Signal Hill History

                It was one of the last acts Dora Coseboom would participate in before her untimely death at age 53, in October 1913. Dora ha...

  Do you remember the water tower that used to be the iconic symbol of Signal Hill, visible for miles around?   If so, you must have seen it...

 ANTI-ASIAN HATE        At one time Japanese farmers thrived on Signal Hill, growing cucumbers which made Signal Hill the cucumber growing c...

     This is the final chapter of "Signal Hill's Checkered Past."   As mentioned in part 1 of this series, the alleged “poli...

                 In October 1959, Long Beach Independent reporter Bob Wells described how the 4500 residents of Signal Hill liked their pol...

            In June 1962 an excited, pretty incoherent woman, called Long Beach Independent reporter Bob Wells about a red-eyed dinosau...