LBC Did It! City Dedicates Park To Rosie The Riveter

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Rosie the Riveter, the American cultural icon representing female factory workers in WWII, can now pull her right sleeve up a little more and flex those muscles. She now has her own park, reports L.A. Now.

Rosie the Riveter Park, formerly named for the founder of Douglas Aircraft, is located in Long Beach at the corner of Clark Avenue and Conant Street.

It features a meandering walkway that serves as a virtual timeline of Long Beach's response when women were recruited to work on production lines at the Douglas plant.

Dates and facts are inscribed on the walkway. "April 1941-June 1942 Douglas Aircraft Long Beach workforce grows from 950 to 18,000," states one entry. "1943 Douglas Aircraft sends 'Victory Boy Scouts' door-to-door to recruit plant workers. Housewives and 16-year-old boys offered four-hour 'victory' shifts," says another.