Longtime San Pedro business owner – Papadakis Taverna (1973-2010) leader John Papadakis tells the story of playing “touch” football at Averill Park with the neighborhood kids using makeshift equipment and how his father’s love of football and USC made a big impact on the direction of his life.
Rosalyn (Furman) Leach Rosalyn (Furman) Leach, retired Bandini Street Elementary School Principal relates how her family emigrated from Europe to Cleveland then to San Pedro after a family member moved to the harbor and the other followed.
Bob recalls halcyon days growing up in San Pedro when it was safe, happy and no one worried about locking their home doors.
Lifetime teacher (Barton Hill Elementary School for 39 years) Joyce (Paulsen) Caudill is third generation San Pedran. She recounts the sweet and amusing story about her San Pedro High School (SPHS) senior class the “Medallions” and a prank played that backfired
Longtime ILWU leader, Peter Peyton tells the story of his grandfather, Pete Grassi, a longshoreman who was part of the waterfront strike in 1934 that won West Coast dockworkers their union, the ILWU. Grassi, a man of few words, was known to be a business agent for the ILWU who settled disputes between workers and bosses with a shot to the jaw. .
Longtime San Pedro journalist, and retired from ILWU, Steve Marconi tells the story of how his mother’s his family, who were Puritans came to the new land “America” on the Mayflower and his father’s family emigrated from Italy, ultimately finding their way toSan Pedro.