Tourists are also drawn to Long Beach by the numerous annual events held in the city,which include music festivals, sports competitions, and cultural celebrations.The Long Beach Grand Prix, an annual Champ Car race, takes place on city streets nearthe Convention Center and is one of the largest Grand Prix events in the world. It is thelargest street race in the United States with an estimated 300,000 people watching theevent in person every year over three days.Long Beach is the location of the largest California State University, CSULB, and theheadquarters of the California State University system. The city also has a VeteransAffairs hospital and is a major healthcare hub for the region.Signal Hill is an incorporated city surrounded entirely by Long Beach.HistoryThe area was originally occupied by the Tongva people who lived in a rancheria namedTibahangna. Along with other Tongva villages, it disappeared in the mid-1800s.The Rancho los Cerritos and Rancho <strong>Los</strong> Alamitos were divided from the larger Rancho<strong>Los</strong> Nietos, which had been granted by the King of Spain to a mulatto soldier, ManuelNieto. The boundary between the two ranchos ran through the center of Signal Hill at asouthwest to northeast diagonal.Rancho <strong>Los</strong> Cerritos was bought in 1843 by John Temple, a Yankee who had come toCalifornia in 1827. Soon after he built what is now known as the "<strong>Los</strong> Cerritos RanchHouse," an adobe which still stands and is a National Historic Landmark. Temple createda thriving cattle ranch and prospered, becoming the wealthiest man in <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>County. Both Temple and his ranch house played important local roles in the MexicanAmerican War.Meanwhile, on an island in the San Pedro Bay, Mormon pioneers made an abortiveattempt to establish a colony (as part of Brigham Young's plan to establish a continuouschain of settlements from the Pacific to Salt Lake).In 1866 Temple sold Rancho <strong>Los</strong> Cerritos to the firm of Flint, Bixby & Co, whichconsisted of brothers Thomas and Benjamin Flint and their cousin Lewellyn Bixby, for$20,000. Later that year the company selected Lewellyn's brother Jotham Bixby, the"Father of Long Beach", to manage their southern ranch, and three years later Jothambought into the property and would later form the Bixby Land Company. It was duringthis period that the Rancho <strong>Los</strong> Cerritos was converted to sheep ranching. In the 1870s asmany as 30,000 sheep were kept at the ranch and sheared twice yearly to provide woolfor trade. In 1880, Bixby sold 4,000 acres (16 km²) of the Rancho <strong>Los</strong> Cerritos toWilliam E. Willmore, who subdivided it in hopes of creating a farm community,Willmore City. He failed and was bought out by the "Long Beach Land and WaterCompany." They changed the name of the community to "Long Beach", which was
incorporated as a city in 1888. When Bixby died in 1916 the remaining 3,500 acres(14 km²) of Rancho <strong>Los</strong> Cerritos was subdivided into the neighborhoods of Bixby Knolls,California Heights, North Long Beach and part of the city of Signal Hill.The town grew as a seaside resort (The Pike was one of the most famous beachsideamusement parks on the West coast from 1910 until the 1960's) and then as an oil, Navy,and port town. The town was once referred to as "Iowa by the sea," due to a large influxof people from that state and other states in the Midwest. Huge picnics for each statewere a popular annual event in Long Beach until the 1960s.The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that causedsignificant damage to the city and surrounding areas. Most of the damage occurred inunreinforced masonry buildings, especially schools. One hundred twenty people died inthis earthquake.Long Beach used to have a sizable Japanese-American population mostly working in thefish canneries on Terminal Island and small truck farms in the area, but withintermarriage and other factors, it is now less than 1% of the population of Long Beach.There is still a Japanese Community Center and a Japanese Buddhist Church in LongBeach.The early silent film industry in Long BeachOne of the places where the film industry started in Southern California was in LongBeach.Balboa Amusement Producing Company, also known as Balboa Studios, was located atSixth Street and Alamitos Avenue, and they used 11 acres (45,000 m²) on Signal Hill foroutdoor locations. Silent movie stars who lived in Long Beach included Fatty Arbuckleand Theda Bara. The 1917 film Cleopatra, starring Theda Bara, was filmed at theDominguez Slough just west of Long Beach, and Moses parted the Red Sea for Cecil B.DeMille's 1923 black-and-white version of "The Ten Commandments" on the flatseashore of Seal Beach, southeast of Long Beach.The current film industry in Long BeachBecause of its closeness to LA-area studios and the variety of locations, Long Beach isregularly used for movies, television shows, and advertisements. The city has filled in forlocations across the nation and the globe. [3]Long Beach Polytechnic High School is just one of the popular filming locations in LongBeach. Another popular area for movies filmed in the city is the Virginia Country Clubarea. The upscale neighborhood is home to several National Historic Landmarks and isknown for its diverse architectural styles ranging from a famous Greene & Greenedesigned American Bungalow home to modern homes designed by World-RenownedArchitect Edward Killingsworth.
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