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Terminal Island

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The Lost Japanese Fishing Community from San Pedro

SAN PEDRO — Beginning in the early 1940s, 3,000 first and second-generation Japanese made their homes in an area of Terminal Island known as East San Pedro. The Japanese Fishing

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Southern California Fish Co.: San Pedro’s First Cannery

SAN PEDRO—A man named Albert Halfhill opened Southern California’s first-ever sardine cannery in 1893. The cannery – California Fish Co. – opened its door’s on Terminal Island, the man-made landform