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The explosion and subsequent fire killed two employees and injured at least eight others. The inferno burned for three days before fire departments from Los Angeles County, Long Beach, and Signal Hill were able to bring it under control.

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April 8 1930

Strawberries are so plentiful that I thought it was June 1st. Just think of buying these (3) heaping boxes of straberries for fifteen cents. Living is cheap here with only one exception and that is meat. And who cares to eat meat in a hot country like this. 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Neighbor Lewis Denni held out for a few months and sold his land for an unheard of 50-percent oil royalty. The Denni home was torn down right away to get the drilling started before the oil ran out. The oil company later purchased the Pala Mansion, and it served as an office for several years.
Text from Images of America: Signal Hill by Ken Davis.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "While this image is associated with the Osteopathic Health Resort online and in the article linked here, there is no other evidence that this building was ever used for that purpose. The Long Beach Post article mentions the location as Wall Street near Temple, which is not on the top of the hill and over a half mile away.", "link": "" }, { "type": "URL", "label": "Article", "link": "https://lbpost.com/news/local-history-1920s-resort-offered-health-on-the-hill/" } ], "locationID": 12, "title": "Pala Mansion - Osteopathic Health Resort", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "mansion", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Pala Mansion", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PalaMansion.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 12, "title": "Pala Mansion", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "In 1921, Andres Pala estimated that his pink mansion near the crest of the Hill was worth $15,000. The oil strike hit the next day, and he was turning down offers of $150,000. Neighbor Lewis Denni held out for a few months and sold his land for an unheard of 50-percent oil royalty. The Denni home was torn down right away to get the drilling started before the oil ran out. The oil company later purchased the Pala Mansion, and it served as an office for several years.
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Long Beach Marine Stadium.

Created in 1925 and later enlarged to host the rowing events for the Los Angeles 1932 Summer Olympics, the stadium was the first manmade rowing course in the United States. The venue also hosted the United States rowing trials for the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City.
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Cars finally go over the J.H. Davies Bridge on Sept. 9, 1959 opening ceremony.
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Possibly Easter Day 1921

From an article by Claudine Burnett, Beachcomber News Jun 3, 2021

In ages past, Signal Hill was used by Indian tribes as a signaling site. Fires were built that could be seen many miles from its summit. They gave warnings about invasions of warring tribes, or told of native festivities, to which all the surrounding tribes were signaled to attend. For many years, Signal Hill was part of the vast rancho of Los Cerritos settled by Japanese who established wonderful berry and cucumber farms on its heights. In 1916, sunrise Easter services began to be held on the summit, worshippers climbing or driving up the winding roads and narrow trails to sing praise to the risen Christ. But in 1921 things changed. 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The 1933 Earthquake toppled the upper half of the smokestack", "link": 1 }], "width": 1437, "height": 900, "poi": [{ "posx": 795, "posy": 240, "label": "Seal Beach Power Plant", "nesw": "W", "image": "../images/Seal_Beach-PowerPlant-1930s.jpg" }], "locationID": 22, "title": "Marine Stadium Olympic Rowing with Seal Beach Power Plant in the background", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "description": "View of Seal Beach Power Plant with pre-1933 earthquake Smokestack", "date": "1928", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Seal_Beach-PowerPlant.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 22, "title": "View of Huntington Beach from Signal Hill", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama" ] }, { "description": "View of Seal Beach Power Plant with post-1933 earthquake Smokestack", "date": "1935", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Seal_Beach-PowerPlant-1930s.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 22, "title": "View of Huntington Beach from Signal Hill", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama" ] } ], "locationID": 22, "index": 22, "elevation": "335.8" }, { "title": "Gusher! - Black & Drake #1", "lat": 33.797177585, "long": -118.16950335, "category": "_all_locations,panorama,gusher", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 51, "image": [{ "description": "Gusher! - General Petroleum Co., Black & Drake #1", "title": "Gusher! - Black & Drake #1", "date": "1922", "dateAccuracy": "99", "locationID": 23, "photo": "../images/GeneralPetrolium_BlackAndDrake-No1.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "A gusher blows the derrick to pieces in January of 1922, less than a year after the discovery of oil on Signal Hill. Shown with less than a couple of dozen wells on the hill.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Winsted Photos, Image Scan Courtesy of Mark Fowle" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gusher" ] }, { "description": "Gusher! - General Petroleum Co., Black & Drake #1", "title": "Gusher! - Black & Drake #1", "date": "1922", "dateAccuracy": "", "locationID": 23, "photo": "../images/GeneralPetroleumGusher_1922_1422x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "A gusher blows the derrick to pieces in January of 1922, less than a year after the discovery of oil on Signal Hill. Shown with less than a couple of dozen wells on the hill.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Winsted Photos" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gusher", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "Gusher! - General Petroleum Co., Black & Drake #1", "date": "1922", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/GeneralPetroleumGusher_1922_1436x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 23, "title": "Gusher! - Black & Drake #1", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "A gusher blows the derrick to pieces in January of 1922, less than a year after the discovery of oil on Signal Hill.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Winsted Photos" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gusher", "postcard" ] } ], "locationID": 23, "index": 23, "elevation": "164.8" }, { "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "lat": 33.77206, "long": -118.1905, "category": "_all_locations,long_beach_view,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing Signal Hill in the background.", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0016_1024.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 24, "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "link": [{ "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "panorama", "postcard" ] }], "locationID": 24, "index": 24, "elevation": "37.0" }, { "title": "Looking up Hill Street", "lat": 33.797107878, "long": -118.174591732, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 75, "image": [{ "description": "Looking up Hill Street at Hill St. and Orange Ave.", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0019gs_lookingUpHillSt_1280x806.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=244" }], "locationID": 25, "title": "Looking up Hill Street", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "postcard", "zoom" ] }], "locationID": 25, "index": 25, "elevation": "40.2" }, { "title": "Looking SE from Southwest Side of Hill?", "lat": 33.798332215736544, "long": -118.16605717468258, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SE", "locationAccuracy": 5, "image": [{ "description": "Looking SE from Southwest Side of Hill?", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0021gs_1280x775.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 26, "title": "Looking SE from Southwest Side of Hill?", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "postcard" ] }], "locationID": 26, "index": 26, "elevation": "272.5" }, { "title": "View Northwest from St. Louis Avenue", "lat": 33.79061981062089, "long": -118.16652449880291, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "date": "1921", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/SH_Panorama_from_StLouisAndRRtracks_LBPL_1800x741.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 27, "title": "View Northwest from St. Louis Avenue", "description": "Looking Towards Signal Hill from St. Louis Ave. & RR tracks", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Looking Towards Signal Hill from St. Louis Avenue & RR tracks.

A gusher announces a new well on top of the hill. With less than a couple of dozen wells on the hill, this photo had probably been taken towards the end of 1921 when oil was discovered on Signal Hill.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" } ], "width": 1800, "height": 741, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 1210, "posy": 300, "label": "Gusher", "image": "./images/gusher.jpg" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "gusher" ] }, { "date": "1922", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/early_SH_ca1920s_shPetro_1071x636.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "description": "Looking Towards Signal Hill from St. Louis Ave. & RR tracks", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "A few more wells on the hill, this photo may have been taken about 1922-1923.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Signal Hill Petroleum" } ], "locationID": 27, "title": "View Northwest from St. Louis Avenue", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "gusher" ] }, { "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_002219thAndStLouis_lookingNE_1280x791.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "title": "View Northwest from St. Louis Avenue", "description": "View Northeast from St. Louis Avenue & Pacific Electric Railroad tracks", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View Northeast from St. Louis Avenue & Pacific Electric Railroad tracks. This photo was probably taken from the top of an oil derrick which was at this location in the 1930s. 19th Street & Raymond (far right, middle) was the location of a Sabre jet crash in 1954.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=260" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" } ], "locationID": 27, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "postcard", "zoom" ] }, { "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0023_1024.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "description": "Looking up St. Louis Avenue", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Looking up St. Louis Avenue from the Pacific Electric Railroad tracks. This photo was probably taken from the top of an oil derrick which was at this location in the 1930s. There are many photos taken from this vantage point. Click on ZOOM button to zoom in on a panorama view.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=260" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Hoffman Photo Service: Scanned postcard" } ], "locationID": 27, "title": "View Northwest from St. Louis Avenue", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "postcard", "zoom" ] } ], "locationID": 27, "index": 27, "elevation": "21.4" }, { "title": "Looking NW from Northside of Hill?", "lat": 33.801011285721984, "long": -118.16135998153686, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "Y", "locationAccuracy": 5, "image": [{ "description": "Looking NW from Northside of Hill?", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0024.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 28, "title": "Looking NW from Northside of Hill?", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo is from a postcard with no specific location nor date information. The most central oil derrick appears to be steel. Use of steel derricks began around the beginng of the 1930s. Since most of the surrounding derricks are wooden, it would seem that this is the early 1930s.", "link": "" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "location uncertain", "hilltop" ] }], "locationID": 28, "index": 28, "elevation": "309.8" }, { "title": "Views from downtown Long Beach", "lat": 33.76714, "long": -118.19555, "category": "_all_locations,long_beach_view,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "View from downtown Long Beach", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0025a_1024_1494x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing the Lincoln Park Library, City Hall, & Signal Hill in the background. The Classical Revival library building, designed by F.P. Burnham, located at Ocean and Pacific, cost $34,000 to construct in 1908. An initial grant for $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie was later increased to $30,000, covering the majority of the expense. This building served as the city's public library from 1909 until 1972, when a fire forced its closure and demolished a year later.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "locationID": 29, "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "View from downtown Long Beach", "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "locationID": 29, "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "50", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Long-Beach.-Buildings-visible-include-BPOE_ca1930_FL165660.jpg", "locationID": 29, "width": 1217, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 659, "posy": 535, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Elks Lodge" }, { "posx": 1068, "posy": 291, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Buffums Dept. Store" }, { "posx": 657, "posy": 254, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Long Beach City Hall", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-City-Hall_ca1930.jpg" }, { "posx": 1045, "posy": 259, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Marine Bank" }, { "posx": 500, "posy": 192, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Long Beach Oil Fields" }, { "posx": 1032, "posy": 333, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Savoy Hotel" }, { "posx": 1154, "posy": 545, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Lincoln Park", "image": "./images/PCCL_LincolnParkLB.jpg" }, { "posx": 1089, "posy": 400, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Long Beach Public Library", "image": "./images/Lincoln-Park-Library_ca1930.jpg" }, { "posx": 907, "posy": 178, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_Famous_SignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 1100, "posy": 856, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Auto Wash & Polish Service" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing the Lincoln Park Library, City Hall, & Signal Hill in the background. The Classical Revival library building, designed by F.P. Burnham, located at Ocean and Pacific, cost $34,000 to construct in 1908. An initial grant for $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie was later increased to $30,000, covering the majority of the expense. This building served as the city's public library from 1909 until 1972, when a fire forced its closure and demolished a year later.", "link": "" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "View from downtown Long Beach", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCCL_LincolnParkLB.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing the Lincoln Park Library, City Hall, & Signal Hill in the background. The Classical Revival library building, designed by F.P. Burnham, located at Ocean and Pacific, cost $34,000 to construct in 1908. An initial grant for $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie was later increased to $30,000, covering the majority of the expense. This building served as the city's public library from 1909 until 1972, when a fire forced its closure and demolished a year later.", "link": 1 }], "locationID": 29, "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "View from downtown Long Beach.", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/USS-Shenandoah-over-Long-Beach-ca1920_1319x800.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah, Lincoln Park Library, City Hall, and Signal Hill in the background.", "link": 1 }], "locationID": 29, "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/USS_Shenandoah_over_Long_Beach_1333x800-14sec.gif", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah, Lincoln Park Library, City Hall, and Signal Hill in the background.", "link": 1 }], "locationID": 29, "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "View from downtown Long Beach", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Lincoln-Park-And-Library-Long-Beach-Oil-Fields_1455x877.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing the Lincoln Park Library, City Hall, & Signal Hill in the background. The Classical Revival library building, designed by F.P. Burnham, located at Ocean and Pacific, cost $34,000 to construct in 1908. An initial grant for $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie was later increased to $30,000, covering the majority of the expense. This building served as the city's public library from 1909 until 1972, when a fire forced its closure and demolished a year later.

Click on COMPARE button to compare the B&W card with the colorized one.", "link": 3 }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=LincolnPark" } ], "locationID": 29, "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard", "compare" ] }, { "title": "Colorized Postcard View From Downtown Long Beach", "description": "View from downtown Long Beach", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LincolnPark_bot.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing the Lincoln Park Library, City Hall, & Signal Hill in the background. The Classical Revival library building, designed by F.P. Burnham, located at Ocean and Pacific, cost $34,000 to construct in 1908. An initial grant for $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie was later increased to $30,000, covering the majority of the expense. This building served as the city's public library from 1909 until 1972, when a fire forced its closure and demolished a year later.

