Los Angeles boasted four million souls, but the population of the county of the same name, inclusive of all the suburbs, crested ten million. Bordered on the south by Orange County, the east by Riverside County, the North by Ventura County, and the Pacific Ocean on the West, Los Angeles County had more residents than forty-three states. With more than twice the amount of people than Tennessee, and twelve times larger than his hometown of Memphis, it was easy for Bobby to feel overwhelmed. But San Pedro was different…manageable. San Pedro hugged the coast near the harbor, and although it was a terminus of the 110, so many of L.A.’s four million souls weren’t aware it existed. Responsible for less than one percent of the population of Greater Los Angeles, San Pedro was a hidden nook of privacy. No one passed through the small town. They either planned on coming to San Pedro or were lost. One thing that Bobby noted was that San Pedro was a demographic anachronism. Fifty percent of the population was white.
