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Cabrillo Beach July 4th (John Olguin Spectacular)
San Pedro, CA · Holiday
- When
- July 4, 2027
- Where
- Cabrillo Beach · San Pedro · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
An all day Fourth of July celebration at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, named for longtime harbor historian John Olguin, with a food truck festival, family activities, and a fireworks show over the water at night. The Cabrillo Beach Boosters have organized the event for years as one of the harbor area's main Independence Day gatherings. It draws crowds from across the LA Harbor communities.
The history within reach
An all day Fourth of July celebration at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, named for longtime harbor historian John Olguin, with a food truck festival, family activities, and a fireworks show over the water at night.
A Victory class cargo ship launched in 1945 that went on to carry freight and refugees through the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Augustus Timms ran a landing here from the 1850s, when San Pedro Bay was open water with no breakwater and no wharf worth the name.
A federal prison for men sitting at the mouth of Los Angeles Harbor, between San Pedro and Long Beach, on land the Navy once held.
Fifteen acres of cobblestone lanes and gift shops opened along the main channel in 1963, mixing New England clapboard, Spanish Colonial and vaguely Asian rooflines with no logic beyond the mood.