San Pedro Dream
by Jennie Breeze
Title
San Pedro Dream
Artist
Jennie Breeze
Medium
Photograph - Original Img_3780
Description
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. In 16021603, SebastiVizca (15481624) officially surveyed and mapped the California coastline, including San Pedro Bay, for New Spain. The anglicized pronunciation, popularized by the English-speaking people of Midwestern America, is "San-pee-dro."[
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February 14th, 2014
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Jennie Breeze
Thanks again for sharing those beautiful textures Darren! They're so much fun to play with. Always a pleasure being showcased in your PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXTURE art group.
Jennie Breeze replied:
Thank you Jouko! Appreciate being selected and featured in your ART FROM THE PAST art group.