot of beautiful stories of how the city grew and watching this video it showed it.
I was born in Long Beach in 1955. Went to Millikan HIgh. Great place back then. I now live in Wisconsin and am glad I escaped the rot that is now Long Beach today.
Good work but some years are off. You have a shot of the Villa Riviera 1900 but it wasn't built until 1928. And there's an aerial shot of Long Beach 1920 that has the Cooper Arms. Cooper Arms wasn't built until 1922. At 3:05 you have a shot of Ocean Blvd. and the Villa Riviera. You say the Villa Riviera is a hotel, but in 1930 it wasn't a hotel. It was an "own-your-own" and became a hotel in 1933. This is repeated in a shot at 3:26. Not intending to be a jerk. Just letting you know. Nice work.
I will never understand why they tore the Pike down, it was here before Disneyland if anyone had foresight they should have cleaned it and expanded it. I enjoyed it alot. I remember my grandmother would always take us down on Wed, during the summers. At that time it was the SoCal place to go. That was in the 50s, yep I'm old.
do you memember a waterfall in long beach. It looked like a wall with qiant seashells embeded in it, with water pouring down into the seashells and water cscading down the seashels till it reached pool of water at bottom?
Nice pictures, but they go by too quick per frame.
WHY did they tear down the Municipla Auditorium? What a beautiful structure - no lost. I played at the opening of the Spruce Goose - what a wonderful sight -also gone... moved up north. thanks for posting.
My great aunt lived in Long Beach by 1920, probably earlier. I remember seeing pictures of her on the beach, wearing black stockings while shoveling sand in a pail with her toddler son. My mom was born in 1930 Pasadena, and stayed with her aunt in Long Beach every summer growing up. She told me when she was 3, her cousins would walk to the beach carrying a beach umbrella across that my mom would sit on like you ride a horse. When she was a few years older, her mom moved her there and she would go to the Pike. She told me that she would talk to this very nice man who worked there, he had a wife and kids. She said he was really super hairy, and when the crowds would come over, he would shoo my mom away to rattle his chains and growl. He was a side show performer at the Pike during the Depression, just an ordinary guy trying to feed his family. My mom graduated from LB Polytech in 1947, she said it was an amazing school. RIP mom, I love you.
2:08 my great great grandfather played clarinet in the long beach municipal band. he also taught at some music school I've been searching for info on...
I played the violin there as a child with my school orchestra.
The Video was Wonderful, My mother grew up in Long Beach and was 2 years old in the 1933 earthquake. I went fishing & Swimming when I was child. Really Loved it there.
Lived in Long Beach late 80s and really enjoyed the area...Queen Mary was a fun ship to visit, they had a restaurant on the main deck called Promenade where I had lunch with my parents, great times!
We also visited the Spruce Goose nearby...
The rise of long beach was once beautiful but now it all lies in history 😣😪😪😪
The Pike was destroyed by progressive city Government. The same type of people who have bankrupted and destroyed Calif.
@@robertsamson4610 Hurr durrr
Thank you. I haven't seen a lot of those pictures in so long. I use to have a book of Long Beach. Telling the whole history how it got its name and so on. It had a lot of those pictures in there. And all the all names of the names of the streets. Thank you so much.
LOVE this, I grew up in Long Beach in the 60s and 70s. I wouldn't change that for the world. BUT...these pictures go too dang fast! U can't read it all and have to keep pausing....just sayin...
I was born in Long Beach in 1941, and my brother, sister, and I all went to Poly High School. That school was established in 1895. I don't know if that is the oldest school there, but it is one of the oldest. Woodrow Wilson was not established until 1926. The tents you see in some of those old photos were taken after the 1933 earthquake.
I remember someone tellin' me about the earthquake!! Crazy...
sherbertdjones Yes, the earthquake was in 1933 and destroyed a major part of the city. I had not been born yet, but my mother told me about what happened. The family was living in an upstairs apartment at the time, and my mother was home with my sister. She had to jump out the window and broke her foot. I believe she said they were without power for a week or two. I remember several earthquakes, some with major damage. I do not miss California.
Oh wow...well, I'm sorry to hear that...but there are some amazing things in CA. I sure miss it. 😃
sherbertdjones It is nice out there, but to be honest, I don't miss it.
bob weav I researched and it is the oldest school in Long Beach, it was first called Long Beach High School
JUST FYI- THE VIDEO SHOWS THE VILLA RIVIERA HOTEL IN "1900". CONSTRUCTION WASN'T COMPLETED ON THE VILLA RIVIERA UNTIL 1929.
Most probably mudflood building
I been looking for that picture that the video shows of the Riviera Villa but cant find it any where and i cant find any construction pictures of it so I agree it is possibly a mudflood building in my opinion
@@GnosticTruth Anyone who actually believes that "mudflood" nonsense needs serious psychiatric treatment.
