Gregg Young is pictured on 2nd Street together the two are namesakes for Gregg Young and the 2nd Street Band, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Originally from San Francisco, Young was a teenager when a previous band of his was awarded a recording contract after a bidding war among various record companies. That band, Womb, released two albums in 1969 and 1970 on Dot Records. Young bowed out of the professional music scene, however, to study music in college. In 1975, he moved to Long Beach where he had an apartment in Belmont Heights, on 2nd Street. Young said that he fell in love with the street, noting that its stretch in Belmont Shore seemed to him like a unique neighborhood, much like those found in his native San Francisco and his father’s native New York City. Young was so enamored with 2nd Street that he named his current band after it. According to Young’s Web site, Gregg Young and the 2nd Street Band is a pool of approximately 40 world-class musicians and vocalists led by Gregg Young, singer, guitarist and ASCAP [American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers] writer/publisher. The band plays professional gigs all over the Western United States and has been a member of the Long Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau for the past 10 years. Young doesn’t have the 2nd Street apartment anymore, but he still lives in Belmont Heights nearly 30 years after he moved to the neighborhood. The band’s Web site is at www.greggyoung.com (Photograph by the Business Journal’s Adam Faure)