Real photo postcard showing the Army-Navy & YMCA building in San Pedro California. 1920s. The 5 story building has a large YMCA sign on the roof. Named the Harbor View House, it was formerly the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. It is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #252) located in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles, California, near the Port of Los Angeles. It is a five-story Spanish Colonial Revival style structure located on a bluff overlooking the harbor. The Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. was dedicated in 1926 as a recreation center for servicemen at Fort MacArthur, offering 300 dormitory rooms, a gymnasium, running track, banquet room, patio, pool, boxing and wrestling rooms and a coffee shop. The facility was converted to civilian use in 1947, offering accommodations to young travelers and senior citizens. Since 1967, it has been known as Harbor View House, offering housing for the mentally ill. SSSS stamp box. (1924-29). Clean and unposted. See scans.