The official boundary of LITTLE ITALY OF LA (LILAA)

The largest and most visible concentration of Italians in Los Angeles was in the North Broadway area where Chinatown is now. St. Peter's Italian Church Los Angeles and the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles located in the historic old Italian Hall are reminders of that Italian past in what is now a quintessential Mexican-oriented tourist trap and in a now major Chinese neighborhood, ( Chinatown, Los Angeles), however there was a sizeable Italian community in San Pedro, California as well, according to IAMLA From https://www.iamla.org/history/ :

"Los Angeles’ Little Italy

Los Angeles’s Italian enclaves, like other Little Italies, functioned as extensions of the mother country and eased the immigrant’s transition to the new land. By the late 1800s, the Plaza area, “Sonoratown,” (present-day Chinatown), and the Sixth and Seventh Wards (southeast of downtown Los Angeles), comprised the heart of Los Angeles’ Little Italy. Meanwhile, scores of Genovese, Sicilian, and Ischitani fisherman lived in San Pedro, the city’s historic waterfront, where more than 40,000 Italian Americans reside today."

-Perhaps with so much of Chinatown and the El Pueblo area already developed with new demographics and culture, the City probably found that the only area they could officially designate a "Little Italy" was a few blocks on the San Pedro waterfront that had a few streets already going under redevelopment. And while the demographics have also changed here, there are still a good number of Italians in the community and naming it "Little Italy" is also just a symbolic way of recognizing the past and teaching it to today's generations, of all races and cultures.

 Councilmember Joe Buscaino Joe Buscaino welcomes everyone to Festa Italiana and along with Little Italy of Los Angeles Board President Mike Gatto Assemblyman Mike Gatto presents awards to the night's honorees, which included Mike Marino Michael D Marino and the wife of John Kobylt of The Official John and Ken Show, Deborah Kobylt.

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Festa Italiana LA Presentation from Christopher Forte on Vimeo.