Beach Cities voters favored Bloomfield, opposed Prop. 30 [VOTING CHART]
A majority of voters in the Beach Cities cast their ballots against Proposition 30, which funds schools and was approved statewide by 52.8 percent of voters in last week’s election.
McMartin Preschool defender Dean Gits was artful, thoughtful attorney
During opening arguments of the McMartin Preschool trial, in July 1987, defense attorney Dean Gits told jurors, “Once you have identified the enemy, you will have solved the case.”
Double Deuce Hermosa: 22nd st. Pictorial with Tyler Surfboards and Broza Photography
In homage to the original 60s surf crew of 22nd st, popular subjects for the legendary Surf Photographer Leroy Grannis, Brent Broza of Broza Photography, Tyler Surfboards, and Maki Skateboards planned a morning of fun and surf at this heritage point of surf culture. Congregating in front of the Green Grocery Store on Hermosa Ave and 22nd st., the faction of […]
In Celebration of Donald Takayama: Part three with Hap Jacobs and Sparky Hudson
Jacobs recalls Takayama as Longboarding’s Savior Hap Jacobs helped teach Donald Takayama to shape surfboards in the early 1960s, shortly after Takayama moved to California from Hawaii. “Donald was a part of a trend when Hawaiians who would come to the mainland in groups of three or four. He first lived and worked in Dale […]
In Celebration of Donald Takayama: Part two (more unseen photos of DT and other surf legends) [PHOTOS]
[scrollGallery id=522] Santa Donald Donald laughed when he saw my May Company surfboard. Then he gave me a brand new 9-foot Scholl by Joe Lombardo In 1964, when I was 14 years old I would bicycle from Redondo south along PCH toHarborCityto a little known surf shop named Scholl Surfboards, managed by the infamous Walt […]
Saving Rick Griffin
Saving Rick Griffin With just 24 hours before a bulldozer is due to destroy two previously unknown murals by surf artist Rick Griffin, two old fans organize a rescue effort Photos and Words by: Joe Knoernschild A few Sundays ago, after a fun session at Haggs, I checked my cell phone for voicemails and there’s one […]
In Celebration of Donald Takayama: Part One
Stoking the Photographer by John Grannis In the early 60s when I was a kid, we surfed 22nd St. Donald lived above the railroad tracks and was shaping for Hap Jacobs. He rode a beautiful red board. He was such an incredible surfer that my dad would be stoked whenever Donald was out in the […]