Marie Kletke Broker-Long Beach,CA's Blog

For the last four years, artists of all ages and experience, converge in the Belmont Shores area of Long Beach, California to showcase their creativity by participating in Justin Rudd's Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest.  With great enthusiasm, many of these artists come with ideas all sketched out.  Th...

What could be worse that just sitting around day after day in jail?  The warden of this provincial jail in Cebu, Philippines decided it was time to get the prisoners of his facility moving.  His solution?  Dance calisthenics.  Every able bodied man was forced to dance.  You dance to get good beha...

     When McDonald Douglas and Boeing were in Long Beach, the higher echelons in these companies used to schedule their lunches around their golf games.  Rumor has it that many ideas regarding plane safety, structure and the like were formulated over a round of golf at Lakewood Country Club!!!A b...

 You are getting ready to meet with your Long Beach broker.   You've asked him to show you some Long Beach homes.  But after reading today's paper, you feel this may not be the right time to buy a home for your family.Your offer has been accepted.  You are having some doubts about the market.  Yo...

  "We cannot afford this house anymore!!  We would like to see someone enjoy what this house has to offer!!" Located in a tree-lined street, this cute Long Beach ranch-style home is located close to two freeways, shoppings, and the ocean.  Live here and you have access to the Los Altos school dis...

  August 1, 2007.   News Flash!  "The Getty museum has agreed to return a prized statue, dubbed "The Aphrodite," to Italy following an acrimonious dispute over allegedly looted antiquities"... There are museums all over the United States and all over the world watching this news with anticipation...

There is much history in my family.  My grandparents from both sides experienced Spanish colonialism.  My parents experienced overwhelming fear at a young age fron the atrocities committed around them during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. As young adults, they dreamt of studying in S...