Flagpole installation inLong Beach, CA

Flagpoles in Long Beach

A container port with its own airport, its own university and an oilfield underneath it, at the bottom end of Los Angeles County. We cover Long Beach and the Los Angeles County area, including downtown and Pine Avenue, the Queen Mary and the Port of Long Beach, Shoreline Village and the marina, Cal State Long Beach, Belmont Shore, Bixby Knolls, the Long Beach Airport district and the Alamitos Bay waterfront.

Wind here. Long Beach sits in a salt-laden, open coastal area, which works out to roughly 95 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. California's school rules were written because of what happened here. The 1933 earthquake wrecked or badly damaged school buildings across the city, the Field Act followed within a month, and it is why every public school and community college plan in the state still goes to the Division of the State Architect rather than to the local building department. If the pole is going on a school site, that is the queue you are in, and it is worth joining before anything is ordered. The harbour end of town is not simple ground either: the Wilmington oil field under the port pulled the surface down by as much as twenty-nine feet before water injection arrested it in the 1950s, and the low land along the shoreline and Alamitos Bay is soft and wet. Salt off the harbour and the open beach is constant, so anodized and stainless are where a Long Beach quote starts. The city runs its own building department, and waterfront work answers to the coastal rules as well.

Most of the people who call us from Long Beach are port and marine businesses, city and harbour department buildings, school and university campuses, hospitals, hotels and restaurants, marinas and yacht clubs, and veterans organisations.