Harbor City, Los Angeles

Harbor City is a district of Los Angeles, California. Harbor City is part of the 15th district, and has 24,640 inhabitants ( 2000). Neighboring municipalities are in the west and in the north Lomita Torrance. San Pedro in the south is also a part of the 15th district, as well as Wilmington in the east.

The district has the upper-middle class residential areas particularly on the border Torrance and Palos Verdes on the one hand and on the other hand, streets with particularly serious crime and poverty.

Harbor City was originally part of the Rancho San Pedro, that area that the Spanish Empire under Charles III. Juan Jose Domingues was transferred in 1784. This ranch was later sold in part, and after the Mexican -American War ended in 1848, large parts of which were purchased by American immigrants.

By 1900, Los Angeles was planning the incorporation of San Pedro and Wilmington, so that the port of the region belongs directly to the city. As the two cities were reluctant to Los Angeles purchased a long, narrow strip of land that connected it to the south with the San Pedro Bay, and threatened, there to create a separate port. In this region the districts Harbor Gateway and Harbor City were established. 1909 agreed on San Pedro and Wilmington to the incorporation, and the new harbor in Harbor City was not built. This leaves the name " port city " very ironic, since the field is neither a city, nor has a harbor.

Reggie the Alligator

The Kenneth Malloy Memorial Park and Machado Lake [ aka " Lake Reggie " ] saw during the summer of 2005, a significant increase from newspaper reports, since the sighting of " Reggie " the crocodile, a crocodile six to ten feet long, which was repelled in the lake. Until August 2005, city officials had cordoned off the area around the lake, and they tried to " Reggie " to capture and transfer Zoo in LA. But all attempts by the " Wranglers " were in vain, even though everyone wanted to be a hero, as well as the famous Steve Irwin from Australia, the short time in an accident with a skate was killed later. And Irwin achieved, (which was named after his nickname " The Crocodile Hunter" ) by its series produced by American television channel Animal Planet, a worldwide fame.

By March 2007, it had not seen the crocodile, although a smaller alligator was found at a nearby location of the channel, and some residents informed the competent authorities; the search for " Reggie " was canceled in 2005 and moved throughout the winter, you wanted the search to resume in spring 2006.