Click on COMPARE button to compare the B&W card with the colorized one.", "link": 3 }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=LincolnPark" } ], "locationID": 29, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard", "compare" ] } ], "locationID": 29, "index": 29, "elevation": "26.8" }, { "title": "Looking Northeast from Locust & Ocean", "lat": 33.76665748765025, "long": -118.19134049017941, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,long_beach_view", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Looking NE from Locust & Ocean. Signal Hill in Distance with no Oil Derricks.", "date": "1920", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCCL_LocustOcean_LB.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Oil was discovered on Signal Hill in 1921. The photo this card is based on was taken prior to this." }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "locationID": 30, "title": "Looking Northeast from Locust & Ocean", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard", "then_and_now" ] }, { "description": "Looking NE from Locust & Ocean.", "date": "2023", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LB_locustNOcean_2023_3.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 30, "title": "Looking Northeast from Locust & Ocean", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard", "then_and_now" ] } ], "locationID": 30, "index": 30, "elevation": "14.9" }, { "title": "Old Refinery Near Cherry & Burnett", "lat": 33.80077056983202, "long": -118.16606586647032, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 5, "image": [{ "description": "Looking West at Oil Refinery Near Cherry & Burnett", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0026_bw.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=SHRefinery1" }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=SHRefinery2" } ], "locationID": 31, "title": "Old Refinery Near Cherry & Burnett", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "derricks", "postcard", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Looking West at Oil Refinery Near Cherry & Burnett", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0026_clr.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=SHRefinery1" }], "locationID": 31, "title": "Old Refinery Near Cherry & Burnett", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "derricks", "postcard", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Looking West Towards Cherry & Burnett", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/SH_RPPC_ca1925.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=SHRefinery2" }], "locationID": 31, "title": "Looking West Towards Cherry & Burnett", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "derricks", "postcard", "compare" ] } ], "locationID": 31, "index": 31, "elevation": "217.5" }, { "title": "PCRP_0027", "lat": 33.80126091630015, "long": -118.16755921173092, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "Y", "locationAccuracy": 5, "image": [{ "description": "PCRP_0027", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0027_1280x776.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 32, "title": "PCRP_0027", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "postcard", "location uncertain" ] }], "locationID": 32, "index": 32, "elevation": "177.1" }, { "title": "Looking NW Towards Crescent Heights?", "lat": 33.80007516456907, "long": -118.16487478446959, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "Y", "locationAccuracy": 5, "image": [{ "description": "Looking NW Towards Crescent Heights?", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0028_1280x782.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 33, "title": "Looking NW Towards Crescent Heights?", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "postcard", "location uncertain", "hilltop" ] }], "locationID": 33, "index": 33, "elevation": "322.2" }, { "title": "Hancock Oil Company?", "lat": 33.80432774683578, "long": -118.15118904495239, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "hancock", "marker": "SW", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "description": "Possibily Hancock Oil Company in the foreground? Looking SW?", "date": "1938", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0029_1280x814.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 34, "title": "Hancock Oil Company?", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "postcard" ] }], "locationID": 34, "index": 34, "elevation": "51.8" }, { "title": "Looking Northeast up 20th Steet", "lat": 33.793835012470225, "long": -118.170490402222, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 5, "image": [{ "description": "Looking Northeast up 20th Steet towards Cherry Ave.", "date": "1921", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0030_ca1921_1280x799.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 35, "title": "Looking Northeast up 20th Steet", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "postcard" ] }], "locationID": 35, "index": 35, "elevation": "25.0" }, { "title": "Airplane Race at Daugherty Field", "lat": 33.816296558633304, "long": -118.16368664550782, "category": "_all_locations,long_beach_view,panorama", "spotlight": "lgb", "marker": "S", "locationAccuracy": 80, "image": [{ "title": "Airplane Race at Daugherty Field", "description": "Daugherty Field with Signal Hill in the Background", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/LongBeachAirportGasholder1920's.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Daugherty Field (Long Beach Airport) with Signal Hill in the Background. This photo shows the various hangers on the south edge of Daugherty Field. Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis is seen in front of Earl S. Daugherty's hanger. Natural gas storage tank is seen in the upper left.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [93, 36] }], "adjx": 15, "adjy": 15, "width": 1280, "height": 708, "poi": [{ "posx": 1005, "posy": 420, "label": "Sprit of St Louis", "image": "./images/Lindbergh.plane_300x210.jpg" }, { "posx": 745, "posy": 365, "label": "Ebrite", "image": "./images/Al-Ebrite-aviator_1928_760x545.jpg" }, { "posx": 1135, "posy": 365, "label": "Earl Daugherty's Hanger", "image": "./images/earl-daugherty.jpg" }, { "posx": 441, "posy": 328, "label": "Spring Street" }, { "posx": 430, "posy": 212, "label": "LB Gas Storage Tank" }, { "posx": 745, "posy": 247, "label": "Site of 1958 Hancock Oil Fire", "image": "./images/HancockFireAerial1958.jpg" }, { "posx": 1053, "posy": 263, "label": "Willow Street" }, { "posx": 1107, "posy": 145, "label": "Hilltop", "image": "./images/aerial_Hilltop_1933.jpg" } ], "locationID": 36, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "gas_storage_tank", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "description": "Charles Lindbergh and the Spirt of St Louis in Long Beach.", "date": "1928", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Lindbergh.plane_1200x841.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 36, "title": "Charles Lindbergh and the Spirt of St Louis in Long Beach.", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Charles Lindbergh and the Spirt of St Louis in Long Beach 1928" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }], "locationID": 36, "index": 36, "elevation": "50.3" }, { "title": "Seal Beach Power Plant", "lat": 33.745055814, "long": -118.116585, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "View of Seal Beach Power Plant with pre-1933 Earthquake Smokestack", "date": "1928", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/1928-Seal-Beach-dwp-plant.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 37, "title": "Seal Beach Power Plant", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View of Seal Beach power plant with pre-1933 earthquake smokestack. This steam plant went online in July 1925. The technology became obsolete fairly quickly and the plant was retired from service in 1951." }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "alamitos_bay","seal_beach" ] }, { "description": "View of Seal Beach Power Plant with post-1933 Earthquake Smokestack.", "date": "1933", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/Seal_Beach-PowerPlant-1930s_lrg.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 37, "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View of Seal Beach power plant with post-1933 earthquake smokestack. The bridge in foreground from peninsula to Seal Beach was removed in 1954 and the power plant was taken out of service and demolished in 1967." }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Los Angeles Public Library" } ], "title": "Seal Beach Power Plant", "categories": ["_all_locations", "alamitos_bay","seal_beach"] }, { "description": "View of Seal Beach Power Plant with post-1933 Earthquake Smokestack.", "title": "Seal Beach Power Plant", "date": "1933", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/1933-power-plant-sbfoundersday.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View of Seal Beach power plant with post-1933 earthquake smokestack. Cracks in the smokestack from the 1933 earthquake made it necessary to rebuild it at only a third of it's former height." }], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 37, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view","seal_beach" ] }, { "description": "Demolition of the Bridge from Alamitos Bay peninsula to Seal Beach", "date": "1954", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/LBSB_bridgeDemo_1954_1453x900.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Demolition of the bridge from Alamitos Bay peninsula to Seal Beach in 1954. The Seal Beach Power Plant looming in the background was taken out of service in 1951 and demolished in 1967." }], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 37, "title": "Alamitos Bay - Seal Beach Bridge Demolition", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "people","seal_beach" ] } ], "locationID": 37, "index": 37, "elevation": "0.0" }, { "title": "Signal Hill Oilfield Postcard - 1925?", "lat": 33.802687, "long": -118.183, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "Y", "locationAccuracy": 5, "image": [{ "description": "Signal Hill Oilfield Postcard - Location & Date uncertain", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0031_1920s_1280x777.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 38, "title": "Signal Hill Oilfield Postcard - 1925?", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "postcard", "location uncertain" ] }], "locationID": 38, "index": 38, "elevation": "50.9" }, { "title": "Signal Hill View from National Geographic", "lat": 33.807589, "long": -118.180195, "category": "_all_locations,people", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "description": "Signal Hill View from National Geographic Magazine - Location uncertain", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/NatGeo_SHPhoto.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=NatGeo1941" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "National Geographic - photo by B. Anthony Stewart" } ], "locationID": 39, "title": "Signal Hill View from National Geographic", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "people", "location_uncertain", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Signal Hill View from National Geographic Magazine - Location uncertain", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/NatGeo_SHPhoto1941_color.jpg", "thumbnail": "94", "link": [{ "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=NatGeo1941" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "National Geographic - photo by B. Anthony Stewart" } ], "locationID": 39, "title": "Signal Hill View from National Geographic", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Neigborhood View Possibly Looking up St Louis Ave near 19th Street", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/NatGeo_SignalHill_Photo_1184x851.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "National Geographic - photo by B. Anthony Stewart" }], "locationID": 39, "title": "Signal Hill View from National Geographic Magazine", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "compare" ] } ], "locationID": 39, "index": 39, "elevation": "93.9" }, { "title": "View of Hill from Pacific Electric Line", "lat": 33.79918296781356, "long": -118.18042576998897, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 51, "image": [{ "description": "View of hill from near the Pacific Electric Line bridge", "date": "1935", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/RPPC_Signal-Hill-Looking-East-from-Walnut-near-PE-RR-tracks_MAF.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 40, "title": "View of Hill from Pacific Electric Line", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "water_tower", "postcard" ] }], "locationID": 40, "index": 40, "elevation": "32.4" }, { "title": "Campbell Apts, Signal Hill in the Background", "lat": 33.76839239954806, "long": -118.1865031360428, "category": "_all_locations,panorama,long_beach_view,buildings", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Campbell Apartments with Signal Hill in the Background", "date": "1937", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/SHview_CampbellApts_1600x599.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 41, "title": "Campbell Apts, Signal Hill in the Background", "link": [{ "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "long_beach_view", "buildings" ] }, { "description": "Campbell Apartments with Signal Hill in the Background", "date": "1937", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/SHview_CampbellApts_1477x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 41, "title": "Campbell Apts, Signal Hill in the Background", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "long_beach_view", "buildings" ] }], "locationID": 41, "index": 41, "elevation": "30.6" }, { "title": "Signal Hill From Alamitos Bay", "lat": 33.74503220673065, "long": -118.1123848144531, "category": "_all_locations,panorama,long_beach_view,aerial", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial View of Signal Hill From Alamitos Bay", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Alamitos-Bay-Aerial-PC-ca1930_MAF.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "title": "Signal Hill From Alamitos Bay", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Aerial View of Signal Hill From Alamitos Bay. Possibly taken from the tall smokestack of the power plant in Seal Beach.
", }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "alamitos_bay", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "View of Alamitos Bay, Naples, with Signal Hill in the Distance", "date": "1929", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/alamitos_bay_area_long_beach_1929-1_1280x836.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "title": "Signal Hill From Alamitos Bay", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "alamitos_bay" ] }, { "description": "View of Alamitos Bay, Naples, with Signal Hill in the Distance", "date": "1929", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/alamitos_bay_area_long_beach_1929_1280x849.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "title": "Signal Hill From Alamitos Bay", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "alamitos_bay" ] }, { "description": "View of Alamitos Bay, Naples, with Signal Hill in the Distance", "date": "1929", "dateAccuracy": "", "title": "Signal Hill From Alamitos Bay", "photo": "../images/alamitos_bay_shoreline_long_beach_1929-1_1280x899.jpg", "width": 1280, "height": 899, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 1234, "posy": 168, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/Aerial_ca1930_00037049.jpg" }, { "posx": 317, "posy": 224, "label": "Alamitos Bay Pavilion, 1903-1930", "image": "./images/Alamitos-Bay-Dance-Pavilion-constructed-1903.jpg" }, { "posx": 99, "posy": 510, "label": "Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge ", "image": "./images/Pacific-Electric-RR_No.jpg" }, { "posx": 193, "posy": 176, "label": "Villa Riviera", "image": "./images/VillaRiviera_PC.jpg" }, { "posx": 803, "posy": 251, "label": "62nd Place" }, { "posx": 1086, "posy": 235, "label": "Naples", "image": "./images/Naples_Island_1932_CSUDH.jpg" }, { "posx": 803, "posy": 219, "label": "Treasure Island - Naples", "image": "./images/Naples_Island_1932_CSUDH.jpg" } ], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "alamitos_bay" ] }, { "description": "View of Alamitos Bay Peninsula.", "date": "1929", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/alamitos_bay_shoreline_long_beach_1929_1280x830.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "title": "View of Alamitos Bay Peninsula.", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "alamitos_bay" ] }, { "title": "Alamitos Bay to Seal Beach Bridge Construction", "description": "View of Alamitos Bay Bridge to Seal Beach Construction", "date": "1932", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/1932-03-04-alamitos-bay-bridge-aerial_1200x782.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "alamitos_bay" ] }, { "title": "Alamitos Bay to Seal Beach Bridge", "description": "View of Ocean Blvd. Bridge to Seal Beach. Looking Towards Alamitos Bay Penisula", "date": "1940", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Ocean-Blvd-Bridge-to-Alamitos-Bay-Peninsula_ca1940s_FB_combo.png", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "alamitos_bay" ] }, { "description": "Detailed birdseye view of Alamitos Bay", "date": "1944", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Alamitos-Bay-Marina-RareMaps.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 42, "title": "Detailed birdseye view of Alamitos Bay", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Detailed birdseye view of Alamitos Bay. The view is a copy of an original drawing by Earl Esse in 1944, advertising Alamitos Bay. The Peninsula, Naples, parts of Belmont Shores, the road that will become PCH going to Seal Beach can be seen.

Born in Minnesota on Jan. 10, 1897. By 1926 Esse had settled in Los Angeles. During the 1920s he worked as an artist. He later worked for the county while living in Long Beach.

RareMaps.com" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "RareMaps.com, drawing by Earl Esse" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "map", "aerial", "alamitos_bay","seal_beach" ] } ], "locationID": 42, "index": 42, "elevation": "13.3" }, { "title": "Little House on the Oil Field", "lat": 33.8088726, "long": -118.18367, "category": "_all_locations,panorama,buildings", "spotlight": "", "marker": "Y", "locationAccuracy": 25, "image": [{ "description": "Little House on the Oil Field - Location & Date uncertain", "date": "1935", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/PCCL_0002_1000x637.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 43, "title": "Little House on the Oil Field", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "postcard", "buildings", "location uncertain" ] }], "locationID": 43, "index": 43, "elevation": "42.8" }, { "title": "View of Signal Hill from the Pike", "lat": 33.761139648726754, "long": -118.19848039499504, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,long_beach_view", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Advertisment aerial view of the Long Beach Pike with Cyclone Racer in the foreground", "date": "1920", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/LBAerialView_pike_1174x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 44, "title": "Aerial view of the Long Beach Pike", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of the Pike in the foreground and Signal Hill in the background", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LBHarborSH2a_1427x902.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 44, "title": "View of Signal Hill from the Pike", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "View of Signal Hill with the Long Beach Pike with Cyclone Racer in the foreground", "date": "1935", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Cyclone-Racer-Roller-Coaster_ca1935.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 44, "title": "View of Signal Hill from the Pike", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial" ] }, { "description": "View of Signal Hill with the Long Beach Pike with Cyclone Racer in the foreground", "date": "1950", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/Pike-aerial-view-1950s_1045x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 44, "title": "View of Signal Hill from the Pike", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view Map of the Long Beach", "date": "1910", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/Map-of-the-city-of-Long-Beach-1900s-by-Goucher-Charles-I_verso_UCLA.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 44, "title": "Aerial view of the Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "map" ] }, { "description": "Early Map of the Long Beach", "date": "1910", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/Map-of-the-city-of-Long-Beach-1900s-by-Goucher-Charles-I_UCLA.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 44, "title": "Early Map of the Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "aerial", "map" ] } ], "locationID": 44, "index": 44, "elevation": "19.6" }, { "title": "View of Long Beach from Signal Hill", "lat": 33.79533379067554, "long": -118.16760312015992, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SW", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "View of Long Beach from Signal Hill. Hamilton Bowl in the forground and Villa Riviera in the distance", "date": "1960", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LAPL_00081546_hamiltonBowl.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 45, "title": "View of Long Beach from Signal Hill", "categories": ["_all_locations", "hamilton bowl"] }], "locationID": 45, "index": 45, "elevation": "70.9" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "lat": 33.7824864, "long": -118.14582, "category": "_all_locations,aerial", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill.", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/Aerial_ca1930_00037049.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 46, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "gas_storage_tank", "long_beach_view" ] }], "locationID": 46, "index": 46, "elevation": "19.3" }, { "title": "Exeter Fire", "locationID": 47, "lat": 33.798797435584, "long": -118.1627649681534, "category": "_all_locations,fire,exeter_fire", "spotlight": "exeter,fire,exeter-fire", "marker": "S", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "Fire destroyed a wooden rig, pumping house and three adjacent tanks of the Exeter Oil Co.'s hilltop Exchange well at Signal Hill. Photo shows a mass of fire ruins. Damage was estimated at more than $10,000.", "date": "1951", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Exeter-Fire-1958.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 47, "title": "Exeter Fire", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "fire", "exeter_fire" ] }], "index": 47, "elevation": "336.3" }, { "title": "Richfield Oil Fire", "lat": 33.80635623148927, "long": -118.18382917795407, "category": "_all_locations,fire,richfield_fire,people", "spotlight": "richfield,richfield-fire,fire", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "Fires and blasts a few months following the 1933 earthquake.", "date": "1933", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Blimp-Over-Richfield-Fire_1933_ebay_1452x891.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "A few months following the 1933 earthquake, a tremendous blast followed by a huge fire at the Richfield refinery startled Signal Hill and Long Beach residents once again. 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"image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach.", "date": "1928", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/ViewFromLBL_LAPL_00081538_1400x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 50, "link": [{ "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach.", "date": "1928", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0002.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 50, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "Long Beach CA Birdseye View Towards Signal Hill", "date": "1935", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/RPPC Long Beach CA Birdseye View Towards Signal Hill Frashers_ebay.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 50, "title": "Birdseye view of Signal Hill from Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "postcard" ] } ], "locationID": 50, "index": 50, "elevation": "33.6" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Seal Beach", "lat": 33.73774065001473, "long": -118.07828113112794, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,long_beach_view", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 80, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill and Alamitos Bay from Seal Beach.", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Aerial_LAPL_00033142_1180x836.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "width": 1180, "height": 836, "poi": [{ "posx": 542, "posy": 247, "label": "Marine Stadium" }, { "posx": 373, "posy": 276, "label": "Naples", "image": "./images/Naples_Island_1932_CSUDH.jpg" }, { "posx": 239, "posy": 302, "label": "Alamitos Bay Peninsula" }, { "posx": 184, "posy": 424, "label": "Seal Beach" }, { "posx": 319, "posy": 748, "label": "Bolsa Chica" }, { "posx": 662, "posy": 179, "label": "Recreation Park" }, { "posx": 509, "posy": 396, "label": "San Gabriel River" }, { "posx": 737, "posy": 100, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_FamousSignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 380, "posy": 232, "label": "Belmont Shore", "labelPos": "right", "image": "./images/Aerial-view-of-Belmont-Shore-1949.jpg" } ], "locationID": 51, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Seal Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view","seal_beach", "alamitos_bay", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 51, "index": 51, "elevation": "0.0" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill and Long Beach harbor", "lat": 33.81852, "long": -118.140005, "category": "_all_locations,aerial", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "SW", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill and Long Beach", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Panoramic-Photograph-of-Long-Beach-California_ca1924.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo was taken somewhere over the the Long Beach Airport terminal. circa 1924", "link": "" }], "locationID": 52, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill and Long Beach harbor", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "gas_storage_tank", "long_beach_view" ] }], "locationID": 52, "index": 52, "elevation": "29.6" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "lat": 33.795285691446395, "long": -118.17357326887822, "category": "_all_locations,aerial", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 80, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "date": "1940", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/AirView_Famous_SignalHill.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 53, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "postcard" ] }], "locationID": 53, "index": 53, "elevation": "21.9" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "lat": 33.795285691446395, "long": -118.17357326887822, "category": "_all_locations,aerial", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 80, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "date": "1940", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/AirView_Famous_SignalHill.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 54, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "postcard" ] }], "locationID": 54, "index": 54, "elevation": "21.9" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Terminal Island", "lat": 33.75571346266794, "long": -118.24491594401854, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,long_beach_view", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 80, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Terminal Island. ", "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Terminal Island", "date": "1933", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LBHarbor_Aerial_1280x847.jpg", "width": 1280, "height": 847, "adjx": 5, "adjy": 10, "poi": [{ "posx": 596, "posy": 574, "label": "Edison Power Plant", "image": "./images/Aerial-view-of-the-Long-Beach-Steam-Plant-September-1929_CHS-40713.jpg" }, { "posx": 675, "posy": 495, "label": "Future Pontoon Bridge", "image": "./images/LB-Pontoon-Bridge-1940s_pintrest.jpg", }, { "posx": 530, "posy": 754, "label": "Terminal Island" }, { "posx": 169, "posy": 213, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_FamousSignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 703, "posy": 368, "label": "Los Angeles River" }, { "posx": 900, "posy": 388, "label": "Navy Landing", "image": "./images/View-of-the-Navy-Landing-building-along-waterfront-in-Long-Beach_ca194u_FL91740.jpg" }, { "posx": 980, "posy": 295, "label": "Rainbow Pier", "image": "./images/Rainbow_Pier_Long_Beach_1930s-1024x608.jpg" }, { "posx": 865, "posy": 320, "label": "The Pike", "image": "./images/LBAerialView_pike_1174x900.jpg" }, { "posx": 885, "posy": 270, "label": "Municipal Auditorium", "image": "./images/LBHarborSH3.jpg" }, { "posx": 1050, "posy": 193, "label": "Belmont Shore", "image": "./images/Aerial-view-of-Belmont-Shore-1949.jpg" }, { "posx": 1100, "posy": 155, "label": "Marine Stadium", "image": "./images/MarineStadium.jpg" } ], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 55, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view looking East towards Long Beach from Terminal Island.", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/California_Terminal-Island_Long_Beach_1941_NARA_23934445.jpg", "width": 1405, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 1067, "posy": 85, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Municipal Auditorium", "image": "./images/LBHarborSH3.jpg" }, { "posx": 1267, "posy": 109, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Rainbow Pier", "image": "./images/Aerial-view-of-the-Rainbow-Pier-and-the-Municipal-Auditorium-in-Long-Beach-1946_1200x900px.jpg" }, { "posx": 1113, "posy": 138, "labelPos": "left", "label": "The Pike", "image": "./images/LBAerialView_pike_1174x900.jpg" }, { "posx": 1311, "posy": 296, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Navy Landing", "image": "./images/View-of-the-Navy-Landing-building-along-waterfront-in-Long-Beach_ca194u_FL91740.jpg" }, { "posx": 963, "posy": 766, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Future 1960s Pontoon Bridge Site", "image": "./images/LB-Pontoon-Bridge-1940s_pintrest.jpg", }, { "posx": 1253, "posy": 745, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Future 1944 Pontoon Bridge Site", "image": "./images/LB-Pontoon-Bridge-1940s_pintrest.jpg", }, { "posx": 600, "posy": 343, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Terminal Island" }, { "posx": 952, "posy": 231, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Los Angeles River Mouth" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This image is from 1941 shows the future sites of the Pontoon Bridge at the lower right portion of Terminal Island (see Points of Interest).

