Best of the Beach 2022: Electric Bikes
Electric Bike Shop Strand Electric Bikes It started with a cancer diagnosis. After Geoffrey VanSickle had his prostate removed at age 51, amidst a couple other health issues during the same six months, he found he could not handle the exertion of riding a bike. So the former stock car and dirt-bike motorcycle racer converted […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Real Estate Law, Trust Law
Real Estate Law Baker Burton & Lundy For a small town law firm, Baker Burton & Lundy deals with huge numbers, having negotiated nearly a billion dollars in real estate transactions last year. “Our real estate department is led by Kent Burton, who has more than 40 years’ experience,” said Clint Wilson, a partner in […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Gift Shop, Kids Boutique, Jeweler
Gift Shop Gum Tree Gum Tree owner Lori Ford survived the pandemic by pivoting. When she was forced to close her Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach stores, she moved her merchandise online. Her husband drove around town delivering orders. “It was a pretty scary couple of years,” Ford said. Her 13-year-old business survived and customers […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Men’s Fashion, Women’s Clothes
Men’s fashion Spyder Surf The fashion industry has long recognized Beach City surf shops as leading trend indicators. So it’s not a surprise that over the years, surf shops have increasingly expanded their clothing lines. Nowhere is this more evident than at Spyder Surf in Hermosa Beach. The south wall of the 100-foot deep store […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Door and Windows
Doors and window Cooks Doors and Windows It all started with Uncle Ed back in 1920. He was the first of the Cook family to leave Cedar Rapids, Iowa and try his hand in the South Bay lumber business. His company Tri Cities Lumber was located on Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach, where Learned […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Personal Trainer, Martial Arts, Neighborhood Gym
Best Personal Trainer Lou Sidella Body One Fitness bodyonefitness.com 201 Herondo St. #100 310-807-2737 Lou Sidella knows what it takes to help people transform their bodies as they push through obstacles, stay motivated, visualize success and expand their capabilities, because he’s done that for himself. Sidella had spent most of his life uncomfortable with his […]
Best of the Beach: Dog Walking, Dog Grooming, Veterinarian Hospital, Pet Store
Dog Walking Fancy Tails If you watch the reality TV show ‘Vanderpump Dogs’ on the Peacock Network, and you think you recognize a certain dog walker, she’s Tracy Robinson of the wildly popular Fancy Tails, locally owned and operated since 2003. Perhaps more importantly, Robinson is a celebrity in the Beach Cities, through customers’ word […]
Best of the Beach: New Electric Car Dealer
New Electric Car Dealer E3 Vehicles First there was the pandemic. Then war. Both were bad for most businesses, but not for E3 Vehicles, which sells electric LSV (low speed vehicles). According to owner Amy Errett, her sales have benefited from people working, and not needing a car to drive to work. Gas prices topping […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Car Wash, Auto Repair
Car Wash Rock-n-Roll Car Wash The full service washing and detailing by Rock-n-Roll Car Wash, just like Madison WI car detailing, harkens to an era “when service was exceptional and quality was standard.” Throw in a fun and friendly atmosphere and nostalgic décor with memorabilia on the walls and rock on the box, and the […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Resort
Resort Terranea Resort If you’re not quite ready for a European vacation, a stay at the Terranea Resort may be the next best thing. Billed as an escape from the ordinary, the 102-acre property on the Palos Verdes Peninsula is surrounded by unparalleled natural beauty. When you’re paddle boarding along the Pacific, you’ll feel like […]
Best of the Beach 2022: Hotel
Hotel Shade, Manhattan Beach When Shade Hotel opened in downtown Manhattan Beach a dozen years ago, it did more than provide the area the first truly boutique hotel for visitors. Shade was the anchor for the Metlox project, a development 20 years in the making, and the hotel quickly became a gathering point for the […]
Manhattan Beach Rotary among El Camino College 75th anniversary gala honorees
The Manhattan Beach Rotary has been named recipient of the 2022 El Camino College Community Gratitude Award. The Manhattan Beach Rotary has been supporting student scholarships at El Camino since 2008, and has donated close to $100,000 to the school. The organization has also provided food and supplies to the Warrior Pantry, and donated funds […]
Voting underway for Hermosa Beach Chamber Awards Dinner Honorees
Voting is now underway for Hermosa Beach Chamber Awards and Installation dinner honorees. The dinner will be held Monday, Jan. 24, at the Lighthouse Cafe on Pier Plaza. Tickets are $100 for chamber members and $125 for non members. To vote, go to HBChamber.net. Person of the Year Mike Bell Marje Bennetts Annie Seawright-Newton Best […]
Redondo Beach’s Joe Czuleger did it all: businessman, boater, diver, fisherman, skier
Joe Czuleger lived one heck of a life during his 95 years as a Redondo Beach resident. He witnessed a full solar eclipse while on a fishing trip off Baja California. He was on a boat in Los Angeles Harbor the one day Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose. In the late 1940s he downhill […]
Dr. Pissed Off: Welcome to Camp Omicron. Here are the rules
by Dr. Pissed Off The newest version of COVID-19 is called Omicron. You will get it whether vaccinated, or not, unless you beat the odds — kind of like the lottery. It does not care if you have already had COVID. Omicron is diabolically contagious, and will find you. If you are vaccinated, the more […]
The 29th Annual Beach Cities Toy Drive
