George Love, Jr. was interviewed for the Port of Los Angeles Centennial Oral History Project. George Love was born on October 31, 1940, in Long Beach, California. Love’s father was a longshoreman, which influenced George's early exposure to the waterfront and his eventual career in the maritime industry. The interview provides an overview of George Love’s childhood experiences as an outsider in San Pedro and the challenges of assimilating into a tightly-knit community dominated by Yugoslav and Italian families.