Hello QRB from UK thread. We did a deep dive on Q3313 with the LBP pic of Alamitos Bay. We looked at everything from new docks being put in at Alamitos Bay, demolition of the Seaport Marina Hotel, and a fire which destroyed a Ruby’s Diner at the end of the Long Beach Pier.
An enhancement of the Q pic in that post appears to us to still have a structure at the end of the Pier. We leave it to anons to decide for themselves.
LBP pic was taken BEFORE the completion of the marina work and BEFORE the few days of demoliiton of the hotel. But this can be narrowed by the demolition work on RUBY's during the summer months, possibly mid-JUN to mid-JUL 2016.
This, we think, would mean the hotel is in the LBP pic. And that it was taken before summer of 2016.
And, with less certainty, I think the work in Basins 2 and 3 may be evident in LBP. If that proves out, then, this would serve as a bookend that serves as the starting marker for LBP; the end marker would be summer 2016.
(Another post by anon at UK thread)
Meanwhile, LBP also shows the SEAL BEACH PIER which appears to have a structure that rises above the decking of the pier.
We have pictorial evidence that the end of the pier was flat in SEP 2016. And we have a news report that mentioned plans to remove the fire-damaged building within 5 weeks of that report's dateline. So about end of JUL 2016.
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The fire took place 20 MAY 2016 and it is possible that demolition did not begin until mid JUNE 2016, as per the news report.
This provides a bookend of at least 15 JUN 2016 before which LBP had been taken. Yes, it could have been taken a little later, but not much later, if the demolition plan went ahead as scheduled more or less.