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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Los Angeles County, City of San Pedro
| San Pedro is a
community within Los Angeles, California. It was annexed in 1909 and a major
seaport of the area. The town has grown from being dominated by the fishing
industry to become primarily a blue-collar working town. One San Pedro landmark
is the Vincent Thomas Bridge, a 1,500-foot long suspension bridge linking San
Pedro with Terminal Island and named after California Assemblyman Vincent
Thomas. Nearby is the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, the largest maritime museum
in California, is here, as is the museum ship SS Lane Victory, a fully
operational victory ship of World War II and National Historic Landmark. The
Frank Gehry designed Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is also in San Pedro. The Point
Fermin Lighthouse, a Victorian-era structure built in the late 19th century,
still exists as a museum and park on a bluff overlooking the ocean. The Korean
Bell of Friendship is a massive bronze memorial bell donated by South Korea in
1976 to the people of Los Angeles. San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific
Ocean coast and is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long
Beach, which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world and
easily the busiest in the Western Hemisphere. The seabed near Long Beach has
experienced considerable subsidence as a result of oil extraction in the
Wilmington Field from the 1950s onward. Ironically, this helped the Port of
Long Beach surpass the Port of Los Angeles as the leading port in the United
States for a time in the 1980s and 1990s, since the deeper seafloor meant that
Long Beach could accommodate ships with deeper drafts than could Los Angeles.
Dredging operations related to the construction of a gigantic new marine
terminal at the Port of Los Angeles have since made both sides of the bay
accessible to even the largest existing container ships. |
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