Long Beach Beach Streets Uptown 2017 – Open Thread

4:22 PM PDT on October 30, 2017

Long Beach hosted its popular Beach Streets festival on Atlantic Avenue this past weekend. All photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

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Last Saturday, the city of Long Beach hosted the fourth iteration of its popular Beach Streets open streets festival.

Beach Streets returned to its original Uptown route primarily on Atlantic Boulevard. Tens of thousands of participants enjoyed bicycling, walking, skating, running, dancing, and more along four miles of car-free streets.

BeachSts117Oct28 — A giant American Flag hangs above Atlantic Avenue during Beach Streets

BeachSts717Oct28 — Numerous businesses, including Deep Blue Swim School, set up booths along the street to interact with Beach Streets participants

BeachSts617Oct28 — Beach Streets participants parked bikes to patronize local eateries

BeachSts417Oct28 — Kids on scooters at Long Beach's Beach Streets

BeachSts517Oct28 — This stilt-walker was one of several Beach Streets participants dressed in Halloween costumes

Readers - how was your experience at the recent Beach Streets?

Joe Linton

@StreetsblogLA

Joe Linton is an editor at Streetsblog Los Angeles

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