Peninsula is a neighborhood in Long Beach, California. The landform is known as the Alamitos Peninsula. It separates Alamitos Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It is adjacent to Belmont Shore and across the water from Naples.
History In geological terms, the Alamitos Peninsula is a sandspit. Below this and many layers of sedimentary rock lies the Catalina Schist.
The first homes were built between 1902 and 1904. Around 1903, developers Strong and Dickinson and Robert March & Co. purchased and subdivided the land into 500 lots. In 1929, a legal dispute (Livesey v. Stock) between two Peninsula homeowners over a fence and the high-tide line reached the Supreme Court of California.Livesey v. Stock, 208 Cal. 315, 281 P. 70 (1929), CourtListener. The neighborhood was severely impacted by the 1939 California tropical storm.
The Pacific Electric Long Beach-Alamitos Bay-Seal Beach Line ran along the Peninsula and across a trestle to Seal Beach, where it connected with the Balboa Line. This track was abandoned in 1940.
Sand is moved from the beach near the Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier to the Peninsula to replenish what is carried away by longshore drift. There is evidence the Long Beach Breakwater contributes to this issue by blocking the natural northwest to southeast current.
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See also Neighborhoods of Long Beach, California Alamitos Bay Yacht Club
External links Alamitos Peninsula 1939 Alamitos Peninsula boardwalk 1940 Alamitos Peninsula aerial view of residences 1952 1939 hurricane damage
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