Peter Adolph (Al) Larson emigrated from his native Sweden to the United States as a 16-year-old in 1890. He first began learning the boatbuilding trade in the San Francisco Bay area, and eventually moved south to Los Angeles. He founded the Al Larson Boat Shop on the Salt Lake Wharf at the harbor in WilmingtonContinue reading “San Pedro’s Al Larson Boat Shop has been a Port fixture for more than a century”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
