Panel 1: American Merchant Marine Veterans Memorial
The United States Merchant Marine has faithfully served our country in times of war and peace, hauling life and cargo to every corner of the world.
This memorial is dedicated . . . — — Map (db m67059) HM
Dedication: National Maritime Day, May 22, 2003.
[List of state and local government officials]
Gene Frank Construction, Builder. Randall B. Montgomery, Engraver. Jerry Sturm, JSA, Design Architect.
American Merchant Marine Veterans . . . — — Map (db m50928) HM
Battle Honors
Third Coast Artillery
War of 1812
Fort Nelson, VA. - June 22, 1813
Fort Oswego, NY. - May 5-6, 1814
Mexican War
Palo Alto - May 8. 1846
Resaca de la Palma - May 9, 1846
Monterey (sic) - Sept. . . . — — Map (db m81750) HM
Mediterranean style. Architect - David Berniker. Built 1932. Declared 1992, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 571,
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m179817) HM
The first known commercial structure on the shore of San Pedro Bay was built here in 1823 by the trading firm of McCulloch & Hartnell to store cattle hides from the San Gabriel and San Fernando Missions. Richard Henry Dana described this adobe hide . . . — — Map (db m127026) HM
The Catalina Channel, about 25 miles wide and close to 500 fathoms deep (about 3,000 feet), separates Santa Catalina Island from the mainland. This part of the Pacific Ocean was first visited by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542, sailing under the . . . — — Map (db m147299) HM
In 1892 Southern California Fish Corp. was the first cannery in Los Angeles Harbor. In 1903 a technique of preparing and canning was developed to can sardines, mackerel, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna and albacore. In 1912 the first fresh fish market . . . — — Map (db m85153) HM
Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, exploring for Spain, discovered Alta California and named San Pedro Bay, “Bahia de los Fumos” (Bay of Smokes), October 1542. The smoke on the Bay shore came from the native Suang-Na Indian Fires. Sebastian . . . — — Map (db m127129) HM
Panel 1:
Harry Bridges
1901 – 1990
Founder of the ILWU
Panel 2:
Harry Bridges was an Australian seaman who came ashore and started longshoring in San Francisco in 1922. Unsafe working conditions, corrupt hiring . . . — — Map (db m72148) HM
San Pedro Plaza Park, originally known as
Plaza Park, was opened to the public on July
1, 1889, on 5 acres of land which was donated
to the community by Roman Sepulveda.
Though the park has no structures today, it
once contained a bandstand . . . — — Map (db m180628) HM
Prior to 1934 the Pepper Tree Saloon
was one of many places where longshoremen
and seamen were hired along the shore.
In that year, the first successful
general strike in the United States was
prompted to eliminate bad . . . — — Map (db m157964) HM
Between the 1890s and World War II, several thousand Japanese settled in San Pedro. Their community centered on fishing,
shellfish and canning enterprises. It had its own doctors, dentists, shops, social and athletic clubs and a newspaper. . . . — — Map (db m155641) HM
The friendship bell, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was presented as a gift from the people of the Republic of Korea to the people of the United States of America on the occasion of the American Bicentennial Jubilee to further the friendship and . . . — — Map (db m51064) HM
In 1923 the Marine Transport Industrial Workers Union 510, a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), called a strike that immobilized 90 ships here in San Pedro. The Union protested low wages, bad working conditions, and imprisonment of . . . — — Map (db m157331) HM
Colonial Revival style. Circa 1899. Declared 1982,
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 253,
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m179843) HM
Panel 1:
Point Fermin Light House, dedicated by Stephen M. White and Rudecinda Parlors Native Sons and Native Daughters of the Golden West, San Pedro, California, May 2, 1940. Built 1874.
