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Bixby Knolls is an area of Long Beach adjoining North Long Beach to the north, California Heights on the southeast, Wrigley on the southwest. Its approximate boundaries are the 405 Freeway to the south (or Wardlow Avenue), Del Amo Blvd to the north (or the Southern Pacific railroad tracks), the Los Angeles River and the Lakewood city boundary to the west of Atlantic Avenue, south of Bixby Road.
Los Cerritos (sometimes called Los Cerritos/Virginia Country Club) is a neighborhood with approximately 700 homes and 2,000 residents located within the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach, California. Established in 1906, the Los Cerritos neighborhood has been used by the film industry of Hollywood with its historic, estate-sized homes. It ...
Jotham Bixby, known as the "father of Long Beach", eventually purchased the property for himself and raised seven children at the adobe. [7] One of Jotham's children who was raised at the ranch house was Fanny Bixby Spencer, who later became known as a philanthropist, poet, and pacifist. [8]
Within Long Beach, the neighborhoods Bixby Hill, Bixby Knolls, and Bixby Village [1] are named after the family, as well as Bixby Park [2] in the Alamitos Beach neighborhood. The key members of the family connected to California real estate are the brothers Llewellyn and Jotham Bixby, their first cousins Thomas and Benjamin Flint, and a cousin ...
North Long Beach (also referred to as North Town or Northside) is a predominantly working-class area of Long Beach, California.The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorporated county area and the cities of Compton, Paramount, Bellflower and Lakewood), and to the south by a Union Pacific railroad track and the Bixby ...
Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, 4450 Atlantic Avenue - opened December 1967, 52,000 sq. ft., 4450 Atlantic Avenue, [2] [3] closed in 1994, empty for 15 years, [4] razed only in 2009 to make way for a new Marshall's. The loss of the store was long symbolic of the decline of Bixby Knolls as a retail center [5] [6] Bellflower, 16630 Bellflower Boulevard
“The Long Game” is based on the true story of five Mexican American high school students who were banned from playing golf at an all-white Texas country club in the 1950s.
Long Beach, California, is composed of many different neighborhoods. Some neighborhoods are named after thoroughfares, while others are named for nearby parks, schools, or city features. Some neighborhoods are named after thoroughfares, while others are named for nearby parks, schools, or city features.