Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182 pp., 1899
"Work on San Pedro Harbor began in 1899; Huntington died a year later, and E.H. Harriman, who assumed control, became president of the Southern Pacific in 1902. Six years later, as business declined and expenses rose, Harriman permitted the Santa Monica rail line to be leased to the Los Angeles Pacific, an electric railway system owned by the Southern Pacific . . . the Balloon Route Excursion Trolley Trips . . . " p. 33
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" There was a Japanese fishing village from 1899 until 1920 near the Long Wharf . . ."