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Press


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2024 Media Coverage
  • March 24, 2024 | Press Telegram: Rich Archbold: LB Historical Society photo exhibit tells story of Chicano movement in Long Beach
  • March 25, 2024 | The California-Mexico Studies Center: Historical Society Tells Story Of Chicano Movement In Long Beach
  • March 28, 2024 | Press Telegram: Historical Society opens new exhibit celebrating Long Beach’s Chicano history
2023 Media Coverage
  • January 19, 2023 | Long Beach Post: Historical Society of Long Beach to open new exhibit on Black Student Union Elders Association
  • September 3, 2023 | Herald News: Long Beach Historical Society holds annual event
  • October 24, 2023 | Press Telegram: Long Beach cemetery tour returns Saturday — just in time for Halloween
  • December 13, 2023 | Long Beach Airport News: Long Beach Airport Marks Centennial with Historic Report on Local Aviation History
2022 Media Coverage
  • January 19, 2023 | Long Beach Post: Historical Society of Long Beach to open new exhibit on Black Student Union Elders Association
  • July 23, 2022 | Long Beach Post: Historical Society of Long Beach unveils new exhibition honoring women’s impact in local communities
  • July 25, 2022 | Press Telegram: Long Beach women played major role in city’s history: Historical Society chronicles 77 influential women
  • October 18, 2022 | Press Telegram: Long Beach history comes alive with 26th annual Historical Cemetery Tour
2021 Media Coverage
  • August 3, 2021 | Long Beach Business Journal: Long Beach Historical Society is building a crowdsourced archive of local experiences
  • August 12, 2021 | Press Telegram: The Historical Society of Long Beach brings back their annual cemetery tour
  • September 27, 2021 | LB908 News: The Long Beach Historical Society
2020 Media Coverage
  • June 8, 2020 | Press Telegram: How Long Beach residents can become part of coronavirus history
  • October 16, 2020 | Press Telegram: Long Beach’s Annual Cemetery Tour in the ether as film
  • October 29, 2020 | Long Beach Post: 25th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour reimagined virtually
2019 Media Coverage
  • September 16, 2019 | Long Beach Local News: Discover the History of Long Beach
  • October 25, 2019 | Press Telegram: Annual cemetery tour brings Long Beach’s dead to life
  • July 15, 2019 | Long Beach Business Journal: Historic Companies And Nonprofits: Recognizing Their Legacy
2018 Media Coverage
  • April 18, 2018 | Long Beach Post: Historical Society to Celebrate the Work of Edward A. Killingsworth
  • July 16, 2018 | BroadwayWorld: Long Beach LGBT History Comes to Life in THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAY
  • October 24, 2018 | Long Beach Post: Historical Society’s Cemetery Tour: Where the dead tell their tales
  • October 27, 2018 | Press Telegram: Sharing fascinating tales of city’s dead, historical Cemetery Tour brings Long Beach’s history to life
  • October 29, 2018 | ABC 7 News: Long Beach cemetery brings local history to life with tour
2017 Media Coverage
  • 04/23/2017 | Gazettes:City Groups Hope To Relocate Historic Long Beach Port Mural Before Demolition
  • May 5, 2017 | Gazettes: Karnette Tells Of Her Life To Benefit Long Beach Historical Society
  • May 11, 2017 | Signal Tribune: ‘Betty broke the rules, by just being Betty’
  • September 1, 2017 | Press Telegram: Long Beach historical groups organizing to save Port of Long Beach mural.
  • October 25, 2017 | Daily Breeze : The dead rise to tell their tales during Historical Cemetery Tour
  • December 6, 2017 | Press Telegram: Long Beach Historical Society features the role local residents played in World War II
2016 Media Coverage
  • September 10, 2016 | Press-Telegram: Pearl Harbor families commemorated by Historical Society of Long Beach
  • October 31, 2016 | Long Beach Post: Long Beach Historical Society Cemetery Tours Bring the Dead to Life
  • November 27, 2016 | Press-Telegram: Long Beach to commemorate 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor bombing
  • November 29, 2016 | Long Beach Post: Long Beach Remembers Pearl Harbor on 75th Anniversary with New Exhibit
  • December 6, 2016 | Press Telegram: Pearl Harbor attack comes to life in Historical Society of Long Beach exhibit
  • December 7, 2016 | KTLA 5 TV: Pearl Harbor Day – Long Beach Connection (video)
2015 Media Coverage
  • August 6, 2015 | Long Beach Post: PORT TOWN Sheds Light on Long Beach’s Lifeline
2014 Media Coverage
  • February 25, 2014 | Long Beach Post: Historical Society to Host Forum Discussing the First Year of Its LGBT History Project
  • April 18, 2014 | Signal Tribune: LB Navy Memorial Heritage Association awards seven grants for various historic-preservation projects
  • April 28, 2014 | Long Beach Post: Seven Long Beach History-Based Projects Given $188K in Awards, Grants
  • July 18, 2014 | PBS SoCal: History & Society-Uptown Long Beach: Bixby Knolls and California Heights
  • October 23, 2014 | Press Telegram: Cemetery tour given by Historical Society of Long Beach provides a glimpse into the past
  • December 1, 2014 | Gazettes: Long Beach Remembers Pearl Harbor For Community Sharing Day
  • December 4, 2014 | Press Telegram: How you can help build a Long Beach-centric exhibit on the Pearl Harbor attack
2013 Media Coverage
  • May 22, 2013 | Long Beach Post: 40 Under 40 Winner: Julie Bartolotto
2012 Media Coverage
  • January 28, 2012 | Press Telegram: Rich Archbold: Experience 100-plus years of news
  • February 6, 2012 | Press Telegram: Tim Grobaty: Go back to the olden days with The Long Beach Historical Newspaper Collection
  • February 17, 20212 | Signal Tribune: LB Historical Society partners with the Press-Telegram to showcase its newspaper collection
  • September 11, 2012 | Press Telegram: Tim Grobaty: Historical Society is tending bar history

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