The American Hotel’s bird-spattered remains are historic–but too small to make money

PHOTO by ZACK PIANKO
Across the alley from the new Lennar condos and across Broadway from the historic Middough Brothers-Insurance Exchange Building is an even older building in much worse shape: the former American Hotel property at 221 E. Broadway—where some say there once lived [...]

The moment I walk onto the American Hotel property at 221 E. Broadway, SL Residential Project Superintendent Bob Boyle asks me what I want. (He’s in charge of building the condos for Lennar next door.)
I tell him I’m looking at the Hotel–which is vacant and now owned by the city’s Redevelopment Agency–and Boyle says immediately: [...]

To music and lyrics played in a dead-on impersonation of the Beach Boys, a brand new website — www.solongdelong.com — is advocating the recall of Long Beach Third District City Councilmember Gary DeLong.
“Gary, Gary What Went Wrong?” asks the song in its high harmonic opening vocals, backed by the twang and rumble of classic 1960s [...]