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This beautiful poster has been re-mastered from a 1936 Art Deco style advertising brochure by artist Alfred Danfelt for Long Beach, California. The image features the beautiful downtown district along Ocean Boulevard, The Pike amusement zone, the Municipal Auditorium, the Rainbow Pier, and the beach district of the city.
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LONG BEACH HISTORY
Long Beach's history is a story of dramatic transformations—from a sacred indigenous site and sprawling Spanish ranchos to a booming oil town and a global maritime hub.
Long before Spanish arrival, the area was home to the Tongva people. The site of Puvunga (now part of the Cal State Long Beach campus) was a major ceremonial and trading center. In 1784, the area was part of the massive Rancho Los Nietos grant given to soldier Manuel Nieto. This later split into Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos, both of which still have historic ranch houses open for tours.
In 1881, developer William Willmore attempted to create a farm community called Willmore City. When the venture failed, it was renamed Long Beach and officially incorporated in 1888 (re-incorporated in 1897).
In the early 1900s, Long Beach was a premier vacation destination. The Pike, an amusement zone founded in 1902, featured famous attractions like the Cyclone Racer roller coaster and the "Plunge" bathhouse.
In the early 1920s, the first Long Beach Municipal Auditorium was constructed on 20 acres of tidal zone landfill located south of today's intersection of Ocean Boulevard and Long Beach Boulevard. After the construction of the auditorium, there were problems created by storms and coastal erosion in the area. To protect the auditorium from these problems, a horseshoe-shaped breakwater with a roadway along its crest was constructed around it, connecting Pine St. and the Long Beach Pier eastward to Linden St. It was named Rainbow Pier because its shape resembled a rainbow.
The discovery of oil on Signal Hill triggered a massive construction boom. By the mid-1920s, the field was one of the most productive in the world, forever shifting the city's identity from a resort to an industrial powerhouse.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake devastated the city on March 10, 1933, killing 120 people. The disaster led to the Field Act, which established strict seismic building codes for California schools. Much of the downtown was rebuilt in the Art Deco style seen today.
Long Beach became a vital defense hub during WWII. The Douglas Aircraft Company (later McDonnell Douglas, then Boeing) produced thousands of military planes. The city also hosted a massive U.S. Naval Shipyard until its closure in 1994.
In 1967, the city purchased the legendary British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, which remains permanently docked as a hotel and museum.
Established in 1911, the Port of Long Beach is now the second-busiest container port in the U.S., serving as a primary gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
