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JUNIOR/SENIOR

June 3,

Jonah Jones Sr. must have admired his son, Jonah Jones Jr.; He built him a Spanish villa at the beach PHOTO COURTESY COLDWELL BANKER Vintage gated communities are not emblematic of Long Beach, but we do have them. There's one at 37th Place near Redondo Avenue and Ocean Boulevard, on a little street so nice, they gated it [...]

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SERENITY, NOW

May 13,

Josh and Erika Lowenthal's Craftsman-Chalet house is classic, quiet Carroll Park PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Lined with mature trees and vintage houses, Carroll Park has to be our most silent historic district. On a recent evening, the rustling of the breeze through the pine trees

was punctuated only by the briefest wail of a distant police siren.

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WIDE-OPEN SPACES

April 22,

E. Thor Carlson's house in Ridgewood Heights seems made for entertaining PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES "Art. We're all about art," former Cultural Heritage Commissioner E.

Thor Carlson says, after a tour of the house he and friend Michael

Hudson own in the s Ridgewood Heights subdivision of Bixby Knolls. He's a man of his word: The cavernous [...]

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PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD

March 11,

How Pastor Joe Ginder, his family and their friends ministered to an historic landmark PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Eleven years ago, Pastor Joe Ginder and his family lived across town in a

perfectly fine and ordinary house, when they came into a piece of

history. "God called us here to ministry," says Ginder, a Pittsburgh native who has [...]

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COURTYARD OF DREAMS

February 11,

Turning back the clock and trying to earn historic status for the Brown's Court apartments PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Long Beach is full of restored historic homes, and when they're featured

in a newspaper, the picture is almost always the same. It's the after

picture—after restoration, after years spent earning the money, buying

the fixtures, stripping [...]

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THE PRICE IS RIGHT

January 14,

New homeowner Chip Anzalone welcomes affordable housing back to Long Beach PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES "But what about all the vans?" I ask new homeowner Chip Anzalone,

co-owner of BandVan, a vehicle rental business that caters to musicians.

In total, the fleet includes 11 vans, ranging in size from

eight-passenger to 15-passenger vehicles, and the company leases [...]

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A GENERATION OF CHRISTMAS

December 24,

The Danis family's holiday lights are an Appian Way tradition PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES It's a week before Christmas and the temperature is in the 50s, which is

cold for California. Patricia Danis and her friend are, yes, out in the

rain trying to fix a light-up deer with a broken neck—and I'm getting

wet trying to [...]

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COTTAGE, INDUSTRY

December 10,

His house is immaculate, but contractor Arthur J. Paul works at it, a little each day PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES What kind of house does a contractor live in? A custom-built house, of

course. And so, while Arthur and Lori Paul's Depression-era home in

Bixby Knolls spent its first 50 years as a modest stucco box with [...]

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THE OLD DOC CARTER PLACE

November 12,

An early Long Beach veterinarian saw dogs and cats—and horses—at this Rose Park house PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES A newspaperman in John Ford's Western The Man Who Shot Liberty

Valance—a completely unrelated source—delivers what should be the last

word on the old Doc Carter place. "When the legend becomes fact, print

the legend," says the publisher, [...]

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HONEY, I'M HOME

October 29,

A house for all seasons PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES There's a quaint, aged, red brick fireplace in the living room; fake,

springy, green grass in the backyard; and a messy, black,

floor-to-ceiling chalkboard painted on one of the kitchen walls. I want

to live here, you think, already inserting yourself in a matching

sweater on the holiday [...]

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