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Long Beach City College
4901 E. Carson St. Long Beach CA
~1.62 miles from Lakewood city center
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Long Beach City College, established in 1927, is a community college located in Long Beach, California. It is divided into two campuses. The Liberal Arts Campus, known as LAC, is located in the residential community of the Lakewood Village section of Long Beach, on Carson Street west of Clark Avenue. The Pacific Coast Campus, known as PCC, is located in central Long Beach, near the city of Signal Hill, on Pacific Coast Highway east of Orange Avenue. It is the only college in the Long Beach Community College District.The college as a whole is known as LBCC, as well as “City.” LBCC serves the cities of Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, and Santa Catalina Island. As of the Spring 2007 semester, the college has an enrollment of 26,729.The superintendent-president of the College is Eloy Oa...
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Cerritos Center for Performing Arts
Los Angeles CA
~3.34 miles from Lakewood city center
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The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) is the Southland's premier performing arts and conference facility, offering great performances in music, dance and theater and unique facilities for meetings, banquets and special events.Owned and operated by the City of Cerritos, the CCPA presents an annual season from August through May. The schedule, which includes more than 150 performances, consists of an eclectic mix of artists. The CCPA has hosted performances by Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Clint Black, The Chieftains, Kathleen Battle, Dance Theater of Harlem, Royal Shakespeare Company, and many others.The CCPA features a flexible theater capable of six different seating and stage configurations, ranging from a 1,800-seat arena theater to a 900-seat recital hall setting. Th...
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Walter Pyramid
Los Angeles CA
~4.12 miles from Lakewood city center
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Walter Pyramid, formerly known as Long Beach Pyramid, is a 5,000-seat, indoor multi-purpose stadium on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, California.Long Beach Pyramid was officially opened on 30 November 1994, when it hosted a Long Beach State 49ers men's basketball game against University of Detroit Mercy, which aired live on ESPN. A standing-room only crowd of 5,021 saw Long Beach come away victorious with a final score of 71-64.The Long Beach Pyramid was designed by Don Gibbs and built by the Nielson Construction Company of San Diego. The building of Long Beach Pyramid cost approximately $22 million dollars. Each side of the perimeter of Walter Pyramid measures 345 feet (105 m), making it a mathematically true pyramid. It is one of only three t...
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Science Education Adventure
6900 Orange Ave Long Beach CA - 562-529-7383
~4.30 miles from Lakewood city center
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California State University Long Beach
1250 N Bellflower Blvd Long Beach CA - 562-985-4111
~4.45 miles from Lakewood city center
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California State University, Long Beach (also known as Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach State, CSULB, LBSU, or The Beach) is the largest campus of the California State University system and the second largest university in the state of California by enrollment. The University is located at the southeastern coastal tip of Los Angeles County, less than a mile from the border with Orange County. (Map)CSULB has repeatedly been recognized as one of "America's Best Value Colleges" by the Princeton Review. More than 30 factors are considered to rate the colleges in four categories: academics, tuition GPA (the sticker price minus average amount students receive in gift aid scholarships and grants), financial aid (how well colleges meet students' financial need) and student borrowing. The univers...
http://www.csulb.edu |  #6 of 30 Things To Do in Lakewood
Rancho Los Cerritos Historic
4600 N Virginia Rd Long Beach CA - 562-570-1755
~4.77 miles from Lakewood city center
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Most of the collections and archival holdings of the Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site are site-specific and relate to its present role as a historic adobe museum and representative site in Southern California. The collections comprise historical items from Rancho Los Cerritos and its owners and residents (including John Temple, owner of the rancho from 1843 to 1866 and builder of the two-story Monterey-style adobe in 1844, and members of the Bixby family, which owned the rancho between 1866 and 1955); the adobe’s Victorian furnishings; and artifacts relating to the cattle- and sheep-ranching eras and the development of the Long Beach area. The Rancho Los Cerritos research library and rancho archives are a rich repository of materials pertaining to the Rancho era and California history. Am...
