Long Beach, California City of Long Beach Images from top, left to right: Long Beach horizon from Bluff Park, RMS Queen Mary, Aquarium of the Pacific Blue Cavern exhibit, TTI Terminal at Port of Long Beach, Villa Riviera, Metro Blue Line, Long Beach Lighthouse Images from top, left to right: Long Beach horizon from Bluff Park, RMS Queen Mary, Aquarium of the Pacific Blue Cavern exhibit, TTI Terminal at Port of Long Beach, Villa Riviera, Metro Blue Line, Long Beach Lighthouse Flag of Long Beach, California Flag Official seal of Long Beach, California Long Beach, California is positioned in the US Long Beach, California - Long Beach, California Long Beach is the 36th most crowded city in the United States and the 7th most crowded in California.
As of 2010, its populace was 462,257. Long Beach is the second biggest city in the Los Angeles urbane area, and the third biggest in Southern California behind Los Angeles and San Diego.
The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the world's biggest shipping ports. The town/city also maintains a progressively declining petroleum trade with minor wells positioned both directly beneath the town/city as well as offshore.
Long Beach lies in the southeastern corner of Los Angeles County and borders Orange County. Downtown Long Beach is approximately 22 miles (35 km) south of Downtown Los Angeles, though the two metros/cities share an official border for a several miles.
See also: Timeline of Long Beach, California Indigenous citizens have lived in coastal Southern California for over 10,000 years, and a several successive cultures have inhabited the present-day region of Long Beach.
He floundered and was bought out by a Los Angeles syndicate that called itself the "Long Beach Land and Water Company." The City of Long Beach was officially incorporated in 1897.
When Jotham Bixby died in 1916, the remaining 3,500 acres (14 km2) of Rancho Los Cerritos was subdivided into the neighborhoods of Bixby Knolls, California Heights, North Long Beach and part of the town/city of Signal Hill.
Huge picnics for migrants from each state were a prominent annual event in Long Beach until the 1960s.
1 well, made Long Beach a primary petroleum producer; in the 1920s the field was the most productive in the world. In 1932, the even larger Wilmington Oil Field, fourth-largest in the United States, and which is mostly in Long Beach, was developed, contributing to the city's fame in the 1930s as an petroleum town. The M6.4 1933 Long Beach earthquake caused momentous damage to the town/city and encircling areas, killing a total of 120 citizens .
Pacific Bible Seminary (now known as Hope International University) was forced to move classes out of First Christian Church of Long Beach and into a small small-town home due to damage. The Ford Motor Company assembled a factory called Long Beach Assembly at the then address in 1929 as "700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach" where the factory began building the Ford Model A.
Before the war, Long Beach had a sizeable Japanese-American population, who worked in the fish canneries on Terminal Island and owned small truck (produce) farms in the area.
Due to this and other factors, Japanese Americans now make up less than 1% of the populace of Long Beach, but the Japanese Community Center and a Japanese Buddhist Church survive.
The nonprofit Aquarium of the Pacific, positioned in downtown Long Beach, opened to the enhance in 1998.
Long Beach, California: Skyline Photo Long Beach is positioned at 33 47' North, 118 10' West, about 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown Los Angeles.
Long Beach completely surrounds the town/city of Signal Hill.
Main article: Neighborhoods of Long Beach, California Neighborhood map of the City of Long Beach, CA Days in Long Beach are mostly sunny, as in Southern California in general.
Long Beach's geographic locale directly east of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, paired with its mostly south facing coastline, results in the town/city having decidedly different weather patterns than coastal communities to the north and south.
The 1200 ft Palos Verdes hills block west to east airflow and, with it, a momentous amount of the coastal moisture that marks other coastal cities, such as Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, and Newport Beach.
Climate data for Long Beach, California (Long Beach Airport) 1981 2010, extremes 1958 present Long Beachendures from some of the worst air pollution in the entire United States. Most of the town/city is in adjacency to the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the prevailing westerly-to-west-south-westerly winds bring a large portion of the twin ports' air pollution directly into Long Beach before dispersing it northward then eastward. Heavy pollution sources at the ports include the ships themselves, which burn high-sulfur, high-soot-producing bunker fuel to maintain internal electrical power while docked, as well as heavy diesel pollution from drayage trucks at the ports, and short-haul tractor-trailer trucks ferrying cargo from the ports to inland warehousing, rail yards, and shipping centers.
