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Huntington Beach
Lifestyle
Huntington Beach residents enjoy a variety of
activities, outdoor cafes, a weekly outdoor craft and food market held at
Pier Plaza with free summer concerts and a huge July 4th parade.
Huntington Beach
Housing
Huntington Beach has
72,736 housing units which include 43,44l detached single family homes,
26,095 multi family units and, 3,200 mobile home units including a large
variety of upscale home styles and multilevel homes in the hills with
ocean views.
Huntington
Beach Employment
Huntington Beach's 60,000+ residents find an abundance
of employment opportunities in a vast array of industry such as aerospace
and high technology, petroleum and petroleum support, manufacturing,
computer hardware and software, financial and business services, marine
and automobile services, machine shops and precision instruments and
others. With a Median Household Income of $59,187, Huntington Beach is
home to the affluent as well as the modest.
Huntington Beach
Culture
 For
those who like to get out and about, Huntington Beach is located in close
proximity to many larger area attractions such as
Disneyland and
Disney's
California Adventure,
Knott's Berry Farm, a unique
equestrian competition, the Crystal Cathedral,
South Coast Plaza and
Fashion Island.
The Orange County Performing Arts Center
and Repertory Theater,
Ocean Tide Pools, Bird Watching,
and The Long Beach Aquarium of the
Pacific just to name a few.
Many Huntington Beach homeowners enjoy live local Jazz,
Blues, Rock N Roll and Punk bands who play the many venues within the city
limits. For those who prefer attending the performances of more well known
touring bands,
Verizon
Wireless Amphitheatre - Irvine
formerly known as Irvine
Meadows is just a few mile south at the intersection of the Golden State
and the San Diego Freeways. Hunting Beach real estate owners who prefer
more sophisticated musical performances can take in a show at one of the
following:
Huntington Beach
Education
The
Huntington Beach School District is located at 10251 Yorktown Ave.
Huntington Beach, CA - (714) 964-3339.
Huntington Beach offers a wide selection of Private Elementary,
Middle and High Schools. The Huntington Beach Library is located at
7111 Talbert Ave, Huntington Beach, CA - (714) 842-4481.
Huntington Beach
Recreation
Huntington Beach offers a city gym, skate parks, a
seniors' recreation center, unique shops, two golf courses, 72 tennis
courts, a marina, 58 public parks, with annual events that include
surfing, skateboard and BMX competitions. Homeowners also enjoy swimming,
surfing, jogging, volleyball, fishing and bonfires at one of the eight and
one-half miles of uninterrupted beach.
Jogging, walking, bicycling, rollerblading and
skating, are also local favorite activities, starting at Sunset Beach
along a paved trail that runs from Bolsa Chica State Beach
on the northwest end of the city to the Huntington City Beach Pier, then
through Huntington State Beach and continuing south all the way to
Newport Beach and beyond.
Huntington Beach
Climate
In Huntington Beach homeowners enjoy a year round
Mediterranean climate.
Huntington Beach
Nature
Huntington Beach has
eight and one-half miles of cascading beachfront, a magnificent
pier, and the largest wetlands preserve on the coast of California.
Huntington Beach is best known for its nearly ten miles of sandy beaches.
Huntington Beach
History
Manuel Nieto acquired a large section of land
which included the Huntington Beach area in a Spanish land grant
called Las Bolsas in 1797. The the Huntington Beach area was
later transferred to Stearns Ranch Holdings which were converted to
farms as the former range lands of today's northern Huntington Beach,
Westminster, and Fountain Valley were developed
during the land boom of the 1880's. This led to the establishment of
United States Post Offices schools and churches.
In 1902, a group of farmers and investors a residential
resort community on the bluff overlooking Shell Beach called
"Pacific City" based on the success of Atlantic City on
the East Coast. These early entrepreneurs hoped to capitalize on a
new development trend in coastal resort cities such as Long Beach
and Newport Beach, but their efforts proved to be overly
ambitious.
The huge undertaking was subsequently sold to a group
of businessmen from Los Angeles, one of which was Henry E.
Huntington. Huntington had already planned to expand his Pacific
Electric Railway into coastal Orange County. On July 4, 1904, the
first Red Cars of the Pacific Electric rolled into the newly
renamed city of Huntington Beach.
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