Old Man of San Pedro-BW
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Old Man of San Pedro-BW
Artist
Jennie Breeze
Medium
Photograph - Original Img_3778
Description
Photograph taken in San Pedro of an elderly man working on a boat. San Pedro is a port district of the city of Los Angeles, California. Formerly a separate city, it consolidated with Los Angeles in 1909 and is a major seaport of the area. The district has grown from being dominated by the fishing industry to become primarily a middle class community within the city of Los Angeles. The neighborhood fronts on the Pacific Ocean to the south and is bounded inland by Harbor City on the north, Wilmington and Long Beach on the east and Rancho Palos Verdes and Lomita on the west. San Pedro straddles both sides of the Los Angeles River as it flows into the ocean. San Pedro was named for St. Peter of Alexandria, a Fourth Century bishop in Alexandria, Egypt. His feast day is November 24 on the local ecclesiastical calendar of Spain, the day on which Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered the bay in 1542 which would be known as San Pedro. Santa Catalina Island, named after Catherine of Alexandria, was claimed for the Spanish Empire the next day, on her feast day, November 25. The anglicized pronunciation, popularized by the English-speaking people of Midwestern America, is "San-pee-dro."
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July 31st, 2014
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Jennie Breeze
Thanks Svetlana! Appreciate being featured in your THE WORLD WE SEE art group.
Jennie Breeze replied:
Great to be featured in your HUMAN FACE art group. Thank you very much James!
Jennie Breeze replied:
Thank you Nadine and Bob! Always a pleasure to published in your ARTIST NEWS publication.