Los Altos - The Nations First Planned Community

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Published 2015-07-02

Los Altos Community of Long Beach, CA - the nations first planned community. This is an excerpt from the Whaley Story showing the development and construction of Los Altos from rare 8mm footage. I have not re-edited the music yet on this version so it is - well - worse than elevator music of 70's - sorry

All Comments (21)

@kathrynholden4223 8 years ago

Thank you so much for allowing me to recapture so many memories. Spent many a day at the Los Altos Shopping Center and working at the Broadway was my first job. My parents paid $10,500 for our Los Altos area home in 1952!
@jamesgannon6071 4 years ago

Film and narration by John Cleveland. . . long time resident and business owner in Los Altos. . . .Flying A which became Union 76 at the corner of Bellflower and Abbeyfield and Los Altos Liquor which was just north of the gas station. Great guy!
@ahlheim 6 years ago

I am blown away!! That's all I can say!! I grew up in Los Altos!! Proud to be a Los Altosion!!! :)
@sunshinegirl111 7 years ago

This is so awesome! Seeing my old neighborhood, the Los Altos Shopping Center, where I had my first job at the Broadway! Bixby, the library, all of the places where I grew up!
@gloriaturley324 4 months ago

I just found this video. I lived on Marita st off Palo Verde. I worked at the Broadway. The memories are great.
@steveandme1 8 years ago

Thank you for this video !! Many many memories !
@kevmichael2064 1 year ago

My Dad used to take us kids to the Long Beach Airport to watch the Planes!!!...it was great times...Long Beach was Heaven.... anyhow....
@JohnKunkleAuctioneer 9 years ago

Thanks Laddie, a fantastic post indeed!
@elnabenoit 9 years ago

Love this! First lived in Los Altos in 1974 - and was at various addresses until 2005 - especially stearnlee Ave. Hooray Los Altos!
@baudelioperez3969 6 years ago

At 23:51 I never knew Bellflower Blvd. had a series of telephone lines running through it. Makes it feel so different compared to how I remember it today. Makes sense as to why there still a portion of these lines running from Carson to Conant. This history of Los Altos, LB is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
@kevmichael2064 1 year ago

I used go to Las Altos Drive In Theater and the Lakewood Too....I remember how this area looked in the 1960s and 1970s....it was great back than!!...they should of left it alone in that Time now it is like everywhere else...the 80s ended It All
@deadwood1887 2 years ago

I grew up at 1856 Elmfield Ave. I believe my mom paid $8,000 for the house back in 1950. I still miss Los Altos.
@collettedobrocke5585 3 years ago

Had a home in Los Altos CA from 1966 to 2003
@joebrown479 2 years ago

I grew up here on Fidler and Stearns. I knew it was the center of the universe.
@sunshinegirl111 7 years ago

I lived right off Atherton near Bellflower on the corner of Ashbrook and Elmfield. My parents bought our place back in 1954 for $12,000. I lived there through college at LBCC and CSULB until 1970 when I got my own apartment on 1st and Cherry by Bixby Park. My parents sold the house to a family friend around 1974.
@grahamh9788 8 years ago

los altos always seemed removed from long beach to me. didn't even know it was still in the city lines.
@michaellemmon1305 8 years ago

originally from Los Altos (McNab & Los santos) Crazy to me that it once looked like this...
@thenoid5131 8 years ago

we have come a long way from just a dirt field to now a full blown metropolis city, theres no home like my beloved Long Beach Ca. born here and will die here
@thenoid5131 8 years ago

@ 24:29 you mention the diagnol and the 405fwy is nowhere in sight
@jamieellis8325 5 years ago

It is so wonderful to see my biological mother Clara and my sisters. Lloyd and my mother's ex Rodney.