Archive / People
Long Beach agencies have reported a 60 percent increase in needy families waiting for food assistance. We Love Long Beach and Food Finders have teamed up for a pre-Thanksgiving food drive aimed at engaging the residents of Long Beach and encouraging them to give back to their neighbors in need.
Come join us for a free breakfast in Bixby Knolls. We believe that it is a great way to get to know your neighbors. A neighborhood that knows one another is a neighborhood that serves and helps one another. So please spread the word! Thank You!
Come join our free fitness class with trainer Jed Miller. It is a twenty person limit so please sign up today!
Come get to know your neighbors! And 25% of the bill goes to We Love Long Beach!!! We want this City to be Great!!!
(Please leave a comment about what you thought about the event.)
Here is a video from our famous We Love Long Beach Neighborhood BBQ at Marine Stadium. It was a gorgeous day by the water, who could ask for anything more? We had over 500 neighbors come out to enjoy live music, free hamburgers, free art for kids, Bro Futurists, Graham Street Press and lots more. Ten local non profits were also represented with all of the great stories of how they are doing their part to make this city so beautiful. Local bands like Sam Outlaw, Two Guns, and Deep Sea Diver delivered outstanding performances and added texture to the day. Thank you to everyone that participated and partnered to make this event so memorable.
We believe that we as a community have room to grow closer to one another in trust and love. The busyness of our live has caused us to drift further and further from one another. We Love Long Beach exists in order to know and serve the people, the neighborhoods, and the city of Long Beach. One of our goals is to ignite the gifts and passions of each person in our neighborhoods in order to stengthen the whole of our city, hence We Love Long Beach. Whether its conversation, or conservation, whether it is going green, or going out to serve… every person can and must play a role in this community in order for Long Beach to be a truly great city! If you have any questions or ideas please email us: info@welovelb.org
We need everyone to play their role for this city to flourish!
Thank you Adam Ferry, Robin Jones and Legends for making this event what it was. Thank you Kate Jones for creating this helpful video!
Scott Jones
Founder and Director of WLLB
This is our third breakfast in Belmont Shore this year. Last month in we had over 150 neighbors come out and get to know one another. Our desire is that we would not just get to know one another but also serve one another.
If you would be interested in volunteering at the breakfast or any other event please email us. info@weloveb.org
Please come join us for a fun,free, summer breakfast in the park!
Come support WLLB at Baja Sonora.
WLLB Club at Wilson: We want to thank all of the Wilson Faculty for loving and serving our city! And we want to thank Nicole and Dolly from Sunnin Lebananse Cafe on 2nd Street for all of their wonderful help! We Love Long Beach!
- Photo By Jason Wilson
The Adventures of Gordy McNeill
Story by Jason Wilson
In December 1964, Gordy McNeill saw Bob Dylan play at the Wilson High School auditorium. This one-and-only west coast performance on the tour lasted almost two hours (with an intermission), and consisted of a stool, guitar, and Dylan. That was it. No opening band and no nonsense. As he remembers it, tickets cost about four dollars, but that didn’t stop the show from being sold out way before he could get his hands on one.
Scott McKenzie was his surfing buddy who also happened to work at McCabe Guitar on Anaheim Street, one of three store locations in the Los Angeles area. They were the only ones selling tickets to Dylan at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach. When McKenzie informed McNeill that his manager still had three tickets to the show, McNeill (13 years old at the time) immediately went down to McCabe Guitar and told the manager that he would work for him two straight weeks in exchange for the tickets and the show poster hanging on the wall. A deal was struck, and for those two weeks, McNeill mopped floors, took out trash, moved heavy boxes, and dusted the music shop. At the end of that time, he was awarded the tickets and the poster. He invited McKenzie and his other good friend Mike Smith to accompany him.
More tickets were sold than the Golden Bear could handle, so at the last minute they changed the venue to Wilson High School. As it turned out, they were great floor level tickets; the only drawback was that none of them were remotely close to each other. The boys were a tight group, so they decided to trade tickets with someone else who had three together in the front row of the balcony.
McNeill remembers the set opening with “It Ain’t Me, Babe” and being transfixed with his chin resting on his arms on the balcony ledge in front of him. He was sitting in one of only 1200 west coast seats and he soaked up every moment of it, including when Dylan played “To Ramona” for the first time live.
Supposedly, there were only three posters made for the event, one for each of the McCabe Guitar shops. McNeill recently turned down an $8000 offer for his tattered copy. He says the other two (both in mint condition) sold for around $30,000 a piece.
Recent Comments