Cleanest marine Container Terminal in the world. Theything from the time vessel reaches the birth to when cargo leaves the gate, whether by truck or train, everything within the fence line is fully electrified. There are no emissions. One of the Amazing Things of this operation, when we come to the type of systems that are being placed here for moving cargo around within the terminal, loading and unloading, is called an automated guided vehicle. It is completely 100 percent zero emissions. It is electric. Everything from the stacking cranes to the short cranes, they are among the most modern and most efficient when it comes to moving cargo. That is an important thing not only for the environment, but also for where our industry has to be for efficiencies in moving cargo. This terminally this terminal will really be stateoftheart. We are focused on this most modern terminal. When it goes live, there are a lot of people looking because there are a lot of people who are also thinking about doing similar types of renovations and coming up with new types of operations on their marine terminals as well. We are a port town. We are proud of that. Our city is proud of the port. Over the years, we may we maybe had some bumps in the road , not listening to our community, not thinking about the integration between the art and our city. Our port and our city. But that will make us even more successful in the future. Announcer all we can come American History tv is featuring long beach, california. The hit the city was officially named in 1888 after the length of its beaches. Cspan cities to her staff recently visited many sites, showcasing the citys rich history. Learn more about long beach all weekend here on American History tv. We are currently standing in the south gallery of the Circle Society of long beach. On the table in front of me are teachers, photos of one iconic event in long beach history. That is the discovery of oil in 1921, and these pictures demonstrate how that change the nature of the community over the next 40 or 50 years and helped to produce what the modern city launches today. We are currently getting rights to open an exhibition about oil and long beach and the area called black gold. And we hope to be able to educate citizens in long beach and schoolchildren and any visitors about how Important Oil was in the development of the city and the region in the 20th century. Knewe in the oil industry there would be Oil Everywhere along the Southern California coastal area because oil had been discovered in the Central Valley of california earlier. Angeles. Lls above los and alsoople came basically downtown los angeles, they discovered oil in the 1890s. So people who had done that took one look at the long beach area, the Huntington Beach area, and they knew there was oil here. As early as 1930, 1914, people began to look at possibilities of oil. The problem is that it was really deep and Drilling Technology did not allow them to go that deep until after world war i. In 1918, 1919, image of things happened for bringing all of this together. To thatma canal opened is significant because now you could put products like oil on ships and send them through the panama canal to eastern cities. Decided navy stationed to station elements on the west coast. Long beach got the bulk of that. Other ports were in san diego and san francisco. But san pedro bay, wilmington in the city of long beach also got a huge containment of navy ships and that meant a need for fuel and oil and repair facilities and so on and so forth. So the navy comes to our area. World war i created a sense of the u. S. Becoming a global nation and being interested in global affairs. In 1921,is discovered all of these things come together. This is signal hill. This will show you how oil was major overnight becomes a ingredient in the development and the growth of the city of long beach. This will get us on our way. The interesting thing about the signal hill strike is that, before this happened, signal hill was basically an agricultural community. A Small Community of just a few hundred people. Many were japaneseAmerican Farmers who leased land from the big Ranch Companies and grew cucumbers and cut flowers. When oil came, this people were overwhelmed. They lost everything. Imagine,n well protection of environmental regulations were extremely lax if they existed at all at this time period. Big Oil Companies would come. Small islands Oil Companies are conquered they would open a well and take as much oil as a cool they could out of the area and very little concerned about environmental issues. Waste oil would run down the streets of signal hill into long beach. This is why one of the people who live there decided that she peoples losses taken care of by the big Oil Companies. She fought for years to get the big Oil Companies to pay reparations to land that was lost and props our loss. Eventually, she prevailed and she got the Oil Companies to pony up about half 1 million, about 500,000 to deal with the losses that had been suffered. Although signal hill is very important for the next 25 years, a 1936, oil would be discovered in long beach harbor. This is the famous wilmington field, which would produce even more millions of barrels of oil. Oil companies are come to the 85 and offer the city royalties. That would allow the city to become from a small beside community to dating the streets in creating a water line and a Fire Department and Police Department and develop into a modern city that it was for the 1920s in the 1930s. Long beach took so much revenue from the Early Oil Production in the 1920s in the 1930s that, at one point, the city council was thinking about canceling city