Posts Tagged ‘jergins tunnel’

SUBTERRANEAN LONG BEACH HOMESICK BLUES

November 27, 2007

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 [...]

SAVING THE TUNNEL, FINDING A CRIMINAL

November 16, 2007

City 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, 2007

It 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, 2007

PHOTO 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, 2007

University 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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