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Rancho Los Alamitos Museum
6400 E Bixby Hill Rd Long Beach CA - 562-431-3541
~4.80 miles from Lakewood city center
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A Brief History from their website:Maybe it was the plentiful water flowing deep within the earth ... or the extraordinary views that reached from the mountains to the sea ... or the remark able peace that seemed to envelope the land ...Whatever it was, the wind-swept mesa that we now call Rancho Los Alamitos has drawn people to it for centuries.The Native Americans were probably the first, establishing Povuu'nga around 500 A.D. Povuu'nga was a sacred cere monial and trading village.More than 1200 years later, in 1790, a Spanish foot soldier, Manuel Nieto, received the area as part of a 300,000 acre land grant for his retirement. Disputes with Mission San Gabriel quickly reduced his holdings to 167,000 acres. His property was further diminished in 1806 when Nieto's heirs ...
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Surgery Center of Long Beach
2880 Atlantic Ave # 160 Long Beach CA - 562-988-9566
~4.87 miles from Lakewood city center
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VA Long Beach Healthcare System
5901 E 7th St Long Beach CA - 562-494-2611
~4.95 miles from Lakewood city center
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The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is the United States government’s second largest department, after the United States Department of Defense. With a total 2009 budget of about $87.6 billion, VA employs nearly 280,000 people at hundreds of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, clinics, and benefits offices and is responsible for administering programs of veterans’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors.The benefits provided include disability compensation, pension, education, home loans, life insurance, vocational rehabilitation, survivors’ benefits, medical benefits and burial benefits. It is administered by the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.The United Stat...
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Long Beach Casting Club
4901 E. 7th St. Long Beach CA
~5.14 miles from Lakewood city center
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Welcome to the Long Beach Casting Club. If you like fly fishing, or want to learn more about fly fishing, you’re at the right place. Every year we offer classes in casting, rod building and fly tying. These classes are free to the public except for a modest cost for materials.Founded in 1925, we are fortunate to have a lighted casting pond, a newly-renovated club house and one of the largest membership bases in California. Non-members are also welcome to attend our monthly meetings and enjoy the variety of speakers who enthusiastically share their knowledge and their experience.
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Long Beach Grand Prix
3000 Pacific Ave Long Beach CA
~5.19 miles from Lakewood city center
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The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is an open-wheel race held on a temporary road course in Long Beach, California.The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is an open-wheel race held on a street circuit in Long Beach, California. It was the premier circuit in the Champ Car from 1996, and was the first event in the World Series each year from 2004. The 2008 race was the last race for Champ Cars as the series merged with the Indy Racing League, and is now an event on the Indycar Series calendar.The Long Beach Grand Prix in April is the single largest event in the city of Long Beach. Attendance for the weekend regularly reaches or exceeds 200,000 people.The Long Beach Grand Prix is the longest running major "street" race held on the North American continent. It started in 1975 as a Formul...
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Lbfc Museum
1465 Peterson Ave Long Beach CA - 562-599-3985
~5.47 miles from Lakewood city center
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Marine Stadium
Boathouse Lane Long Beach CA
~5.72 miles from Lakewood city center
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One of the world's premier water skiing facilities. Sand beach, rest rooms, picnicking and ample parking. A great location to rent for a special event. Rates are available on request. The stadium was the site for the 1932 Olympic Rowing competition and the 1968 Olympic rowing trials. Marine Stadium was recently designated as an official state historic site. Water skiing is permissible in designated areas only between 8 a.m. and sunset. Rowing is allowed from sunrise to 8 a.m. Before sunrise and after sunset, rowing is allowed only with the proper running lights and observing the 5 mile per hour speed limit. The Southern California Speedboat Club (SCSC) has been putting on professional power boat races at Marine Stadium since 1946. SCSC continues that great tradition with the ann...
