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A cyclist on Beacon Street around the time of annexation by Los Angeles in 1909. Ethnically diverse San Pedro was a magnet for European immigrants from various countries for years, reflected in the number of restaurants representing diverse cuisines, especially Croatian, Portuguese, Mexican, Italian, Irish and Greek. San Pedro is home to the ...
The Los Angeles community of San Pedro borders a small portion of the western side of the bay. [1] [2] [3] The city of Long Beach borders the port on the eastern side of the bay. The northern part of the bay, which is the largest part of the port, is bordered by the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington. [4]
Original corporate logo of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad SPLA&SL railroad workers, early 1900s in the Tintic Mining District, Utah. The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (reporting mark SLR) [1] was a rail company in California, Nevada, and Utah in the United States, that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities (Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles ...
San Pedro Art Association; San Pedro Bay (California) San Pedro Breakwater; San Pedro High School; San Pedro Municipal Ferry Building; San Pedro Woman's Club; San Pedro Yugoslavs; San Pedro-Terminal Island Bridge; Streetcars in San Pedro
The Port of Los Angeles, sprawling across the shorelines of San Pedro and Wilmington, is the busiest in the United States. When combined with the Port of Long Beach, it is the fifth-busiest in the world. Traditionally, most of the populations of Wilmington and San Pedro have worked for the port in some capacity.
The site in 2014. The Sunken City is the site of a natural landslide that occurred in the Point Fermin area of the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, beginning in 1929.A slump caused several beachside homes to slide into the ocean.
San Pedro Bay port area was annexed to Los Angeles in 1909 and in 1913 a storm ended the Santa Monica operation. Thus Port of San Pedro grew to be a major port. To protect San Pedro Bay construction of a breakwater started on April 26, 1899, when the first barge with rocks quarried from nearby Catalina Island were dumped in the bay.
The San Pedro Pastoral Region is a pastoral region of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the Roman Catholic Church. It covers the City of Long Beach and southern Los Angeles County in California, with its headquarters in Lakewood .