I grew up in Long Beach in the 60's and 70's, and it was a paradise to me. If I'd only known back then how beautiful life was in that city, I'd have done much better. But...you're a kid, and you don't appreciate things like you should.
bharfarar You too you didn’t appreciate life in the past now you do too late and i cant walk i appreciate life and i always will i will never give up!
I agree with you! Long Beach was BEAUTIFUL back then!! I was a young boy in the 1960s, and your right about not appreciating things when your a kid.I view many historical photos of Long Beach from the years of the 1930s thru the late 1960s. What a beautiful city it was!!! It was AWESOME!!
Such beautiful place , but changed since the 80s. So much.Miss it. Amazing.
Love going to the mall .with my parents and family .the long each plaza in the 90s .love shopping in Montgomery ward .and going to the pike for walks
the pics were going so fast but I was still enjoying the amount of history you have here great job
Hi,
I grew up in Redondo Beach and graduated at Redondo Union High School. We went to the Pike in the mid 1960s with my parents. What a great place that was. I veiwed many photos of Long Beach of it's past and it was amazing. They tore down many historical buildings and that's a shame! If they only keep the Pike and The Cyclone Racer and restored it, it would have been a historical landmark!! People would have visit it from all over the world!
Who remembers the store GRANT IN BIXBY KNOLLS Behind Vons on Atlantic blvd
Carlos Rodriguez was that doolys
I do, that shopping center use to be one of my and my friends hangout in the 50s and 60s.
What is the song being played here..it's beautiful!
Thank you to the Historical Society of Long Beach. You've all done such a terrific job.
I was born in Lakewood hospital, but pretty much born n raised in long beach my whole life. I'm always curious to see how it used to be here, like I'm nostalgic for an era/time that I didn't exist in. Its really interesting hearing all your stories of being born there years ago and going to school there. I recently found some old yearbooks online, (from long beach schools) so if anyone is curious to find theirs, let me know :)
+Dazy Kid please hit me with them the links
thanks
***** www.e-yearbook.com/california_yearbooks.html here you go, hope you find what you're looking for :) if you need help let me know
wow, this was really AWESOME thanks for sharing. I love the slideshow. Great history to share. No pictures of the Tsunami? Now you are going to make me go out and research abit more about the History of Long Beach! Joe
Born in 1981 in Long Beach, St Marys Hospital! Grew up off of Junipero and Anaheim, East Long Beach. Last child of my parents, whom were among the 50,000 Southeast Asian refugees settled in East Long Beach, (Cambodians, Hmongs, Laotians, Vietnamese, Korats, Chams). Us Southeast Asian refugees and their children have had to put up with alot of bullshit since we landed in Long Beach especially going to war with the Mexicans in the 90s. The Mexicans couldn't push us out of Long Beach! Its 2014, and guess what? We're still here! And guess what now? We got Cambodia town off of Anaheim!!!
Im a Long Beach 80s baby. MTV, He-Man, Go See Cal commercials, flock of seagulls. Dad taking us to Queen Mary, the beach, dad dropping off big brother at Wilson high in 1985 (he ended up dropping out, but is now a millionaire). Believe it or not Long Beach was majority white in the 80s, it was nice and diverse. Long Beach has changed alot since my beloved childhood in the 80s....I dont live in in love Long beach anymore but I still love Long Beach!!!.
Cambodia town but it's full of Mexicans hahahahahahaha. We obviously pushed you out if you're no longer there.
Billy Bill uesd to hang around 17th & Gavitia friends living there
Carlos Gurrola OMG MY MOMS MEXICAN i was born in saint marry hospital in 2005 may 20 Well mexicans still live in long beach
Billy Bill if you don’t like the bs, go to Vietnam
It changed a lot through the years# live long
Great from what I saw...not everyone can process a photo and read a captopn in 1.5 seconds though.
I grew up in LB. I lived at 1825 Ostrom Avenue right across from Tincher Elem.. I went to Tincher for only one year and then went to St. Joseph's Elementary and graduated in 1965. Our summers were spent hitchhiking to Seal Beach. Sometimes hitchhiked with surfboards. I recall listening to the Beach Boys and Jan n Dean,Ventures, and a lot of other surf music. I can still smell the fishy/salty smell of the air and hear the sounds of the caliope at Pierpoint Landing in my mind.
I have a lot of wonderful memories of Long Beach.
Thanks for posting this.
George Vreeland Hill
My mother was born in nearby San Pedro 2/3/1928. Going to stay on RMS Queen Mary today and for a couple days (!). Mom spent much time in LBC as a child and teenager. This trip is in her memory.
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Is it just me or did the Villa Riviera look so much more pleasant and less haunted than it does now?
