“Just to see all my dad’s friends, some of my family, my friends that knew my dad,” Jimmy said of the point of the event. “Some of my friends didn’t have their fathers in their lives and they looked up to him. They called him 'Big Jay.’”
The residents voted 227-202 in 1956 to become the Switzerland of East Long Beach and, so, for almost 70 years, they’ve been pretty content to live in a hybrid area with the county providing most services, and Long Beach pitching in for others.