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  A reader requested a photo of the one rooms school house that was built at the corner of San Antonio Drive  and Pine Avenue and here it is.  The school was built to accomodate the growing population of the … Continue reading →

    Another photograph of the Los Cerritos School south has just surfaced found in the Vignes family photo album in the possession of the descendants of Amelia Vignes, youngest daughter of John and Mary Kent Vignes.  John and Mary … Continue reading →

This old photo of the Pacific Electric car was taken by former Los Cerritos resident Stephen Dudley, a member of the Bixby family.  He took this photo just after he hopped off a train.  At one time there was a … Continue reading →

Evolving from a 27,000 thousand acre Rancho to a 1400 acre Colony of farmers, and book cover cropped for blogthen to a neighborhood subdivision, Long Beach’s Los Cerritos is the story of a fiercely independent community established before William Willmore’s … Continue reading →