Long-term average levels of toxic air pollutants (and the corresponding carcinogenic threat they create) can be two to three times higher in and around Long Beach, and in downwind areas to the east, than in other parts of the Los Angeles urbane area, such as the Westside, San Fernando Valley, or San Gabriel Valley. While overall county-wide pollution in the Los Angeles urbane region has declined in the last decade, pollution levels remain dangerously high in much of Long Beach due to the port pollution, with diesel exhaust from ships, trains, and trucks as the biggest sources. Many Long Beach beaches average a D or F undertaking on beach water character amid wet periods in the Beach Report Card presented by Heal the Bay. However, amid dry periods the water often attains A ratings in the same reports.
The Los Angeles River discharges directly into the Long Beach side of San Pedro Bay, and conveys a large portion of all the urban runoff from the entire Los Angeles urbane region directly into the harbor water.
The region that is now Long Beach historically encompassed several ecological communities, with coastal scrub dominating. A handful of the native plants of the region can still be found in the city.
The River - Link universal has begun to revegetate the Long Beach stretch of the Los Angeles River with indigenous plants.
This improve open space is now known as The Long Beach Greenbelt and is the focus of closing accomplishments in restoration and improve education.
The El Dorado Nature Center has changed its initial "hands-off" approach and has begun to actively introduce indigenous species. The Los Cerritos Wetlands Study Group, state government agencies, and grassroots groups are collaborating on a plan to preserve Long Beach's last remaining wetlands. Long Beach is the first town/city in California to join the 'Eco - Zone' Program, intended to measurably advancement surroundingal conditions through public-private partnerships.
Other places in Long Beach to see natural areas include Bluff Park (coastal bluffs), the Golden Shores Marine Reserve, the Jack Dunster Marine Reserve, Shoreline Park, and De - Forest Park.
Long Beach led Southern California in parks access, size and spending, ranking 16th among a survey of 75 large U.S.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Long Beach had a populace of 462,257. The populace density was 9,191.3 citizens per square mile (3,548.8/km ).
The ethnic makeup of Long Beach was 213,066 (46.1%) White, 62,603 (13.5%) Black or African American, 3,458 (0.7%) Native American, 59,496 (12.9%) Asian (4.5% Filipino, 3.9% Cambodian, 0.9% Vietnamese, 0.6% Chinese, 0.6% Japanese, 0.4% Indian, 0.4% Korean, 0.2% Thai, 0.1% Laotian, 0.1% Hmong), 5,253 (1.1%) Pacific Islander (0.8% Samoan, 0.1% Guamanian, 0.1% Tongan), 93,930 (20.3%) from other competitions, and 24,451 (5.3%) from two or more competitions.
View of downtown Long Beach and Port of Long Beach from aircraft .
In 1950, caucasians represented 97.4% of Long Beach's population. Since the second half of the 20th century, the town/city has been a primary port of entry for Asian and Latin American immigrants headed to Los Angeles.
The Harbor section of downtown Long Beach was once home to citizens of Dutch, Greek, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish ancestry, most of them working in manufacturing and fish canneries until the 1960s.
According to a report by USA Today in 2000, Long Beach is the most ethnically diverse large town/city in the United States. Non-Hispanic White Americans made up 30.0% of the city's population.
Long Beach had offered many industrialized jobs to African Americans amid the years of World War II.
Long Beach once had a sizeable Japanese American population, which largely worked in the fish canneries on Terminal Island and on small truck farms in the area.
Japanese Americans make up less than 1% of the populace of Long Beach, yet the town/city still has a Japanese Community Center and a Japanese Buddhist Church from its earlier history.
Jesse James' West Coast Choppers custom motorcycle shop was positioned in Long Beach, and much of the Monster Garage cable TV show was shot in Long Beach.
Long Beach Green Business Association is an organization working to problematic economic expansion through the promotion of green company and promoting a buy small-town program for Long Beach. 3 City of Long Beach 5,074 5 California State University, Long Beach 2,881 7 Long Beach City College 2,456 8 California State University, Long Beach Foundation 1,420 Other primary employers include California State University, Denso, Epson, Gulfstream Aerospace, Laserfiche, Long Beach Transit, College Medical Center, the Queen Mary, SCAN Health Plan, TABC and Verizon. In 2008, the Long Beach, California, City Council allowed a locally originated boss to designate the town/city as the "Aquatic Capital of America." According to the non-profit Aquatic Capital of America Foundation, Long Beach has a temperate year-round climate, ideal off-shore sailing waters, protected Marine Stadium competition zone, and a diverse populace filled with active athletes and beachgoers.