Beautiful once long beach always long beach respect 2004 baby 🙌
Anyone born in lb memorial
me
long beach has so much history..it sucks that its in los angeles's shadow...longbeach should have its own county..own nba nfl.mlb..etc...lol
I too grew up in LB in the 60's and 70's. Even back then keys were left in open cars and front doors and back alike were left open all night. I was a paper boy and at 4 or 5am I would see front doors open all the time. I went to Keller Elementary which just closed its doors this year. DeMille Jr High which is closed torn down and gone forever. I remember hitchhiking to the beach in mid 70's and still there was no danger. Did hundreds of times. I miss that Long Beach.
I couldn't watch this. The music is so depressing.
um....turn it down?
I'd like to see the speed of the "Slide show" slowed down so the viewer could focus on the pics.
Hey, where is the 1950s. I was there in 53 thru 54. With my Navy husband. We loved it.
My family moved with the Navy to Los Altos, where my parents bought their first home on Gondar. I grew up through the 50s in the most wonderful extended neighborhood family a kid could ever hope for. Thank you for reviving those memories with this incredible record of a beautiful community. I think I even spotted myself at the grand opening of the shopping center, 'driving' a little red car as it circled round and round on the ride!
I raised in Long Beach since I was born in 1978. Lived off of 7th and Atlantic by the Jack in the Box in the 80s. Miss it.
Now, it’s becoming the next Oakland, thanks liberals.
Born and raised here 70 years now. It use to be a heck of a lot safer and nicer. Now it's just like any other city in SoCal, over crowded and you have to always watch your back. Definitely not pleasant. Too many a holes pass through this city all the time.
I saw absolutely no Black people in this video. Was Long Beach a sun-down town?
I was build in 1929, I'm only 90! Not 119 :,( This is not accurate.
I live in LB and wish I lived here 100 years ago after watching this.
Super interesting. We'd love to meet you and possibly interview you if your interested? LBCCMVP
It was the 'Jack Rabbit Racer', not the Jack Rabbic Dancer.
Hey there...did you graduate from a L.B. high school? I was a Millikan '69 grad. I grew up going to Pierpoint Landing as a litttle kid, going to Seal Beach during the summers as I got older, and raised myself on all the Long Beach golf courses...played most every day. Greetings from a former LB'er.
I lived at 1429 Pine Avenue from 1965 to 1969. A two bedroom house and it is still there--my parents paid $135 rent. I went to Roosevelt Elementary. I was in the small group of white kids. Not a very pleasant time for me in grades 3 to 6. Ms. Williams taught fifth grade. She was a tall, slender, very attractive African-American woman--only out of college a year or two. She used a variety of methods to inflict corporal punishment on the students, which was common at that school.
I went to Roosevelt Elementary as well in the early 70s.
1927 at wilson high school when long beach city college first held its classes, the first social men's society was born. The Order of Tong created brothers and best friends for life within the club for 85 years now and has alot of history within the city of long beach.This is something not many locals know.Gerald desmond was an outstanding alumni of this club and the city named a bridge after him.Tong is as much of Long Beach than anything else that i know and im proud to be from Long Beach!
matthew vigil Im going to Wilson and im gonna save this for 2 years until then im taking a pic of what you said and showing it to them in 2 years very excited
Very cool to see Cherry Avenue in the past because I live on Cherry lol
@PMElfman79 I graduated from Redondo Union High School in 1979. In that same year my friend and I took a drive to Ocean Blvd. downtown Long Beach. I wanted to see what the Pike looked like after all these years. Prior to this visit, the last time I went to the pike was in 1967! I was 7 years old at that time when my dad and Mom took me and my three sisters to this amazing amuesment park! It had all sorts of great rides and of course the awesome CYCLONE RACER! What I saw in 1979 was emptiness!!
:40 wow i had no idea they were still using horse driven carts in 1980! OK now it make sense, the model T was invented in 1982 and everyone just ditched those poor horses for Henry Fords new gadget.
thank you for this. i have lived in and around long beach for most of my life and this is some think i have not seen very much of .what long beach look like in the past thanks again and i like the song you picked
Born and raised in the East Side of Long Beach. That's my home then and forever more. Long Beach love forever. Its who I am what I represent and what I'm respected for. I love you Long Beach
I'm so proud to be from Long Beach ⛱
Beautiful.. please slow the pics
Cool vid just but slide show needs to be slowed down so we can enjoy the pics.
I live right by the Riviera; it is palatial compared to the all other buildings. Great historic photos.
great video thank you very much!! jesus christ bless you forever
Why is there a wagon in 1980? 0:40
Great video and AWESOME song!! You did a fantastic job! May I ask what's the name of the song.
Alex
I went to Demille also but sadly it closed down when i was in 7th grade
Wow good stuff iam said Velasquez I love in longbech most of my life on the north side. when to suder elementary schools the moved to 454 e 63 st longbech ca 90895 . now iam in Lasvegas
Love it.
