Before the CNN era, the internet, smart phones, and 24-hour news, the daily arrival of the paper brought the world into our homes. We’d hear the thwack as it hit the porch, and we might occasionally have a chance to wave to the paperboy. For some of us, family members would vie for sections — the comics, the sports, the front page and main news, the op-ed, the coupons, the society pages, the movies listings, or the classifieds. The paper was a way to peruse the world, from local and national news to global, both facts and opinion, covering all facets of life, at one’s own pace and depth of interest. It is a scenario that for many, is etched in our memories. While time and technology changed the way we get information, many of us still have a fondness for the hometown newspaper. For Long Beach, depending on your age, that paper was the Sun, the Independent, the Telegram, the Independent Press-Telegram, the Press-Telegram, Grunion Gazette, Downtown Gazette, or Uptown Gazette. In July of 2011, years of discussion finally came to fruition. The Press-Telegram and HSLB created a partnership that resulted in 1,400 bound archival volumes of historical newsprint being relocated from a warehouse in Signal Hill to the South Gallery of our building in Bixby Knolls. In 2022, the Gazette collection was donated.
Titles Include:
Grunion Gazette (1977-2022)
Downtown Gazette (1988-2018)
Uptown Gazette (2008-2018)
The Press (1910-1924)
The Press-Telegram (1924-2013)
The Sun (1925-1944)
The Independent (1938-1964, 1971)
Southland Magazine (1952-1966)
The Zone Advertising (1958-1967)
Miscellaneous Publications (1897-1938)
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