The city’s 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival bandshell in Bixby Park reopened this weekend–despite not being a shell at all, but rather a building with an open stage.
And the Los Angeles Times, which last took note of Long Beach when all those manhole covers went missing a couple of weeks ago, sent its “L.A. Then and [...]

The 75th anniversary of the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933 — when the town was known as Iowa-By-The-Sea because of its Midwestern transplants — is uniquely personalized in Tim Grobaty’s column in today’s Press-Telegram.
Grobaty reprints letters that those former Iowans wrote to their hometown newspapers back east, explaining to the family and friends they left [...]