So, you hung out in the Jergins Tunnel Oct. 28, and you consider yourself a tunnel-ologist? You have no idea.
As the city studies how to restore what remains of the subterranean walkway which once led to the beach from Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue, it’s important to consider what other abandoned underground walkways may be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘jergins tunnel’
SUBTERRANEAN LONG BEACH HOMESICK BLUES
November 27, 2007SAVING THE TUNNEL, FINDING A CRIMINAL
November 16, 2007City may dig into Jergins Tunnel; college cops seek attacker
After languishing for a generation, the Jergins Tunnel–the underground pedestrian walkway that once gave amusement park visitors a traffic-free passage from the Jergins building to the Pike–inches closer to being saved.
OVERAGED HALLOWEEN PRANKSTERS UNEARTH THE TRUTH BEHIND A JERGINS TUNNEL LEGEND
October 31, 2007It was an urban legend that had haunted and tantalized the denizens of downtown Long Beach since, oh, at least last week –the rumor that the famous Jergins Tunnel is not the only historic architecture lying fallow beneath the redeveloped streets. Finally, on Halloween, a passel of overaged pranksters could take it no more. They [...]
HISTORIC PRESERVATION DEATHWATCH
October 30, 2007PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
Theo has the scoop on the old Looff’s Lite-a-Line: Surprise! It’s dying a slow death. So with the last remnant of the old Pike all but destroyed, the question is “What’s next?”
SUNDAY SCHOOL
October 24, 2007University by the Sea tries teaching Long Beach about itself–and the Romans, Che and crumping
JERGINS TUNNEL PHOTO COURTESY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH
You know how sometimes you’ll sit around your house all stoned, and you and your friends will have some amazing idea? Let’s go to the Vietnamese market and buy live catfish and put [...]
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