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The 4th Street Corridor is a small business district in the city of Long Beach, CA, along 4th Street from Walnut Avenue to Junipero Avenue.Located east of Downtown Long Beach, with plenty of vintage and kitschy shopping. Fabulous furniture and clothing from bygone eras is available in good condition at antique and vintage clothing stores. There are also a number of bars and restaurants, two coffeeshops, a bookstore and the newly restored Art Theatre.

Nestled along the Coast in the southeast corner of Long Beach, Belmont Shore is a charming beachside community home to over two hundred and fifty businesses. The purpose of the Belmont Shore Business Association is to form a common bond among business owners located in and around the Belmont Shore area whose goals are to promote, protect, and maintain prosperity for the Belmont Shore Community.

The Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association is a proactive organization whose purpose is to promote the Bixby Knolls area for the benefit of the businesses in the district.

The California Heights Neighborhood Association (CHNA) is a nonprofit organization working to promote public knowledge and preservation of historic and architectural resources in the California Heights Historic District.

Since 2001, local Cambodian community activists have been working to get Long Beach City Council approval to officially designate the Anaheim Street corridor as "Cambodia Town." On the weekends, hundreds of Cambodians from Southern California come to Anaheim Street to shop and visit with one another, recreating their homeland. No other population of Cambodians, outside of Cambodia, has attained this level of recognition.

The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) is a non-profit organization operating on behalf of the tenants and commercial property owners of the Business Improvement District. It is dedicated to the management, marketing, security, maintenance, advocacy, economic and community development of the downtown area.

The EASBA is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization whose primary mission is to lead and serve the business community of East Anaheim Street and positively influence the city’s overall social and economic landscape. We further empower local businesses and enable them to achieve their business goals and opportunities to showcase products and services, while building a powerful contact network.

The Historical Society of Long Beach is a nonprofit organization, with gallery, archive, and offices located in Long Beach. At our facility and through our programs, we promote, develop, exhibit, and preserve Long Beach history. We serve students, educators, researchers, and those interested in local history.

Founded in 1988 by Mark Barville, the Long Beach Chorale & Chamber Orchestra has earned its reputation as Long Beach's leading volunteer choral ensemble through its energetic and artfulperformances of a wide variety of repertoire. The Long Beach Chorale is equally at home singing the classics of Western music and the musical gems of cultures around the world.Under the direction of Eliza Rubenstein since 2003, the Chorale has continued to expand its repertoire and to garner high praise from audience members and media alike.

Long Beach Heritage (LBH) is a nonprofit education and advocacy group promoting public knowledge and preservation of significant historical and architectural resources, neighborhoods, and the cultural heritage of Long Beach.LBH presents community forums, educational programs, lectures, and architectural tours to promote public awareness.

The Long Beach Museum of Art is a community-based organization that collects and cares for a permanent art collection, presents changing exhibitions in a variety of media and provides engaging educational programming for youth and adults. In working toward this mission, the Museum offers a wide range of activities for all ages.The Long Beach Museum of Art is located on a magnificent bluff-top site overlooking Long Beach Harbor and the Pacific Ocean. The campus includes the historic Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house, now called the Miller Education Center (built in 1912), oceanfront gardens, and a new pavilion with two floors of expansive gallery space for changing exhibitions with the Museum Store in the Masterson Atrium.

MOLAA is the only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American art. Since its inception, MOLAA has doubled its size, adding a sculpture garden and expanded its permanent collection. The museum, founded in 1996, is located in the newly developing East Village Arts District

Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday. The Rancho hosts educational programs and special events throughout the year on topics as diverse as agricultural and domestic skills, Native American, Japanese and Hispanic culture, the history of landscape design and an annual ranch-style Christmas program.

Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site is a public museum open for tours, programs and events. Built in 1844, the adobe home and grounds echo with the rich history of Spanish, Mexican and American California and with the families who helped transform Southern California from its ranching beginnings to a modern, urban society. The site, a National, State and Long Beach Historic Landmark, also includes historic gardens and a research library and archives. It is owned by the City of Long Beach and operated through the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine.

or over 30 years, the UAM has introduced numerous artists from diverse fields to a broad audience, both nationally and internationally, and has showcased many of the most significant artistic and cultural developments of the past 50 years. The UAM program of dynamic solo exhibitions and landmark group presentations define key moments in contemporary art, reflect the global nature of art today, and span a vast array of cultural activities and media.