bixby. when fred and florence took over here, florence began slowly expanding the gardens. t one of the things that happened here in long beach in the early 1920's, was the discovery of oil. and because the bixby's were very large landowners in long beach, a lot of the oil was under their land. this gave them a lot more income to play with than just the ranch would provide. so, florence bixby was able to hire some of the premier landscape architects of the early 1920's, including the olmsted brothers. and other noted placement in southern california. we have four acres of beautiful landscaped gardens. >> there are many levels. one of the things that is important is that you get some relief from being in an environment. the visitor experience is not terrifically structured. you can come and just be in the gardens and not do anything beyond that. you can come and decide just to take a house tour. so, we try to keep it as unstructured and interesting as we can so people can take what they want from their visit. our city store staff recently traveled to long beach, california to

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bixby. when fred and florence took over, florence began slowly expanding the gardens. one of the things that happened here in long beach in the early 1920's, was the discovery of oil. because the bixby's were very large landowners, a lot of the oil was under their land. this gave them a lot more income to play with than just the ranch would provide. florence bixby was able to hire some of the premier landscape architects, including the olmsted brothers. we have four acres of beautiful landscaped gardens. >> there are many levels, you get some relief from being in an environment. you can come and just be in the gardens and not do anything beyond that. you can decide just to take a house tour. we tried to keep it as unstructured and interesting as we can so people can take what they want. >> always long, american history tv is joining our communications cable partners to showcase a his three of long beach, california. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit c-span.org. we continue with our look at the history of long beach. >> transatlantic crossings dur