On October 20, 1971, Beverly Brodus and Calvin Cortazar brought a senior of Long Beach,

California, welcomed their son Calvin Jr. into the world.

Thinking her little boy, boy resemblance to a penis character, her mother gave him the

nickname, Snoopy.

The sober case stuck, and Calvin, aka Snoopy, showed a talent for music at a young age,

playing piano and singing in his local Baptist church.

As a teenager, Calvin turned to the emerging genre of rap music, and ever graduating from

Long Beach's renowned polytechnic high school, he braved a few brushes with a law before

turning to focus on a hip-hop career under the nickname, Snoop Doggie Dog, later shortened

to Snoop Dog.

Snoop, along with his cousin Nate Dogg and their friend Warren G, formed a crew called

213, named for the city's area code.

213's output caught the attention of former NWA member Dr. Dre, who featured Snoop on

his first two albums and helped steer his solo career.

Since then, Snoop Dogg has perhaps become Long Beach's most iconic celebrity, a unique

public figure known for his music, acting, avid marijuana use, and single-handed contributions

to American slang.

The Long Beach of the 1970s also yielded an icon of the culinary sort.

In 1975, a Harlem native named Herb Hudson opened a restaurant in the city offering a double

bill of chicken and waffles.

A bizarre sounding combination of neo-fights, but a deal with a lot of American history

behind it, as both a soul food dish and a separate version of Pennsylvania Dutch origin.

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