Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 1868 Banning created the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, Southern California's first railroad and used it to transport goods from San Pedro Bay to Los Angeles, which soon became a major city in Southern California. [13] 1859 survey map of Rancho San Pedro. San Pedro was a township in the 1860 census.
Facilities at the park include a swimming pool, a baseball diamond, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, extensive hiking trails, and a child care center. In 1997 the Peck Park gymnasium was designed by Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. [1] The park is the largest of four in San Pedro named for notable land owner and developer George H. Peck ...
The Union Center for the Arts (former Japanese Union Church) on Judge John Aiso Street. San Pedro Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California, running Little Tokyo near Downtown Los Angeles to join Main Street, and East and West 46th Streets in a five-way intersection in East Gardena.
California Pacific, a subsidiary of the Los Angeles Traction Company, began interurban service to San Pedro over a narrow-gauge line in 1903. [1] [2] By 1908, Los Angeles Inter-Urban's San Pedro Line linked downtown Los Angeles to San Pedro, starting at Main and 3rd and running on 3rd, Hill, 16th, Burlington, Hoover, 24th, Vermont, then on a largely private right of way to San Pedro.
San Pedro Street station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located in the median of Washington Boulevard near its intersection with San Pedro Street, after which the station is named, in Los Angeles , California.
In 1963, the Vincent Thomas Bridge was completed, connecting mainland San Pedro to Terminal Island, and the ferry service became obsolete. [3] The ferry service was terminated on 14 November, and the bridge opened on 15 November. [7] The San Pedro terminal building was used for many years as an office building by the Los Angeles Harbor ...
1894 map of San Pedro and Palos Verdes Peninsula; White Point is the headland just to the left (west) of Point Fermin Japanese abalone camp at White Point, California (Popular Science magazine photo published 1913) Illustrations of resort at White Point by cartoonist Robert Day (Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1923)
Three breakwaters extend 8.5 miles (13.7 km) across most of the bay, with two openings to allow ships to enter the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. The first section of the San Pedro Breakwater was constructed between 1899 and 1911 at San Pedro. The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1930 authorized further construction. [13]