Long Beach is also the home of beach volleyball's Misty May-Treanor, a three-time Olympic gold medalist. Trade valued annually at more than $140 billion moves through Long Beach, making it the second-busiest seaport in the United States.
A primary economic force, the Port supports more than 30,000 jobs in Long Beach, 316,000 jobs throughout Southern California and 1.4 million jobs throughout the United States.
The Long Beach Museum of Art, sited in the historic Elizabeth Milbank Anderson residence, is owned by the City of Long Beach, and directed by the Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation.
Long Beach also features the Museum of Latin American Art, established in 1996 by Dr.
The University Art Museum on the Long Beach State ground (founded in 1973) has a nationwide reputation for its high-quality and innovative programs.
Long Beach State is also home to the biggest publicly funded art school west of the Mississippi. Long Beach's newest exhibition is The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum (Pie - AM).
In 1965, Long Beach State hosted the first International Sculpture Symposium to be held in the United States and the first at a college or university.
Shops and arcades in the East Village Arts District, in downtown Long Beach hold their monthly art openings and artists exhibit in street arcades on the second Saturday of the month amid the Artwalk.
Long Beach has a percent for art program administered through the Arts Council of Long Beach and the Redevelopment Agency which ensures that new private developments contribute to the arts fund or commission artworks for their new projects. Long Beach Opera, established in 1979, is the earliest experienced opera business serving the Los Angeles and Orange County regions.
It presents performances of standard and non-standard opera repertoire at various locations, including the Terrace Theater and Center Theater of the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center and the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center at CSULB. Long Beach Community Concert Association is a 49-year-old, volunteer organization that provides character musical entertainment appealing to seniors and others, four Sunday afternoons a year at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at CSULB.
KJAZZ 88.1 FM (KKJZ) broadcasts from California State University, Long Beach.
Long Beach City College operates two internet student-run airways broadcasts, KCTY FM and KLBC AM.
They include the Bob Marley Reggae Festival (February), the Cajun & Zydeco Festival (May), the El Dia De San Juan Puerto Rican Festival (Salsa music, June) the Aloha Concert Jam (Hawaiian music, June), the Long Beach Jazz Festival (August), the Long Beach Blues Festival (September, since 1980), and the Brazilian Street Carnaval (Brazilian music, September).
Long Beach is also the point of origin for bands and musicians such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jenni Rivera, T.S.O.L., Sublime, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G, Tha Dogg Pound, Knoc-Turn'al, the Long Beach Dub Allstars, Avi Buffalo, Crystal Antlers, The Emperors, The Pyramids, Crooked I and Vince Staples.
Musical Theatre West, one of the biggest county-wide theatrical producers in Southern California, who performs at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the ground of CSU Long Beach; International City Theatre, who produces plays and musicals at the Center Theater (part of the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center); The Long Beach Playhouse, in continuous operation for over 75 years, has shows running 50 weeks out of the year on two stages.
Additionally, Long Beach is home to a number of lesser and "black-box" theaters, including the Found Theatre, Alive Theatre, the Garage Theatre and California Repertory Company (part of the graduate theater program at CSULB) that presently performs at the Royal Theater aboard the Queen Mary in Downtown Long Beach. Numerous tours and other stage affairs come through Long Beach, especially at the Terrace Theater and the Carpenter Center, and both CSU Long Beach and Long Beach City College maintain active theater departments.
Generally held in March, Long Beach offers a Native American festival held every year in Shoreline Village.
In October, Long Beach State hosts the CSULB Wide Screen Film Festival, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
The "Parade of A Thousand Lights" is in the Shoreline Village region (near Downtown Long Beach and the RMS Queen Mary). There is also a Christmas boat parade in the close-by Port of Los Angeles/San Pedro area, and another in the Huntington Harbour improve of close-by Huntington Beach.
It was purchased by the City of Long Beach in 1967 for conversion to a hotel and maritime exhibition.
The nonprofit Aquarium of the Pacific is positioned on a 5-acre (20,000 m2) site on Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, Calif.
Across the water from the Long Beach Convention Center, Shoreline Village, and the Queen Mary Hotel and Attraction.
