San Pedro officially has its own historic Little Italy

In the 1800s,Los Angeles used to have a vibrant Little Italy located in the historic center of the city, a place today known as El Pueblo de Los Angeles. In this very area two streets were named after two Italian pioneers, Nicola Quierolo and Giuseppe Garibaldi, leaders of the Italian unification and, starting from the 1900s, the Italian community  began expanding into present-day Chinatown, Lincoln Heights, Elysian Park, all the way to San Pedro. Nowadays, however, little is left of the Italian American heritage and history in this area, except St. Peter’s Church and Casa Italiana.