US District Court Judge OK’s Port of Long Beach Clean Trucks Program
A Port of Long Beach official once asked me where I lived, and when I told him that I was just up the road from the port he responded, “Better get your lungs checked.”
I don’t have the guts to follow up on that advice–I’ve [...]

Harbor Commissioner Jim Hankla has apparently dropped his attempted end run around the Long Beach City Council and promised to keep his hands off while a city-contracted engineering firm conducts a thorough study of the Long Beach Breakwater.
“It was a rogue moment, which I’m confident won’t be repeated,” chuckles Patrick O’Donnell, Fourth District council member, [...]

There’s good news in this morning’s Los Angeles Times for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to reporter Ronald D. White.
“For the longest time, we used to joke that our biggest export was our fine California air,” Eric Caris, assistant director of marketing for the Port of Los Angeles, told White. Not [...]

The city is paying $100,000 and waiting a full year for a study that could lead to big changes in the breakwater and transform Long Beach. But The District Weekly’s study is done now

PHOTO COURTESY KEN LARKEY, CURATOR OF THE LONG BEACH HERITAGE MUSEUM
WAITING FOR THE SHIP TO COME IN
Twelve pages have been [...]

A small rules change means the man who helped create the city’s deficit will remain port boss

PHOTO COURTESY of THE PORT OF LONG BEACH
Jim Hankla has just become president of the Harbor Commission again, which isn’t supposed to be a big deal, and which most certainly would not be, except for the fact that nothing [...]

This Week: Come With Me If You Want To Live
Tues | JUNE 17 The city council approves a $100,000 breakwater reconnaissance study that will detail the possible demolition of the nation’s largest anti-submarine toilet bowl, which could still factor into national defense if Al Qaeda ever time-travels a Duffy boat back to 1946. The approval [...]

As the Aquarium of the Pacific celebrates 10 years of operations, former Harbor Commissioner Joel Friedland still smells something fishy

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
The better part of 10 years has passed, and I’m not sure I’ve got the right number anymore, but I know it’s Joel Friedland the instant he answers the telephone. That flat, clipped, [...]

Get lost with William Livingston’s pinhole port photographs

WILLIAM LIVINGSTON’S SSAT CONTAINER TERMINAL II
If the time of day and weather outside are just so, there is a moment  as you view William Livingston’s pinhole pictures of the Port of Long Beach when, standing before California United Terminals—two side-by-side photos of what appears to be a dark [...]

WebUrbanist has compiled a list of 10 of the most creative port container homes. Included of course is Peter DeMaria’s famous Redondo Beach design, but there’s also some more colorful selections from around the world. There’s even a house inside of a house.
Still no shining example of port container architecture in Long Beach, though.

Where are we supposed to go to get our arty post-industrial post-apocalyptic photos?
Last November we ran a story about security at the Port of Long Beach; specifically, my ability to meander through restricted areas and openly photograph bridge supports and chemical storage tanks. Not only that, my ability to do it day after day [...]