Note: Long Beach is situated with streets that run East/West and avenues run North/South with the ocean mostly to the South." }], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 55, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Terminal Island", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "description": "Flyover Aerial Photo of Long Beach-Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "date": "1944", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/Aerial-flyover_LBHarbor_c-9114_339_September-8,-1944.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Flyover Aerial Photo of Long Beach-Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge.

In January 1944, work began on the construction of two pontoons, 135 feet long, 51 feet wide, and 13 feet deep, to be used in a temporary bridge across Long Beach Channel. A second contract was let for construction of approach ramps for the pontoons, which, in the completed bridge, retracted under the approach ramps when the bridge opened, and closed from each side of the channel to the center when water traffic had passed. This photo shows the orignal location of the bridge as a continuation of Seaside [Blvd]. It seems that in the late 1950s, early 60s the bridge was relocated north to line up with Ocean Blvd. The following photo show the bridge in the new location, viewed in the same direction.", "link": "" }], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach-Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "categories": [ "_all_locations", ] }, { "description": "View of Long Beach to Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "date": "1945", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/LB-Pontoon-Bridge-1940s_pintrest.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View of Pontoon Bridge looking East towards Long Beach from Terminal Island.

In January 1944, work began on the construction of two pontoons, 135 feet long, 51 feet wide, and 13 feet deep, to be used in a temporary bridge across Long Beach Channel. A second contract was let for construction of approach ramps for the pontoons, which, in the completed bridge, retracted under the approach ramps when the bridge opened, and closed from each side of the channel to the center when water traffic had passed. This photo shows the orignal location of the bridge as a continuation of Seaside [Blvd]. It seems that in the late 1950s, early 60s the bridge was relocated north to line up with Ocean Blvd. The following photo show the bridge in the new location, viewed in the same direction.", "link": "" }], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge, Looking East Towards Long Beach", "date": "1945", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/LB_PontoonBridge_1943.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Aerial view of Pontoon Bridge looking East from Terminal Island towards Long Beach.

In January 1944, work began on the construction of two pontoons, 135 feet long, 51 feet wide, and 13 feet deep, to be used in a temporary bridge across Long Beach Channel. A second contract was let for construction of approach ramps for the pontoons, which, in the completed bridge, retracted under the approach ramps when the bridge opened, and closed from each side of the channel to the center when water traffic had passed. This photo shows the orignal location of the bridge as a continuation of Seaside [Blvd]. It seems that in the late 1950s, early 60s the bridge was relocated north to line up with Ocean Blvd. The following photo show the bridge in the new location, viewed in the same direction.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=PontoonBridge" } ], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Long Beach Harbor Entrance with Spruce Goose in the foreground", "date": "1947", "dateAccuracy": "98", "photo": "../images/LB_SpruceGoose_1947.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The aircraft in the image is the Hughes H-4 Hercules, commonly known by its nickname, the \"Spruce Goose\". It was a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed by Howard Hughes during World War II, intended to transport troops and cargo across the Atlantic and avoid German U-boats.

Key Information: Built due to wartime material restrictions, the aircraft was made almost entirely of wood, primarily laminated birch, using the Duramold process. Howard Hughes piloted its single, brief flight on November 2, 1947, in Long Beach Harbor. The flight lasted around 26 seconds, covering about a mile at an altitude of 70 feet.
Despite never entering production, it holds the record for the largest flying boat and largest wooden aircraft ever flown.
After years in storage and public display in Long Beach, the aircraft was moved to McMinnville, Oregon, and is now permanently displayed at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.", "link": "" }], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge in Background with Spruce Goose", "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "date": "1959", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/LB-Pontoon-Bridge-between-Long-Beach-and-Terminal-Island-opened-in-1944-seen-here-in-the-late-1950s-2.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Aerial view of Pontoon Bridge looking East from Terminal Island towards Long Beach.
This photo shows the bridge in a new location that is a continuation of Ocean Blvd. It seems that in the late 1950s, early 60s the bridge was relocated to line up with Ocean Blvd. The previous photo show the bridge in the original location, viewed in the same direction.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=PontoonBridge" } ], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "date": "1959", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/Aerial_LB-Pontoon-Bridge_1959-2.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Aerial view of partially open Pontoon Bridge looking West towards Terminal Island with both boat and automobile traffic backed up and waiting.", "link": "" }], "width": 1308, "height": 900, "poi": [{ "posx": 400, "posy": 100, "label": "Edison Steam Plant", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-Steam-Plant-April-17-1925_CHS-40712.jpg" }], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial" ] }, { "description": "View of Long Beach to Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "date": "1950", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/LB-Pontoon-bridge-ca-1950.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View of Pontoon Bridge looking West from Long Beach to Terminal Island.", "link": "" }], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }, { "description": "Chase Scene Over the Pontoon Bridge to Long Beach from Terminal Island", "date": "1963", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/1959-Plymouth-chase.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Driver's view during chase scene over the Pontoon Bridge to Long Beach from Terminal Island from \"It's a MAD MAD MAD MAD World\" movie 1963", "link": "" }, { "type": "Video", "label": "Movie Clip", "link": "../video/index.html?video=7" }], "locationID": 55, "title": "Long Beach - Terminal Island Pontoon Bridge", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "bridge", "pontoon_bridge", "video" ] }, { "description": "Floating Pontoon Bridge", "date": "1965", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/Floating-pontoon-bridge_1965_LBPL.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Pontoon Bridge on Terminal Island Side Looking Towards Long Beach.
" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" } ], "locationID": 55, "title": "Pontoon Bridge on Terminal Island Side Looking Towards Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "bridge", "pontoon_bridge" ] }, { "description": "Pontoon Bridge on Seaside Blvd", "date": "1967", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Pontoon-bridge-on-Seaside-Boulevard-1967-06-01.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Pontoon Bridge on Long Beach Side Looking Towards Terminal Island.
" }], "locationID": 55, "title": "Pontoon Bridge on Long Beach Side Looking Towards Terminal Island", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "bridge", "pontoon_bridge" ] } ], "locationID": 55, "index": 55, "elevation": "14.7" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "lat": 33.71802665351533, "long": -118.23822115031737, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,long_beach_view", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 80, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LBHarborSH1a.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 56, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LBHarborSH1b.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=LBharbor1929" }], "locationID": 56, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Aerial_LB_Harbor_ca1929_1800x785_Photo.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=LBharbor1929" }], "locationID": 56, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard", "compare" ] } ], "locationID": 56, "index": 56, "elevation": "0.0" }, { "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean", "lat": 33.75530606969433, "long": -118.18880298486931, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,long_beach_view", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 85, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial view of Municipal Auditorium from Downtown Ocean with Signal Hill in the background", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LBHarborSH3.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 57, "title": "Aerial view of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Rainbow Pier from Downtown Ocean", "date": "1932", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Rainbow_Pier_Long_Beach_1930s-1024x608.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 57, "title": "Aerial View of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view" ] }, { "description": "Aerial View of the Rainbow Pier and the Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, 1946", "date": "1946", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Aerial-view-of-the-Rainbow-Pier-and-the-Municipal-Auditorium-in-Long-Beach-1946_1200x900px.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 57, "title": "Aerial View of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] } ], "locationID": 57, "index": 57, "elevation": "0.0" }, { "title": "Aerial View of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean", "lat": 33.75437836916693, "long": -118.19678523889763, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,long_beach_view", "spotlight": "aerial", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial View of the Rainbow Pier and the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Signal Hill in the upper right background, 1931", "date": "1931", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Aerial_RainbowPier_1930_CHS-31302.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 58, "title": "Aerial View of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Rainbow Pier from Downtown with Signal Hill in the background", "date": "1935", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/PC_view-from-LB_1930s.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 58, "title": "Aerial View of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean with Signal Hill in the background", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Rainbow Pier from Downtown with Signal Hill in the background", "date": "1935", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/LBHarborSH2b_1000x647.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 58, "title": "Aerial View of Signal Hill from Downtown Ocean with Signal Hill in the background", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "Aerial view of Rainbow Pier after lagoon was filled in. 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Calif. Military Academy" }, { "posx": 1101, "posy": 731, "label": "Alamitos Avenue" }, { "posx": 1028, "posy": 890, "label": "Pacific Electric Railway" }, { "posx": 1100, "posy": 630, "label": "Cherry Avenue" }, { "posx": 620, "posy": 515, "label": "Cherry Avenue" }, { "posx": 683, "posy": 703, "label": "Hill Street" }, { "posx": 269, "posy": 569, "label": "Burnett Street" }, { "posx": 290, "posy": 329, "label": "Daughtery Field (LB Airport)" }, { "posx": 660, "posy": 739, "label": "Walnut Avenue" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=155" }], "thumbnail": "", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gas_storage_tank", "aerial", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 59, "index": 59, "elevation": "26.0" }, { "title": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave", "lat": 33.799990726587716, "long": -118.16785524071003, "category": "_all_locations,building,people", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave. South of Burnett", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Signal_Hill_ca1930s_1162x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This vantage point, from Cherry Avenue just south of Burnett Street, seems to have been a popular one with photographers for many decades. The house in middle of the frame can be seen in many photos of the period and exists still today. The house in the lower right is now the site of Heritage Park" }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Colorized", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=GirlOnFence" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "WaterAndPower.org - Colorization: Richard Holoff" } ], "credits": "Unknown Source", "locationID": 60, "title": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "people", "ethel's_house", "compare" ] }, { "description": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave. South of Burnett", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/CHS-33302_view_from_cherry.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "While this image and the following may appear to be the same, it seems that the camera was moved slightly." }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "California Historical Society, USC Libraries" }, { "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=230" } ], "locationID": 60, "title": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "ethel's_house" ] }, { "description": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave. South of Burnett", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/SH_stacker1262x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "While this image and the previous may appear to be the same, it seems that the camera was moved slightly north and back from the bluff's edge." }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "California Historical Society, USC Libraries" } ], "locationID": 60, "title": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "ethel's_house" ] }, { "description": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave. South of Burnett", "date": "1940", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/CherryAndBurnett_ca1940s_1294x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo was taken a decade later than the previous two also from Cherry Avenue just south of Burnett Street. However, most of the derricks are now constructed out of steel. " }], "locationID": 60, "title": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "ethel's_house" ] }, { "description": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave. South of Burnett", "date": "1947", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/Andreas-Feininger-Oil-rigs-on-Signal-Hill_1947_1024x800.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo was taken even than the previous two also from Cherry Avenue just south of Burnett Street and again most of the derricks are now constructed out of steel. " }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Life Magazine, photographer: Andreas Feininger" }], "locationID": 60, "title": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "ethel's_house" ] }, { "description": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave. South of Burnett 2023", "date": "2023", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/CherrySouthOfBurnet_1694x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 60, "title": "Looking Northwest from Cherry Ave", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The house in middle right of this photo is the same house as seen in the previous images, albeit renovated in the 21st century." }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "ethel's_house" ] } ], "locationID": 60, "index": 60, "elevation": "176.0" }, { "title": "Fisher Fire July 15 1924", "lat": 33.802539927993614, "long": -118.17451939868927, "category": "_all_locations,fisher_fire,fire", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Firemen Battling Fisher Fire July 15 1924", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Fisher-Fire_1924_1241x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 61, "title": "Fisher Fire", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "fisher_fire", "fire", "people" ] }, { "description": "Large Crowds Gather to Watch Fisher Fire July 15 1924", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Fisher-Fire-07-15-1924_1129x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 61, "title": "Fisher Fire", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "fisher_fire", "fire", "people" ] }, { "description": "Fisher Fire Looking North from Crescent St.", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/fisher-fire_ca1924_1134x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 61, "title": "Fisher Fire", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "fisher_fire", "fire", "people" ] }, { "description": "Spectators Gather to Watch Fire - Including Barefoot Boys", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Fisher-Oil-Fire,-Signal-Hill_LBFiremen_July-15-1924photos_97762_full.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 61, "title": "Fisher Fire", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "fisher_fire", "fire", "people" ] }, { "description": "Large Crowds Gather to Watch Fire", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Fisher-Oil-Fire,-Signal-Hill_LBFiremen_July-15-1924photos_97791_full.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 61, "title": "Fisher Fire", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "fisher_fire", "fire", "people" ] }, { "description": "Fisher Fire Looking North Up Orange Ave.", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/FisherFire_1924_lookingUpOrange.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 61, "title": "Fisher Fire", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "fisher_fire", "fire", "people" ] } ], "locationID": 61, "index": 61, "elevation": "96.7" }, { "title": "G.W. Hughes Residence on top of the hill", "lat": 33.79881204849, "long": -118.163724858861, "category": "_all_locations,postcard,mansion", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "G.W. Hughes Residence the first home on top of the hill", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/GWHughesResidence.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Lewis Denni bought this hilltop home from G.W. Hughes in the early 1900s.
" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "G.W. Hughes Bio-1", "info": "From Every evening, the stars shine down on countless lights gleaming from lighthouses and piers, swinging from ships and yachts, or twinkling through the windows of many homes. Nearby is the city of Long Beach, which has an auditorium that seats six thousand, a hotel costing nearly half a million dollars, a bank building costing $100,000, a pier that is 1,800 feet long, and a rapidly growing population. G. W. Hughes, a young man full of energy, is the promoter of Signal Hill and the president of the Signal Hill Improvement Company. He has four sons and four daughters. His parents, John B. and Abbie G. (Warman) Hughes, came from Indiana and Illinois. The father dedicated his life to farming and passed away in Indiana, where his widow now lives. " }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Bio-2", "info": "After finishing his common school studies, G. W. Hughes was sent to Southern Indiana College in Mitchell, where he stayed for one term before returning to farm his father's large estate, Loo-goo-tee. In 1896, he got involved in the hotel business in Odon, Daviess County, Indiana, and two years later, he moved to Tunnelton, Lawrence County, in the same state, where he ran a department store. He came to California in 1902 and started in real estate at Long Beach. The following year, he laid out forty acres on Signal Hill, including the Elin Avenue addition of ten acres and several larger purchases along the oceanfront." }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Bio-3", "info": "The Signal Hill Improvement Company was incorporated in 1904, with a capital stock aimed at improving and selling building lots on a tract of one hundred and eighteen acres on Signal Hill. Several prominent individuals were interested in the project, but Mr. Hughes and Mr. Crowe acquired their shares and now run the company's holdings. On the first sale day, May 25, when lots were opened to the public, $58,000 worth of lots were sold, and sales have continued at a strong pace. The lots measure 60X130 feet, featuring oiled boulevards that are eighty feet wide and cement sidewalks. Artesian water is piped to each lot, and there are no saloons or stores. The Signal Hill Water Company, of which Mr. Hughes is president, supplies the water. He also serves as the vice president of the Signal Hill Gravel Company. After arriving on the coast, he married Miss Marie McAff, a native of San Francisco, and they have a son named LeRoy. Politically, he keeps an independent stance, voting for the candidates and measures he believes best serve the public's interests. In fraternal relations, he is associated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Los Angeles." } ], "locationID": 62, "title": "Lewis Denni Residence on top of the hill", "categories": ["_all_locations", "mansion", "hilltop", "water_tower"] }, { "description": "The Denni Mansion", "date": "1914", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Denni-House-prior-to-the-oil-rush-early-1900s-corner-of-Raymond-and-Skyline_1329x776.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The Denni Mansion 1914 prior to the oil rush of the 1920s. Located at the corner of Raymond and Signal Hill Drive (now Promontory Dr. & Skyline Dr.)" }], "locationID": 62, "title": "The Denni Mansion", "categories": ["_all_locations", "mansion", "hilltop", "water_tower"] }, { "description": "The Denni Mansion Carrage House", "date": "1914", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/DeniMansion_1914_CarriageHouse_shPetro_1257x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The Denni Mansion Carrage House 1914 prior to the oil rush of the 1920s. Located at the corner of Raymond and Signal Hill Drive (now Promontory Dr. & Skyline Dr.) This carrage house was later moved across 23rd Steet and became part of the Hilltop Sky Room" }], "locationID": 62, "title": "The Denni Mansion Carrage House", "categories": ["_all_locations", "mansion", "hilltop", "water_tower"] }, { "description": "The Deepest Oilwell on Signal Hill Next to the Denni House", "date": "1928", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/The-deepest-oil-well-on-Signal-Hill-May-1-1928_USC_CHS-6958.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The deepest oil well on Signal Hill, Long Beach, May 1, 1928. The two story mansion-style residential home stands behind a palm tree to the right of a tall oil derrick at center.
The derrick marked a well that was 7,409 feet deep and was operated by the Richfield Oil Company. The city water tower can be seen behind the house to the right, as well as a second derrick in the distance to the left." }], "locationID": 62, "title": "The Deepest Oilwell on Signal Hill", "categories": ["_all_locations", "mansion", "hilltop", "water_tower"] }, { "description": "Signal Hill Water Tower", "date": "1962", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-Hilltop-Water-Tower-ca1960.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo is of the former site of the Denni Mansion. The water tower that can be seen in all of the previous images. This photos is undated, however there are only a few steel derricks, most of the derricks were removed by the end of the '60s. The Denni mansion was demolished in the late-1920s, early 1930s over worries of oil fires but the concrete walls remained for decades as did the water tower.

