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Belmont Shore, Long Beach, California

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Beach is an inland beach that faces Naples Island across a channel. 2nd Street and the fifteen intersecting side streets make up the business district of Belmont Shore. The neighborhood features Spanish-style homes from the 1920s and 1930s, older houses remodeled and expanded into contemporary
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in Long Beach. The Sailing Center offers a wide range of programs for high school, college, and Olympic sailors, in addition to programs for at-risk youth through local help groups, Learn-to-Sail classes for all ages, and disabled sailing opportunities through the Sailing Center's own Disabled
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The Long Beach Sea Festival has ocean- and beach-related events in Belmont Shore. The festival was first staged 50 years ago with a handful of events. Currently, the Sea Festival offers around 100 events, ranging from sand castle building to free Moonlight Movies on the beach, to boat racing.
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The Leeway Sailing and Aquatics Center on Alamitos Bay in Belmont Shore is a youth sailing program founded in 1929. The city claims it is one of the premier municipal instructional sailing programs in the country.
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Each summer, the portion of Bay Shore Avenue south of 2nd Street, at the eastern end of Belmont Shore, is closed to traffic from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and converted into a pedestrian and bicycle-only zone.
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The business district is represented by the Belmont Shore Business Association (BSBA), and the residents are represented by the Belmont Shore Residents Association (BSRA).
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is popular in Belmont Shore because of steady side-onshore winds (10 to 25+ knots), large open bodies of water, and good launch areas.
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At the intersection of 54th Place and Ocean Boulevard, at the southeastern corner of Belmont Shore, lies the entrance to
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neighborhood in the lower half, looking southeast. 2nd Street cuts diagonally across the left of this image.
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The approximately 1900-foot-long retaining wall along Ocean Boulevard was constructed around 1939 by the
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has grown into one of the major international sailing events. Now held in April, it is the only grade 1
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The Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach, California in the upper-middle of this image, with the
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The southern coast of Belmont Shore is a south-facing Pacific Ocean beach that lies just inside the
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styles, numerous large contemporary houses, and sections of multifamily apartment buildings.
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to protect the neighborhood from high tide. The neighborhood was severely impacted by the
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Livingston Drive and 2nd Street form the heart of Belmont Shore, from approximately
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regatta held in the United States. The one-on-one race format is the same as the
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Neighborhood of Long Beach in Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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held on the west coast. The car show is typically held in September.
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The Belmont Shore Car Show is the largest one-day annual
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Belmont Shore
33°45′26″N 118°08′13″W / 33.75722°N 118.13694°W / 33.75722; -118.13694
Neighborhood of Long Beach
The Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach, California in the upper-middle of this image, with the Belmont Heights neighborhood in the lower half, looking southeast. 2nd Street cuts diagonally across the left of this image.
Belmont Heights
Map of Belmont Shore within Long Beach
Country
State
California
County
Los Angeles
City
Long Beach
neighborhood
Long Beach, California

Bluff Park
Naples Island
Alamitos Bay
Long Beach breakwater
Federal breakwater
Seal Beach
Huntington Beach
the Peninsula
Works Progress Administration
1939 California tropical storm
Alamitos Bay
Peninsula
car show
Congressional Cup

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