PCAD - City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks, Cabrillo Beach Boat House, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA

AKA: City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks, Cabrillo Beach Boathouse, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA

Exterior view of the Cabrillo Beach Boathouse, San Pedro, Los Angeles, 1937; from Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), Works Progress Administration Collection, Federal Writers Project, Item #LAPL00032579

Exterior view of the Cabrillo Beach Boathouse, San Pedro, Los Angeles, c. 1928; from the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Item #00079354

Exterior view of the front facade of the Cabrillo Boathouse, San Pedro, Los Angeles, c. 1928. From the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Item #LAPL00079353

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San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA

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Overview

Cabrillo Beach was one of the largest man-made beaches in the world when built. This Spanish Colonial Revival Style boathouse served beach-goers during the middle part of the twentieth century. The boathouse shared pilings with a small pier that jutted into the Pacific at San Pedro's Cabrillo Beach. The cross-gabled building had a small lighthouse tower appended to it facing the water. The lighthouse had a circular Spanish tile roof and a metal railing encircling it to create a balcony. The City of Los Angeles was forced to demolish the boathouse in the 1970s when sands around its foundations eroded, weakening the structure. (See Mike Schaadt, Ed Mastro, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro's Cabrillo Beach, [Charleston: Arcadia Publishing Company, 2008], np.)

PCAD id: 21528

City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks, Cabrillo Beach Boat House, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA demolished