Beach volleyball will have Hall of Fame in Hermosa
The California Beach Volleyball Association Hall of Fame has finally found a home, at the Hermosa Beach Historical Society Museum.
The association has been inducting beach volleyball greats into its Hall since 1992, but the Hall has continued to exist only online, at CBVA.com. When Hermosa Beach Historical Society members contacted CBVA President Chris Brown seeking memorabilia for the spacious, high-tech museum inside the Community Center, a marriage was made.
“We had been looking for a physical location for the Hall of Fame,” Brown said.
He said some beach volleyball artifacts already have been collected, and Hall inductees have promised many more shorts, photos, old tournament balls and the like.
Organizers also plan features such as touch-screen monitors showing footage, including interviews of players. They hope to open the Hall of Fame exhibit within the museum in May or June 2011.
“It will be a really cool thing for the community,” Brown said. “And hopefully it will attract more people to the museum, which is really great.”
The Historical Society in 2007 overhauled its museum, tripling the size to 3,600 square feet, adding state-of-the-art lighting, and a 250 square-foot, humidity-controlled vault for documents, photos and periodicals dating to the early 1900s. ER