Our City by the Sea, Long Beach New York, A history of our Great City: Documentary Trailer

[@geraldwright9841]

Proud to be from there! A west-ender all the way. My first rock band was called L.B.L.I.

[@mnms1963]

Love it

[@candyfischer783]

My beautiful home destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. I went to Lido Elementary School till we moved to Oceanside. This film missed the wonderful beach clubs that lined the Ocean and what the boardwalk was like in the 50's and 60's. As children we were always digging in the sand looking for the money that was buried during Prohibition. Parking was 10 cents an hour and the beach was free. Rides, hot dogs, cotton candy, knishes and the Boardwalk games drew large crowds. Who can forget sitting on your Father's shoulders watching the 4th of July Fireworks punks in hand,then walking home to sleep outside on the front porch on chaises. We had the best life in Long Beach.

[@LongBeachNY11561]

Hi Candy. This is only ten minutes of an hour and a half long documentary. It covers the history of Long Beach from the 1600's into the present and possible future. in the middle of all of that, it includes different decades of Long Beach, great facts and interesting tid-bits. It also contains an entire chapter dedicated to Hurricane Sandy and past storms that have affected Long Beach over the years. I am sure you will find it heartwarming and nostalgic. Release date coming soon. Best wishes, Rob Rothman

[@candyfischer783]

LongBeachNY11561 Looking forward to seeing it. Billy Crystal describes our life in Long Beach perfectly. His Father headed W on 42nd St mine headed East on 42nd St. Steve Lawrence Edie Gormie, first children to be tested for the Polio Vaccine, and so much more.

[@alan15768]

@@candyfischer783 I had lived in the city of long beach for five years from 1977 to 1982 in buildings, most of my building neighbors were not grass roots long beach people most had originated from other areas of LI or from the outer boroughs of NYC , they were mostly into the late 1970's disco craze of those times and i honestly did not get along with them very well but once i had begun to get out into the actual streets and mingle with the grass roots population as a street photographer i had gotten along very well.

[@candyfischer783]

My first home on Boyd St by the canals, 1952.

[@alan15768]

Yes but you are leaving out a big chunk of long beach history , i had lived in the old city in the years prior to the gentrification when the city was going through some of its toughest times , lets begin with the ware housing of psychiatric patients by the state of New York into the old x luxury hotel buildings right off of the boardwalk and also into dilapidated single room occupancy apartment buildings on east Broadway a very concerning issue for the city in the 70's . There was also a huge elderly population living in apartment buildings directly off of the boardwalk during the mid to late 1970's, a multicultural working class population had lived in buildings on the west end who were forced to evacuate there apartments under shady circumstances during the early 1980's. I had lived at 302 east Broadway at the time and i can still remember hearing loud sirens of the fire trucks speeding down east Broadway heading west almost nightly, apartment buildings were burning some say set by greedy landlords hoping to force lower income tenants out . The old amusement park was certainly a center of boardwalk life for decades along with the ice cream stand and old penny arcades that had stood right before the approach to the old king David hotel . I was a street photographer at the time and i had captured many portraits of people living in long beach from 1978-1982 I don't think that they should be forgotten , the very elderly that would sit row upon row on benches lining the boardwalk that i would talk to before taking there portraits, they all had an interesting story to tell, one man that i would always see sitting on a boardwalk bench with his small poodle on his lap was actually a world war 1 veteran. The mental patients were a sad sight to see wondering incoherently around the boardwalk forgotten by the world there was a lot of loneliness and despair in both groups. I remember the wide range of street life around the penny arcades that is where all of the action was for me as a street photographer , there was also an Hasidic Jewish presence on the west end of the boardwalk that is still there some forty years later . The old city was an intensive place filled with every aspect of human life back in those times and it would be very sad if i were the only one that had attempted to document this on film.

[@LongBeachNY11561]

This is just clips of the film. I was sure to include all of what you mentioned. My film spans from the 1600's to the present. The entire documentary is just over an hour long.

[@LBdave]

Relax alen