Summary
You're new to town, got enough on your plate, so we're not going to bring you a welcome basket loaded with the history of this city, especially the history of its teeter-tottery downtown area that's seen everything from rows of porn palaces to multi-storied retail marvels lining its boulevards over the decades.
You will hear from some of the town's old-timers nostalgic hyperbole-fueled accounts of its glory days, all tinged, with deep, deep regret, about how you should stay away from today's version of downtown.See the full content of this document
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Guide to Drinking, Dining and Doing in Long Beach
The fact is, you shouldn't stay away. In fact, we can't think of a place we'd rather live in Long Beach than downtown.
OK, that was hyperbole, too. We'd rather live in one of the huge cottages on Ocean Boulevard. We'd rather live in a three-story monstrosity in Naples. We'd rather have a beach house on the bay side of the peninsula. We'd rather have a beach house on the ocean side of the peninsula. We'd rather have a colonial mansion on Country Club Drive. We'd rather have a custom home hidden by sycamore in Alamitos Heights. We'd rather have a sprawling ranch home in Park Estates.But downtown is something we can afford -- there's s...See the full content of this document
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