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Long Beach Rowing Association
5750 Boathouse Lane Long Beach CA
~5.81 miles from Lakewood city center
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On March 30, 1907, Stanford University and the San Diego Rowing Club competed in a pair of four-oared shells on Alamitos Bay in Long Beach. It was the first rowing event in Long Beach, and the first four-oared race on the Pacific coast. During the roaring 20’s a group of local developers known as the Channel Club had the low-lying tidelands of the Alamitos Bay dredged of more than seven million cubic yards of sand, silt and mud to create a recreational boating lagoon. Soon thereafter, the lagoon caught the eye of the Los Angeles Local Organizing Committee for the Xth Olympic Games as an ideal site for the rowing events, so the Marine Stadium was born. The US men’s 8+ represented by the University of California-Berkeley men won the Xth Olympiad that year defeating Italy, Canada and Great Br...
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Broadway By the Sea
2725 E Broadway Long Beach CA - 562-434-4494
~6.23 miles from Lakewood city center
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Long Beach Arts
695 Alamitos Ave Long Beach CA - 562-435-5995
~6.29 miles from Lakewood city center
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Since 1924, Long Beach Arts has been a non-profit art organization and an on-going collaborative venture between local artists and the community.The gallery hosts a wide variety of juried, group exhibitions in most media.Address: 5372 Long Beach Blvd. (north of Del Amo), North Long Beach! (90805)Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Sundays, Noon to 4 p.m. (Closed between exhibitions.)Visitors can discover our current exhibition topic or media by scanning our calendar (tab above).Artists can click through for entry information.
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Museum of Latin American Art
628 Alamitos Ave Long Beach CA - 562-437-1689
~6.33 miles from Lakewood city center
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The Museum of Latin American Art's flavor is unlike the traditional European/American art seen in art classes--it's bolder and brighter. The art includes photography, sculpture and painting and the display changes on a regular basis. The gift shop has items ranging from inexpensive items to quality (pricey) art items.http://www.molaa.org
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Belmont Plaza Pool
4000 E. Olympic Plaza Long Beach CA
~6.37 miles from Lakewood city center
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The Shops at Rossmoor
Seal Beach CA
~6.39 miles from Lakewood city center
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Long Beach Museum Art
2300 E Ocean Blvd Long Beach CA - 562-439-2119
~6.47 miles from Lakewood city center
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The Long Beach Museum of Art is a museum located on Ocean Blvd. in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California. The museum occupies the historic 1912 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house (designed by Charles Alonzo Rich) and a new two-story pavilion, and includes oceanfront gardens. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am-5pm. Admission is free to the museum on Fridays (as of 2005).Strengths in the permanent collection include American decorative arts objects, early 20th century European art, California Modernism, and contemporary art of California.The museum also has an oceanview café with outdoor tables, Claire’s at the Museum, that is open for lunch on weekdays, and also has a popular weekend brunch.
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Long Beach Yacht Club
6201 E. Appian Way Long Beach CA
~6.54 miles from Lakewood city center
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Long Beach Yacht Club is located on a promontory at the east end of Naples Island in Long Beach, California. Committees organize and manage a full schedule of yachting, educational, social and public-outreach programs, and the Club is recognized throughout the worldwide yachting community for its hospitality.LBYC youth programs are strong and widely popular, focused primarily on swimming, sailing, surfing and — most importantly — fun. Parents and Club staff ensure there is a healthy mix of education, training and social activities. Sailing programs have access to boats ranging from eight-foot Sabots to Catalina-37 match race boats. The Long Beach Yacht Club Sailing Foundation makes its fleet of eleven identical Catalina-37s available for regattas, for education and training, ...
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Knotts Berry Farm
Los Angeles CA
~6.56 miles from Lakewood city center
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Knott's Berry Farm is the brand name of two separate entities: a theme park in Buena Park, California, and a manufacturer of food specialty products (primarily jams and preserves) based in Placentia, California. The theme park is owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company which has made a deal to be acquired by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, and the food specialty business is part of The J. M. Smucker Company.
