San Pedro, Los Angeles

United States

San Pedro, Los Angeles connects to 1359 places across 10 topics through 45 Bunkabop connections, with history, military, and transportation forming the core threads. The harbor grew substantially after 1848 when the United States took control following the Mexican-American War, with Phineas Banning guiding its expansion. Fort MacArthur served as a coastal defense site from 1914. The neighborhood is considered the center of Croatian and Norwegian communities in Los Angeles, and a Japanese fishing community on Terminal Island pioneered albacore fishing in the bay before 1942.