taxes because we had so much oil revenue. This may be apocryphal, i dont know, but there is a boast that long beach was the richest little city in the world. This did not sit well with other cities in california or the state of california or the which sawvernment, these oil revenues as properly belonging to them. So a big fight would break out after world war ii, 1946, 1940 seven, which the state of california would demand a larger share of the oil revenues. The federal government would try to restrict the ability of the state and the city to control offshore oil drilling. It would lead to major fights that would go on for years. The end result is that of the golden age of oil revenue comes to an end pretty rapidly. By 1959, long beach has given up most of its oil revenues to the state of california. All of this Early Oil Production, Oil Extraction being so wasteful and so environmentally destructive, of course, its going to have to give way in the 1950s and 1960s to more safe and more productive and more Efficient Oil production. In 1966, the city of long beach will and the Oil Companies will begin to construct artificial islands. This will allow Oil Extraction directly from the harbor from the wilmington field. This is one answer to that issue of how to make Oil Extraction less environmentally destructive. Although there are problems also with the oil islands as well. You drive around Southern California, drive around long beach, round signal hill comedians elsie the remnants of around signal hill, you can still see the remnants of oil production. You dont see this anymore. These are the old days. Now we see modern Oil Facilities , verylectronic pumps quietly, very efficiently producing oil and wells around signal hill and long beach. In the same way that the gold ,ush made Northern California and oil is important in places like texas and oklahoma, oil was here in Southern California, especially in places like Huntington Beach, long beach in the Central Valley. All week and come American History tv is featuring long beach, california, located about 20 miles south of los angeles. Cspan cities tour staff recently visited the side, showcasing the citys history. Rancho los alamitos is one of the rare sites in Southern California that has a continuous history of more than 1500 years of occupancy. If you follow the chain of occupancy, you are really looking at the development of Southern California. The site is particularly important to the people because the gods ascended from heaven and gave the loss to the people and was given and went back to heaven. The design on the floor is to give you an idea of the native american territory and the territory given under spanish niet many ofo. The. People who receive the land under spanish rule were former soldiers who had been on expeditions exploring Southern California. That was meant that was true nieto there was the first grantee here. When he died, the land was split among his children. Performance if iran shows, each of which is about 20,000 acres. Each rancho is about 20,000 acres. In a ranchoanding los alamitos adobe ranch house. We are in the court of the ranch house right now, which is where the adobe is. The walls surrounding us right now are adobe walls. Manuelbe was built one owned the ranch house. He was the first grantee. He built the ranch house as an outpost of his huge acreage. It wasnt Owner Occupied at the time manuel nieto belted. It was decibel it. Manuel ned to house ieto built it. Used to house caballeros. From the first spanish grantees two owners during the mexican kb the end the american period and everyone who live here added to it. So the original adobe is completely encased in additions. Additions in this direction where the bedrooms are, the main part of this bedroom is in the adobe. But the little sun room out there was an addition from about 1909. Over here, we have the library also inside part of the original adobe. But the room beyond it, the music room is outside of the adobe. It is a rather organic structure that just grew over the last 200 years to see to the families and cultures that were living inside it. Right now, we are in the music room of the ranch house. This is a room that is outside of the adobe core. It was added to the house by john and susan bixby when they lived here at the ranch in the 1870s and 1880s. John and susan bixby where the first bixbys to ranch here at rancho lasala. The bixby family was a very large family, originally from new england, from maine. And they came out here right after the gold rush with cousins, the flints, and they started out selling things to the minors, which most successful bid at the gold rush. They had a butcher shop. But then they started buying up some of the ranches in some of the land that was here in california after california became part of the United States. They started in central california, but he ended up down here in Southern California. First, they purchased a ranch here in long beach called fragilis reaches called cerritos. Bought it with partners. E lived there with his wife and he invited other of his bixby relatives to come out here and help them on the ranch as well as some of his wifes relatives. One of the cousins who came out to help john bixby with his ranch was john bixby, young men from maine. He had been a schoolteacher, a cabinet maker, a varied background. But he was very young when he arrived in california. When he was on the raise, he was learning how to become a rancher. Susan hathaway and married susan hathaway. Rancho los alamitos, the adjoining ranch became available for sale, john and susan purchased it through partners. They began leasing the ranch they purchasednd it with their partners