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Knott's Soak City USA
Los Angeles CA
~6.62 miles from Lakewood city center
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A separately gated water adventure park immediately adjacent to Knott's Berry Farm, Knott's Soak City offers 13 California beach-themed acres designed for thrill seekers of all ages. Here is a little bit of information about Knott's Soak City to help you plan your visit : TICKETS: Knott's Soak City general admission for adults is $28.99. For children between ages 3-11 or for seniors 62+ admission is only $17.99. If you want to save a few dollars, pre-purchase your tickets online, print them at home, and knock off $5 (for adult tickets only). If you're a California resident, an adult ticket price can be purchased for $23.99. Arriving after 3pm? Adult admission after 3pm is reduced to $17.99, child and senior prices are still $17.99 as well. Annual Passes: W...
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Downtown Long Beach (Neighborhood)
Long Beach CA
~7.05 miles from Lakewood city center
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Buena Park Mall
Disneyland - Anaheim CA
~7.16 miles from Lakewood city center
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Buena Park Downtown, formerly Buena Park Mall, is an enclosed shopping mall located on La Palma Avenue in Buena Park, California, near the Knott's Berry Farm theme park. Currently managed by Developers Diversified Realty, the mall is anchored by Bed Bath & Beyond, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Ross Dress For Less, Sears and Wal-Mart. DDR also owns the adjacent Buena Park Place shopping center, which features Petsmart, Office Depot, Kohl's and Circuit City as primary tenants.As of 2007 it is the 20th largest mall in Orange County around 1,100,000 square feet (102,000 m2) of retail space. It has languished in sales, however; at $123 million, it brings in half of other malls its size, such as Simon Property Group's Westminster Mall and Westfield MainPlace.
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Bravo Productions
110 W Ocean Blvd # 537 Long Beach CA - 562-435-0065
~7.17 miles from Lakewood city center
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Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center
300 E Ocean Blvd Long Beach CA
~7.28 miles from Lakewood city center
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The Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a convention center located in Long Beach, California. It was built on the site of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium beginning in 1962. The primary venues of the complex include:The Long Beach Arena was the first building to be completed in the complex. Capacities are as follows: 11,200 for hockey, 13,609 for basketball, and either 4,550, 9,200 or 13,500 for concerts depending on the seating chart.The Arena has hosted various entertainment and professional and college sporting events, most notably the volleyball events of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. It is also noted as a top venue for hip-hop concerts, although entertainers such as Frank Sinatra and Heavy Metal/Hard Rock bands AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Ozzy Osbou...
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Us Air Force Hlth Pro Recruit
444 W Ocean Blvd # 1418 Long Beach CA - 562-435-1009
~7.33 miles from Lakewood city center
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The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare, space warfare, and cyberwarfare service branch of the United States armed forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U.S. military to be formed. In its 2010 Posture Statement, the USAF articulates its core functions as Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Special Operations, Air Superiority, Global Integrated ISR, Space Superiority, Command and Control, Cyberspace Superiority, Personnel Recovery, Global Precision Attack, Building Partnerships, Rapid Global Mobility and Agile Combat Support.As of 2009 the USAF operates 5,573 manned air...
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St. John Greek Orthodox Church
Anaheim CA
~7.39 miles from Lakewood city center
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Us Defense Dept
1 World Trade Ctr Long Beach CA - 562-435-3313
~7.40 miles from Lakewood city center
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The United States Department of Defense (USDOD, DOD or DoD, initially briefly referred to as the National Military Establishment or NME) is the U.S. federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the United States armed forces. The Department of Defense is an evolution of the Department of War. The organization and functions of the DoD are set forth in Title 10 of the United States Code.The DoD is the major tenant of The Pentagon building near Washington, D.C., and has three major components – the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Among the many DoD agencies are the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon Force Protection Ag...
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