An early Long Beach veterinarian saw dogs and cats—and horses—at this Rose Park house

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
A newspaperman in John Ford’s 1962 Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance—a completely unrelated source—delivers what should be the last word on the old Doc Carter place. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” says the publisher, [...]

These are happy days for the Rose Park Neighborhood Association, comprised of homeowners in the Rose Park Historic District.
The group’s first-ever Restoration Trade Fair Sept. 21 drew more than 500 people. (Proceeds will go toward landscaping at nearby Luther Burbank Elementary School.)
And this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the association will dedicate a [...]

Rose Park Neighborhood Association holds its first-ever Restoration Trade Fair

PHOTO by SARAH G. VINCI
When you buy a historically significant house—be it bungalow, Spanish style or miscellaneous—your signature on the mortgage (initial here, here and here) just opens the floodgates.
Cast-iron drainpipe rusted out after 70 years? Get busy and run a new one, unless you’d rather [...]