To the right of the water tower can be seen a radio transmission antenna. True to its name Signal Hill has become a site for many antennas carrying signals for cell phones and other radio communications.", }], "locationID": 62, "title": "The Denni Mansion Site with Water Tower", "categories": ["_all_locations", "mansion", "hilltop", "water_tower"] } ], "locationID": 62, "index": 62, "elevation": "342.6" }, { "title": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11", "lat": 33.801506931771335, "long": -118.16922635581972, "category": "_all_locations,gusher", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11 ca1923", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/UnionOilCo_LBC11-Signal-Hill_ca1923_1745x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=205" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [201, 8, 64, 63] } ], "locationID": 63, "title": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gusher", "zoom", "lbc11" ] }, { "description": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11 ca1923", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Union-Oil-LBC11-1923_1400x658.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 63, "title": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gusher", "zoom", "panorama", "lbc11" ] }, { "description": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11 ca1923", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/USC_UnionOilCo_LBC11_oil-gusher-in-Long-Beach-ca_1923_714x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 63, "title": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gusher", "zoom", "panorama", "lbc11" ] } ], "locationID": 63, "index": 63, "elevation": "178.3" }, { "title": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11", "lat": 33.80097326279403, "long": -118.16797644641878, "category": "_all_locations,gusher,lbc11", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Wells and Derricks in Crescent Heights", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/PCRP_0006gs_1525x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 64, "title": "Wells and Derricks in Crescent Heights", "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }, { "description": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11 ca1923", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/RPPC_SH_ca1922_FL245733_1024x647.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 64, "title": "Gusher! Union Oil Co LBC11", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Vintage Real Photo Postcard" },{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "In this photo the structures and ground appear to be covered in snow. This is due to the fact that they are covered by oil from the \"blowout\" and sun light is reflecting off of it.", "ndx": 1 }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "lbc11", "gusher" ] }, { "description": "Wells and Derricks in Crescent Heights", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Oil-wells-in-Signal-Hill-at-Long-Beach-ca.1925_USC_CHS-41131_1543x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "USC Digital Library" },{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The derrick with the \"Doghouse\" was located on the southwest corner of Cherry Avenue and Burnett. It is a bit of a landmark and can be seen in many photos of the area (see Related).", "ndx": 1 },{ "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [31, 203, 64] }, { "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=210" }], "locationID": 64, "title": "Wells and Derricks in Crescent Heights", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "lbc11", "gusher", "zoom","doghouse_derrick" ] } ], "locationID": 64, "index": 64, "elevation": "178.3" }, { "title": "Aerial of Signal Hill looking South", "lat": 33.81888803008539, "long": -118.16747872352602, "category": "_all_locations,aerial", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SE", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "title": "Aerial of Signal Hill looking South", "description": "Aerial of Signal_Hill taken over Cherry Ave & Wardlow - 1936", "date": "1936", "dateAccuracy": "100", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Click on Similar Button to see similar photos.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Similar", "spots": [15, 65, 92, 136, 99] } ], "photo": "../images/Aerial_of_Signal_Hill_from_airport_side_1936.jpg", "width": 1163, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 892, "posy": 119, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_FamousSignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 362, "posy": 220, "label": "LB Gas Storage Tank" }, { "posx": 270, "posy": 340, "label": "US Navy Hanger" }, { "posx": 419, "posy": 371, "label": "Cherry Avenue" }, { "posx": 549, "posy": 628, "label": "Wardlow Road" }, { "posx": 1052, "posy": 856, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Walnut Avenue" }, { "posx": 776, "posy": 463, "label": "33rd Street" }, { "posx": 906, "posy": 307, "label": "Future 405 Freeway" }, { "posx": 199, "posy": 772, "label": "Site of future housing" }, { "posx": 262, "posy": 295, "label": "Private Hangers" }, { "posx": 765, "posy": 263, "label": "Spring Street & Cherry Avenue" } ], "locationID": 65, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "gas_storage_tank", "long_beach_view", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 65, "index": 65, "elevation": "54.0" }, { "title": "Alamitos #1", "lat": 33.796975985827075, "long": -118.15907778406142, "category": "_all_locations,aerial,Alamitos_1", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Alamitos #1, Looking North on Temple Ave with Hill Street Crossing", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Alamitos-1_03.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Alamitos #1 also know as Discovery Well was the first successful well drilled on Signal Hill. Drilling was started on March 28, 1921, and was completed June 25, 1921.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [139, 66] }], "locationID": 66, "title": "Alamitos #1", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "alamitos_#1", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Alamitos #1, Looking South East on Temple Ave with Hill Street Crossing", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Alamitos-1_02.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "width": 1200, "height": 902, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 859, "posy": 538, "label": "Alamitos #1" }, { "posx": 906, "posy": 635, "label": "Temple Avenue" }, { "posx": 1017, "posy": 590, "label": "Hill Street" } ], "locationID": 66, "title": "Alamitos #1", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "alamitos_#1", "points_of_interest", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Alamitos #1, Looking North-East on Hill Street with Temple Ave Crossing", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Alamitos-1_04.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 66, "title": "Alamitos #1", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "alamitos_#1", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Alamitos #1, Looking North-East on Hill Street with Temple Ave Crossing", "date": "1941", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Alamitos-1_01.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Alamitos #1 also know as Discovery Well was the first successful well drilled on Signal Hill. 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Present day view of Alamitos #1 showing Discovery Well plaque
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Hose crew stands on top of roof to spray flames while firefighter a top of an extended ladder sprays water downward on flames.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "people", "fire" ] }, { "description": "Shell Oil Co. fire, 2080 Obispo Ave. October 31, 1959", "date": "1959", "dateAccuracy": "99", "locationID": 78, "photo": "../images/Shell-Oil-Co-fire-2080-Obispo-Ave_LBFiremen_1105.jpg", "title": "Fire at Shell Oil Company,", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Fire at Shell Oil Company, 2080 Obispo Ave. October 31, 1959, Hose crew stands on top of roof to spray flames while firefighter a top of an extended ladder sprays water downward on flames.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" } ], "thumbnail": "", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "people", "fire" ] }, { "description": "Shell Oil Co. fire, 2080 Obispo Ave. October 31, 1959", "date": "1959", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Shell-Oil-Co-fire-2080-Obispo-Ave_LBFiremen_1107.jpg", "locationID": 78, "title": "Fire at Shell Oil Company,", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Fire at Shell Oil Company, 2080 Obispo Ave. October 31, 1959, Hose crew stands on top of roof to spray flames while firefighter a top of an extended ladder sprays water on flames.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" } ], "thumbnail": "", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "people", "fire" ] }, { "description": "Shell Oil Co. fire, 2080 Obispo Ave. October 31, 1959", "date": "1959", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Shell-Oil-Co-fire-2080-Obispo-Ave_LBFiremen_3650.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 78, "title": "Fire at Shell Oil Company,", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Fire at Shell Oil Company, 2080 Obispo Ave. October 31, 1959, Hose crew stands on top of roof to spray flames while firefighter a top of an extended ladder sprays water downward on flames.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Firemen's Museum" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "people", "fire" ] }, { "description": "Shell Oil Co. fire, 2080 Obispo Ave. October 31, 1959", "date": "1959", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Shell-Oil-Co-fire-2080-Obispo-Ave_LBFiremen_3653.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 78, "title": "Fire at Shell Oil Company,", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Onlookers stand back on hill to watch burning building at Shell Oil Company. 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This reservoir tank, also known as a Gasometer, was used to store natural gas for use throughout the city. The giant cylinderical tank rises and fall depending on the amount of gas contained.
There are several photos that show the Gasometer, notice how the level changes in the different photos.
In 1950, Long Beach connected to Southern California Gas' intrastate system. 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In 1950, Los Angeles County Flood Control District allowed the City to improve the flood basin for recreational purposes. Four baseball diamonds were built. Approvals were granted in 1962 for a 5th diamond and an overlay soccer field, and in 1975 for soccer field irrigation and unpaved parking. In 1977, lighting for the four original fields was added.

In April 2014, the completely renovated Chittick Field opened. The 19-acre site near was revitalized with the construction of a football field, an all-weather track and other track and field facilities, three soccer fields, restrooms, bleacher areas, sports lighting, landscaping and parking.