The Long Beach Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine received a Gold Medal award from the National Recreation and Park Association in 2002, 2003, and 2004, recognizing the Department's "outstanding management practices and programs." The Municipal Fly Casting Pool at Recreation Park in East Long Beach is a 260-by-135-foot clear water, fishless pond assembled and directed since 1925 by the Long Beach Casting Club as only one of two Southern California town/city directed casting ponds (the other being in Pasadena). Described recently as a serene pond "surrounded by a seemingly endless stretch of green grass against a backdrop of mountain peaks and palm trees," a several movie stars from the 1940s were taught to fly cast at the pond, including Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Jimmy Durante, and Barbara Stanwyck. In 1932, the fly fishing clubhouse adjoining to the fly fishing pond was used for the Summer Olympic Games and homed military personnel amid World War II. The Long Beach Greenbelt is a section of the old Pacific Electric right-of-way, restored by improve activists as native surrounding.
Rancho Los Alamitos is a 7.5-acre (30,000 m2) historical site owned by the City of Long Beach and is near the Long Beach ground of the California State University system.
Rancho Los Cerritos is a 4.7-acre (19,000 m2) historical site owned by Long Beach in the Bixby Knolls region near the Virginia Country Club.
The Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden is positioned on the ground of California State University, Long Beach.
Long Beach offers singing gondolier trips through the romantic canals of Naples. Along with gondola rides on Lake Merritt, on the Napa River, in Huntington Beach, in Newport Beach, in Redondo Beach, and at The Venetian (Las Vegas), Long Beach is only one of seven places in the Western United States where tourists may ride in a gondola. 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 town/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 assembled in 1949 to protect the U.S.
Some Long Beach inhabitants also cite the breakwater as a reason for the dirtiness of the water in Long Beach, as the water is not able to circulate.
Long Beach is home to "Rosie's Dog Beach" the only legal off-leash region on the beach for dogs in all of Los Angeles County.
2005 Grand Prix of Long Beach, showing turn 10 and the Long Beach horizon The Grand Prix of Long Beach in April is the single biggest event in Long Beach.
The Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame is positioned on South Pine Avenue in front of the Long Beach Convention Center adjoining to the Long Beach Grand Prix circuit.
The Long Beach Marathon is run every year in October throughout the City of Long Beach.
All competitions begin and end around the Shoreline Village region of Downtown Long Beach.
25,000 runners and cyclists participated in the 2013 festivities drawing nearly 50,000 citizens attending the event overall. The full marathon is a fast Boston qualifying course featuring picturesque views of the Long Beach Harbor and passing through sandy beaches, Belmont Shore, and the Cal State Long Beach campus. The Long Beach State 49ers baseball team has been playing since 1954.
The Long Beach Armada, officially titled the Long Beach Armada of Los Angeles of California of the United States of North America Including Barrow, Alaska, have played in the Golden Baseball League, also at Blair Field but, the team closed after the 2009 season.
Long Beach was the home of the American Basketball Association team Long Beach Chiefs amid the 1962/1963 season.
The minor league American Basketball Association team, the Long Beach Jam, played in the Walter Pyramid (a pyramid-shaped gym) on the Long Beach State campus) from 2003 to 2005.
The league plays in the Pyramid on the Long Beach State ground during July.
Long Beach State's team mascot are the 49ers. The school has participated in nationwide championships in Women's Volleyball (5), Men's Volleyball (1), Track and Field (1), Men's Tennis (1-Division II), Swimming (1-Division II), Women's Badminton (2), and Women's Field Hockey (1).
The other college-level sports team in the town/city is Long Beach City College.
CSU Long Beach has one of the several remaining college varsity archery squads in California.
It is the first year in Long Beach Poly history that a spirit prestige has won a National title.
Long Beach is a California charter city, and is governed by nine City Council members, who are propel by district, and the Mayor, who is propel at-large since a citywide initiative passed in 1988.
The town/city is supported by a budget of $2.3 billion, and has more than 5,500 employees. Long Beach was first incorporated in 1888 with 59 buildings and a new school.
Long Beach is a full-service city, one of the several in California.
Municipal waterworks and sewage service through the Long Beach Water Department, which has a water treatment plant positioned inside the city; Health services through the Long Beach Health & Human Services Department, which handles both surroundingal community (such as restaurant/food inspection) and enhance health services.
Animal control service that, in addition to serving Long Beach, also serves close-by cities including Signal Hill and Seal Beach; In the California State Senate, Long Beach is split between the 33rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Ricardo Lara, the 34th Senate District, represented by Republican Janet Nguyen, and the 35th Senate District, represented by Democrat Steven Bradford. In the California State Assembly, it is split between the 63rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anthony Rendon, the 64th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Mike Gipson, and the 70th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Patrick O'Donnell. In the United States House of Representatives, Long Beach is split between California's 44th congressional district, represented by Democrat Nanette Barragan, and California's 47th congressional district, represented by Democrat Alan Lowenthal. Main article: Long Beach Police Department (California) The Long Beach Police Department provides law enforcement for the City of Long Beach.
