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Long Beach Historian Volume 7, Issue 1 A Publication of the Historical Society of Long Beach Spring 2006

Grace Park By Kaye Briegel Of Long Beach’s recrea-tional facilities, at least 20 are named for men and only three (Billie Jean King, Elizabeth Hudson and Ramona) are named for women. So when the North Long Beach Project Area Committee, which ad-vises the city’s Redevelopment Agency, acquired land near the corner of Plymouth and Elm for a new park, it seemed fit-ting to name it after a woman. This idea was reinforced by the fact that North PAC mem-ber Laurie Angel had identified the land for the park. When the church that occupied the space was torn down, Angel recog-nized the vacant lot as a poten-tial park site. She brought it to the attention of North PAC, and now the park is on its way to becoming a reality. It should be open this year. This new park has been named Grace Park, in part after the church that was on the site from 1930 to 2000, but also after one of North Long Beach’s most interesting resi-dents. Grace Olive Wylie lived in Long Beach in the 1940s and was founder of the Long Beach Zoological Society. She ran the society and its zoo on Market Street, near the new park site. In her professional life she would become an expert in the study of reptiles, and science in general, a field in which there

1909 mayoral election photograph made by Charles Daugherty. Earl Daugherty is pictured on the far right in the bowler hat.

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Elections in Long Beach History By Bry Myown

When it comes to electoral change and controversy, Long Beach has been there, done that. The city's first election was set by the County Board of Supervisors in response to a petition for incorporation and was conducted in a real estate office on Janu-ary 30, 1888. From a population of al-most 1,000, 106 residents cast votes in favor of cityhood and elected a board of five trustees, who once elected met in a building at Pacific and Ocean, almost the exact spot of our current city hall. The board's earliest ordinances called for publishing its business in The Long Beach Journal and hiring a clerk, treas-urer, marshal and engineer. Next, busi-ness license fees guaranteed municipal income. With that structure in place, the trustees' first priority was quality of life: they prohibited disturbing the peace un-der penalty of a $200 fine or 90 days im-

prisonment. Official attention then turned to the population growth and anticipated harbor development. Hordes of people had come west on the Southern Pacific, and many found their way to Long Beach on the connecting “Get Out and Push Railroad” line. Civic leaders wanted competition and spent the bulk of 1888 studying rail-road franchises, but none were realized before the boom ended that same year. Undeterred, city founders “got out and pushed,” and Long Beach survived while many other boomtowns became ghost towns. In 1891, the Los Angeles Termi-nal Railway requested a franchise con-nection to the Union Pacific, and its Ocean route sparked the city's first envi-ronmental battle over despoiled views. Once the matter was settled by a vote in 1891, quality of life issues again reared their head: in 1896, the city

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Long Beach Historian

Editor Amy Bentley-Smith

Contributing Charlie Basham, Kaye Briegel, Julie Bartolotto,

Bry Myown, and Roger Powell. Photos By:

Kayte Deioma, J. Christopher Launi and from the Historical Society of Long Beach’s collection.

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Executive Director’s Report By Julie Bartolotto I would like to acknowledge the many members and donors who made contributions to the Historical Society of Long Beach in response to our request in December! Many of you will find your names listed in this publication and many more of you will be thanked in the next edition. We have enjoyed a generous response and I thank you. I am ecstatic about the overwhelming response to our 10th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour that was held in October. Over 700 people toured Sunnyside and Municipal Cemeteries on Willow Street. Cemetery Tour Chair Barbara Barnes, Coor-dinator Roxanne Patmor, and our staff members, Amy Luke and Lauren Paull, worked tirelessly to make the event an out-standing success. The tour required an additional 80 dedicated volunteers, many community partners and a grant from Edison International to raise the profile of the event and accommodate tour-goers. The event was covered by the Long Beach Business Journal, Gazette Newspapers, the Press-Telegram, the Signal, the Los Angeles Times, Charter Communication, KNX 1070 News Radio and Channel 4. I offer kudos to all for your support and for a job well done. Just a few weeks following the tour we held our Gala & Renaissance Award Presen-tation. Mayor Beverly O’Neill was honored with the Renaissance Award, given for substantial contributions to the history and development of Long Beach. Harbor Com-mission President Doris Topsy-Elvord was honored with our Community Leadership Award for sustained service and outstanding leadership. We established the Com-parette Philanthropy Award, honoring Leamel Comparette for her years of outstanding

support for the HSLB. The event committee was chaired by Harvey Keller. Held at the Long Beach Yacht Club, the evening featured a si-lent auction, piano music, awards and a Mae West im-personator topped it off. Tables were generously spon-sored by The Port of Long Beach, Farmers & Mer-chants Bank, L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe, and Gabriella Cigliano and Jheri Redding. Cheers and thank you to table sponsors, silent auction donors and bidders, the committee and all who attended. Finally, I am proud to announce the publication of the first book in the “Making a Difference Long Beach” series. Mary Dell Butler authored by Karen Harper is written for third graders. It is the product of a wonder-ful collaboration between the Long Beach Unified School District and the HSLB. You can purchase your copy today. Look for the order form at the back of this publication. I am looking forward to a great 2006 with growing community support and more great historical programs.

