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Suffragists Of Early Long Beach
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Author : Gerrie Schipske
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-19
Suffragists Of Early Long Beach written by Gerrie Schipske and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-19 with categories.
Suffragists of Early Long Beach is sure to become the authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of Long Beach, California. It is the seventh in a series chronicling the history of early Long Beach, California. This book tells the story of the women and men who came to Long Beach in search of better climate and opportunities. They stayed in the city by the sea and fought for temperance and prohibition and then suffrage.
Early Long Beach
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Author : Gerrie Schipske
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2011
Early Long Beach written by Gerrie Schipske and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Few other cities can boast of the natural assets, the people, and the events that shaped the first 50 years of their history, as can the city of Long Beach, California. First inhabited by the Tongva people, the land was taken away by the Spanish, then granted to "friends of the King," who in turn sold parcels to real estate speculators working with the railroads. It was called many names before Belle Lowe suggested in 1884 that the townsite be known for its eight miles of long beaches. Its oceanfront provided a resort area, a landing strip for early aviators, a fishing industry, a port for shipbuilding and trade, and a location for the US Navy to anchor its "battle fleet" in 1919. However, discovery of oil in 1921 transformed the city, bringing incredible wealth and an explosive growth in population. By 1938, the city's population was 200,000 and would be a major factor in the Southern California war effort.
Early Aviation In Long Beach
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Author : Gerrie Schipske
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Early Aviation In Long Beach written by Gerrie Schipske and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
By 1920, when Ameila Earhart attended Earl S. Daughertyas air circus and then took her first airplane ride with Long Beach Poly High School graduate Frank Hawks, Long Beach was already a key part of the golden age of aviation. Balloonists had parachuted onto the cityas beaches in 1905 near the Pine Avenue Pier, and stunt pilots such as Frank Stites took off and landed on its sands in 1908. The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce sponsored the altitude contest won by Arch Hoxsey in the second Los Angeles Air Meet in 1910. Cal Rodgers ended the first transcontinental flight in the water near Linden Avenue on December 10, 1911. A former Army Air Corps flight instructor, Earl Daugherty was known as the agreatest stunt pilota and owned the areaas first non-beach airfield. This volume offers glimpses of early aviation at one of its core development locales, including photographs never before published of Earhartas flight instructor, John G. Montijo.
Historic Cemeteries Of Long Beach
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Author : Gerrie Schipske
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-19
Historic Cemeteries Of Long Beach written by Gerrie Schipske and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-19 with Photography categories.
The stories of those who lived in the city by the sea begin long before the 1878 date on the oldest headstone found in the city. Long Beach was the site of ceremonies, and perhaps the burial grounds, for the Tongva tribe. Many of those who later settled the city are buried in one of the four known cemeteries, Municipal, Sunnyside, Forest Lawn Long Beach, and All Souls. Two of the cemeteries hold the graves of several hundred Union and Confederate Civil War veterans, one Medal of Honor recipient, and a slave who served in the 1st Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment. The histories of the Municipal and Sunnyside Cemeteries include the 1921 discovery of oil, which made national news as descendants of the deceased fought for the oil underneath the graves. The fight resulted in a second Sunnyside Cemetery that later became Forest Lawn Long Beach. The scene of oil derricks surrounding the cemeteries was so surreal that it caught the attention of Ansel Adams, whose photographs of Sunnyside Cemetery are included.
Suffragists Of Early Long Beach
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Author : Gerrie Schipske
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-06
Suffragists Of Early Long Beach written by Gerrie Schipske and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-06 with categories.
Suffragists of Early Long Beach is sure to become the authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of Long Beach, California. It is the seventh in a series chronicling the history of early Long Beach, California. This book tells the story of the women and men who came to Long Beach in search of better climate and opportunities. They stayed in the city by the sea and fought for temperance and prohibition and then suffrage. Now, through extensive research, Long Beach native Gerrie Schipske brings to life this compelling and vital story. The book includes "biographs" of eleven important Long Beach women and men who showed incredible courage for standing up for what they believed. Through their efforts, suffrage won in 18986 in Long Beach, only to lose state-wide. Later, these suffragists fought for and won state suffrage in 1911 and national suffrage in 1918. In between suffrage campaigns, as members of several women's clubs, they marched, organized, and agitated for a woman's right to full participation. This made Long Beach an attractive place to settle for several prominent national suffragist leaders who worked closely with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt. Gerrie reveals hidden facts about how Long Beach women were able to vote before any other women in California. She also provides the details of the campaign of Long Beach's first woman candidate in 1911 and how the city's first two women were elected to public office in 1913 and 1916. She also shares how a popular Long Beach woman became the first female to be nominated on the a national ticket for Vice President of the United States.
