{"product_id":"old-city-plan-map-of-long-beach-california-by-dewey-1910-pine-ave-anaheim-st-broadway-pacific-ocean-brick-yard","title":"Old City Plan of Long Beach, California by Dewey, 1910: Pine Ave, Anaheim St, Broadway, Pacific Ocean, Brick Yard","description":"\u003cp\u003eMap of the City of Long Beach Jan. 1910 and Vicinity preserves Long Beach at a formative instant—months before the oil boom would redefine its skyline and economy. Compiled as a promotional survey for The National Bank of Long Beach, it captures the pivot from Rancho Los Cerritos ranchlands toward a planned seaside city, with the Pacific Ocean carefully set against an emerging grid. As one of the earliest surviving city plans, it is a notably honest portrait: streets are named, blocks are platted, and districts are labeled to showcase both opportunity and order. For a city map, its significance lies in how thoroughly it balances boosterism with groundwork, revealing the civic ambition that preceded the region’s industrial acceleration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe street system is the map’s narrative engine. Pine Avenue, Pacific Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, and Long Beach Boulevard read as parallel spines, while Broadway and Anaheim Street stitch the grid east–west, guiding movement inland from the shoreline. Redondo, Cherry, Magnolia, and Rose Avenues, joined by Elm and Walnut, extend the urban fabric into new tracts, and the inclusion of Spring Street, Colorado Street, Clark Avenue, and Keynote Drive hints at corridors poised for growth. Shoreline Drive, fronting the Pacific, anchors the seaside orientation. Inset panels isolating residential blocks convey the sales logic of the era: precise lotting, easy access, and orderly expansion as the city scaled beyond its original core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmid the careful urban geometry, the Long Beach Brick Yard stands out as a telling landmark. Its placement signals the city’s self-sufficiency in materials during an intensive building phase and hints at the infrastructural pragmatism behind the map’s optimism. The coastal edge—an enduring draw for a community intent on resort identity—sits in tension with inland subdivisions that reveal agricultural parcels dissolving into streets, avenues, and neighborhood grids. This is a city map with dual focus: it valorizes the beach while charting the interior mechanics of growth, from commercial corridors to residential blocks. That juxtaposition—the surf-line and the survey line—makes the plan historically resonant and especially instructive for tracing Long Beach’s early urban DNA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eE.P. Dewey, who served first as Assistant City Engineer and then as City Engineer, compiled the survey with an engineer’s precision and a promoter’s clarity. His authorship lends administrative authority: the layout reflects the municipal mind at work, organizing future utilities, transportation, and civic access as much as marketing lots. The elegant title script and crisp linework underscore the map’s dual purpose—technically trustworthy and visually persuasive. Bank sponsorship makes sense in this light; the document reassures investors by diagramming order, connectivity, and momentum. Dewey’s map is less a static portrait than a planning brief, translating land subdivisions into a legible, investable city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically, the sheet bridges failed experiments like Willmore City and the community’s renewed push to become both seaside retreat and viable town. It documents Long Beach before oil at Signal-adjacent hills would redraw priorities, preserving an urbanism still shaped by tract lines and beachfront allure rather than derricks and refineries. For historians and collectors, its value lies in specificity: named avenues, early commercial-residential distinctions, and the crisp plotting of blocks that forecast neighborhood contours for decades to come. For a city map, this early, candid view is rare—revealing how corridors like Anaheim Street and Redondo Avenue organized expansion, and how the Pacific’s proximity remained the city’s constant point of orientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreets and roads on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnaheim Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAtlantic Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroadway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCherry Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClark Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColorado Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElm Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKeynote Drive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLong Beach Boulevard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMagnolia Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePacific Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePine Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRedondo Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRose Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShoreline Drive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpring Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWalnut Avenue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLong Beach Brick Yard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePosition of the Pacific Ocean relative to city layout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInset areas indicating specific residential blocks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLocations of key streets and avenues that signify growth patterns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eName of the map: Map of the City of Long Beach Jan. 1910 and Vicinity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMapmaker: Compiled by E.P. Dewey, City Engineer of Long Beach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDate of creation: January 1910\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne of the earliest surviving maps of Long Beach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePre-dates the discovery of oil in the area, showcasing an era before significant industrial changes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced as a promotional map for The National Bank of Long Beach, highlighting the city's developmental phase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE.P. Dewey served as Assistant City Engineer and later City Engineer during the early 20th century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThemes shown: urban planning and street layout of the early 1900s; residential and commercial districts; land subdivisions relevant to early infrastructure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegions depicted: Long Beach, California, USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign style: grid layout typical of early 20th-century maps; elegant title font and illustrative elements reflecting promotional intent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical context: transformation from Rancho Los Cerritos ranch lands to a burgeoning urban center; community push to establish a seaside resort and agricultural community after the failure of Willmore City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks great at every size, but I always recommend going for a larger size if you have space. That way you can easily make out all of the details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 100in (250cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlease note: the labels on this map are hard to read if you order a map that is 20in (50cm) or smaller. The map is still very attractive, but if you would like to read the map easily, please buy a larger size.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 24x36in (60x90cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the \u003ca href=\"\/it\/collections\/all-old-vintage-antique-maps\"\u003ebest old maps\u003c\/a\u003e to see if something else catches your eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact me\u003c\/a\u003e to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex\/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unique Maps Co.","offers":[{"title":"18x24in (45x60cm) \/ Map","offer_id":58249388163456,"sku":"UM00294662A","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24in (45x60cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58249388196224,"sku":"UM00294663A","price":218.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24in (45x60cm) \/ Framed canvas map","offer_id":58249388228992,"sku":"UM00294664A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (420x594mm) \/ Map","offer_id":58249388261760,"sku":"UM00294665A","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (420x594mm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58249388294528,"sku":"UM00294666A","price":218.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (420x594mm) \/ Framed canvas 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