Ending a long-running emotional legal battle, Ports O’Call Restaurant in San Pedro was locked down by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department early Tuesday, July 17. The action came after the restaurant ...

Now that Ports O’ Call Restaurant is closed and in line for demolition, what happens next on San Pedro’s waterfront? The shuttering of the 57-year-old restaurant on July 17 brought with it a sense of ...

On the main channel of Los Angeles Harbor where the city’s shipping industry was born more than a century ago, a kitschy imitation of a New England fishing village called Ports O’ Call opened in 1962.

For years, San Pedro’s faux New England fishing village Ports O’ Call has been down on its luck. The collection of Old English, New England and Spanish styled buildings that opened in the 1960s have ...