{"id":393571,"date":"2026-07-10T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:38:21","slug":"ticket-booths-fill-long-beach-boardwalk-with-fresh-art-herald-community-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393571\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket booths fill Long Beach boardwalk with fresh art | Herald Community Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach has always drawn attention to the boardwalk, the beach and the arts. In May, the city began a project combining all three \u2014 coordinating with the Long Beach Arts Council<\/a> to invite local artists to paint murals on the beachfront ticket booths along the boardwalk.<\/p>\n

After the first phase, the renovation of six booths<\/a>, was completed in May, the project was expanded to an additional 10 booths. In early July, the work was finished, and the booths were officially unveiled. Now, every boardwalk access point to the oceanfront features at least one Long Beach-themed piece of art.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mural project gives Long Beach\u2019s soul a visible heartbeat,\u201d said mural artist and photographer Justine Stefanelli, a city resident. \u201cPainting my second mural felt like leaving a piece of my heart on the boardwalk and adding to the story of a city that has always inspired me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each booth was sponsored by a local business to offset the cost of materials, and the professional artists donated their time and talent. They were free to use their skills in any way they saw fit, with virtually no guidelines.<\/p>\n

Headed into America\u2019s 250th birthday last week, the city unveiled a particularly patriotic created by local artist Michele Dodd. The eye-catching depiction of an eagle clutching a veteran\u2019s season beach pass was sponsored by the Waterfront Warriors<\/a>, a nonprofit that offers free vacations to veterans who struggle after returning home from war.<\/p>\n

At the booth\u2019s public reveal, Max Marcus, a 102-year-old World War II veteran and a resident of Woodmere, was coincidentally enjoying a day on the boardwalk before he was spontaneously invited to take part in the event. \u201cI think this bodes well for Long Beach,\u201d City Council President Brendan Finn said. \u201cIt bodes well for the summer. And I think people, when they go past this booth, they\u2019ll be grateful to all the veterans. I think that\u2019s the idea of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other booths were more specifically connected to the Long Beach community. A memorial mural dedicated to the late Austin Gibbons<\/a>, a local surfer and lifeguard, was revealed on the booth at Washington Boulevard, which was sponsored by the Long Beach Arts Council itself and designed and created by artists Eve Hammer and Liz Degen. Gibbons\u2019s mother and grandparents attended the unveiling. \u201cIt\u2019s touching to see something like this,\u201d said his grandfather Doug Eidt. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to see. It\u2019s kind of special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional sponsors of the booth artwork include Active Life, the Michael Berube Foundation<\/a>, Centerpoint Church, Jon Dab Electrical Contractors, Jonathan Gottesmann Douglas Elliman, LB Cleanup, and Toast Coffee and Kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach has always drawn attention to the boardwalk, the beach and the arts. In May, the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,129810,148982,133,132,20954,4694,158337],"class_list":["post-393571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-arts-council","tag-long-beach-boardwalk","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mural-painting","tag-new-york","tag-ocean-beach-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}