Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese American fishing community on San Pedro’s Terminal Island was given 48 hours to pack its belongings.
As shipping forecasts have grown at one of the world’s busiest seaports, officials have allocated hundreds of millions of dollars for storage and rail yard expansion, restoration and electrification projects, among others. One $18.2-million demolition project that’s in the design phase at Terminal Island would clear the land near the old StarKist cannery and make it available for lease. The area is about a mile from the Tuna Street buildings.
Members of the Terminal Islanders club — a group of nearly 200 people that Yamamoto belongs to — learned of possible plans for the buildings when a local San Pedro resident spotted workers inspecting the area. Yamamoto and others rallied to make their case to the harbor commissioners to save the site. While some port leaders were sympathetic to the cause, Terminal Islanders members have said the group has not yet received any specific information about the port’s intentions.
“Our top priority on this issue to gather input and ideas directly from the Terminal Islanders group for the future of the site,” Sanfield said.shipping forecasts have grown Today, paint peels at the top of the boarded-up buildings and stray cats wander outside on the desolate street. A “No Trespassing” sign from the Port of Los Angeles is posted to the wall and empty beer cans that have been run over by cars litter the ground. Across the gravelly road is a massive lot that stores container boxes. Next door is a now-closed Korean mini mart, and more than 100 yards down the street is the water’s edge. Trucks, cranes and more shipping containers fill the backdrop.
“I’m going to be 92 this year in November, but I’m still able to drive. So I go to Terminal Island as often as I can,” Shiroishi said. “Without , what do you have? Nothing.”
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