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The History of the U.S.S. Iowa at San Pedro and Long Beach

San Pedro History — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:23:00 +0000

With the exciting news that the USS Iowa (BB-61, commissioned in February 1943) will soon be towed to the Port of Los Angeles where she will become a major waterfront attraction, it’s

Phineas Banning Hailed as Friend of the Workingman

San Pedro History — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:21:00 +0000

San Pedro Astronaut Blasts Off Into Space

San Pedro History — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:53:00 +0000

After a brief delay due to

Historic Tsunamis of the San Pedro Area

San Pedro History — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:38:00 +0000

In light of the devastating 8.9 magnitude

San Pedro Real Estate Agent Claims Albert Einstein Stole His Theory; Sues in Federal Court

San Pedro History — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:01:00 +0000

In February 1931,

Happy Birthday President Reagan — San Pedro Remembers "the Gipper"

San Pedro History — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:18:00 +0000

To commemorate what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, I have updated with new research the following article I wrote that was published in

Smallpox invades Los Angeles; San Pedro Quarantined

San Pedro History — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:00:00 +0000

"Greatest Heavyweight Boxing Champion" Jim Jeffries Trains in San Pedro

San Pedro History — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:45:00 +0000

James J. Jeffries, considered by many to be the greatest heavyweight boxing

Stone Age Murder at White Point?

San Pedro History — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:33:00 +0000

From the Evening News , April 10, 1919 : — LOS ANGELES, April 10 — Evidence of a mysterious and cowardly murder of an unidentified man has been unearthed by curators at the Exposition Park museum. While studying a skeleton brought to them they found death had been caused by an arrow embedded in the spinal column. “This is a particularly cowardly case,” declared Edward James, detective.

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Stone Age Murder at White Point?

Harbor Area Reacts to Civil War’s End and President Lincoln’s Assassination

San Pedro History — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:21:00 +0000

Deadman’s Island: British Whaling Captain Hanged by Mutineers

San Pedro History — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:43:00 +0000

Deadman’s Island was a

"Largest Earthquake in the World" Impacts Los Angeles Waterfront, May 1960

San Pedro History — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:56:00 +0000

The recent

Fort MacArthur K-9 Command, Part 3

San Pedro History — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:11:00 +0000

Ft. MacArthur in San Pedro, California started training dogs and turning them into sentries and

California Fish Company and the Alpha

San Pedro History — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:51:00 +0000

I have completed quite a bit of research on the California Fish Company and its fishing vessel named the Alpha. Here is a preview: The California Fish Company opened in 1893 and was the first cannery in Los Angeles Harbor, the first successful Pacific Coast sardine cannery, and the world’s pioneer albacore tuna cannery. The Alpha , California’s first purse seine boat, was built in 1893 in Alameda, California

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San Pedro Street Name Origins: Meyler Street

User Submitted — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:20:03 +0000

I grew up in SP but never knew the origin of the name Meyler Street until I came to Arizona and started working for the Army at Ft Huachuca. A display in the hallway of my building states that Capt J J Meyler was with the Army Corps of Engineers, and he led the group of engineers that started construction of the breakwater in 1898. How great to see something about my home town every day I come into work.

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San Pedro Street Name Origins: Alma Street

SanPedran.com — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:41 +0000

Alma Street & Alma Park: Alma Park was donated by George H. Peck and named for one of his daughters.

George H. Peck was born George Huntington Peck, Jr., in San Francisco, California, he began his career as a railroad conductor and is credited with driving the first Southern Pacific train into San Pedro. Convinced of the need for harbor facilities, he later bought land along the seashore and, in 1890–despite little formal education–established the first bank in San Pedro.

Peck eventually acquired virtually all of San Pedro and much of the north part of what became Manhattan Beach. He also subdivided and laid out the small town of El Porto, which was eventually annexed by Manhattan Beach and became part of its north end. Among his larger real estate transactions were the sale of properties for the Standard Oil (now Chevron) refinery at what became El Segundo and the Army’s Fort MacArthur at San Pedro.

George Peck died at age 83 in his home located at 1315 W. Adams Boulevard in Los Angeles, (which is now the historic West Adams District), leaving an estate valued at $5,000,000. He is interred in the Mausoleum of the Golden West, Sanctuary of Faith at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.

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Wikipedia

USS LOS ANGELES Decommissioning Ceremony

San Pedro History — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:51:00 +0000

From the Navy: The Decommissioning Ceremony of the USS Los Angeles (SSN 688) submarine occurred on Janury 23, 2010 at the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, California.

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Early History of the San Pedro Fishermen’s Fiesta

San Pedro History — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:27:00 +0000

In the decades after World War II, the

San Pedro and Palos Verdes Shore Whaling History, Part 1

San Pedro History — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:27:00 +0000

For several years I have been researching the history of the whaling industry at and near

Fort MacArthur K-9 Command, Part 2

San Pedro History — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:50:00 +0000

Private Accepts War Dog Assignment with Fort MacArthur K-9 Command In early 1942, one of the sergeants at Fort MacArthur asked for volunteers to work with the fort’s new Canine Command and warned