Past President Reuben Brasser, Judy Powell, Julie Bartolotto, Diane Jacobus, Laura Brasser, HSLB President Roger Powell, and Awardees Mayor Beverly O’Neill and Leamel Comparette.

Julie Bartolotto, John Thomas, Renaissance Awardee Mayor Beverly O’Neill, and Special Events Committee Chair Harvey Keller.

Ed, Janet and Susan Hume portray the tragic story of the Huffman Family at the Tour.

HSLB board members, Bry Myown and Evan Braude do their part at the Tour.

Cemetery Tour visitors decorating sugar skulls.

North Long Beach History Coming to Historical Society The North Long Beach Community Action Group is compiling a survey of historic resources in North Long Beach. HSLB will be the repository of information the survey identifies. This projects promises to add to our collection a body of material about an area that is not well docu-mented, thus availing the information to the public as they visit the HSLB.

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President’s Report By Roger Powell It has been a very interesting last few months as we con-tinue our attempt to secure a permanent new home. As many of you know, Camden Properties had agreed to build a building for our use, including the Looff’s roof in the design. Indeed, many of you have seen the drawings in our publications. Last summer, Camden offered to provide us with an un-specified amount of cash; they then would go ahead and deal separately with the city on the issue of the roof. Much dis-cussion ensued as to how much we should receive and what ought to be done with the roof. Then in mid fall, Councilwoman Rae Gabelich offered us a building on Atlantic Avenue in Bixby Knolls, the Icaro Art Gallery, formerly Harris Fur Company. When we informed her that the building would suit our needs, she contacted then Councilman Dan Baker to discuss the possibility of Camden's buying the building for us. His response was that Camden would do this, subject to their finding a place for the roof. In December, Councilwoman Gabelich called together a meeting of representatives of the Redevelopment Agency, the Community Development Department, the Building and Planning Department, the Cultural Heritage Commission, Long Beach Heritage, and our Historical Society as well as former Councilman Baker. It was agreed at that time that the solution to the situation would be for Camden to build a ga-zebo with the Looff’s roof on top as well as purchase the Icaro Gallery for us. We are currently in the middle of this process and are hoping it will be resolved by early spring. Your board and staff have been on top of this project through these months of discussions. They are all working hard, attending many meetings to come to an acceptable con-clusion. When the project finally comes to fruition, expect a BIG celebration! Please accept my thanks to all of you members for hang-ing in there with us. It has indeed been a struggle, but it looks like we will finally make it.

Southern California Edison in Long Beach—Part Two By Charlie Basham The first decade of the Twentieth Century saw the Edi-son Electric Company (its name changed to Southern Cali-fornia Edison in 1909) scramble to build and improve its generating capacity to meet the growing demands of a power-hungry region. Edison’s immediate answer was to build a large steam generating station on a barren mudflat called Rattlesnake Island – adjacent to Cerritos Channel in Long Beach Har-bor. The island was surrounded by shallow salt marshes and got its name due to the fact that during major rain-storms, rattlesnakes (and a wide array of other things) would wash down from the inland areas and settle on to the flats. In 1906, private investors and the City of Long Beach eyed Rattlesnake Island for a world-class shipping harbor, and by 1908 an electric dredger named the “City of Red-lands” was carving out the harbor, as well as the water con-duits for the new generating station. Rattlesnake Island was soon renamed Terminal Island to reflect its new purpose. Between 1911 and 1913, Edison installed three massive steam generating units on Rattlesnake/Terminal Island. Combined, the units provided 47,500 kilowatts of electric-ity. More than 150 men ran the plant, including a small army of uniformed janitors whose sole job was to polish the brass and scrub the terra cotta floors. In 1922 and 1923, California faced its first energy crisis when low snow-and rainfall amounts in the Sierras severely limited the capacity for hydroelectric generation. The utili-ties tapped every available power source and squeezed every possible kilowatt from existing generating plants. Edison also pushed up its expansion plans at Long Beach. Construction of a new plant began in January 1924, when the first of 7,000 wooden poles were hammered into the island’s unstable soil. Soon, hundreds of trainloads of mate-rials arrived from factories all over the country. In August of that year, a never-bettered record was set when 22 rail-cars filled with electrical machinery rolled across the conti-nent from New York to Long Beach in only five days. This new plant opened just 303 days after the first wooden poles were driven. During WWII, much of the energy used by local war industries was produced at Long Beach Generating Station. On November 24, 1942, the Procurement Division of the U.S. Treasury Department unexpectedly announced a “friendly seizure” of two of Edison’s generating units that had been installed in 1924. The generators were to be given to Russia to fulfill a wartime lend-lease agreement. It took only three months to disassemble, crate and load everything aboard a Russian freighter. All of the work was done under the suspicious and watchful eyes of stone-faced Russian technicians. To this day all knowledge of this sei-zure, and even whether the freighter made it to Siberia, is lost behind a veil of Russian secrecy.

