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Long Beach History
The Gregory Family

The Gregory Family

HOW WE GOT HERE My maternal grandfather, William Gregory, came to LB with his family in 1924 from Boise, Idaho. My grand-ma moved to LB from Joliet, Illinois, with her family. They moved to LB

Long Beach History
The Vavak Family

The Vavak Family

HOW WE GOT HERE My grandpa Albert H. E. Vavak came to LB in 1946, after he married my grandmother in 1945, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in a Marine Corp. wedding. In the mid-1950s, he became