Shown here during drier times.", "link": "" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "hamilton bowl" ] } ], "locationID": 85, "index": 85, "elevation": "8.0" }, { "title": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "lat": 33.79709634919275, "long": -118.15855877661704, "category": "_all_locations,people", "spotlight": "", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_DownhillRace_1970s-2a.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Video", "label": "Downhill Race Video", "link": "../video/index.html?video=2" }, { "type": "YouTube", "vid": "gDfE1KAT9fo", "videondx": 2, "label": "Downhill Racer Trailer", "title": "Signal Hill Downhill Race" } ], "locationID": 86, "title": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "video" ] }, { "description": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_DownhillRace_1970s.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 86, "title": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "video" ] }, { "description": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_DownhillRace_1970s-3.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 86, "title": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "video" ] }, { "description": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_DownhillRace_1970s-1.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 86, "title": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "video" ] }, { "description": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-Unknown-Rider_1977.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 86, "title": "Signal Hill Downhill Race", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "people", "video", "hilltop" ] } ], "locationID": 86, "index": 86, "elevation": "220.1" }, { "title": "Southern California Military Academy", "lat": 33.7943427425, "long": -118.16905312, "category": "_all_locations,people", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Southern California Military Academy", "date": "1970", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_SCMA_1970_fullSprd.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 87, "title": "Southern California Military Academy with Signal Hill in Background", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This image is from the 1970 Cadet yearbook two-page spread." }, { "type": "YouTube", "vid": "8b5XKFBZAHI", "videondx": 11, "label": "SCMA Television Report 1980s", "title": "SCMA Television Report 1980s" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Classmates.com" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "people" ] }, { "description": "Southern California Military Academy", "date": "1970", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_above_SCMA_1970.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 87, "title": "Southern California Military Academy with Signal Hill in Background", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Note, all of the oil derricks from the previous decades are gone! 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The Château Thierry Flying Field (see lettering on side of automobile) was an early airfield in Long Beach, California, located at the intersection of Bixby Road and Long Beach Boulevard (formerly American Avenue). It was named after the WWI battle and was the site of the first flight school established by aviator Earl Daugherty in 1919. The field was moved in December 1920 to a larger site on Spring Street, which eventually became the location of the present-day Long Beach Airport.", "link": "" }], "locationID": 93, "title": "Aviator - Earl S. Daugherty", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings" ] }, { "description": "Daugherty Field - Earl S. 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The \"points of interest\" point out various surrounding streets as well as the Pala mansion and Denni mansion carriage house in its relocated site. The carriage house would later be added onto and converted into the Hilltop Star Room. 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For instance, let’s say you’re the boss of a rapidly growing city. You’re doing OK in the tourism business, your town is just a couple of years out of a pandemic that closed most public gatherings for a few months, the Great War is over and it’s time to get things rolling again.
One of your commissioners has tossed the plans for a gorgeous 200-acre park on your desk and is pushing and prodding you to hurry up and break ground for this thing. The townsfolk will love it.
Then some geologists and wildcatter oilmen tell you that the park’s proposed site is sitting on top of a few million barrels of oil. Millions and millions of dollars worth of oil. Your city will be rich beyond its wildest dreams, they tell you.
Or, whatever, you can go ahead and build a park. There’s more to life than money, right? Your call, boss.
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SIGNAL HILL
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Is The Brightest Spot In Oil Investments


Investors' eyes are focused on SIGNAL HILL SYNDICATE, Inc., holdings on SIGNAL
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Company—the GEOLOGIST'S JUDGMENT THAT OIL IN QUANTITY WILL BE
FOUND—that's why so many people are clamoring for STOCK in the Company that is
DOING THINGS on Signal Hill.
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SIGNAL HILL SYNDICATE, Inc., is GETTING READY FAST Derrick Up—BOILERS SET MACHIN-
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Select Compare to explore the differences between the two photos and Zoom to inspect the details." }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=PanoSameView1922" }, { "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=232" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Huntington Digital Library" } ], "locationID": 134, "title": "Panorama Looking Northeast", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama", "long_beach_view", "compare" ] } ], "locationID": 134, "index": 134, "elevation": "31.4" }, { "title": "Sections of a Signal Hill Oilfield Panorama", "lat": 33.80073861, "long": -118.18161, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Panorama Looking North", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Pano_SH_OilField_1922_4428-L1.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=245" }], "locationID": 135, "title": "Panorama Looking Towards Signal Hill Oilfield", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama" ] }, { "description": "Panorama Looking North-Northeast", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Pano_SH_OilField_1922_4428-L2.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=245" }], "locationID": 135, "title": "Panorama Looking Towards Signal Hill Oilfield", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama" ] }, { "description": "Panorama Looking Northeast", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Pano_SH_OilField_1922_4428-L3.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=245" }], "locationID": 135, "title": "Panorama Looking Towards Signal Hill Oilfield", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama" ] }, { "description": "Panorama Looking East", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Pano_SH_OilField_1922_4428-L4.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=245" }], "locationID": 135, "title": "Panorama Looking Towards Signal Hill Oilfield", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama" ] }, { "description": "Panorama Looking East-Southeast", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Pano_SH_OilField_1922_4428-L5.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=245" }], "locationID": 135, "title": "Panorama Looking Towards Signal Hill Oilfield", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama" ] } ], "locationID": 135, "index": 135, "elevation": "42.0" }, { "title": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "lat": 33.826226357, "long": -118.19338, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/Aerial_SH_LookingSE_1138x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "width": 1138, "height": 900, "poi": [{ "posx": 48, "posy": 389, "label": "Site of Future Housing" }, { "posx": 136, "posy": 313, "label": "Cherry Avenue" }, { "posx": 862, "posy": 196, "label": "Sunnyside & Long Beach Cemetery", "image": "./images/vintage-oil-derricks-in-california-1920s-1930s-006.jpg" }, { "posx": 869, "posy": 482, "label": "American Avenue (Long Beach Blvd)" }, { "posx": 486, "posy": 88, "label": "Signal Hill Hilltop", "image": "./images/PalaMansion.jpg" }, { "posx": 1005, "posy": 570, "label": "Wardlow Road" }, { "posx": 738, "posy": 348, "label": "Atlantic Avenue" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Unknown" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Similar", "spots": [15, 65, 92, 136, 99] } ], "locationID": 136, "title": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 136, "index": 136, "elevation": "113.2" }, { "title": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "lat": 33.81164426, "long": -118.18934, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "date": "1937", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_looking_SE_1937.jpg", "width": 1350, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 963, "posy": 218, "label": "Sunnyside & Long Beach Cemetery" }, { "posx": 471, "posy": 514, "label": "Spring Street" }, { "posx": 773, "posy": 315, "label": "California Avenue" }, { "posx": 1041, "posy": 522, "label": "Atlantic Avenue" }, { "posx": 751, "posy": 33, "label": "Pala Mansion" } ], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 137, "title": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "description": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "date": "1958", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Aerial_SignalHill_labeled-Bakersfield_1923_NARA.jpg", "width": 1179, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 911, "posy": 314, "label": "Pacific Electric Railway", "image": "./images/Pacific-Electric-RR_No.jpg" }, { "posx": 900, "posy": 532, "label": "Sunnyside & Long Beach Cemetery" }, { "posx": 402, "posy": 154, "label": "Recreation Park" }, { "posx": 366, "posy": 269, "label": "Pala Mansion" }, { "posx": 836, "posy": 469, "label": "Orange Avenue" }, { "posx": 655, "posy": 281, "label": "Junipero Avenue" } ], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 137, "title": "Aerial View Looking Southeast", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "points_of_interest" ] } ], "locationID": 137, "index": 137, "elevation": "48.1" }, { "title": "Gasoline plant on Hill Street", "lat": 33.797122, "long": -118.17503, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SW", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Gasoline plant on Hill Street Looking Southwest", "date": "1923", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Gasoline-plant-on-Hill-Street-Long-Beach_March-14-1923_Huntington_1760x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Huntington Library" }], "locationID": 138, "title": "Gasoline plant on Hill Street Looking Southwest", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial" ] }], "locationID": 138, "index": 138, "elevation": "36.8" }, { "title": "Discovery Well - Alamitos #1", "lat": 33.797108, "long": -118.1589, "category": "_all_locations,buildings", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "description": "Discovery Well - Alamitos #1, June 25, 1921", "date": "1956", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Alamitos-no1-8-15-54-LA.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Inscription", "info": "
One of the world's most famous wells. Alamitos No.1 was started on March 28, 1921, and was completed June 25, 1921, at a depth of 3,114 feet, flowing 590 barrels of oil a day.
This discovery well led to the devlopment of one of the most productive oil fields in the world and helped to establish California as a major oil producing state.
This monument commemorating Alamitos No.1 is a tribute to the petroleum pioneers for their success here; a success which has by aiding in the growth and expansion of the petroleum industry, contributed so much to the welfare of mankind.
===
Dedicated May 3, 1952
Shell Oil Company
The Petroleum Production Pioneers
State Registered: Landmark No.580
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One of the world's most famous wells. Alamitos No.1 was started on March 28, 1921, and was completed June 25, 1921, at a depth of 3,114 feet, flowing 590 barrels of oil a day.
This discovery well led to the devlopment of one of the most productive oil fields in the world and helped to establish California as a major oil producing state.
This monument commemorating Alamitos No.1 is a tribute to the petroleum pioneers for their success here; a success which has by aiding in the growth and expansion of the petroleum industry, contributed so much to the welfare of mankind.
===
Dedicated May 3, 1952
Shell Oil Company
The Petroleum Production Pioneers
State Registered: Landmark No.580
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"posx": 588, "posy": 852, "label": "Hill Street" }, { "posx": 677, "posy": 690, "label": "Future Condo Location" }, { "posx": 885, "posy": 400, "label": "Cherry Ave. & Willow Street" }, { "posx": 449, "posy": 334, "label": "Sunnyside & Long Beach Cemeteries" }, { "posx": 177, "posy": 421, "label": "Ethel's House" }, { "posx": 833, "posy": 564, "label": "Denni Mansion Site" } ], "locationID": 140, "title": "Aerial View of Hilltop", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "ethel's_house", "hilltop", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 140, "index": 140, "elevation": "262.1" }, { "title": "Hinshaw Building corner of 21st and Cherry", "lat": 33.7952995, "long": -118.168022881, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Hinshaw Building corner of 21st and Cherry", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": 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"label": "Related", "info": "", "spots": [67, 62, 142, 187] }], "locationID": 142, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "hilltop", "compare" ] }, { "title": "Hilltop Star Room", "description": "Hilltop Star Room", "date": "1963", "dateAccuracy": "80", "photo": "../images/Hilltop-Star-Room-ca1963.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" }, { "type": "Compare", "label": "Compare B&W and Color", "title": "Hilltop Star Room", "link": "../imageSlider/index.html?select=HilltopStarRoom" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "info": "", "spots": [67, 62, 142, 187] }], "locationID": 142, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "hilltop", "compare" ] }, { "title": "Hilltop Star Room", "description": "Hilltop Star Room", "date": "1963", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/Hilltop-Star-Room.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Signal Hill Petroleum" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "info": "", "spots": [67, 62, 142, 187] }], "locationID": 142, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "hilltop" ] } ], "locationID": 142, "index": 142, "elevation": "342.6" }, { "title": "Model T Hill Climb", "lat": 33.79697254, "long": -118.156568, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Model T Hill Climb", "date": "1961", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Model-T-HillClimb_1961_SH_petro_1170x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Signal Hill Petroleum" }], "locationID": 143, "title": "Model T Hill Climb", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Model T Hill Climb", "date": "1961", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Model-T-HillClimb_SHpetro.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Signal Hill Petroleum" }], "locationID": 143, "title": "Long Beach Model T Club", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Model T Hill Climb", "date": "1961", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/Model-T-Club.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 143, "title": "Model T Hill Climb", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Model T Hill Climb", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_Model-T_HillClimb-color.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 143, "title": "Model T Hill Climb", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Model T Hill Climb - 4 Competitors", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_Model-T_race-1977_4X_1123x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 143, "title": "Model T Hill Climb", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Model T Hill Climb - Poster", "date": "1977", "dateAccuracy": "100", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_Model-T_HillClimb_poster_1977.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 143, "title": "Model T Hill Climb", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] } ], "locationID": 143, "index": 143, "elevation": "163.9" }, { "title": "Overlooking Sunnyside Cemetery", "lat": 33.804001, "long": -118.179562, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "title": "Overlooking Sunnyside Cemetery", "description": "Overlooking Cemetery", "date": "1955", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Oil-wells-near-Cemetery-on-Signal-Hill-1955_EXM-N-12004-005_USC.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "USC Digital Library" }], "locationID": 144, "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }], "locationID": 144, "index": 144, "elevation": "75.9" }, { "title": "Aerial Looking Northwest", "lat": 33.7824864, "long": -118.1425584, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "title": "Aerial Looking Northwest", "description": "Aerial Looking Northwest", "date": "1949", "dateAccuracy": "75", "photo": "../images/aerial_lookingNW_ca1930_UCSB_1292X900.jpg", "width": 1292, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 111, "posy": 331, "label": "Pacific Electric Railway", "image": "./images/Pacific-Electric-RR_No.jpg" }, { "posx": 872, "posy": 756, "label": "State Street (PCH)" }, { "posx": 244, "posy": 228, "label": "Los Angeles River" }, { "posx": 646, "posy": 829, "label": "15th Street" }, { "posx": 97, "posy": 860, "label": "Anaheim Street" }, { "posx": 159, "posy": 498, "label": "Temple Avenue" }, { "posx": 718, "posy": 773, "label": "Community Hospital" }, { "posx": 422, "posy": 849, "label": "Termino Avenue" }, { "posx": 992, "posy": 501, "label": "Newport Avenue (Redondo Ave)" }, { "posx": 1064, "posy": 319, "label": "LB Gas Storage Tank", "image": "./images/LBFiremen_City-gas-tank-2082-Junipero-Springfield_10-11-1940_1203x900.jpg" }, { "posx": 1127, "posy": 843, "label": "Traffic Circle", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-TrafficCircle_lookingWest_ca1948_900x900.jpg", "posz": "top" }, { "posx": 797, "posy": 595, "label": "Reservoir Hill ", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-CA-Water-Storage-Tanks-of-1936.jpg" }, { "posx": 551, "posy": 351, "label": "Pala Mansion", "image": "./images/PalaHouse_1024.jpg" } ], "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "UCSB Digital Archives" }], "locationID": 145, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "gas_storage_tank", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 145, "index": 145, "elevation": "20.9" }, { "title": "Aerial Long Beach After 1933 Earthquake", "lat": 33.78548, "long": -118.17845, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "title": "Aerial Long Beach After 1933 Earthquake", "description": "Aerial Long Beach After 1933 Earthquaket", "date": "1933", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Aerial_LongBeach_after_earthquake_NARA_193318-AA-17-29.jpg", "width": 1217, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 880, "posy": 430, "label": "Hamilton Junior High School (now LBCC PCC)" }, { "posx": 845, "posy": 485, "label": "State Street (PCH)" }, { "posx": 833, "posy": 837, "label": "Alamitos Avenue" }, { "posx": 551, "posy": 812, "label": "Orange Avenue" }, { "posx": 550, "posy": 210, "label": "Gundry Avenue" } ], "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The caption on this photo reads: \"Long Beach After Earthquake 3-10-33\". While earthquake damage may not be immediately apparent, close examination of the facade of Hamiltion Jr High reveils damage.
This original site of Hamilton Jr High is now occupied by Long Beach City College Pacific Coast Campus." }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "NARA" } ], "locationID": 146, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 146, "index": 146, "elevation": "32.4" }, { "title": "Looking West from Gardena above Burnett", "lat": 33.80168524, "long": -118.168668, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "W", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "title": "Looking West from Gardena above Burnett", "description": "Looking West from Gardena above Burnett", "date": "1925", "dateAccuracy": "50", "photo": "../images/SH_LookingSW_fromBurnettAndGardena_c1920.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Note the house on the right with a lookout tower. The house and tower still stand today.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "info": "", "spots": [83, 147] }], "locationID": 147, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "people" ] }], "locationID": 147, "index": 147, "elevation": "174.4" }, { "title": "Spring and Atlantic", "lat": 33.81151946, "long": -118.184855, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "title": "Spring and Atlantic", "description": "Spring and Atlantic", "date": "1958", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Spring-and-Atlantic-1958_shPetro_1156x900.jpg", "width": 1156, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 688, "posy": 540, "label": "Atlantic Avenue (North)" }, { "posx": 1003, "posy": 606, "label": "Spring Street" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Signal Hill Petroleum" }], "locationID": 148, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "title": "Spring and Atlantic", "description": "Spring and Atlantic", "date": "1958", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Accident-at-28th-St-and-Atlantic-Ave.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Cal State Dominguez Hills" }], "locationID": 148, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "title": "Spring and Atlantic", "description": "Spring and Atlantic", "date": "2024", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Spring-&-Atlantic_2024.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Google Maps" }], "locationID": 148, "categories": ["_all_locations", "points_of_interest", "then_and_now"] }], "locationID": 148, "index": 148, "elevation": "68.9" }, { "title": "Reservoir Hill - LB Water Dept Storage Tanks", "lat": 33.7885678, "long": -118.145884373, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "title": "Reservoir Hill - LB Water Dept Storage Tanks", "description": "Reservoir Hill - LB Water Dept Storage Tanks", "date": "1960", "dateAccuracy": "75", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/LD251-Orig-Delmar-Watson-Photo-LONG-BEACH-CALIFORNIA-WATER-DEPT-STORAGE-TANKS_ebay.jpg", "width": 1128, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 629, "posy": 416, "label": "Long Beach Water Dept. Storage Tanks" }, { "posx": 915, "posy": 254, "label": "Calif. 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The photo this card is based on was taken prior to 1921 and thus no oil derricks on the hill." }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "postcard" ] }, { "title": "Looking Northeast from Broadway and Pine Ave.", "description": "Message on backside of postcard", "date": "1916", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/1916 Long Beach CA Birds Eye View Streets Buildings Calif_reverso.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 153, "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "postcard" ] } ], "locationID": 153, "index": 153, "elevation": "28.6" }, { "title": "Signal Hill Viewed from Hamilton Bowl.", "lat": 33.79179758, "long": -118.17044, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "title": "Signal Hill Viewed from Hamilton Bowl.", "description": "Looking Northeast from Hamilton Bowl.", "date": "1947", "dateAccuracy": "100", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 154, "photo": "../images/Man-made-Landscape-Signal-Hill-California-Date-1947-Andreas-Feininger_1733x900.jpg", "width": 1733, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 1130, "posy": 189, "label": "Pala Mansion", "image": "./images/PalaHouse_1024.jpg" }, { "posx": 873, "posy": 842, "label": "Pacific Electric Railway" }, { "posx": 500, "posy": 545, "label": "Southern California Military Academy", "image": "./images/SignalHill_above_SCMA_1970.jpg" }, { "posx": 1450, "posy": 185, "label": "Hilltop Star Room", "image": "./images/Hiltop-Star-Room-ca-1924.jpg" }, { "posx": 1105, "posy": 148, "label": "Water Tower", "image": "./images/City-of-Signal-Hill-Water-Tower_1960_599x499.jpg" }, { "posx": 137, "posy": 471, "label": "Probably Cherry Ave," }, { "posx": 676, "posy": 234, "label": "23rd Street" }, { "posx": 108, "posy": 277, "label": "23rd Street" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo titled Man-made Landscape appears to be taken in the middle of Hamilton bowl by renowned photographer Anderea Feinenger in 1947. Sheep or goats and a horse appear to be grazing in the foreground." }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Anderea Finenger, Vassar College Loeb collections" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "hamilton bowl", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 154, "index": 154, "elevation": "7.5" }, { "title": "View from the Willmore Apartments with Signal Hill in the Background", "lat": 33.7709142484941, "long": -118.195454, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 100, "image": [{ "description": "View from Downtown Long Beach", "date": "1932", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/c1920's Skyline View From Wilmore Apartments Long Beach CA RPPC Photo Postcard.jpg", "width": 1407, "height": 876, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 683, "posy": 266, "label": "Press Telegram Bldg.", "text": "The Press-Telegram in Long Beach has a long history, beginning with The Press, first published in 1897. 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This photo was probably taken by Inman Co." }, { "posx": 351, "posy": 240, "label": "Masonic Temple Bldg.", "text": "Built in 1927, this building was the second Masonic Temple in Long Beach. It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style by architects Parker O. Wright and Francis H. Gentry.
The first Masonic Temple at 230 Pine Ave. was built in 1903 and is the oldest standing building in Downtown Long Beach. It is listed on the List of City of Long Beach historic landmarks.

