Long Beach chronicles
Subtitle: from pioneers to the 1933 earthquake
By: Tim Grobaty
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609495480
Subjects: Biography; History
Table of contents: title: The newspapers and their city; title: A newspaper war; title: Christmas 1902; title: The Prisk years; title: Fastest-growing city; title: Small-town news; title: The Empire Day disaster; title: The world goes to war; title: The boom resumes; title: Extra! extra!; title: The cyclone racer; title: When the earth moved; title: The new journalism; title: Another merger; title: The columns; title: Dulce et decorum est; title: "He was killed going forward"; title: The armistice Christmas; title: Our beloved founder; title: Charles Rivers Drake; title: Say hi to the Lowes; title: A physician of firsts; title: Old news is new news 1; title: They lived aloft; title: Aviators who died trying; title: Fire!; title: The oldest pier on Pine; title: History of directories; title: L.B.'s primary secondary school; title: Flower-powered grads of 1909 and '10; title: Wilson's rules of '27; title: When you couldn't kan kan; title: Lookin' good, Long Beach; title: Cars hit the streets; title: Street names; title: Map of the twenties; title: Electric ladyland; title: Water for long beach; title: A model-a town; title: A century of scenery; title: The glories of Alamitos; title: The land of sunshine; title: A visitor from Iowa; title: The Pacific Southwest Expo; title: The Long Beach Hotel; title: The hottest beach in town; title: Old news is new news 2; title: The Empire Day disaster; title: The bambino gets busted; title: The resting place; title: The crazy eights of 1932; title: When the Klan had clout; title: Ladies of the club; title: The great racketeer; title: The whale's tale; title: The world's greatest ride; title: Old news is new news 3; title: Old Ironsides' shakedown cruise; title: The Long Beach earthquake; title: Letters from Shakytown.