1. Riddle
• I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when
I’m old. What am I?

2. American Slang: FETCH
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sir_24dui
F4
• Cool or awsome. Used in Mean Girls by
Grechen Weener.
• Omg Kadi you love him. That is so fetch.
• Grechen stop trying to make "fetch" happen!
It's not going to happen!

3. Past and Present
• Then and now
• What are the differences between things 50
years ago and now?

4. What were families like 50 years ago in
Long Beach, CA?
• The average family had 3 children.
• Many women were housewives and
did not attend college.
• Gay marriage was prohibited.
• Divorce was uncommon and
considered a scandal.

5. What are families like now in Long
Beach, CA?
• Most families have two working parents who were
college educated.
• The family size about 2 children per household.
• Same-sex marriage is legal (as a civil union).
• Divorce is common (about 50% of marriages end in
divorce).

6. Where did people live 50 years ago in
Long Beach, CA?
• There were many young families in the 1950´s because
many soldiers from WWII returned home and started
families.
• Suberbia and track-housing created to support the
growing number of families.
• Two or three bedroom houses with a backyard and a
car in the front was considered normal.

7. Where do people live now in Long
Beach, CA?
• Many people still live in track-housing.
• Very common to have a two story housemore rooms but the same amount of land.
• Movement to live in big cities because of more
opportunities.

8. Where did people in Long Beach, CA
work 50 years ago?
• Largest industry was aerospace technology.
• Douglas Aircraft Company´s Long Beach plant
produced the largest number of planes -9440, including 4285 C-47 Skytrains and 3000
B-17 Flying Fortresses -- of any Douglas plant
in the country in the 1950s.
• My grandfather worked for Douglas as a tool
and die maker.

9. Where do people in Long Beach, CA
work now?
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Deindustrialization of the aerospace industry.
Douglas plant closed down.
Now the Port of Long Beach is the largest industry.
The port supports more than 30,000 jobs in the city; about 1 in 8 jobs.
The port's combined import and export value is nearly $100 billion per
year.
• My uncle works for the Port of Long Beach as a civil engineer.

10. How did people dress 50 years ago in
Long Beach, CA?
• Women only wore dresses. To the beach they wore
one-piece swimsuits .
• Men wore suits and sweaters.
• Men wore one-piece swimsuits.

11. How do people dress in Long Beach,
CA now?
• Women wear jeans, sweaters, and t-shirts. To the
beach women wear two-piece swimsuits.
• Men dress in casual pants, sweaters, and t-shirts.
To the beach men wear board shorts.

12. How did people travel in Long
Beach, CA 50 years ago?
• Cars- one car per household.
• The country built the 41,000-mile Interstate network of
highways during the 1950s.
• Route 66 was a popular road to travel on during holidays.

13. How do people travel now in Long
Beach, CA?
• Cars (2 per household) for local travel.
• Freeways have a lot of traffic and there needs to be
a better public transit system built.
• Airplanes are used for domestic travel.