Posts Tagged ‘douglas aircraft’

SWING-SHIFT CINDERELLAS

June 4, 2008

Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske’s ‘Rosie the Riveter’ reveals a long-gone Long Beach

PHOTO COURTESY OF ARCADIA PUBLISHING
There’s no who’s who of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, no declassified maps of Allied supply routes—and unlike in, say, William Shirer’s Berlin Diary, you can’t actually hear the bombs falling in Poland as you read Rosie the Riveter in Long [...]

WHAT’S THAT!?

October 3, 2007

Our weekly microscopic look at Long Beach

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
This is what Long Beach is all about. No, literally, this is what put Long Beach on the map: great fonts and blue sky.

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
ANSWER: Oh gosh, this is too easy. If you don’t recognize where this is located right off the bat, you [...]

 

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