Los Angeles Maritime Museum

Not a great day in the wheelhouse for this captain!

Happy National Chip & Dip Day! Take a moment out of your well deserved chipping and dipping to check out this ca. 1950 photo from our collection featuring Laura Scudder's potato chips and mayonnaise front and center. The peanut butter brand? Yep, Laura Scudder's started as a chip company in Monterey Park, CA.

On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Beer and Wine Revenue Act, creating a new tax on all alcoholic drinks. In this photo from the museum's collection, sailors are doing their part to increase revenue for Uncle Sam!

There is still time to enter the Virtual Lego Shipbuilding Contest! See www.lamaritimemuseum.org/legos for details! Deadline is April 1.

The 18th Annual LA Harbor International Film Festival kicks off this Thursday For a schedule of showings and info on how to participate in this all-virtual event complete with films from around the world and live Q&A discussions with filmmakers visit http://laharborfilmfest.com.

After a long weekend, it's back to work on the Town Square / LA Waterfront Project!

Happy Valentine's Day! Follow this link to learn about Valentine's Day on land and sea! (Photo of USS Los Angeles SSN-688 sailor Jeffrey Smithson returning home to his wife Barbara in Hawaii; photo from Museum's Collection.) https://www.palosverdespulse.com//valentines-day-on-land-a

Today the propeller from USS Canberra (CA-70) returned to the entrance of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum . The prop was removed last year to accommodate construction of the "Town Square" and today was back on display as it has been since 1980. Canberra served in World War II and Vietnam, and was scrapped on Terminal Island, in the Port of Los Angeles

Wow ! A full rainbow appeared right outside the Los Angeles Maritime Museum this morning! Now we're busy looking for a pot of gold! Photo by Scott Garrabrant.

Start off your weekend with a virtual visit to 3 local lighthouses: Point Vicente, Point Fermin Lighthouse, and Angel's Gate/L.A. Harbor Light, courtesy of Monique Sugimoto of the Palos Verdes Library District We were happy to assist by providing photos of Angel's Gate from the museum's archives. Enjoy!

72 years ago today...it snowed in San Pedro! But not even this historic precipitation could stop the ferry Islander from its usual cross-channel schedule. The ferry terminal in the center of the photograph is now the home of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.

To some, hardtack may only be flour and water . But sailor William O’Connell used it to say Happy New Year to his wife Kathleen while he was away serving on the USS New York (ACR-2) during the SpanishAmerican War. He mailed it home from Santiago, Puerto Rico in January 1898. Happy New Year 2021 !!!

Happy Monday! We hope your week turns out better than it did for these poor pirates! (Cunard Lines program, from the museum's collection).

Celebrity sighting at Calship! Actress Martha Montgomery christening the SS CLARKSDALE VICTORY, 1945. Find more historic images from our collection here: https://lamaritimemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/byperson

Great news! The Torrance Parker photographic archive has been digitized and is now available to view on the museum's website! https://www.dailybreeze.com//los-angeles-maritime-museum-/

On this day in 1915 the US Navy established a new submarine base in Groton, Connecticut. What was the location of the west coast submarine base? If you guessed Port of Los Angeles you are correct! The base operated in San Pedro at berths 57-60 from 1917 until the mid 1920s. (photo from the Museum's collection).

Friday morning @lamaritimemuseum and the Vincent Thomas Bridge has disappeared!

With a plastic cover to protect from construction dust, the diver in the lobby of @lamaritimemuseum is creepier than ever! #earlyhalloween #construction #dust

Celebrity sighting at Calship! Actor Basil Rathbone speaking at a yard show, 1944. Find more historic images from our collection here: https://lamaritimemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/byperson

History in the making! In case you missed it, here are images of today's grand opening of the new Gerald Desmond Bridge connecting Terminal Island and Long Beach.

It's National Coffee day! This sailor on the USS Saint Paul enjoyed a cup and you should too! (Photo is from the Museum's Collection).

With all of the excitement around the replacement of the Gerald Desmond Bridge, we start off the week taking a look back at other famous bridges in the LA / Long Beach port complex. Who remembers the Badger Avenue/Henry Ford Bridge? It served as the railroad link to Terminal Island from 1934 until its demolition in 1996. (Museum photograph)

Work continues on the new "Town Square" directly in front of @lamaritimemuseum . @portofla

A slow start to the week! Resting at @lamaritimemuseum docks. #lazymorning

San Pedro's Town Square under construction in front of @lamaritimemuseum #construction. #mydayinsp

Looking back at the Fishermen's Fiesta in this edition of the Palos Verdes Pulse https://www.palosverdespulse.com//memories-of-the-san-pedr

Today is the 19th anniversary of 9/11