Both buildings are still standing." }, { "posx": 831, "posy": 334, "label": "Green's (Printing?)", "image": "./images/GreenPrinters_LongBeach.jpg" }, { "posx": 858, "posy": 178, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_FamousSignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": "1160", "posy": " 160", "label": "Radio Antennas (KFOX or KGER?)", "text": "In the 1930s, Long Beach had two main radio stations: KFOX and KGER. KFOX, affiliated with the Long Beach Press-Telegram newspaper, gained recognition for its emergency broadcasts after the 1933 earthquake. KGER, on the other hand, was known for broadcasting daily concerts by the Long Beach Municipal Band." }, { "posx": 1151, "posy": 664, "label": "Pine Avenue" }, { "posx": 985, "posy": 793, "label": "4th Street" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 155, "title": "View from Downtown Long Beach with Signal Hill in the Background", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view", "points_of_interest" ] }], "locationID": 155, "index": 155, "elevation": "30.0" }, { "title": "Condos and Water Tank", "lat": 33.797171525, "long": -118.1589, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "title": "Condos and Water Tank", "description": "Condos and Water Tank and the corner of Hill St. and Temple Ave.", "date": "1980", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/NWcorner_TempleAndHillSt_1980s.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Leland Rice, Smithsonian American Art Museum" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "In 1999 an underground water storage tank was constructed under a new Hilltop Park. The storage tank was removed and a pumping station 1/2 block up Temple was built." }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [151, 156, 157] } ], "locationID": 156, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "hilltop" ] }, { "title": "Condo and Water Tank", "description": "Condos after Water Tank removed", "date": "2025", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/NWcorner_TempleAndHillSt_2025.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Google Maps" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "In 1999 an underground water storage tank was constructed under a new Hilltop Park. The storage tank was removed and a pumping station 1/2 block up Temple was built." }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [151, 156, 157] } ], "locationID": 156, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "hilltop", "then_and_now" ] } ], "locationID": 156, "index": 156, "elevation": "226.3" }, { "title": "Hilltop Park - Aerial", "lat": 33.79932976, "long": -118.16658, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "title": "Hilltop Park - Aerial", "description": "Hilltop Park - Aerial", "date": "2025", "dateAccuracy": "95", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/HilltopPark-June 28 2022 Richard H. Grant-Signal Tribune.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Richard H. Grant - Signal Tribune" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [151, 156, 157] }], "locationID": 157, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop", "aerial" ] }], "locationID": 157, "index": 157, "elevation": "272.0" }, { "title": "Spring Street Panorama", "lat": 33.8118605, "long": -118.1839071, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "S", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "title": "Spring Street Panorama", "description": "Spring Street Panorama", "date": "2011", "dateAccuracy": "95", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Panorama-of-the-Long-Beach-Oil-Field-near-Long-Beach-Memorial-Hospital-2011_1800x535.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Erik Olsen from wikimedia.org" }], "locationID": 158, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "panorama" ] }, { "title": "Spring Street Panorama", "description": "Spring Street Panorama", "date": "2011", "dateAccuracy": "95", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Panorama-of-the-Long-Beach-Oil-Field-near-Long-Beach-Memorial-Hospital-2011_left.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Erik Olsen from wikimedia.org" }], "locationID": 158, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama" ] }, { "title": "Spring Street Panorama", "description": "Spring Street Panorama", "date": "2011", "dateAccuracy": "95", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Panorama-of-the-Long-Beach-Oil-Field-near-Long-Beach-Memorial-Hospital-2011_right.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Erik Olsen from wikimedia.org" }], "locationID": 158, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama" ] }, { "title": "Spring Street Panorama", "description": "Spring Street Panorama", "date": "2025", "dateAccuracy": "95", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Aerial_SpringAndAtlantic_google.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Google Maps" }], "locationID": 158, "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings", "panorama", "aerial" ] } ], "locationID": 158, "index": 158, "elevation": "100.5" }, { "title": "Looking West on Willow", "lat": 33.8041258, "long": -118.17673, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "W", "locationAccuracy": 98, "image": [{ "description": "Looking West on Willow Street, Sunnyside Cemetery on Right", "date": "1937", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/Driving-past-the-Sunnyside-Cemetery-in-Long-Beach_ca1937.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "LA Public Library, Herman J Schultheis Collection" }], "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 159, "title": "Looking West on Willow Street", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "derricks" ] }], "locationID": 159, "index": 159, "elevation": "86.2" }, { "title": "Looking down 23rd Street (now Skyline)", "lat": 33.79886265, "long": -118.1659158, "category": "_all_locations,panorama", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NW", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "description": "View from a derrick looking down on 23rd Street (now Skyline)", "date": "1945", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_hilltop_1945_900x900.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 160, "title": "Looking down on 23rd Street (now Skyline)", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Looking West down Skyline Drive (formerly 23rd Street)", "date": "1971", "dateAccuracy": "", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_1971_23rdSt-Skyline.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Facebook post" }], "locationID": 160, "title": "Looking West down Skyline Drive (formerly 23rd Street)", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] }, { "description": "Looking West down Skyline Drive (formerly 23rd Street)", "date": "1971", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_1971_23rdSt-Skyline-car.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Facebook post" }], "locationID": 160, "title": "Looking West down Skyline Drive (formerly 23rd Street)", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop" ] } ], "locationID": 160, "index": 160, "elevation": "306.4" }, { "title": "Looking Southeast Over Plowed Fields, ca 1930", "lat": 33.8038, "long": -118.1728, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SE", "locationAccuracy": 20, "image": [{ "description": "Looking Southeast Over Plowed Fields", "date": "1930", "dateAccuracy": "60", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_OilWells_LongBeach_400_RPPC.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The location and date of this photo is estimated from the image and not necessarily accurate.", "link": "" }], "locationID": 161, "title": "Looking Southeast Over Plowed Fields", "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }], "locationID": 161, "index": 161, "elevation": "165.9" }, { "title": "Looking North Toward Signal Hill", "lat": 33.779616977, "long": -118.162134234, "category": 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Similar Photo by Anton Wagner taken from Ohio Avenue and 15th Street.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Anton Wagner, California Historical Society" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [162, 163] } ], "locationID": 162, "title": "Looking north on Stanley Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets toward Signal Hill in background", "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }], "locationID": 162, "index": 162, "elevation": "36.6" }, { "title": "Looking North Toward Signal Hill", "lat": 33.7861087574786, "long": -118.15998846, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Looking North Toward Signal Hill, 1932", "date": "1932", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Looking-north-on-Ohio-Avenue-from-15th-Street,-Signal-Hill-in-distance,-Long-Beach_ca-1932-December-16_AntonWagner_CHS.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Looking north on Ohio Avenue from 15th Street toward Signal Hill in background. 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Oh yes, I've had some lulus! I made a photograph in 1939 of a cemetery statue and oil derricks in Long Beach, California. At that time we'd all been bitten by the Surrealist bug, and we were finding incongruous juxtapositions everywhere. I was out near Long Beach and drove by a cemetery, and here was this white marble angel of death behind some oil derricks. Well, it was a very strange juxtaposition, so I made the picture. Years later I showed it to an environmentalist. \"Oh, my gosh,\" he said, \"where's that photograph been? That's the whole symbol of pollution.\" So that photograph has been used on many occasions as a symbolic illustration: the angel of death before the polluters.", "link": "" } ], "locationID": 165, "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }, { "title": "Sunnyside Cemetery", "description": "Graves and oil wells at Sunnyside Cemetery in Long Beach - photo by Ansel Adams", "date": "1939", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Graves-and-oil-wells-at-Sunnyside-Cemetery-in-Long-Beach_1937.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Los Angeles Public Library, photo by Herman Schultheis" }], "locationID": 165, "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] } ], "locationID": 165, "index": 165, "elevation": "72.4" }, { "title": "Looking Northeast From Pacific Electric Tracks, 1937", "lat": 33.7966547283, "long": -118.176347178, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 85, "image": [{ "description": "Looking Northeast From Pacific Electric Tracks and Probably Hill St., 1937", "date": "1937", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/SignalHill_Herman_Schultheis_ca1937.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Pacific Electric tracks in the foreground and Signal Hill in the background", "link": "" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Herman Schultheis, Los Angeles Public Library" } ], "locationID": 166, "title": "Looking Northeast From Pacific Electric Tracks and Probably Hill St.", "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }], "locationID": 166, "index": 166, "elevation": "28.2" }, { "title": "Looking North at the Intersection of Orange & Alamitos, 1958", "lat": 33.78698250273, "long": -118.17657781811, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Looking North at the Intersection of Orange & Alamitos", "date": "1958", "dateAccuracy": "95", "photo": "../images/Looking-north-at-the-intersection-of-Orange-&-Alamitos,-1958.jpg", "locationID": 167, "title": "Looking North at the Intersection of Orange Avenue & Alamitos Avenue.", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Looking North at the Intersection of Orange Avenue & Alamitos Avenue, 1958
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The corner of Cherry Avenue and Spring Street
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The corner of Cherry Avenue and Spring Street
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The corner of Cherry Avenue and Spring Street
" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Cal State Dominguez Hills" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [179, 180] }], "locationID": 179, "title": "Southern California Edison Substation", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings"] }, { "description": "Southern California Edison Substation - Signal Hill", "date": "2024", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/EdisonSubstation_SignalHill-2.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
The corner of Cherry Avenue and Spring Street
" }], "locationID": 179, "title": "Southern California Edison Substation", "categories": ["_all_locations"] }, { "description": "Southern California Edison Substation - Signal Hill", "date": "2024", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/EdisonSubstation_SignalHill-2024.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
The corner of Cherry Avenue and Spring Street
" }], "locationID": 179, "title": "Southern California Edison Substation", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings", "then_and_now"] }], "locationID": 179, "index": 179, "elevation": "78" }, { "title": "Southern California Edison Hathaway Substation", "lat": 33.79112031831837, "long": -118.14263318828583, "category": "_all_locations,buildings,edison", "spotlight": "", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Southern California Edison Hathaway Substation", "date": "1928", "title": "Southern California Edison Substation", "dateAccuracy": "99", "locationID": 180, "photo": "../images/Hathaway-Edison-Substation_1930-12-17_Huntington.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This Edison Substation was presumably named \"Hathaway\" since Hathaway Avenue, at the time this substation was built, extended from Temple Ave. near Willow St. through the traffic circle near this substation continuing down towards Seal Beach. Hathaway beyond the traffic circle eventully became Pacific Coast Highway. A portion running diagonally between the outer circle and Redondo Avenue still exists." }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Cal State Dominguez Hills" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [179, 180] }], "link": [{ "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [123, 49, 180, 152, 191, 192] }], "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings"] }, { "description": "Southern California Edison Hathaway Substation", "date": "2024", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/aerial_TrafficCircle_wHathawaySubstation_2024.jpg", "width": 1607, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 1021, "posy": 353, "label": "Hathaway Substation" }, { "posx": 422, "posy": 339, "label": "Hathaway Avenue" }, { "posx": 966, "posy": 683, "label": "Long Beach Traffic Circle" }, { "posx": 392, "posy": 701, "label": "Pacific Coast Highway" }, { "posx": 1273, "posy": 877, "label": "Pacific Coast Highway" }, { "posx": 1363, "posy": 489, "label": "Los Coyotes Diagonal" }, { "posx": 932, "posy": 115, "label": "Lakewood Blvd." }, { "posx": 1082, "posy": 257, "label": "Outer Circle" } ], "locationID": 180, "title": "Southern California Edison Substation", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings"] }, { "description": "Southern California Edison Substation - Signal Hill", "date": "2024", "dateAccuracy": "99", "locationID": 180, "title": "Southern California Edison Substation", "photo": "../images/EdisonSubstation_Hathaway-1.jpg", "width": 1501, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 1118, "posy": 535, "label": "Hathaway Substation" }, { "posx": 1306, "posy": 650, "label": "Lakewood Blvd." }, { "posx": 773, "posy": 783, "label": "Outer Circle" }, { "posx": 1092, "posy": 105, "label": "Traffic Circle" }, { "posx": 271, "posy": 244, "label": "Los Coyotes Diagonal" } ], "thumbnail": "", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings", "then_and_now"] }], "locationID": 180, "index": 180, "elevation": "78" }, { "title": "National Air Derby Planes at Daugherty Field", "lat": 33.816843, "long": -118.1458231335, "category": "_all_locations,buildings", "spotlight": "", "marker": "W", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "National Air Derby Planes at Daugherty Field", "date": "1936", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/National-Air-Derby-planes_Daugherty_field_1936.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library, Inman Photos" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Planes lined up ready for the National Air Derby at Daugherty Field in 1936. The Long Beach Gas Company's gas storage tank can be seen in the background.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [15, 65, 92, 99, 136] } ], "locationID": 181, "title": "National Air Derby Planes at Daugherty Field", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings", "gas_storage_tank"] }, { "description": "National Air Derby Planes at Daugherty Field", "date": "1936", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/National-Air-Derby-planes_Daugherty_field_Aerial_1936.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library, Inman Photos" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Planes lined up ready for the National Air Derby at Daugherty Field in 1936.
", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [15, 65, 92, 99, 136] } ], "locationID": 181, "title": "National Air Derby Planes at Daugherty Field", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings", "gas_storage_tank"] } ], "locationID": 181, "index": 181, "elevation": "28" }, { "title": "Fire Station No. 5 with Signal Hill in Background", "lat": 33.78258341, "long": -118.1513, "category": "_all_locations,buildings", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Fire Station No. 5 Looking North", "date": "1948", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Fire-Station-No-5-Under-construction-at-AnaheimAndNewport_1948.jpg", "width": 1107, "height": 862, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 855, "posy": 272, "label": "Reservoir Hill" }, { "posx": 119, "posy": 270, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_FamousSignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 163, "posy": 476, "label": "Anaheim Street" }, { "posx": 125, "posy": 577, "label": "Newport Avenue" }, { "posx": 605, "posy": 492, "label": "Fire Station #5 Construction" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Cal State Dominguez Hills" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Fire Station No. 5 under construction looking North from Newport Avenue towards Signal Hill (top left) and Reservoir Hill (top right) with Water Storage Tanks." } ], "locationID": 182, "title": "Fire Station No. 5", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings", "reservoir_hill"] }, { "description": "Fire Station No. 5 Looking South - May 22 1948", "date": "1948", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Fire-Station-No-5--at-AnaheimAndNewport_1948.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Cal State Dominguez Hills" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Fire Station No. 5 looking South on Anaheim Street" } ], "locationID": 182, "title": "Fire Station No. 5 on Anaheim Street & Newport Avenue", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings"] }, { "description": "Fire Station No. 5 Looking South - May 22 1948", "date": "1948", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Firestation-No.-5_Anaheim-and-Newport_May-22-1948.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Cal State Dominguez Hills" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Fire Station No. 5 under looking South on Anaheim" } ], "locationID": 182, "title": "Fire Station No. 5 at Anaheim Street and Newport Avenue", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings", "gas_storage_tank"] }, { "description": "Former Fire Station No. 5 Looking South - 2024", "date": "2024", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Former-fire-station-5_Anaheim-and-Newport_2024.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Google Maps" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Former Fire Station No. 5 looking south on Anaheim Street. Now a smoke shop\/market & barber shop." } ], "locationID": 182, "title": "Former Fire Station No. 5 Looking South on Anaheim Street", "categories": ["_all_locations", "buildings", "then_and_now"] }], "locationID": 182, "index": 182, "elevation": "40" }, { "title": "Navy Landing - Long Beach", "lat": 33.7593528, "long": -118.2152185258, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Long Beach Navy Landing with Signal Hill in the Background", "date": "1940", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/View-of-the-Navy-Landing-building-along-waterfront-in-Long-Beach_ca194u_FL91740.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "width": 1516, "height": 900, "poi": [{ "posx": 1100, "posy": 395, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/Pano_Signal-Hill-oil-field-facing-north-and-east_1923_1280x852.jpg" }], "locationID": 183, "title": "Navy Landing - Long Beach", "categories": ["_all_locations"] }, ], "locationID": 183, "index": 183, "elevation": "33" }, { "title": "Aerial View of Memorial Hospital With Signal Hill in Background", "lat": 33.80860449233445, "long": -118.18939364418, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial View of Memorial Hospital With Signal Hill in Background", "date": "1969", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/Aerial-View-of-Memorial-Hospital-06-10-19-1969.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "adjx": 0, "adjy": 10, "width": 1162, "height": 900, "poi": [{ "posx": 1060, "posy": 0, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/Pano_Signal-Hill-oil-field-facing-north-and-east_1923_1280x852.jpg" }, { "posx": 965, "posy": 300, "label": "Atlantic Ave", "image": "./images/Memorial_Hospital_Atlantic-&-Patterson-2_2024.jpg" }, { "posx": 400, "posy": 550, "label": "Columbia St." }, { "posx": 460, "posy": 35, "label": "Gas Storage Tank", "image": "./images/LBFiremen_City-gas-tank-2082-Junipero-Springfield_10-11-1940_1203x900.jpg" }, { "posx": 160, "posy": 75, "label": "Long Beach Airport", "image": "./images/LongBeachAirport_1963_1000x551.jpg" }], "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Cal State Dominguez Hills" }], "locationID": 184, "title": "Aerial View of Memorial Hospital With Signal Hill in Background", "categories": ["_all_locations", "gas_storage_tank"] }, ], "locationID": 184, "index": 184, "elevation": "33" }, { "title": "Aerial View From Ocean and Chestnut With Signal Hill in Background", "lat": 33.76721135, "long": -118.1965156, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "View from downtown Long Beach. Showing U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah", "date": "1924", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Shenandoah-visits-Long-Beach_10-16-1924_LBPL.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View looking east down Ocean Avenue. Showing U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah, over Ocean Avenue (now Blvd.).", "link": 1 }], "locationID": 185, "title": "View from downtown Long Beach", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "postcard" ] }, { "description": "Aerial View From Ocean and Chestnut With Signal Hill in Background", "date": "1960", "dateAccuracy": "90", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Ocean-and-Chestnut-aerial-view_Harry-Merrick_1960.jpg", "width": 1218, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 896, "posy": 309, "label": "International Tower Apts." }, { "posx": 855, "posy": 335, "label": "Villa Rivieria Apts." }, { "posx": 1097, "posy": 362, "label": "Long Beach Arena" }, { "posx": 1077, "posy": 384, "label": "Municipal Auditorium", "image": "./images/LBHarborSH3.jpg" }, { "posx": 848, "posy": 412, "label": "General Telephone Building" }, { "posx": 954, "posy": 496, "label": "Dodge\"em Building" }, { "posx": 1075, "posy": 543, "label": "Looff Carousel" }, { "posx": 814, "posy": 576, "label": "Sovereign Hotel" }, { "posx": 697, "posy": 729, "label": "Chestnut Avenue" }, { "posx": 133, "posy": 643, "label": "County Courthose Building" }, { "posx": 171, "posy": 585, "label": "Courthouse Construction" }, { "posx": 501, "posy": 442, "label": "Lincoln Park & Public Library" }, { "posx": 253, "posy": 815, "label": "Ocean Blvd." }, { "posx": 532, "posy": 493, "label": "Pacific Avenue" }, { "posx": 287, "posy": 385, "label": "Long Beach City Hall", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-California-1937-Postcard.jpg" }, { "posx": 186, "posy": 309, "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_FamousSignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 1102, "posy": 328, "label": "Alamitos Bay" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }], "locationID": 185, "title": "Aerial View From Ocean and Chestnut With Signal Hill in Background", "categories": ["_all_locations", "pike"] }, ], "locationID": 185, "index": 185, "elevation": "33" }, { "title": "Looking East on State Street", "date": "1938", "lat": 33.78983751815814, "long": -118.16318152723083, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "E", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "title": "Looking East on State Street", "description": "Looking East on State Street (Now PCH)", "date": "1938", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 186, "photo": "../images/State-street-Long-Beach-1938_USC_AAA-NG-4534-A.jpg", "width": 1285, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "USC Library" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Looking East on State Street (Now Pacific Coast Highway)

