Buildings had to be raised or rebuilt. It really is epic. You find this in many ancient lands where one city is built on top of another. Here, it just happened faster. The port has provided a real machine to drive the economy of the city.
World trade is responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs in the area.
World trade has brought a lot of firms into the city, some even with their headquarters. At the beginning, Long Beach was nothing more than a summer resort, but the port is why the city has changed into a commercial city. We have spent a great deal of time recording the history of the port. We learn from our past, and this archive is a great resource. The first step is to save it before it is lost.