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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Gerrie Schipske
How Long Beach caused the death of John A. Lamb.
Immediately after his 1914 election as mayor of Long Beach, Louis Napoleon Whealton fired the chief of police and raided…
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Long Beach, California, founded in the 1880s by conservative, pro-temperance settlers, has been known as "American Colony," "Queen of the Beaches," "Iowa-By-The Sea," "Home of the Pike," and "Paradise for…
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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…
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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…
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During World War II, an unprecedented number of womentook jobs at aircraft plants, shipyards, munitions factories, and other concerns across the nation to produce material essential to winning the…
By 1920, when Amelia Earhart attended Earl S. Daugherty’s air circus and then took her first airplane ride with Long Beach Poly High School graduate Frank Hawks, Long Beach was…
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…
