Sunken City

A field of broken concrete, foundations, and streetcar tracks on the cliff at Point Fermin in San Pedro — the aftermath of a 1929 landslide that swallowed a Coast Guard road and several houses. The site is officially closed and fenced, but the fence has been broken for decades and a steady flow of visitors and photographers slips through.

It is technically illegal to enter and there is a small risk of further slides. Views from the legal side of the fence are still good and the headland park is worth the trip on its own.

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A story
In 1929 a stretch of bluff in San Pedro slumped into the Pacific at roughly thirty centimetres a day, taking a row of bungalows, the streetcar track, and a section of road with it. The land kept moving until the houses were lost; what remains on the cliff edge is the broken-up pavement of a vanished neighbourhood.