Panel 2:
Point Fermin Lighthouse, . . . — — Map (db m51006) HM
Royal Palms County Beach was
originally developed as the Royal
Palms Recreation Center by Roman
Sepulveda from his share of the
original Rancho Palos Verdes land
grant. In 1908, Sepulveda installed an outdoor, terrazo dance floor
at the foot . . . — — Map (db m147298) HM
Panel 1:
1945:
March: Lane Victory is named for the former slave, Isaac Lane, founder of Lane College, in Jackson, Tennessee. The Victory Ship was one of a class of cargo ships designed and built during World War II by the . . . — — Map (db m131429) HM
Commonly referred to as the Great White Steamer, the ship was specially built by William Wrigley to serve his Catalina Island as a passenger ferry. She was christened on May 23, 1924. During World War II, she was requisitioned for use as a troop . . . — — Map (db m113426) HM
Vincent Thomas Bridge
The Vincent Thomas Bridge is considered the Port of Los Angeles' official welcoming monument. It was built in 1963 to connect Terminal Island to San Pedro, replacing municipal ferry service.
Initially . . . — — Map (db m224136) HM
Beaux Arts style. Designer - City of Los Angeles. Built 1928. Declared 2002, Historic-Cultural Monument No. 732, City of Los Angeles,
Cultural Heritage Commission, Cultural Affairs Department. — — Map (db m180601) HM
This building was
erected during the
administration of
Franklin D Roosevelt,
President of the United States
of America.
Henry Morgenthau Jr,
Secretary of the Treasury.
James A Farley,
Postmaster General.
Christian Joy . . . — — Map (db m224665) HM
About 25 miles west of here, across the
channel, lies Santa Catalina Island,
which can be seen distinctly on a clear
day.
Santa Catalina Island, originally
named San Salvador by Juan Rodriguez
Cabrillo in 1542, was later visited . . . — — Map (db m155322) HM
Stephen M. White was elected Los Angeles County District Attorney in 1882, State Senator in 1886 and United States Senator in 1893. During his term in the United States Senate, Senator White’s most notable accomplishment was his successful . . . — — Map (db m52155) HM
Panel 1:
Terminal Island Memorial
From the early 1900s until World War II, the fishing village of "Fish Harbor" on Terminal Island was a thriving community of 3,000 people – primarily Japanese immigrants and their U.S.-born . . . — — Map (db m72145) HM
Opened as the Warner Brothers Theatre on January 20, 1931, it was designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca and interior designer Anthony B. Heinsbergen and was the first sound-equipped theater in the South Bay. Jack Warner called it "The castle of . . . — — Map (db m81922) HM
In 1852 German immigrant Augustus W. Timms obtained Sepulveda's Landing on the mudflats near here. He built a wharf, added a warehouse, corral and other facilities to service shipping and running of stages to Los Angeles. Timms was a pioneer in the . . . — — Map (db m50976) HM
Seal of the U.S.S. Los Angeles: 1945 - 1977 U.S.S. Los Angeles
Naval Monument
Heavy Cruiser CA-135
To the personnel and ships
of the United States Navy
Anchors - loan United States Navy
Mainmast & mooring bitts - donated . . . — — Map (db m71839) HM WM
Panel 1:
On April 19, 1989, a powder explosion occurred in Turret 2 while IOWA was conducting peace-time gunnery drills off the island of Viesques, Puerto Rico. Preparing to fire, the center gun's powder bags exploded before the breech . . . — — Map (db m70263) HM
White Point fountain is a relic of the one-time
White Point Sulphur Springs spa complex which
was built on the shore below the cliff. Made of
concrete, it stood at the center of the hot
springs building complex near the sea wall and
outdoor . . . — — Map (db m147327) HM
The land before you has witnessed 5,000 years of human history,
some still etched on the landscape. Once the food gathering land of
the Tongva, the grazing land of Spanish and Mexican ranchers, the
center of an abalone industry, the farmlands . . . — — Map (db m173907) HM
The large concrete bunker, seen
across the street, was the White Point
Nike Site, built in the early 1950's. It was
one of many such sites ringing the Los
Angeles basin manned by National Guard
units. Originally a site for the . . . — — Map (db m147323) HM
This exhibit made possible by the following firms and individuals: Propeller donated State of California, Dep't. of Education - pedestal design, Robert Blake - structural engineering, Moffatt & Nichol - pedestal steel from Todd Pacific Shipyards . . . — — Map (db m71833) WM