Exact location uncertain.", "ndx": 2 } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings" ] }], "locationID": 186, "index": 186 }, { "title": "Looking South from Skyline Drive near Hill Street", "date": "1946", "lat": 33.79883237361899, "long": -118.16423643795511, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "title": "Hilltop Star Room", "description": "Looking Southeast from Skyline Drive near Hill Street", "date": "1946", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Hiltop-Star-Room-ca-1924.jpg", "locationID": 187, "width": 1439, "height": 900, "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Hilltop Star Room also known as The Hilltop Club. In the early 1920s the Denni mansion north across the 23rd Street (now Skyline) was demolished. The mansion's carriage house was moved south to this location and became the \"Hilltop\". In this image one can see the a bit of the original structure.", "link": "" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "info": "", "spots": [67, 62, 142, 187] } ], "categories": ["_all_locations", "panorama", "hilltop"] }, { "title": "Panorama on Skyline Drive", "description": "Looking South from Skyline Drive near Hill Street", "date": "2019", "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-Catalina-View-2019.jpg", "locationID": 187, "width": 1800, "height": 476, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 126, "posy": 203, "labelPos": "left", "label": "One of the Original Condos" }, { "posx": 225, "posy": 270, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Sunset View Park" }, { "posx": 795, "posy": 226, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Catalina" }, { "posx": 1200, "posy": 225, "labelPos": "right", "label": "San Pedro" }, { "posx": 950, "posy": 266, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Hamilton Bowl" }, { "posx": 1010, "posy": 230, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Downtown Long Beach" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Looking mosly South from Skyline Drive near Hill Street. Sunset View Park is the former site` of the Hilltop Star Room.", "ndx": 2 } ], "categories": ["_all_locations", "panorama", "hilltop"] }], "locationID": 187, "index": 187 }, { "title": " Looking Northeast towards Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1947", "lat": 33.74458296936072, "long": -118.21696518239746, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "title": "Looking Northeast towards Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "description": "Looking Northeast towards Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1947", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "90", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 188, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-viewed-from-LB-Harbor_ca1947_LBPL.jpg", "width": 1185, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 864, "posy": 204, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Rainbow Pier & Municipal Audutorium", "image": "./images/LBHarborSH2b_300x184.jpg" }, { "posx": 594, "posy": 216, "labelPos": "left", "label": "The Pike", "image": "./images/Cyclone-Racer-Roller-Coaster_ca1935.jpg" }, { "posx": 434, "posy": 115, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_Famous_SignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 839, "posy": 175, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Villa Riveria", "image": "./images/VillaRiviera_PC.jpg" }, { "posx": 104, "posy": 280, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Navy Landing", "image": "./images/View-of-the-Navy-Landing-building-along-waterfront-in-Long-Beach_ca194u_FL91740.jpg" }, { "posx": 315, "posy": 186, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Downtown Long Beach" }, { "posx": 217, "posy": 133, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Long Beach Oil Fields" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "long_beach_view" ] }], "locationID": 188, "index": 188 }, { "title": "View of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1920", "lat": 33.73808804278684, "long": -118.22099922475586, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "title": "View of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "description": "View of Signal Hill from Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1920", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "75", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 189, "photo": "../images/Long-Beach-Harbor-ca1920s-history.navy.jpg", "width": 1224, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 435, "posy": 68, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_Famous_SignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 1221, "posy": 252, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Long Beach Pier" }, { "posx": 1119, "posy": 267, "labelPos": "left", "label": "The Pike", "image": "./images/LBAerialView_pike_1174x900.jpg" }, { "posx": 855, "posy": 237, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Downtown Long Beach" }, { "posx": 885, "posy": 333, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Los Angeles River Mouth" }, { "posx": 653, "posy": 529, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Dredger" }, { "posx": 1125, "posy": 537, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Exiting Ship" }, { "posx": 215, "posy": 575, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Edison Electric Steam Plant", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-Steam-Plant-April-17-1925_CHS-40712.jpg" }, { "posx": 388, "posy": 510, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Bascule Bridge", "image": "./images/Freighter-passing-the-harbor's-bascule-bridge-1930_LBPL.jpg" }, { "posx": 247, "posy": 106, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Long Beach Oil Fields" }, { "posx": 1093, "posy": 82, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Recreation Park" }, { "posx": 435, "posy": 68, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Signal Hill", "image": "./images/AirView_Famous_SignalHill.jpg" }, { "posx": 1221, "posy": 252, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Long Beach Pier" }, { "posx": 1119, "posy": 267, "labelPos": "left", "label": "The Pike", "image": "./images/LBAerialView_pike_1174x900.jpg" }, { "posx": 855, "posy": 237, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Downtown Long Beach" }, { "posx": 885, "posy": 333, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Los Angeles River Mouth" }, { "posx": 653, "posy": 529, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Dredger" }, { "posx": 1125, "posy": 537, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Exiting Ship" }, { "posx": 215, "posy": 575, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Edison Electric Steam Plant", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-Steam-Plant-April-17-1925_CHS-40712.jpg" }, { "posx": 388, "posy": 510, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Bascule Bridge", "image": "./images/Freighter-passing-the-harbor's-bascule-bridge-1930_LBPL.jpg" }, { "posx": 247, "posy": 106, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Long Beach Oil Fields" }, { "posx": 1093, "posy": 82, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Recreation Park" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo seems to have been taken during the same flight as the following one. The view is northeast from over the water.", "ndx": 0 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Navy History Archives" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "points_of_interest" ] }, { "title": "View of Long Beach Harbor Long Beach Harbor", "description": "View of Long Beach Harbor Long Beach Harbor", "date": "1920", "ndx": 1, "dateAccuracy": "50", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 189, "photo": "../images/Long-Beach-Harbor-ca1920s-history.navy-2.jpg", "width": 1224, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 236, "posy": 283, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Edison Electric Steam Plant", "image": "./images/Long-Beach-Steam-Plant-April-17-1925_CHS-40712.jpg" }, { "posx": 679, "posy": 355, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Dredge" }, { "posx": 605, "posy": 276, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Bascule Bridge", "image": "./images/Freighter-passing-the-harbor's-bascule-bridge-1930_LBPL.jpg" }, { "posx": 995, "posy": 567, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Exiting Ship" }, { "posx": 490, "posy": 220, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Inner Harbor" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo seems to have been taken during the same flight as the previous one. The view is north from over the water.", "ndx": 0 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "points_of_interest" ] } ], "locationID": 189, "index": 189 }, { "title": "View From Signal Hll Looking Towards Long Beach Airport", "date": "1950", "lat": 33.802132564, "long": -118.16121815, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "title": "View From Signal Hll Looking Towards Long Beach Airport", "description": "View From Signal Hll Looking Towards Long Beach Airport", "date": "1950", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "80", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 190, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hll_Looking-Towards-LB-Airport_1950s.jpg", "width": 1265, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 465, "posy": 307, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Long Beach Airport Terminal" }, { "posx": 478, "posy": 277, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Veteran's Stadium" }, { "posx": 978, "posy": 515, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Willow Street" }, { "posx": 1019, "posy": 340, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Spring Street" }, { "posx": 356, "posy": 627, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Temple Avenue" }, { "posx": 906, "posy": 247, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Carson Street Greenbelt ?" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This undated photo show several oil derricks and industrial buildings in the foreground with the Long Beach airport terminal background. Further in the background can be seen the Veteran's Stadium which was built in 1950 giving a clue to the photo's date.", "ndx": 2 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "long_beach_view", "buildings" ] }], "locationID": 190, "index": 190 }, { "title": "Plan for Los Alamitos Traffic Circle", "lat": 33.789697767, "long": -118.14238594, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "BL", "locationAccuracy": 100, "image": [{ "description": "Plan for Los Alamitos Traffic Circle", "date": "1931", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/Los-Alamitos-Traffic-Circle-Map-1931.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 191, "title": "Plan for Los Alamitos Traffic Circle", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The Long Beach Traffic Circle, officially the Los Alamitos Traffic Circle, was built in 1932 for the LA Olympics, designed by German engineer Werner Ruchti to handle increased traffic, and was one of America's first large traffic circles, connecting PCH, Lakewood Blvd, and Los Coyotes Diagonal. Initially a confusing \"death trap,\" it was redesigned as a modern roundabout by Caltrans in 1993 to improve flow.

