Hermosa Beach Museum Oil Wars Recalled on 10th Anniversary 

Photos by Chris Miller Veterans of Hermosa’s oil wars, dating back to the 1950s, gathered at the Hermosa Beach Museum last month to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the successful 2015 Stop Oil effort. For the occasion, museum director Mark Shoemaker and museum program director Ryan Basford delivered a history of Hermosa’s oil wars, dating back to the 1930s. Among the other speakers was Barbara Guild, who led the successful opposition to Shell Oil’s 1958 effort to erect drilling pla