Long Beach readers share thoughts on kindness and civic life
An collection of reader letters from Long Beach highlights small acts of kindness and community concerns. Readers praise sanitation workers, recount helpful finds like a missing wallet, and applaud neighborhood clubs while suggesting youth clothing drives and pet reunions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Ford
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Pearl Harbor
Anona
Terry Kline
Seabright
Terry
William Piall
Shoreline Drive Plan Advances In Long Beach
City council set to authorize 15.55 million tideland funds for Shoreline Drive a six lane highway linking Long Beach Freeway south terminus with Alamitos Avenue. Project includes overpasses pedestrian links a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard and a busy waterfront corridor near Rainbow Lagoon and Magnolia bridge. Burglars steal office equipment worth 3550 from Melvin Mould Realty office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Lands Commission
Tideland
Pacific Terrace
Long Beach
Alamitos Avenue
Broadway
Los Angeles River
West Beach
Magnolia Avenue
Rainbow Lagoon
Long Bech Arena
Oll Navy Landing
John R Mansell
Shoreline Drive
Magnolia Bridge
Gelden Avenue
Pine Avenue
Linden Avenue
Royal Pacific Hotel
Ocean Boulevard
Anatomy of a Freeway Elbow Grease
A report on the Harbor Freeway link to Terminal Island detailing a 6.1 million dollar, 3.9 mile project expected to take three years and finish by February 1973. Crews clear old shops and pipelines and lay pipes, poles, and earth while widening the Harbor Freeway from Pacific Coast Highway to San Pedro.
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Harbor
Terminal Island
Workmient
Pacific Coast Highway
San’ Pedro
Vincent Thomas
Elbow Prease
Pete the Watchman Lives a Dog's Life
Pete the night watchman guards a used car lot on Long Beach Boulevard for six years. He rides on a motorcycle front seat for meals and coffee, earns respect from locals, and has deterred burglars. His life includes a rival dog, a bold struggle with a Great Dane, and a protective collar after injuries.
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Pete
Bil Page
Long Beach Blvd
Page
Lack of Funds May End Women Prisoners Work
A Long Beach City Jail arts and crafts program for women inmates faces collapse due to insufficient funds. The project, started by women police officers, kept inmates engaged with baskets candles plaques and decorations during short 10 to 30 day sentences. A $50 Soroptimist donation plus other contributions funded glue wire stems paints and more to sustain the workshops.
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Long Beach City
Boni Corbett
Jern Stahl
Soroptimist Club
Kay Walsh
Margie Keb
Stahl
City Attorney Putnam: Long Beach Profile of a Legal Advocate
This weekly profile traces Leonard Putnam, Long Beach city attorney since 1964, from his early loves mathematics and art through wartime service to his decisive turn to law. It details his ambition shift, education path, and enduring devotion to the law as his mistress.
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N.Y
Alice B. Emery
Sixth and
Pine
Veltman
Jack Chark
Long Beach
Cactus Club
Recreation Park
Arlene Wright
Leonard Putnam
Putnam
Shakespeare
UCLA
USC
Southwestern
Roy Recovers After Mountain Tumble Near Glendora
Fifteen year old Larry Campbell of 10336 Felson Street tumbled down a slope in Vincent Gap area of the Angeles National Forest. Sheriff’s mountaineers reached him after nearly three hours on a ledge. Believed dead, he was found alive and taken to Glendora Hospital with back injuries and is reported in satisfactory condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angeles National Forest
Larry Campbell
Felson St
Vincent Gap
Glendora
Sheriff's Mountaineers
Young Campbell
Glendora Hospital
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Malcolm Epley
Roosevelt
Thoreau
P.o
Leone Richardson
Sara Thomas
Tideland Fund
Melvin Mould
Mould Reality Co
Spring St
Dick Emery
Pete the Watchman
Molly Barrell
Laura
City Attorney’s
Seales of
By David Shaw
Tom
South Pacific
South America
Paige
Roy
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