Los Altos: Signs of the Times

Los Altos: Signs of the Times

Annoyance:

Even with numerous parking lots in the area, neighbors on Abbeyfield Street are still dealing with parking problems from the Los Altos Taco Beach.  If the problem continues- one option is a preferred parking district. With a parking district, visitors who park in the district without a visitor pass or resident sticker will be ticketed.  

Economy:

 

Prime retail space at the Los Altos Center South is still being occupied by the displaced Crown Books “Liquidation” Store. The store moved from downtown to the former Borders Space- then across the parking lot when the huge Borders retail was turned into medical offices.

 

One of the Los Altos neighborhood's

many mattress stores is being remodeled into a medical home mobility store. It received its sign last week.

Longevity:

Los Altos landmark-Umberto’s Clothing celebrates 50 years in Long Beach with a 50th Anniversary sale.

 Summer:

The Los Altos Hof’s Hut (one of the two remaining Long Beach Hof’s ) celebrates summer with summer peaches on its seasonal menu

Why were the LB Fire and LB Police at Abbeyfield and Bellflower on Monday night outside of Taco Beach?

Several units of the Long Beach Fire and Police Departments responded to a 911 call on Monday July 15, 2013 to the bus stop in front of Taco Beach.

A women sitting on the bus bench waiting for a bus outside of Taco Beach was not feeling well and she called 911.

Paramedics, fire department units and the Long Beach Police all responded to the women's 911 call. Some of the fire units parked in the Taco Beach parking lot so they would not block the streets.

The incident had nothing to do with Taco Beach.

New Los Altos Center stores

Los Altos CAN

 Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhoods

Mattress and music gone…medical in!

New brown paint for medical supply store

One of Los Altos’ many mattress stores is gone and being replaced by a medical supply store. According to neighboring businesses and workers on site, the former mattress store between the Los Altos Hoff’s Hut and the Copyco store is being converted into a medical supply store (…think wheel chairs and crutches).

Meanwhile, across Bellflower Blvd., half the former Whittaker music space next to Chronic Taco (not their former space now the Los Altos Trader Joes) will become another Los Altos Center optometrist office (not to be be confused with the former optometrist, which is now a Starbucks).

Former Whittaker music space being divided

The other half of the Whittaker space and the space next store to it are not yet leased.

ALSO...the new Deli News owners have now opened on Saturdays and added new chairs and tables- adding seating.

New Route for 4th of July Bike Parade

Los Altos 4th of July Bike Parade gets new route down Abbeyfield

The once meandering neighborhood 4th of July Bike Parade will take a straight shot down Abbeyfield Street on this 4th of July.

Parade participants are asked to meet at Atherton and Abbeyfield at 10 am.

The parade will go the three blocks east on Abbeyfield and end at the Taco Beach parking lot at Abbeyfield and Bellflower Blvd. for light refreshments.

F-18 FIghter Jets over Los Altos

Five Fighter Jets to land at Long Beach Airport

The Hornets are coming! Five F-18s will be landing at Long Beach Airport this evening around 6:00 p.m. today!

If you get any good pics, the Long Beach Airport wants them at at lgbarpt@longbeach.gov so they  can share them on Fan Friday! #TGIFF

Signatures for closing Abbeyfield sought

Abbeyfield St chosen to be 4^th of July Parade Route-signatures needed

Simon Stone, a neighbor from Stearnlee street and one of the primary organizers of the up till now grassroots Los Altos Neighborhood Bike Parade, will be circulating a petition on Abbeyfield Street to have the street closed to host this year’s expanded Los Altos 4th of July Bike Parade.

A total of 66% of residents of Abbeyfield Street will need to sign a petition to close all of Abbeyfield off on the morning of July 4^th for a few hours so the parade can end at the Taco Beach parking lot.

The traditional route winding its way through the streets of the Garfield/ Stearnlee street corridor has been ditched with an expanded parade as neighbors from the neighborhoods on the East Side of Bellflower plan to join the parade.

The parade is scheduled to start at Abbeyfield and Atherton and end at the Taco Beach parking lot at  Bellflower and Abbeyfield. Taco Beach owner Kevan Vance is donating  donuts at the end of the parade.

Councilman O’Donnell’s office has signed off on the plan and has expedited the permit process.  The city requires 10 day notice for a “block party” and a 60 notice for a “parade”.

If approved, no parking on Abbeyfield will be allowed during the closure if it is approved as a "parade", if it is approved as a "block party" parking will be allowed (see applications below).  

Click on the following for more information:

Long Beach Block Party Petition Info

Long Beach Block Party Application

LB Report Parade coverage

Parade on YouTube

LBPD East Division community meeting

LBPD to hold neighborhood community meeting

Long Beach Police Department is holding a community meeting at Stanford Middle School  on Thursday June  20 at 7pm regarding crime trends, dispatcher information and other important information.

Stanford Middle School is in back of Target Store on Los Arcos in the Los Altos Center North.

 For more information please call LBPD @ 562-570-5880.

East Division Community Forum

Thursday, June 20th at 7:00 p.m.

Stanford Middle School Auditorium, 5871 Los Arcos