Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-04
PLEASURE DAYS
At LONG BEACH
FAMED AS SEASIDE PLAY
GROUND
ATLANTIC CITY OF THE WEST
Popular Home Town That Has Had
Wonderful crowth--Many At
traetlve Features for Fun-
Loving Public
ATLANTIC CITY OF THE WEST

Long Beach shows convincing signs
this summer of becoming the great sea-
side playground of the western coast.
The boomers declare Long Beach to
be the Atlantic City of the West and
every tendency at present is to make
the town prominently resort for the
summer transients while at the same
time preserving the cottage and hotel
features All attempts to bring liquor
traffic into the town are strenuously
resisted.
The town is thus able to be a sort CT
Coney Island without any of Coney Is
lands disagreeable features. Strangers
who visit Long Beach are generally i'm
pressed with the cosmopolitan char
acter of the people first of all and after
that with the way things are arranged
for the entertainment of the masses.
The big, double decked pier with its
fishing and band concerts is free to
all. There are pavilions where visit
tors can sit and rest and enjoy their
luncheons and every Saturday ami
Sunday business men of the town pro-
vide free vaudeville on the beach.
II can feel at home in Long Beach,
was the way tourist put it. There
are plenty of places that are handsomer
and are better located and have better
scenery in Southern California, but
,t,o~. -
entertained, give me Long Beach,"
1t is intended that Long Beach is the
peoples resort, not place of fashion
or vogue, but a resort of pleasure low
ing people who want to get their mon
ey's worth.
Scenes at Long Beach
Long Beach on a busy day is an in
teresting scene. The corner of Ocean
Park and Pine avenues is the center
of activities. The Salt Lake railroad
and the Pacific Electric have their main
stations at that point and every few
minutes a car or a train pulls up TO
unload a crowd of passengers. Happy
children, pursued by anxious parents.
tumble off and make rush for the
beach. Family parties, laden with
bundles, hunt up the pavilions and the
man with an evident purpose goes
striding out the pier equipped with a
big basket, a delicate looking pole and
a formidable looking pipe.
And the wagons begin to arrive and
the horses are unhitched and tethered
on the beach in droves. Sturdy ranch
ers with their buXom wives and frolic-
some children join the throngs on the
beach, get bathing suits and join III
the splashing crowd that is tumbling
about in the Pacific. The booths begin
to fill up as the Jap displays his Won
derful wares, the man with the canes
invites you to try your luck at throw
ing rings and the lusty barker invites
you to see the greatest show Oh
earth" The balls begin to thunder
down the alleys OF the bath house and
from the swimming pool comes signs
of merriment from those who have
gone for a plunge.
In Launches and Boats
Out in the bay the launches begin to
ply swiftly to and from San Pedro,
laden to the rails with visitors who are
anxious to take in the harbor town.
The extra trip costs only two bits and
gives five mile sea trip in addition
to the visit to the odd little town that
is fast becoming a great seaport and
affords also a glimpse of the wonderful
breakwater that has helped to make
San Pedro famous.
In the pavilions happy parties make
sport over the tempting lunches they
have brought with them and in the
city park white robed damsels arrange
themselves carefully on the green
grass. The young man who has brought
his very best girl for an outing pat