Villa Riviera is an expensive place to live, was even then. But a wonderful place too. There was a YMCA next to it, that was tore down back in the 70s. It. had been. abandon for years, and homeless people were living. in it. It had a huge 25 foot deep swimming pool in it. I remember my days at The Pike. A. K. A. Queens Park, so named after the arrival of The Queen Mary in 1967. Very good video. Would be great if didn't have to pause every photo. Slow down the picture changing, going to fast.
That arched pier was a great idea. It could be done much better today with the engineering and concrete technology.
If the slides didn’t move so quick it would make for a better experience, but nevertheless this was very entertaining and man what a city indeed.
Dammmmmmn I Love You Long Beach even tho I move to Victorville I still keep my SPOON AND BOWL ready for when I come back vist this beautiful melting pot
This is fantastic. Thank you
TheMrDowney..I'll ask again..what music is being played here? I'd appreciate knowing...
Great video! Can anyone tell me what's the name of the beautiful back ground music playing in this video?
one of the many pleasures growing up in the sixties was my father after discharge from the navy and my birth was frequent trips to terminal Island via the ferry, the navy shipyard to visit his ship, the Desmond bridge and especially the Ford bridge that would raise on occasion right in front of my fathers car and consequently the Thomas bridge when it first opened which ultimately induced Height Fright into me forever, I think it wasn't till I was ten years old before I stopped gritting my teeth the whole time going over, I remember my father stowing away his personal belongings in a locker at a old building by the pike and the tattoo parlors there to, I remember the pike the famous rollercoasters the arcades with real WWII fighters pilot trainers where you could shoot at enemy aircraft for a nickel, I remember the first Long Beach Grand Prix I went to where you could spectate for free along the sidewalks of L.B., I remember the THUMS islands lit up at night. there's nothing that attracts me there now, as Dale Earnhardt said, I "Got All The Good Out Of It".
I wouldn't mind living there.
a lot of these dates are wrong.
So you telling me we destroyed those beautiful buildings and replaced them with glass boxes?!?!????!???
What happened to the Ford Motor Company plant in Long Beach? I never knew there was one there.
So much of the magnificence is gone like the Municipal Auditorium and Jergin's Trust Building. Hopefully Long Beach will start keeping up with the maintenance of the Queen Mary.
Really liked this... Thank you. Was kinda hoping to see the old Pacific Coast Club. I met this girl who is in the Navy in 87. We used to sit on the beach at night right by that big ol creepy place. We were a lil odd and dark I suppose lol
I ended up homeless in the 1980's. Got a job at AM PM Mini Mart in Belmont Shore which got me a shared apartment. Now in my 60's and well off. Life is strange. Rags to riches.
Great pics, I grew up in Long Beach too, Poly High grad. It would be much better if you slow it down. The images are gone before you read the description.
Pretty neat. I especially liked the shot at :40 of the pier with the horse and buggies on the beach back in 1980 (?) Wait, is that a typo? LoL
I am a 2nd generation child from Long Beach. Growing up in the 70's and early 80's I heard a lot of beautiful stories of how the city grew and watching this video it showed it.
Born in Long Beach in 1960 moved out in 1981….. great childhood memories
LBC LOVE
I wonder why Cyclone Racer got dismantled in 1960's
I wish they had made it slower I couldn't really see everything.
Thanx for sharing with us!! Memories always stay in our hearts 💕.
Beautiful Video I like the song what's the name
😍😍😍 I love my town, I wished it was the same as back in the 40's
What is the name of this song ?!! Why can't I get someone to tell me what is the name of this song!!!
@ 0:39...Um I dun't think that pic was from 1980. 1880 maybe but.............
It was originally named Wilmore City.
The Villa hotel was built in 1929
I was born in Long Beach in 1955. Went to Millikan HIgh. Great place back then. I now live in Wisconsin and am glad I escaped the rot that is now Long Beach today.
Slow down the photos speedy Gonzales
You in a hurry?? Too fast!!
Pictures change too fast
wow thanks!!
Don't think the Villa Riviera was built till the 20s 0:58
0:53
Good work but some years are off. You have a shot of the Villa Riviera 1900 but it wasn't built until 1928. And there's an aerial shot of Long Beach 1920 that has the Cooper Arms. Cooper Arms wasn't built until 1922. At 3:05 you have a shot of Ocean Blvd. and the Villa Riviera. You say the Villa Riviera is a hotel, but in 1930 it wasn't a hotel. It was an "own-your-own" and became a hotel in 1933. This is repeated in a shot at 3:26. Not intending to be a jerk. Just letting you know. Nice work.
Thanks for preserving these photos TheMrDowney. At 1:30, is that West Long Beach? I heard there was a Glass Factory on Anaheim and Hayes.