Featured Coverage
December 5, 2014 – Press-Telegram, Op-Ed by HSLB Executive Director Julie Bartolotto: Long Beach’s history too important to lose (Guest Commentary)
Recent Event Coverage
A Public Oral History Evening with Senator Betty Karnette coverage:
•Gazettes, May 5, 2017 — Karnette Tells Of Her Life To Benefit Long Beach Historical Society
•Signal Tribune, May 11, 2017 — ‘Betty broke the rules, by just being Betty’
1942: The Turning Point in the Pacific coverage:
•Gazettes, May 1, 2017 — Long Beach Historical Society To Offer Memorial Weekend Program
A History of the Harbor in 74 Feet coverage:
•Gazettes, April 23, 2017 — City Groups Hope To Relocate Historic Long Beach Port Mural Before Demolition
Long Beach Remembers Pearl Harbor coverage:
•Press-Telegram, Nov. 27, 2016 — Long Beach to commemorate 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor bombing
•LBPost.com, Nov. 29. 2016 — Long Beach Remembers Pearl Harbor on 75th Anniversary with New Exhibit
•KTLA 5 TV, Dec. 7, 2016 — Pearl Harbor Day – Long Beach Connection (video)
October 31, 2016 – LBPost.com: Long Beach Historical Society Cemetery Tours Bring the Dead to Life
Past Event Coverage
December 4, 2014 – Press-Telegram: How you can help build a Long Beach-centric exhibit on the Pearl Harbor attack
December 1, 2014 – Gazettes: Long Beach Remembers Pearl Harbor For Community Sharing Day
2014 Historical Cemetery Tour Video Media
October 23, 2014 – Press-Telegram: Cemetery tour given by Historical Society of Long Beach provides a glimpse into the past
April 28, 2014 – Long Beach Post: Seven Long Beach History-Based Projects Given $188K in Awards, Grants
April 27, 2014 – Press-Telegram:
April 18, 2014 – Signal Tribune: LB Navy Memorial Heritage Association awards seven grants for various historic-preservation projects
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. – Dr. Kaye Briegel and Porter Gilberg discuss LGBT history in Long Beach at the HSLB. No charge to attend. (LB Post article)
Saturday, February 11, 2012 – The Second Annual Long Beach Community Studies Conference – Commemorations: Looking Back, Moving Forward (PDF)
Press Coverage:
● LB Historical Society partners with the Press-Telegram to showcase its newspaper collection (Signal Tribune)
Friday, February 10, 2012 – Historical Newspaper Collection Dedication & Fundraiser (PDF)
Press Coverage:
● Rich Archbold: Experience 100-plus years of news (Press-Telegram)
● Tim Grobaty: Go back to the olden days with The Long Beach Historical Newspaper Collection (Press-Telegram)
Friday, January 20, 2012 – Long Beach Day Nursery Centennial Exhibition Opens (No Press Release)
Coverage:
● Shirley Wild: 200 mark LB Day Nursery’s 100th (Press-Telegram)
Saturday, November 19, 2011 – Historical Society to Hold Art Deco Lecture & Fundraiser (PDF)
Press Coverage:
● Historical Society to host lecture on Long Beach Art Deco movement (Signal Tribune)
Saturday, October 29, 2011 – 16th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour (PDF)
Press Coverage:
● LB Historical Society plotting its next cemetery tour (Signal Tribune)
Friday, June 17, 2011 – Exhibition Opening: Rebuilding for the Future — A New Deal for Long Beach, 1933-1942 (PDF)
Press Coverage:
● Rebuilding and subsequent art of local schools to be focus of Historical Society’s New Deal presentation (Signal Tribune)
● Historical Society of LB offering images from its recent exhibit for sale (Signal Tribune)