1925 Map of Long Beach

About this map

The burgeoning oil and residential landscape of the mid-1920s is laid bare in this survey, where the prominent elevation of Signal Hill towers over an expanding grid of streets. The coastline is defined by leisure and transit, featuring the Pine Avenue Pier and Belmont Pier alongside the extensive tracks of the Pacific Electric railroad. To the east, the development of Naples and the nearby Alamitos Bay illustrate the transformation of the waterfront into a structured community, while the presence of Bixby Ranch and Bixby School points to the agrarian roots and family-held estates that preceded the urban sprawl. This map captures the transition from open ranch land to a dense city, with industrial markers like a Water Tank and the channel of the Gabriel River framing the coastal development.