Instead of interesting items that may have been puzzling and amusing to people under the age of, say, 30, the mystery box unearthed Monday at 100 Oceangate in Downtown contained an awful lot of Port of Long Beach documents.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a fine example of a great bridge name and the credit doesn’t go to whoever came up with the name of the bridge, but rather to John C. Fremont, who gave the name of Golden Gate to the strait over which the bridge spans, so it was really a no-brainer to give the bridge its name.
There have been a handful of other fine bridge names: The Bridge of Sighs, in Venice, Italy; France’s Pont du Gard; the Wind and Rain Bridge in China; Hell Gate in New York City.
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A community leader involved with numerous causes and groups across Long Beach, Bixby was, perhaps, most memorably known as a cycling advocate involved in everything from creating the city’s Bicycle Master Plan, helping start the Long Beach Bike Festival, and championing the city’s national reputation as a bike-friendly city.
Friends and family gather during a memorial in Belmont Shore Tuesday evening, marking the 10th anniversary of a plane crash that killed five people. Photo by Stephen Carr.
On March 16, 2011, Bixby and four others Thomas Dean, Jeffrey Berger, Bruce Krall and Kenneth Cruz perished aboard a private plane that crashed shortly after takeoff at Long Beach Airport. A sixth passenger, Mike Jensen, Bixby’s colleague, survived with serious injuries.