Long Beach is full of CL and eBay gym equipment. Just do a search every day, and have about $350, and you'll have a good 300-lb basic Olympic set and a decent bench. Stay away from the cheap home-duty benches. You will be unhappy, as they wiggle and wobble. Better to buy a rusty gym-quality bench with bad padding, and fix it up later. I got a great $2000 Smith machine from a private gym that burned down in Malibu for $100, and spent about $25 and a day on it, and it's like new (other than the guide rods being a bit rusty, which should be replaced some day). I later got a whole 400-lb set if Ivanko plates for $90 (at least $700 new), and then I got all kinds of high-end qym equipment and machines from Compton High School when they used "free" tax money to buy all new cheap crap.
Take my word for it: you'll be happy if you're patient and wait to find really high-end stuff.
Charles