Long Beach Reconstruction

The old-timers, those who came before 1970, remember Atlantic Avenue as a good street. In 1933, when Aaron Cohen's father opened Atlantic Florist at 20th Street, shops were bustling and buses from Los Angeles streamed past on their way to the beach. By the time Lillie Mae Wesley bought a nearby Spanish stucco house in 1960, Atlantic had just about everything a neighbor could rightfully want.