This drawing/map from a book titled \"County of Los Angeles Regional Plan of Highways\" shows the proposed plan for the Los Alamitos Circle. At the time of this drawing Hathaway Street extended from Temple Avenue near Willow Street to Seal Beach and the southwest portion would ultimately become Pacific Coast Highway as did State Street. In 1931 the area north of Hathaway was not yet incorporated into the City of Long Beach and the street heading northeast would become Los Coyotes Diagonal. The San Gabriel Parkway was at the time Bennett Avenue and ultimately became Lakewood Boulevard (see overlay Map of the City of Long Beach 1933).", }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [123, 49, 180, 152, 191, 192] }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "traffic_circle", "map" ] }], "locationID": 191, "index": 191, "elevation": "" }, { "title": "Looking North at the Traffic Circle", "lat": 33.788279935, "long": -118.14219111, "category": "_all_locations", "date": "1939", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "description": "Looking North at the Traffic Circle", "date": "1939", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/Traffic-circle-near-Long-Beach-on-US-101-1939_1139x792.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 192, "title": "Looking North at the Traffic Circle", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The Long Beach Traffic Circle, officially the Los Alamitos Traffic Circle, was built in 1932 for the LA Olympics, designed by German engineer Werner Ruchti to handle increased traffic, and was one of America's first large traffic circles, connecting PCH, Lakewood Blvd, and Los Coyotes Diagonal. Initially a confusing \"death trap,\" it was redesigned as a modern roundabout by Caltrans in 1993 to improve flow.

This drawing/map from a book titled \"County of Los Angeles Regional Plan of Highways\" shows the proposed plan for the Los Alamitos Circle. At the time of this drawing Hathaway Street extended from Temple Avenue near Willow Street to Seal Beach and the southwest portion would ultimately become Pacific Coast Highway as did State Street. The portion north of Hathaway was not yet incorporated into the City of Long Beach and the street heading northeast would become Los Coyotes Diagonal. The San Gabriel Parkway was at the time Bennett Avenue and ultimately became Lakewood Boulevard.", }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [123, 49, 180, 152, 191, 192] }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "USC Archives" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }], "locationID": 192, "index": 192, "elevation": "20.4" }, { "title": "Hilltop Aerial Looking South", "date": "1972", "lat": 33.80083983950853, "long": -118.16363213834533, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "S", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "title": "Hilltop Aerial Looking South", "description": "Hilltop Aerial Looking South", "date": "1972", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 193, "photo": "../images/Hilltop-Aerial-ca-1972.jpg", "width": 1256, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 660, "posy": 677, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Hilltop Star Room" }, { "posx": 487, "posy": 890, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Water Tower" }, { "posx": 599, "posy": 790, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Former Siie of the Denni Mansion" }, { "posx": 749, "posy": 756, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Former Site of the Pala Mansion" }, { "posx": 401, "posy": 841, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Mobile Derrick" }, { "posx": 426, "posy": 544, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Hill Street" }, { "posx": 1087, "posy": 733, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Skyline Drive" }, { "posx": 800, "posy": 124, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Junipero Avenue" }, { "posx": 999, "posy": 83, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Old Pacific Electric RR right-of-way" }, { "posx": 651, "posy": 179, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Stanley Avenue" }, { "posx": 268, "posy": 144, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Temple Avenue" }, { "posx": 908, "posy": 182, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Raymond Avenue" }, { "posx": 1036, "posy": 125, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Dawson Avenue" }, { "posx": 1158, "posy": 232, "labelPos": "right", "label": "St Louis Avenue" }, { "posx": 111, "posy": 594, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Molino Avenue" }, { "posx": 109, "posy": 399, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Ohio Avenue" }, { "posx": 255, "posy": 286, "labelPos": "right", "label": "21st Street" }, { "posx": 371, "posy": 699, "labelPos": "right", "label": "Radio Station Antenna" } ], "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "The Hilltop Star Room is the most prominent structure on the hilltop. A popular dining and dancing spot in the Signal Hill - Long Beach area from the 1940s until the early 1970s.

At the time of this photo the hilltop was completely devoid of fixed oil derricks, the oilwell maintenance was accomplished with truck-mounted mobile derricks.

Along with the radio station antenna others can be seen and all have since been consolidated at the location of the radio antenna.", "ndx": 1 }, { "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=203" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Mark Fowle" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [192, 193] } ], "categories": ["_all_locations", "aerial", "hilltop", "buildings"] }, { "title": "Hilltop Aerial Looking South", "description": "Hilltop Aerial Looking South", "date": "2025", "ndx": 1, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 193, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-Hilltop-looking-south-1972_KenDavis_neg.jpg", "width": 1256, "height": 900, "adjx": -10, "adjy": -15, "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Ken Davis" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Hilltop Star Room also known as The Hilltop Club can be seen at the bottom, middle of this photo. In the early 1920s the Denni mansion located north across the 23rd Street (now Skyline) was demolished. The mansion's carriage house was moved south to this location and became the \"Hilltop\". In this image one can see the a bit of the original structure." }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [192, 193] } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "hilltop", "buildings" ] }, { "title": "Hilltop Aerial Looking South", "description": "Hilltop Aerial Looking South", "date": "2025", "ndx": 1, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 193, "photo": "../images/Hilltop-Aerial-Looking-south-ca-2025.jpg", "width": 1256, "height": 900, "adjx": -10, "adjy": -15, "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Google Maps" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Over the intervening decades the hilltop was developed for residential use. First with condominiums and a few small single family homes and then in the early 2000s a wave of luxury houses and townhouses.", "ndx": 1 } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "hilltop", "buildings" ] } ], "locationID": 193, "index": 193 }, { "title": "Aerial Photo 1947 - Airplane Flyover", "lat": 33.8148, "long": -118.1501, "category": "_all_locations,aerial", "spotlight": "", "marker": "Bd", "locationAccuracy": 100, "image": [{ "description": "Aerial Photo 1947 - Airplane Over Flight", "date": "1947", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/c-11351_7-66_May-1,-1947_33.8127,-118.png", "width": 895, "height": 900, "adjx": 0, "adjy": 0, "poi": [{ "posx": 162, "posy": 743, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Signal Hill Hilltop" }, { "posx": 173, "posy": 531, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Long Beach Gas Storage Tank" }, { "posx": 378, "posy": 861, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Reservoir Hill Water Storage Tanks" }, { "posx": 465, "posy": 744, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Lakewood Blvd." }, { "posx": 338, "posy": 632, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Willow Street" }, { "posx": 96, "posy": 591, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Cherry Avenue" }, { "posx": 689, "posy": 137, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Carson Street" }, { "posx": 445, "posy": 95, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Lakewood Country Club" }, { "posx": 465, "posy": 169, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Lakewood Blvd." }, { "posx": 609, "posy": 525, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Spring Street" }, { "posx": 433, "posy": 387, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Long Beach Airport Terminal", "image": "./images/Long Beach Airport - Daugherty Field.jfif" }, { "posx": 445, "posy": 218, "labelPos": "left", "label": "Douglas Aircraft Buildings", "image": "./images/c-11351_7-66_May-1_DouglasAircraft_thumbnail.jpg" } ], "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This flyover photo was taken a couple of years after World War II. The Douglas Aircraft Plant is seen (top, left of center) with its \"war paint\" still on. During the war the roofs of the buildings were painted to look like a residential neighborhood. ", "ndx": 1 }, { "type": "Overlay", "label": "Overlay on Map", "link": "aerial1947" }, { "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=095" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [16, 88, 89, 90, 91, 103, 104, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 194] }, ], "locationID": 194, "title": "Aerial Photo 1947 - Airplane Flyover", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "flyover_aerial", "zoom" ] }, { "description": "Aerial Photo 1947 - Douglas Aircraft Plant", "date": "1947", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/c-11351_7-66_May-1-1947_DouglasAircraft_view.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=095" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This close-up of the upper portion of the flyover photo shows the Douglas Aircraft Plant with its \"war paint\" still on. During the war the roofs of the buildings were painted to look like a residential neighborhood. Of course, silhouette of airplanes might give it away.", "ndx": 1 }, { "type": "Overlay", "label": "Overlay on Map", "link": "aerial1947" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [16, 88, 89, 90, 91, 103, 104, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 194] }, ], "locationID": 194, "title": "Aerial Photo 1947 - Douglas Aircraft Plant", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "flyover_aerial", "zoom" ] }, { "description": "Aerial Photo 1945 - Douglas Aircraft Plant", "date": "1947", "dateAccuracy": "99", "photo": "../images/c-9465_27_May-16,-1945.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "link": [{ "type": "Zoom", "label": "Zoom", "link": "../zoom/index.html?id=095" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This close-up of a flyover photo from 1945 that shows the Douglas Aircraft Plant also with its \"war paint\" on. During the war the roofs of the buildings were painted to look like a residential neighborhood. Of course, the many airplanes on the ground surrounding the building may have been a good target nonetheless.", "ndx": 1 }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [16, 88, 89, 90, 91, 103, 104, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 194] }, ], "locationID": 194, "title": "Aerial Photo 1947 - Douglas Aircraft Plant", "categories": [ "_all_locations", "aerial", "flyover_aerial", "zoom" ] }], "locationID": 194, "index": 194, "elevation": "" }, { "title": "Title Insurance Map Of Long Beach", "date": "1954", "lat": 33.847080478378004, "long": -118.16426513967285, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "BL", "locationAccuracy": 50, "image": [{ "title": "Title Insurance Map Of Long Beach", "description": "Title Insurance Map Of Long Beach", "date": "1954", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 195, "photo": "../images/MapOfLongBeach_1954-Title-Insurance.jpg", "width": 626, "height": 900, "adjx": -10, "adjy": -15, "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "For several decades the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles published a booklet with the of \"LONG BEACH A Calendar of Events in the Making of a City\". This map was included in the 1954 edition.", "ndx": 0 }, { "type": "Overlay", "label": "Overlay Map 1954", "link": "ranchosoflongbeach1954" }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Title Insurance and Trust Co. Map, Courtesy of Mark Fowle" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "map" ] }], "locationID": 195, "index": 195 }, { "title": "Looking Northeast from the Ocean Center Building", "lat": 33.766880754592236, "long": -118.192609175, "category": "_all_locations", "date": "1939", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "description": "Looking Northeast from the Ocean Center Building", "date": "1939", "dateAccuracy": "90", "photo": "../images/View-of-Long-Beach-city-and-Signal-Hill-oil-wells-from-the-Ocean-Center-Building-Tower-on-Ocean-Boulevard.jpg", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 196, "title": "Looking Northeast from the Ocean Center Building", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "View of Long Beach city and Signal Hill oil wells from the Ocean Center Building Tower on Ocean Boulevard", }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [196, 24, 29, 30, 50, 153, 185, 155, 71, 41] }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" }], "categories": [ "_all_locations" ] }], "locationID": 196, "index": 196, "elevation": "20.4" }, { "title": "Signal Hill Hilltop", "date": "1972", "lat": 33.7955, "long": -118.16737, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "NE", "locationAccuracy": 95, "image": [{ "title": "Signal Hill Hilltop", "description": "Signal Hill Hilltop", "date": "1972", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 197, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-Hilltop-1972_KenDavis-Negative.jpg", "width": 240, "height": 180, "adjx": -10, "adjy": -15, "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Looking northeast from over Cherry Avenue & 21st Street. The Hilltop Star Room is the only structure left on the hilltop.", "ndx": 1 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Ken Davis" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop", "water_tower" ] }], "locationID": 197, "index": 197 }, { "title": "Panorama Looking Southwest from Signal Hill", "date": "1972", "lat": 33.796163015888574, "long": -118.16208115098247, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SW", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "title": "Panorama Looking Southwest from Signal Hill", "description": "Panorama Looking Southwest from Signal Hill", "date": "1972", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 198, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-Panorama-from-2100BlockStanley-looking-west-1972_from-Ken-Davis-Neg.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Panorama Looking Southwest from the buff just north of the only house on the 2100 block of Stanley Avenue (still today). San Pedro in the distance", "ndx": 1 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Courtesy of Ken Davis" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [202, 198] } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "hilltop", "panorama", "long_beach_view" ] }], "locationID": 198, "index": 198 }, { "title": "Misc Images with Unkown Locations and Directions", "date": "2026", "lat": 33.79958275765648, "long": -118.16283820447693, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "", "locationAccuracy": 0, "image": [{ "title": "Real Photo Postcard of Signal Hill by Ertel", "description": "Real Photo Postcard of Signal Hill by Ertel", "date": "1926", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "75", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 199, "photo": "../images/RPPC Signal Hill by Ertel-1926-composite.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Unknown Location", "ndx": 0 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "RPPC courtesy of Ken Davis" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "derricks", "unknown_location" ] }, { "title": "Signal Hill scan from a Negative", "description": "Signal Hill scan from a Negative", "date": "1922", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "75", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 199, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-ca1920s-scan-from-Negative_MAF.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo looks to have been taken on the southwest side of the hill looking northeast.", "ndx": 0 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "RPPC courtesy of Mark Fowle" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "derricks", "unknown_location" ] }, { "title": "Signal Hill scan from 1929 B&W Slide", "description": "Signal Hill scan from 1929 B&W Slide", "date": "1929", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "75", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 199, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-scan-from_1929-B&W-Slide.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This photo looks to have been taken on the southwest side of the hill.", "ndx": 0 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Scan courtesy of Mark Fowle" } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "derricks", "unknown_location" ] }], "locationID": 199, "index": 199 }, { "title": " Looking North at Houses near Signal Hill", "date": "1926", "lat": 33.78929583575231, "long": -118.16548554477463, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "N", "locationAccuracy": 80, "image": [{ "title": "Looking North at Houses near Signal Hill", "description": "Looking North at Houses near Signal Hill", "date": "1926", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 200, "photo": "../images/Houses-at-Signal-Hill-Los-Angeles-California-1926-eohoppe.com.jpg", "width": 1470, "height": 900, "adjx": -10, "adjy": -15, "link": [{ "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Photo by E. O. Hoppe" }, { "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "Following the discovery of oil on June 23, 1921, by Shell Oil’s Alamitos No. 1 well, Signal Hill was transformed from a residential area of \"magnificent homes\" and farms into a dense, industrial \"Porcupine Hill\" covered with hundreds of oil derricks. The immediate post-discovery era (1920s) saw the displacement of residential, agricultural, and park land by oil infrastructure, with many homes in the area being moved or torn down to make way for drilling rigs.

As Signal Hill itself became too industrial for living, the oil boom caused an \"employment explosion\" that spurred housing development in nearby surrounding areas.", "ndx": 1 } ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "buildings" ] }], "locationID": 200, "index": 200 }, { "title": "Signal Hill oil gusher, Union Oil Co", "date": "1925", "lat": 33.80255158085156, "long": -118.16967247304687, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SE", "locationAccuracy": 90, "image": [{ "title": "Signal Hill Oil Gusher, Union Oil Co LBC 11", "description": "Signal Hill Oil Gusher, Union Oil Co LBC 11", "date": "1925", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "90", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 201, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-oil-gusher-Union-Oil-Co_1925_LBPL.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "This gusher seems to be one of the most photographed on Signal Hill. While the house and ground seem to have snow on them it is due to the reflection of the oil covering them.", "ndx": 1 }, { "type": "Credits", "label": "Credits", "credits": "Long Beach Public Library" }, { "type": "Spots", "label": "Related", "spots": [201, 8, 63] }, ], "categories": [ "_all_locations", "gusher", "lbc11" ] }], "locationID": 201, "index": 201 }, { "title": "Panorama Looking Southwest from Signal Hill", "date": "1972", "lat": 33.797206402688765, "long": -118.1620489644743, "category": "_all_locations", "spotlight": "", "marker": "SW", "locationAccuracy": 99, "image": [{ "title": "Panorama Looking Southwest from Signal Hill", "description": "Panorama Looking Southwest from Signal Hill", "date": "1972", "ndx": 0, "dateAccuracy": "99", "thumbnail": "", "locationID": 202, "photo": "../images/Signal-Hill-looking-south-from-Hill-and-Stanley_1972_KenDavis.jpg", "link": [{ "type": "Info", "label": "Notes", "info": "
Panorama looking southwest from near Hill Street and Stanley Avenue.
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