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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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