Mike Cincola runs Loof’s Lite-A-Line, the last surviving game from the Pike amusement park

PHOTO by DAVID GUETTLER
“The game is handmade,” Looff’s Lite-a-Line owner Mike Cincola says, and he has the credit card to prove it—the small-sized, long-expired Broadway charge card of Vincent C. Engstrom, the man who wired Lite-a-Line at the Pike in 1941 after [...]

Our weekly microscopic look at Long Beach

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
Any kid would notice these right away: they’re colorful, they’re at kid’s-eye level, and you’re not supposed to touch them. That gives you no excuse for not noticing them, however, as I’m pretty sure they’ve been a part of Long Beach since dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

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