Long Beach Boulevard

Long Beach Boulevard is a north south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County.

Geography

Long Beach Boulevard starts off as a continuation of Pacific Boulevard south of Cudahy Street in Walnut Park. Long Beach Boulevard passes through South Gate, Lynwood, Compton and Long Beach. It ends at Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach. The City of Long Beach renamed the road from American Avenue in 1959.

In the 1970s, Long Beach Boulevard was lined with gay, lesbian, and transvestite bars. Sailors from the local Long Beach Naval Shipyard and Naval Station would enjoy all the bar activity. "Closeted" sailors had to be careful of military police "Witch Hunts," where Shore Patrol (SP) would venture into the bars and pull sailors from the bar and into paddy waggons.

It crosses intersection with State Route 42 (Firestone Boulevard), Interstate 105 (Century Freeway), State Route 91 (Artesia Freeway), Interstate 710 (Long Beach Freeway), Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway), and State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway).

Public transportation

Bus service north of Artesia Boulevard is served by Metro Local line 60 and Metro Rapid line 760. Service between Artesia Boulevard and the Long Beach Transit Mall is served by Long Beach Transit line 51. Metro line 60 replaces Long Beach line 51 during early mornings and late evenings.

Rapid transit

The Metro Green Line serves a station underneath Interstate 105.

The Metro Blue Line falls in the middle of the boulevard between Willow and 1st Streets in Long Beach, serving the: Willow, PCH, Anaheim, 5th Street, and 1st Street stations.

Streets in Los Angeles and the metropolitan area

Numbered streets	1–10 1st 3rd 11–40 41–250 Avenues

North–south streets	Alameda Alvarado Atlantic Blvd./Atlantic Ave. Avalon Blvd. Aviation Blvd. Beverly Dr. Broadway Cahuenga Blvd. Central Ave. Crenshaw Blvd. Doheny Dr. Fairfax Ave. Figueroa Garfield Ave. Glendale Blvd./Brand Blvd. Gower Grand Avenue Highland Ave. Hill Hoover La Brea Ave./Hawthorne Blvd. La Cienega Blvd. Laurel Canyon Blvd./Crescent Heights Blvd. Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles Main Normandie Ave. Ocean Ave. Robertson Blvd. Rosemead Blvd./Lakewood Blvd. San Fernando Rd. San Pedro Sawtelle Blvd. Sepulveda Blvd. Soto/Huntington Dr. Pacific Blvd./Long Beach Blvd. Vermont Ave. Vine Western Ave. Westwood Blvd. Wilcox Avenue

East–west streets	Adams Blvd. Alondra Blvd. Arrow Hwy. Artesia Blvd. Bandini Blvd. Beverly Blvd. Carroll Ave. Carson Century Blvd. Compton Blvd./Marine Ave. Del Amo Blvd. El Segundo Blvd. Florence Ave. Franklin Ave. Garvey Ave. Hollywood Blvd. Imperial Hwy. Jefferson Blvd. Las Tunas Dr. Lomita Blvd. Los Feliz Blvd. Manchester Ave./Firestone Blvd. Manhattan Beach Blvd. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Melrose Ave. Montana Ave. Mulholland Dr. Nadeau Olympic Blvd. Pico Blvd. Rosecrans Ave. Santa Monica Blvd. Slauson Ave. Sunset Blvd./Cesar Chavez Ave. Temple Valley Blvd. Vernon Ave. Venice Blvd. Washington Blvd. Whittier Blvd. Wilshire Blvd.

The Valleys	Arrow Hwy. Balboa Blvd. Beverly Glen Blvd. Cahuenga Blvd. Coldwater Canyon Ave. Colorado Blvd. Foothill Blvd. Glenoaks Blvd. Huntington Dr. Lankershim Blvd. Laurel Canyon Blvd. Mulholland Dr. Reseda Blvd. Riverside Dr. San Fernando Rd. Sepulveda Blvd. Sunland Blvd./Vineland Ave. Topanga Canyon Blvd. Valley Blvd. Van Nuys Blvd. Ventura Blvd. Victory Blvd.

Intersections and traffic circles	Hollywood and Vine Los Alamitos Circle

Diagonal streets	Centinela Ave./Bundy Dr. San Vicente Blvd. California Incline

Streets in San Pedro	Gaffey Western Ave.

Alleyways	Olvera Santee Alley

In popular culture	77 Sunset Strip "All I Wanna Do" "Blue Jay Way" "Dead Man's Curve" "Down Rodeo" Mulholland Drive "Pico and Sepulveda" Sunset Boulevard (film, musical)

All un-suffixed roads are streets unless otherwise noted.

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