In 2011, I wrote a South Bay History blog post about the San Pedro public library building that opened in 1906. The distinctive domed building at 820 Beacon St. was funded by steel industry titan Andrew Carnegie, one of 1,689 libraries he funded during his lifetime. But that library, which closed in 1923, is onlyContinue reading “San Pedro’s public library keeps up with the times and its growing clientele”
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Author and Renaissance man Leonard Wibberley spent much of his life in Hermosa Beach
By the time his most famous novel, The Mouse That Roared, was published in 1955, Irish-born Leonard Wibberley already had lived and worked in a variety of jobs at a variety of locations all over the world. Born on April 9, 1915 in Dublin, he was the youngest of six children. After his early yearsContinue reading “Author and Renaissance man Leonard Wibberley spent much of his life in Hermosa Beach”
