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Beacon Street, City Hall to the right, San Pedro, Cal.
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Identifier
clloy_188
Title
Beacon
Street
,
City
Hall
to the
right
,
San
Pedro
,
Cal
.
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
1908-1915
Subject (Topic)
Streets--California--Los
Angeles
;
City
halls--California--Los
Angeles
;
Stores
,
Retail--California--Los
Angeles
Subject (Name)
City
Hall
(San
Pedro
,
Calif.)
Subject (Place)
San
Pedro
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
Type
image
Form/Genre
Postcards
Physical Description
1
postcard
:
Color
;
9
x
14
cm
.
Institution
Department
of
Archives
and
Special
Collections
,
William
H
.
Hannon
Library
,
Loyola
Marymount
University
Country of Creation
US
Copyright Status
public
domain
Copyright Statement
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
Edward
H
.
Mitchell
Place of Publication
San
Francisco
Language
eng
Description
A
daytime
view
looking
downhill
on
Beacon
Street
in
San
Pedro
,
California
, with the
domed
,
neoclassical-style
City
Hall
on the
right
.
Other
businesses
along
the
street
include
H.W
.
Scott
Photograph
Studio
and a
shoe
store
.
Horse-drawn
carts
and
automobiles
are
both
on the
road
.
Historical Background
San
Pedro
is
a
waterfront
community
located
24
miles
south
of
downtown
Los
Angeles
.
Until
the
mid-19th
century
, the
area
was
used
primarily
for
ranching
and
agriculture
. In
1853
, the
Port
of
San
Pedro
was
designated
a
Port
of
Entry
,
meaning
that
imported
goods
bound
for
Los
Angeles
no
longer
had to
come
by
way
of
San
Francisco
. That
same
decade
,
entrepreneur
Phineas
Banning
began
making
improvements
to the
port
, and in
1876
, the
Southern
Pacific
Railroad
linked
the
port
to the
transcontinental
railroad
system
.
Shipping
became
the
economic
basis
for the
community
,
which
grew
rapidly
over
the
decades
that
followed
. In
1897
,
San
Pedro
Bay
was
selected
as the
site
of
Los
Angeles
'
free
port
,
winning
over
Santa
Monica
to the
north
. By the
1920s
, the
Port
of
Los
Angeles
had
surpassed
San
Francisco
as the
busiest
port
on the
West
Coast
. The
domed
City
Hall
located
at
Seventh
and
Beacon
streets
was
completed
in
1908
.
Publisher's Identifier
Series number: 684
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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