Long Beach CA Real Estate
Welcome to Long Beach
Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown Los Angeles. Long Beach borders Orange County on its southeast edge. Long Beach CA Real Estate is a great value today.
Long Beach is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the fifth-largest in California. As of 2006, its estimated population was 466,718. In addition, Long Beach is the largest city statewide that is not a county seat.
The Port of Long Beach is one of the world's largest shipping ports. The city also has a large oil industry; oil is found both underground and offshore. Manufacturers include aircraft, automobile parts, electronic and audiovisual equipment, and home furnishings. It is also home to headquarters for corporations such as Epson America, Molina Healthcare, and Scan Health Plan. Long Beach has grown with the development of high-technology and aerospace industries in the area.
By the early 1900s the town had become a popular seaside resort and ports-of-call. Long Beach was now home to one of the infamous boardwalk-style amusements of the era, known as The Pike. Visitors traveled to Long Beach aboard the subway to enjoy its popular attractions, like The Cyclone Racer, a wooden two-track rollercoaster, The Plunge, originally a bathhouse, and an original Looff's Carousel. Long Beach CA Real Estate is a great value today.
In 1921, oil was discovered in Long Beach and Signal Hill that caused the rapid growth in the city seen today, flourishing with a million-dollar per month construction boom downtown. Unfortunately, in 1933, a 6.4 earthquake hit the downtown area with a devastating loss of 120 lives and fifty million dollars of damage; a sizable amount sustained by public schools built with unreinforced masonry walls. As a direct result of these structural failures many changes were made to the building code. The most significant was passing of the Field Act of 1933, requiring earth-quake resistant design and construction for all public schools and the 1935 revisions for the Uniform Building Code provided a formula for calculating lateral earthquake forces that new buildings were now mandated to resist. As for the buildings remaining from that time, Long Beach has designated sixteen historic districts and fewer than one hundred structures as historic landmarks around the city. Long Beach CA Real Estate is a great value today.
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