| About San Pedro
- San Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California,
annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. The
site, at the southern end of the Palos Verdes Peninsula,
on the west side of San Pedro Bay, was used by Spanish
ships starting in the 1540s. Regular settlement began
in 1769 as part of the effort to populate California,
although trade restrictions encouraged more smuggling
than regular business. When Mexico won its independence,
the trade restriction were lifted, and the town flourished,
and under United States control after 1848, the harbor
was greatly improved under the guidance of Phineas Banning,
and San Pedro became a major port of the West Coast.
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Living in San Pedro
People of San Pedro - San Pedro was
a magnet for European immigrants from various countries
for years, reflected in the number of restaurants representing
diverse cuisines, especially Portuguese, Croatian, Italian
and Greek.
Until February 1942, San Pedro was the home of a vibrant
Japanese immigrant community of about three thousand
people located at Terminal Island (East San Pedro).
The forty-eight hour, forced expulsion of these San
Pedro residents and the razing of the homes and shops
of what has been described as a "typical Japanese
Fishing Village" as part of the Japanese American
internment during World War II is described in Jeanne
Wakatsuki Houston's memoir Farewell to Manzanar.
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