When Vincent Thomas was 16, he used his boxing skills – he earned $2.50 per fight – to help support his family. His parents, Visko and Vinca Tomas (shortened from Tomasevich) arrived from Croatia in eastern Europe in 1903. They were living in Biloxi, Mississippi, when Vincent, one of eight children, was born on AprilContinue reading “Why Assemblyman Vincent Thomas deserved having a bridge in his name”
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San Pedro’s Al Larson Boat Shop has been a Port fixture for more than a century
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”
