Tim Grobaty

3 weeks ago | lbpost.com | Tim Grobaty

Pining for the pastTo mangle a quote from Heraclitus, “Nobody steps on the same Pine Avenue twice.”Like a river, it constantly changes, rushing from glamour and crazed busy-ness to squalor and a somewhat sinister quietness and to a myriad combinations in between. I’ve been working on or very near Pine, Long Beach’s original Main Street, for half a century. In the mid-to late-1970s it was well past its prime but had yet to hit rock bottom.

1 month ago | lbpost.com | Tim Grobaty

I figure I’m at least half Iowan; 50 percent Hawkeye — certainly enough to qualify as part-farmer. I’ve done enough farmwork to be an expert on agriculture. While visiting the old family farm in Belmond, Iowa, I’ve slopped the pig barn, inoculated piglets, chased a cow around a pasture waving my arms and shouting cowboy phrases and generally suffering through below-zero temperatures.

1 month ago | lbpost.com | Tim Grobaty

At my own perilThe LVN who’s been visiting me a couple of times a week told me I need to go to a cardiologist because my blood pressure is as high as the Himalayas, but I don’t want to because a cardiologist is going to find out how good my insurance is and will say, “Let’s try something different with this guy.

2 months ago | lbpost.com | Jacob Sisneros |Tim Grobaty

Posted inLocal History by Jacob Sisneros Feb 5, 2025Feb 5, 2025 The Queen Mary and the Breakers are the only two Long Beach vacation stops on the list established to highlight and preserve historic sites.

Dec 11, 2024 | lbpost.com | Tim Grobaty

This is a preview of Long Beach with Tim Grobaty, a weekly email newsletter for Long Beach Post members from our iconic columnist. Become a member by making a recurring donation here. A crowd dances at the Day Trip house music festival near the Queen Mary in 2022. The eternal quest for attentionLong Beach has always been a city of hankering. In its early days it was all about tourism, luring midwesterners to the seashore for its salubrious ocean breezes and ceaseless sunny days.