On March 18, 2008, Long Beach became the first town/city in California to heavily restrict residency and visitation rights for California registered sex offenders.
Google map measurements indicate that the total exclusion region encompasses over 96% of the region of Long Beach that is presently zoned for residentiary use.
Main article: Long Beach Fire Department (California) The Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD), ISO Class 1, provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the City of Long Beach. The Long Beach Fire Department presently operates out of 23 Fire Stations, positioned throughout the city. The Los Angeles Superior Court, which covers all of Los Angeles County, operates the Long Beach Courthouse in downtown Long Beach.
Anderson Long Beach Federal Building, positioned in downtown Long Beach at 501 West Ocean Blvd., homes offices for NOAA and other federal agencies, although NOAA plans to shift leadership of the Fisheries office to the Pacific Northwest and shrink this office through attrition.
Long Beach Unified School District serves most of the City of Long Beach.
Other school districts that serve sections of Long Beach include: Main article: List of private schools in Long Beach, California California State University, Long Beach is a public, elected university, part of the 23-member California State University system.
Long Beach City College is a improve college established in 1927.
The Liberal Arts Campus is positioned on the residentiary region of Lakewood Village, while the Pacific Coast Campus is in Central Long Beach.
De - Vry University, Long Beach is positioned in the Kilroy Airport Center.
As of 2005, the Port of Long Beach was the second busiest seaport in the United States and the tenth busiest in the world, shipping some 66 million metric tons of cargo worth $95 billion in 2001.
The combined operations of the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles are the busiest in the USA.
Long Beach has contributed to the Alameda Corridor universal to increase the capacity of the rail lines, roads, and highways connecting the port to the Los Angeles rail hub.
Long Beach Transit provides small-town enhance transit services inside Long Beach, Lakewood, and Signal Hill. Long Beach Transit regularly operates 38 bus routes. Most regular service bus routes begin or end at the Long Beach Transit Mall in Downtown Long Beach.
Long Beach Transit also operates the Passport shuttle inside downtown Long Beach.
The no-charge shuttle carries passengers to the Aquarium of the Pacific, Pine Avenue, Shoreline Village, the Long Beach Convention Center, the Queen Mary, Catalina Landing, various hotels, and other points of interest. During the summer, Long Beach Transit operates the Aqua - Link, a 68-foot (21 m) catamaran that carries passengers between the Downtown Long Beach waterfront and the Alamitos Bay Landing. In addition, amid the summer, a 49-passenger water taxis called the Aqua - Bus is provided.
With $1 fares, the Aqua - Bus serves six different locations inside the downtown Long Beach waterfront. Traveling along Pacific Coast Highway for most of the route, it takes 2 2.5 hrs to complete. Amtrak Thruway offers bus shuttles starting in San Pedro, with stops at the Queen Mary and downtown Long Beach, that then goes to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, and ends in Bakersfield.
Greyhound Lines operates the Long Beach Station in Long Beach. A Fly - Away bus route to Los Angeles International Airport began service on December 30, 2015. Buses to LAX leave 30 minutes past the hour every hour from 5:30 a.m.
The Metro Blue Line arrives at the Downtown Long Beach Station (known as the Transit Mall Station until July 2013).
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) operates the Blue Line, a light rail service that runs between the Downtown Long Beach Station (known as the Transit Mall Station until July 2013) and the 7th Street/Metro Center Station in Downtown Los Angeles.
Yellow Long Beach is the city's only licensed taxi franchise, with 199 taxicabs in service. Long Beach was the nation's first large town/city to relax restrictions on cabs by allowing them to offer variable, discounted fares, no-charge rides and other price promotions to lure customers while keeping maximum fares in place.
Long Beach Airport serves the Long Beach, South Bay and northern Orange County areas.
Several freeways run through Long Beach, connecting it with the greater Los Angeles and Orange County areas.
The Long Beach Freeway (I-710) runs north-south on the city's border, with its southern end adjoining to the Port of Long Beach on Terminal Island at the intersection of the Terminal Island Freeway (SR 103) and State Route 47.
The Long Beach Freeway is the primary spur route serving Long Beach from Downtown Los Angeles, with its northern end near Downtown Los Angeles in Alhambra.
Along with the Harbor Freeway (I-110) to the west, the Long Beach Freeway is one of the primary routes for trucks transporting goods from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to railyards and distribution centers in Downtown Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.
