What was happening 100+ years ago

1923

News stories from the local press 1923   The discovery

Tags: Alamitos Bay history, Long Beach annexations, Long Beach city planning, Long Beach history, Marie Brehm|

1922

News stories from the local press 1922 City Hall

Tags: Americanization, Bertha Irene Abbott, Charles Hewes, James A. Garfield school, Long Beach Aquarium, Long Beach Auditor, Long Beach Charter, Long Beach City Hall, Long Beach City Manager, Long Beach history, Long Beach schools, Mexican Americans in Long Beach, Myrtle Gunsul, Pike, West Long Beach history|

1921

News stories from the local press 1921 GROWTH  Industrial Fair

Tags: Charles Hewes, Long Beach Charter, Long Beach City Manager, Long Beach history, Signal Hill oil, Unemployment 1921, Virginia Country Club|

1920

News stories from the local press 1920 The "Roaring" twenties

Tags: 1920 Long Beach Census, Long Beach aviation, Long Beach history, Long Beach ordinances, National Aero Meet 1920, poly high school, Prohibition in Long Beach, Squire Du Ree, William Peek|

1919

News stories from the local press 1919 There was tremendous

Tags: Belmont Shore, Chateau Thierry subdivision, Earl Daughterty, Long Beach aviation, Long Beach City Hall, Long Beach Police Department. Long Beach airports, North Long Beach|

1918

News stories from the local press 1918 In 1918 America

Tags: American Protective League, Long Beach in World War I, Sedition, Women in World War I|

1917 – Long Beach and WWI

News stories from the local press 1917     LONG BEACH

Tags: Balboa Film Studio, Bixby Heights, California fishing industry, Canneries, Draft World War I, Librarians in World War I, Long Beach World War I, Nurses in World War I, Potash, Pro Germans World War I, Sabotage World War I, Women in World War I, World War I, Yeomanettes|

1916

News stories from the local press 1916 WOODROW WILSON WINS

Tags: 1916 Presidential election, Abner Neff, Balboa Film Studio, Cage/Neff submarine, Charles Evans Hughes, Company H National Guard, H.M. Horkheimer, H.P. Christofferson, Hiram Johnson, Hotel Virginia, John Cage, Joseph E. Shrewsbury, Long Beach aviation, Long Beach Fire Department, Manikin-movies, Mission Film Company, Ridley F. Taylor, School uniforms, Silas Christofferson, stop motion film making, Wilkins W. Wheatly, Woodrow Wilson|

1915 Long Beach

103 YEARS AGO in LONG BEACH, CA. News stories from

Tags: 1915, Belmont Pier, California shipbuilding, Craig Shipyard, Fort MacArthur, Hotel Virginia, Jackrabbit roller coaster, Lincoln Park, Lincoln statue, Long Beach history, Pancho Villa, Pike, Tennis|

1914 Long Beach

News stories from the local press.

Tags: 1914, Balboa Film Studio, Dead Man's Island, Earl Daugherty, Flood control, Fossils, Frank Champion, Jane Harnett, Long Beach, Long Beach aviation, Long Beach Public Library, Sherman Houghton, World War I|