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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
Today in 2021 the entire Navy Base has been turned over to the Chinese for a shipping port and container yard. All of the landscaping and buildings were flattened and the ground is a container parking lot for COSCO. The City of Long Beach decided that they would rather have a Chinese goods port than the US Navy.
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Well, it wasn't Long Beach that decided to close down the Naval Base. It was done in two steps a few years apart by Washington, D.C., In the 1990's.
I used to frequent the Long Beach Civic Light Opera productions. When the Navy moved out, so did half of their military audience, and they unfortunately shut down.
Long Beach Civic Light Opera Hears the Music, Calls It Quits
by DON SHIRLEY (From Green Book?
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APRIL, 1996
Long Beach Civic Light Opera (at the Terrace Theater), a 47-year-old institution that grew from modest community roots into the most prominent musical theater company in Southern California, is going out of business.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...724-story.html
Terrace Theater:
LongBeachConcertVenues
Long Beach Arena in the background, on left.