- Title
- Beacon Street, City Hall to the right, San Pedro, Cal.
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- 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.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Streets--California--Los Angeles; City halls--California--Los Angeles; Stores, Retail--California--Los Angeles
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- Note
- 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.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type Value
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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