ISC will remain open during Construction
A “trailer park-type trailer” that has served as a chapel for merchant sailors making stops in Long Beach and Los Angeles is slated to be demolished to make way for the Gerald Desmond Bridge replacement.
The trailer belongs to the International Seafarers Center of Long Beach/Los Angeles, which offers visiting sailors places to sleep, worship and to keep in touch with their loved ones overseas.
“It is our effort to look after all of these guys, who bring us this prosperity,” said Dick McKenna, president of the Seafarers Center and a retired Navy captain.