“When I was learning to surf, I’d watch Brian the Hall brothers and Marco Franco at the pier and Brian was the best, the best in the world because he was the nicest,” Marcus Fender recalled.
Kids lined up Pier Avenue to wait their turn to visit Santa at Gum Tree in downtown Hermosa Beach on Sunday. Gum Tree’s 7th Annual Photos with Santa raised over $8,000 for the Hermosa Beach Education Foundation.