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.

@manp1039

5 жыл бұрын

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?

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.

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.

@CrazyMario-wz7ve

6 жыл бұрын

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!

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...

@calico4381

5 жыл бұрын

I played the violin there as a child with my school orchestra.

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.

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!!

Nice pictures, but they go by too quick per frame.

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...

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!

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 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.

@JihiTheMusicGeek

9 жыл бұрын

I remember someone tellin' me about the earthquake!! Crazy...

@bobweaver2685

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@JihiTheMusicGeek

9 жыл бұрын

Oh wow...well, I'm sorry to hear that...but there are some amazing things in CA. I sure miss it. 😃

@bobweaver2685

9 жыл бұрын

sherbertdjones It is nice out there, but to be honest, I don't miss it.

@SunshineKarebare

9 жыл бұрын

bob weav I researched and it is the oldest school in Long Beach, it was first called Long Beach High School

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.

Thank you to the Historical Society of Long Beach. You've all done such a terrific job.

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.

the pics were going so fast but I was still enjoying the amount of history you have here great job

Thanx for sharing with us!! Memories always stay in our hearts 💕.

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.

JUST FYI- THE VIDEO SHOWS THE VILLA RIVIERA HOTEL IN "1900". CONSTRUCTION WASN'T COMPLETED ON THE VILLA RIVIERA UNTIL 1929.

@Test7017

5 жыл бұрын

Most probably mudflood building

@GnosticTruth

4 жыл бұрын

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

@JWRogersPS

3 жыл бұрын

@@GnosticTruth Anyone who actually believes that "mudflood" nonsense needs serious psychiatric treatment.

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.

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.

@1980lizbethcamacho

5 жыл бұрын

🙌🙏🙌

I have a lot of wonderful memories of Long Beach. Thanks for posting this. George Vreeland Hill

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 :)

@dontraneilclayborne2983

8 жыл бұрын

+Dazy Kid please hit me with them the links thanks

@SunshineKarebare

8 жыл бұрын

***** 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

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

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.

Born in Long Beach in 1960 moved out in 1981….. great childhood memories

The rise of long beach was once beautiful but now it all lies in history 😣😪😪😪

@robertsamson4610

3 жыл бұрын

The Pike was destroyed by progressive city Government. The same type of people who have bankrupted and destroyed Calif.

@ericsimmons9152

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertsamson4610 Hurr durrr

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.

I'm just getting ready to move back to L.B. after 15 years away. Thanks for this view. My sister is also a fixture at the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce. Thanks again.

I'm so proud to be from Long Beach ⛱

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 live in LB and wish I lived here 100 years ago after watching this.

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 live right by the Riviera; it is palatial compared to the all other buildings. Great historic photos.

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 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!!!.

@californiaryguyg387

9 жыл бұрын

Cambodia town but it's full of Mexicans hahahahahahaha. We obviously pushed you out if you're no longer there.

@carlosrodriguez6717

7 жыл бұрын

Billy Bill uesd to hang around 17th & Gavitia friends living there

@CrazyMario-wz7ve

6 жыл бұрын

Carlos Gurrola OMG MY MOMS MEXICAN i was born in saint marry hospital in 2005 may 20 Well mexicans still live in long beach

@davidmoser7849

5 жыл бұрын

Billy Bill if you don’t like the bs, go to Vietnam

@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!!

What is the song being played here..it's beautiful!

Beautiful once long beach always long beach respect 2004 baby 🙌

@camipossumz

7 жыл бұрын

Anyone born in lb memorial

@Mitch-fc4vl

7 жыл бұрын

me

This is fantastic. Thank you

It changed a lot through the years# live long

😍😍😍 I love my town, I wished it was the same as back in the 40's

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

Who remembers the store GRANT IN BIXBY KNOLLS Behind Vons on Atlantic blvd

@cdpreston716

6 жыл бұрын

Carlos Rodriguez was that doolys

@user377047

5 жыл бұрын

I do, that shopping center use to be one of my and my friends hangout in the 50s and 60s.

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 couldn't watch this. The music is so depressing.

@malcex685

6 жыл бұрын

um....turn it down?

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.

THANKS FOR THIS VID

Home sweet home! Nice video.

Love it.

Is it just me or did the Villa Riviera look so much more pleasant and less haunted than it does now?

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.

Hey, where is the 1950s. I was there in 53 thru 54. With my Navy husband. We loved it.

Great video and AWESOME song!! You did a fantastic job! May I ask what's the name of the song. Alex

wow thanks!!

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!

@CrazyMario-wz7ve

6 жыл бұрын

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

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.

Great from what I saw...not everyone can process a photo and read a captopn in 1.5 seconds though.

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.

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 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.

@clizark1

5 жыл бұрын

I went to Roosevelt Elementary as well in the early 70s.

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.

Very cool to see Cherry Avenue in the past because I live on Cherry lol

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?

I went to Demille also but sadly it closed down when i was in 7th grade

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

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

Great

I'd like to see the speed of the "Slide show" slowed down so the viewer could focus on the pics.

great video thank you very much!! jesus christ bless you forever

Great video! Whats the name of the beautiful song?

What happened to the Ford Motor Company plant in Long Beach? I never knew there was one there.

lovely music who is it by?

Beautiful Video I like the song what's the name

Great video! What's the name of the song that's playing? Beautiful song.

@theStashSmash

10 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@THENAT1ON

9 жыл бұрын

Alex Del Rio At Rest by Kevin Macleod

Beautiful.. please slow the pics

I wouldn't mind living there.

Why is there a wagon in 1980? 0:40

Cool vid just but slide show needs to be slowed down so we can enjoy the pics.

That arched pier was a great idea. It could be done much better today with the engineering and concrete technology.

Long beach, especially the cyclone racer at the pike, I know people had fun but for me it only bring tears as my mom died on the cyclone racer in 1978, her name was Sandra Magana, her maiden was Sandra Motley, I am Ken Motley. I was not able to spend much time with my mom, she was very young when she had me, I so love her and miss her. I would love to find the rest of my family, ,y grandfather James William Motley, my Uncle Rich Larmen and my Dad John Adrian, where are you guys?

@durwoodmackey9891

7 жыл бұрын

The Cyclone Racer was torn down in 1968, I was there.

It was the 'Jack Rabbit Racer', not the Jack Rabbic Dancer.

Cool! Became my home about 4:28

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.

What is the name of this song ?!! Why can't I get someone to tell me what is the name of this song!!!

Getting to know all about long beach, california.

I'm new to Long Beach, just moved out here. By any chance, are there Any local mates into Heavy Metal?

WOW,

: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.

It has been misplaced, but I used to have a photo of my Grandfather and Great Uncle working on the oil drilling crew of Signal Hill well #1.

I wish they had made it slower I couldn't really see everything.

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.

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.

Long Beach is a very diverse city, that's want makes it so great and unique. All walks of life, live and work within the city. I don't like being sheltered in a quiet, rich neighborhood. I want to be exposed to the gritty life of the city.

It was originally named Wilmore City.

The Villa hotel was built in 1929

Wow

my abuelita saw all of this R.I.P

They built a new bridge 🌉 now