Historic Police Department
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Author : Russell R. Bradford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Historic Police Department written by Russell R. Bradford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
The history of the Long Beach Police Department documents the ten City Marshall's and twenty five persons who served as Chief of Police. The stories of the early members of the department who played a vital part in the history, include: Fanny Bixby, Thomas C Borden, Theo Cervantes, Earl Daugherty, Fred Kutz, Robert O'Rourke, Grace Reinhardt and the Resuch brothers. The modern history began with Chief Dovey in 1949 and Chief Mooney in 1960. In 1969 the "1st Annual Police Awards Luncheon" was held and Wayne Clarke & James Fontaine received the departments 1st "Medal of Valor" (39 officers have now received the award in 43 Award Ceremonies). Twenty seven officers have also given their life for the department and received the Medal of Honor from Thomas C. Borden in 1912 through Earl Davenport who died in 2003. Heavily illustrated with rare photographs, Historic Police Department, Long Beach, California covers the department from the beginning up to and including 2012 and includes the names of over 4,000 police and civilian employees that worked for the department.
Historic Hospitals Of Long Beach
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Author : Gerrie Schipske R. N. P.
language : en
Publisher: America Through Time
Release Date : 2019
Historic Hospitals Of Long Beach written by Gerrie Schipske R. N. P. and has been published by America Through Time this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book outlines the history of both Long Beach and its hospitals. Few other California cities can boast of their efforts to keep the public healthy as can Long Beach. Its first inhabitants, the Tongva, insisted on personal and household hygiene. The moment Long Beach became a city in 1897, officials established a board of public health and appointed a public health officer. Consequently, when epidemics struck, the city had fewer causalities. Residents of Long Beach, like most Americans in the early twentieth century, gave birth, treated illness and even underwent surgery at home. Hospitals were considered places for the poor and the severely infirm or places to quarantine contagious disease. The seaside's "perfect climate" was utilized by sanitariums to market relaxation and recuperation. As Long Beach grew, and its medical professionals became more sophisticated, sanitariums became hospitals. First, Long Beach Hospital, then Seaside, followed by St. Mary's, Community and Harriman Jones. Long a destination for retired and active military, Long Beach was also home to two Naval hospitals and one veteran's hospital.
Growing Up In Long Beach
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Author : Tim Grobaty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Growing Up In Long Beach written by Tim Grobaty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
How quickly the memories fade of local and favorite hangouts that once helped define Long Beach. In this collection, Tim Grobaty remembers growing up in the fast-growing new neighborhoods of East Long Beach, the beloved places downtown that were part of the city's mid-twentieth-century fabric and a few obscure spots in the margins. Long Beach's memory lane includes the dearly departed restaurants the Golden Lantern in Los Altos and Rusty's in the Wrigley District, the Circle and Los Altos Drive-Ins, great concerts of the 1970s in the arena and auditorium and the shoppers' paradises of Uncle Al's Toy Korral in the Plaza and Buffum's downtown. Join "Press-Telegram" columnist Tim Grobaty as he records Long Beach residents' recollections and taps his own boomer-years memories.
Baseball In Long Beach
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Author : Tom Meigs
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Baseball In Long Beach written by Tom Meigs and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Organized baseball in Long Beach dates to 1910, when the Long Beach Clothiers of the Southern California Trolley League played opponents wherever a streetcar could take them. Exhibition games later featured Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and other Major League barnstormers. Homegrown talent includes Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Tony Gwynn. Pioneering entrepreneur Bill Feistner built the first accommodating baseball park in 1922 at Redondo Avenue and Stearns Street in the shadow of oil-rich Signal Hill. When ballplayers weren't on the Shell Park diamond, they worked the derricks.
Died In Long Beach
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Author : Claudine Burnett
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-06-25
Died In Long Beach written by Claudine Burnett and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-25 with History categories.
Long Beach was one of the many Southern California cities that grew out of the railroad fare wars of the late 1880s. It was built by men and women who toiled to make it the great metropolis it is today. These are the tales of those who died or are buried in Long Beach. Some were illustrious in their time, others just common folk with interesting stories to tell. Politicians, city founders, visitors, influenza victims, Civil War veterans and accident victims are all discussed here, as well as the hospitals, doctors, undertakers and others who cared for the dead and dying. But what makes Long Beachs Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries different from all others is the question of whether the bodies said to be there still remain. The cemetery wars of the 1920s erupted when oil was discovered on Signal Hill. Oil and other debris ran over the graves and the promised mausoleum that many had already paid for was cast aside in favor of black gold. People were angry, barricading themselves by the cemeteries gates to prevent oil rigs from getting to the mausoleum site. Slant drilling caused headstones and markers to sink into the ground, graves were covered by the run off debris from the oil fields above. Many bodies were moved, their headstones left behind, with haphazard records kept of where the corpses were relocated. It would take a 10 year court case to determine if the dead still had rights. In this book you will learn about the fascinating history of Long Beachs unique cemeteries, the stories of those said to be buried in them, and whether Long Beachs cities of the dead may be haunted by angry souls whose final abode did not allow them to rest in peace.