Streaming media helps bring Lakewood's past, present, and future to light, as Lakewood Online highlights a series of CityTV documentaries on city history. The programs blend historical photography, film and video footage with interviews of Lakewood residents and city officials. The collection was created as part of the city's fiftieth anniversary celebration. The city turned fifty on Friday, April 16, 2004.

Many historic programs cablecast on CityTV and give insightful looks at Lakewood's past, present, and future. This is especially true of the documentary series: "The City as New as Tomorrow" which is also for sale online in DVD format at the Club Lakewood store.

	The First City Council - Lakewood is known as "Tomorrow’s City Today," because the first City Council implemented a highly innovative Contract Plan. Municipal contracting is a unique concept of providing basic public services while keeping both taxes and city expenses low through a series of contracts with county agencies and private enterprise. Click for video
	S. Mark Taper, Lakewood’s visionary developer - S. Mark Taper was a partner with Ben Weingart and Louis Boyar in the development of Lakewood. He also built homes in the Long Beach and Norwalk areas. Click for video
	Ben Weingart, and the building of Lakewood - The third founder of Lakewood, secured the millions of dollars needed to build the new community. His long association with and affection for the city can be seen today in many public facilities made possible by the Weingart Foundation: The Centre at Sycamore Plaza, the William Burns community services center, the Weingart-Lakewood Family YMCA and the Weingart senior center. Click for video
	Louis Boyar, planner of a new kind of city - Louis Boyar was named president of the development corporation. He was in charge of overseeing all of the construction. He was also a homebuilder in the Los Angeles area before World War ll. Click for video
	John S. Todd, father of the ‘Lakewood Plan’ - John Todd’s vision of contracting city services as a cost-effective and flexible form of municipal government would become known as “The Lakewood Plan.” The experiment was so successful that it was copied by almost every new city in Los Angeles County for the next fifty years. Click for video
	Annexation - This piece documents the battle for annexation of early Lakewood. Click for video
	City Born - Video show the beginnings of the community. Click for video
	City of Children - Segment looks at the "baby boom" that early Lakewood embodied. Click for video
	Moving in - This segment looks at the stunning and speedy build-out of Lakewood--changing it from beanfields to family homes. Click for video
	"Memories" Reflections on early Lakewood, California. Buying homes, growing up . . . Click for video
	"My Hometown" This music video was created as part of Lakewood's 50th Anniversary and has a 1950s sound and art direction. Click for video
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