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were few women in the 1920s (when she started) and in which women are still underrepresented. She became widely known for her method of "taming" snakes. One result was that her snakes successfully bred in captivity. After living and working in Minneapolis and then Chi-cago in the late 1920s and 1930s, Wylie and her mother set out for Long Beach. Here, Wylie opened a zoo. One way she supported herself and her work was by renting her rep-tiles to moviemakers. She continued to advocate her theo-ries and methods for handling reptiles, especially poison-ous snakes. Wylie became well known by popularizing the study of snakes and working to demystify them. She help people see how they fit into the earth's ecology rather than regarding them as symbols of danger and evil. Some time in the 1940s, Wylie moved her zoo from Long Beach to Cypress. In July 1948 while in her new lo-cation, she was showing a cobra she had only owned for five weeks to a writer/photographer from True magazine. As she positioned the snake for a picture, it struck her on an outstretched finger. After unsuccessful treatment at Long Beach Community Hospital, she died at 64 years old.

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Making Sure History Outlasts Us By Bry Myown The Historical Society of Long Beach brings history to life, and we want to keep it alive long after we're history. If you have ever attended our Annual Historical Cemetery Tour, viewed our exhibits, purchased our antique photo repro-ductions or used our research center, you know that the bulk of our collection consists of, well, dead people's stuff. This shouldn't be surprising because that's what history is. But history doesn't begin that way. History begins with the living, and HSLB’s artifacts and documents represent the life's work of people whose involvement in local organiza-tions, churches and day-to-day activities made Long Beach what it is today. Your lives, work and activities are making Long Beach what it will be tomorrow, and when tomorrow comes, we want our collection to record your contributions. Unfortunately, many of us never get around to organizing our papers, photographs and memorabilia. It often falls to others to clean up the affairs we never put in order, and when that day comes, our affairs may end up in the rubbish heap. If you or organizations you belong to are involved in activities you want history to reflect, consider letting us take what you can't take with you off your hands by making the Historical Society your repository and donating your papers and artifacts to our collection now. But consider also what that entails. Our collection requires a physical building with temperature and humidity controls. It requires acid-free, archival storage boxes and file folders. It requires a computer inventory system and staff to organize, archive, and interpret it. Your dues and tax-deductible dona-tions are the only things that pay for the care and maintenance that bring our collection to life. We are profoundly grateful for your contributions, whether of money, volunteer time or historical items. We know that we must ask for your donations often, and we understand that many of you are giving all that you can comfortably give. That's why, when you do put your affairs in order, we'd like you also to consider making a planned gift or estate donation to the HSLB. It will keep you a part of history, forever. To discuss mak-ing a planned estate donation, or donation of items to the HSLB, please call 495-1210.

disincorporated and reincorporated less than a year later, largely over prohibi-tion. Voters adopted a 1907 charter calling for a “board of freehold-ers” that established the title of mayor, which went to Charles Windham. The charter was amended in 1913 to form a council-

mayor government, but raging prohibition controversies soon led to a commission-style government. In 1921, Long Beach was among the earliest cities to adopt the council-manager form of government, and the city's first mayor Windham became its first city manager. More than 100 years later, the mayor was elected by the people's representatives. But a 1988 charter change estab-lished the position of an elected mayor and elevated in-cumbent Ernie Kell to a two-year interim position. Kell became the city's first elected, full-term mayor in 1990 and was replaced by Beverly O'Neill in 1994. The mayor we elect this year will only be the third elected mayor in Long Beach history.

Looff’s employees with signs protest-ing, “Vote Against June 2nd,” in 1937.

HSLB Annual Meeting Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:00 Refreshments 7:30 Meeting

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Elections (continued from page 1)

Grace (continued from page 1)

In Memoriam Violette Bachtelle

Ken Slaybaugh

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