The southern end of the Long Beach Freeway joins Long Beach with Terminal Island via the Gerald Desmond Bridge.
Southeast Long Beach is served by the San Gabriel River Freeway (I-605), which joins the San Diego Freeway at the Long Beach/Los Alamitos border.
The portion of the Garden Grove Freeway (SR 22) provides a spur off of the San Diego and 605 Freeways to 7th Street in southeast Long Beach for access to the VA Hospital, California State University, Long Beach, and Alamitos Bay.
Pacific Coast Highway (SR 1) takes an east to southwest route through the southern portion of Long Beach.
The town/city of Long Beach's vision is to be the most bicycle-friendly urban town/city in the nation.
The town/city of Long Beach has five primary Class 1 bike paths (separate off-road bike paths) inside its boundaries, encompassing over 60 miles (97 km).
River bicycle path is positioned in southwest Long Beach between Downtown and the Port.
The southern end of the San Gabriel River bicycle path is positioned just east of Long Beach in Seal Beach, and the trail runs north through the El Dorado Park neighborhood in east Long Beach and adjoining to El Dorado Regional Park.
In an accomplishment to furnish sustainable transit alternatives to the community, as well as a safe route to a several neighborhood schools, the town/city of Long Beach is also installing a "bike boulevard" on Vista Street, extending from Temple Avenue to Nieto Avenue.
In April 2011, new separated bikeways were added to two streets in downtown Long Beach along Broadway and 3rd Street between Alamitos Ave.
Silent film stars who lived in Long Beach encompassed Fatty Arbuckle and Theda Bara.
The 1917 film Cleopatra, starring Theda Bara, was filmed at the Dominguez Slough just west of Long Beach, and Moses parted the Red Sea for Cecil B.
De - Mille's 1923 version of The Ten Commandments on the flat seashore of Seal Beach, southeast of Long Beach.
Long Beach was the famous locale of Paramount newsreel footage of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, out-takes from the W.C.
The town/city has filled in for locations athwart the country and around the globe. One favor for Long Beach is that the film trade uses a zone that extends 30 miles (48 km) from Beverly Blvd.
It is cheaper to film inside that zone, so Long Beach and other South Bay metros/cities often stand in for areas of Orange County (such as for The O.C.
Long Beach's high schools are especially prominent with the film industry.
Long Beach Polytechnic High School has played host to various films, featuring its outside grounds in films such as Coach Carter, among others.
Long Beach Woodrow Wilson High School was used to film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and has been used for commercials for Nike and Adidas, especially one with Los Angeles Sparks basketball star Candace Parker.
The movie Freedom Writers, although not filmed there, was based on Long Beach Woodrow Wilson High School.
Many car chase and crash scenes have been filmed on stretches of road near the Long Beach harbor and along the city's Shoreline Drive.
Long Beach's downtown neighborhood has stood in for various urban areas in a range of films.
Most of the viral hit Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus was also filmed by the Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier and Alamitos power station in Long Beach.
Long Beach's daily journal is the Long Beach Press-Telegram, which is distributed throughout most of the Gateway Cities and South Bay areas of southwest Los Angeles County.
California State University, Long Beach also has a student journal presented four times a week amid the fall and spring semesters, the Daily Forty-Niner.
Long Beach also gets distribution of the daily Los Angeles Times and La Opinion newspapers, plus the weekly Los Angeles Sentinel.
Palacio Magazine (formerly Palacio de Long Beach) is a no-charge quarterly, bilingual periodical which runs stories focusing on community, education, art, community and wellness side-by-side in English and Spanish. Although not based in Long Beach, the alternative weeklies OC Weekly and LA Weekly are distributed widely in Long Beach.
In 2013 Freedom Communications, owner of the Orange County Register, launched a five-day daily newspaper, the Long Beach Register, aimed at competing with the Press-Telegram. In September 2014, the Long Beach Register was reduced to Sundays only, and was distributed as an insert in the Orange County Register.
In August of the same year, just sixteen months after its much-publicized launch, Freedom Communications announced it would cease printed announcement of the Long Beach Register completely, citing lack of reader and advertiser interest. Long Beach is part of the Los Angeles DMA radio and tv markets.
Although a several airways broadcasts have had studios in Long Beach over the years, including the 1980s alternative music and later difficult modern station KNAC, the only remaining airways broadcasts in Long Beach are the jazz and blues station KKJZ on the Cal State Long Beach campus, and the Christian radio broadcaster KFRN.
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