Co-Founder Wilmington Historical Society Simie Seaman tells about her parents arriving in San Pedro from Tennessee & Oklahoma and the special harbor connection since WW II; and her track star husband being ”kidnapped” by UCLA!
Renowned photographer with photos on view through out South Bay community leader Simie Seaman recounts her effort to designate Banning Park a cultural monument by getting the neighborhood zoning changed to a historical overlay zone. Her impending research showed that the neighborhood was developed to provide housing for the employees of 20th Century business tycoons William Wrigley Jr. and Henry Ford.