Post Prix

Every year, Long Beach hosts the Long Beach Grand Prix. The race is super huge, bringing in around 200,000 people to the city over the three day event. The course is set up on city streets surrounding the aquarium and the convention center, just down the street from us. The amazing thing about the race, aside from a weekend of constant noise from the cars and a fly-over from some crazy house shaking jets on race day, is the fact that it takes the city 3 months to set up the course and about a month to take it down. So, for a good 1/3 of the year driving in shoreline drive is like driving on the racecourse with guard rails, fences, and tires on the lining the street.  I took a stroll over there today to see how far they were in de-constructing the race. The partial bleachers, empty bridges, and tire piles were interesting remnants to a Long Beach tradition.

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