in 1881. John and susan bixby had two children, a son and a daughter. From inheriting the ranch their parents, susanna and fred tried operating the ranch together. It did not work out so well, so they divided the property between them. Did not work out so well so they divided the property between them and fred bixby inherited the ranch house in the central part of Rancho Los Alamitos and he continued to ranch here. He did not continue any sheep operation. Fred bixby acquired other ranches throughout california and arizona and mostly was engaged in cattle ranching. He also had a soft spot for horses. He kept his stallions at this ranch and he kept the mares at the coast. He had quite a horse breeding operation going on. We have two shire horses on the ranch today. Only 75 acres left. At the time he passed away, he had the largest shire horse breeding Operation West of the mississippi. There were not any buyers of horses after he died. The last bixby to live here at the ranch was fred bixbys wife and she passed away in 1961. Their children, they had four children, got together and talked about it and they decided that they should become an Historic Site available to all of the people of california. Even susan bixby had the sense of the history of this place and even when she was making repairs and additions, it was with the history of the place in mind. Even 100 years before it was given to the city of long beach, there was a sense of the history of the place. The final donation was made in 1968 and the family donated 7. 5 acres to the city and all the buildings, the contents of those buildings, 95 of the furnishings that you see inside the ranch house our original to the family. This is the way they lived and this is the way it looked while they were here. Some of the barns were just a little bit outside the limits of the seventh and five acres. Except for the first barn, all of the barns were moved in just a little bit closer. We completed a restoration in 2014 to align the barns in a more gridlike pattern. The bixbys did make a lot of changes to the grounds. They had gardens here, but back then, you have to hand water everything. You are careful about what you chose to grow here and how much labor it was going to take. You also had animals here. John and susan bixby put in the first extensive gardens and the gardens just off of this room, called the old garden, were installed by john and susan bixby. When fred and florence took over, florence began slowly expanding the gardens. One of the things that happened here in long beach in the early 1920s, was the discovery of oil. Because the bixbys were very large landowners, a lot of the oil was under their land. This gave them a lot more income to play with than just the ranch would provide. Florence bixby was able to hire some of the premier landscape architects, including the olmsted brothers. We have four acres of beautiful landscaped gardens. There are many levels, you get some relief from being in an environment. You can come and just be in the gardens and not do anything beyond that. You can decide just to take a house tour. We tried to keep it as unstructured and interesting as we can so people can take what they want. Always long, American History tv is joining our Communications Cable partners to showcase a his three of long beach, california. To learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit cspan. Org. We continue with our look at the history of long beach. Transatlantic crossings during the golding age golden vip sales, it was almost a rite of passage for your legacy as an individual. The queen mary. It started construction in 1930. The hall stopped, and working with the british government,. Ork began it was very important to get these people back to work. In 1936. Was completed over a combined total of 3500 people, combined guest as well as crew members. It took just shy of five full days. She was wonderfully welcomed in new york harbor when she arrived. Travels inships crossing, the area was basically meant to be an entertainment where you can hear live music and socialize with fellow passengers. In the evening hours, the stage would light up and it would either be movies projected onscreen or entertainment with live music and live dancing. Was wooden floor and they would roll the carpets at night for dancing and entertainment. There are many built in original features in the room that remains. Probably one of the most notable features of the firstclass main lounge, now the queen salon, is the artwork behind me, that depicts to unicorns playing in battle. That is the name of the piece. Unicorns in battle. It is said that when the horns met, on the unicorns, you would hear music. Because this room was basically built around the notion of entertainment and music, it was an appropriate art installation for this room. We are located now in the original firstclass dining room. Now called the grand salon aboard rms queen mary. The firstclass dining room was where first class passengers would meet to have their meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Occasionally, some entertainment, as well. It is a beautiful , a lot of decorative release that indicates transportation at sea. We have a beautiful, huge chart that navigated rms queen mary and the Queen Elizabeth as they crossed the atlantic. Passengers could actually look up and see the ships movement. Throughout the crossing during their meals. In 1939, world war ii or the war was a clear, and there was an agreement between kinnard and the allies that the queen mary and the Queen Elizabeth would be taken and converted into trip carriers, both of their capacity and their speed allowed both ships to be wonderful