Time remembers Hermosa Beach home it forgot
Robi Hutas looks to the future. Photo The clock has begun to tick again for the home that time forgot – a funky, 1950s-era apartment complex where the rents stood still as long as landlord Jack Hoy lived. With Hoy’s passing earlier this year, rental rates for the tenants of the complex, on the corner of Eighth Street and Manhattan Avenue, will move into the 21st century. The new rents will be competitive for lodgings short blocks from the beach, but they will nearly triple in some cases for some renters who had basked in Hoy’s beneficence for decades. Forty-seven year resident Robi Hutas, a photographer known for his landscapes and his extensive vintage beach volleyball catalogue, will see his rent go from $460 to $1,350 a month in February. He also was asked for a $460 security deposit. Hutas, 75, doubts he can come up with the scratch. He does handyman duty, everything from cleaning windows and carpeting to upholstery and mini-blinds. “It doesn’t matter what you do, there is no work,” he said. “I have no place to go, man. I’m looking, I’m looking all over the place,” he said. John Miller, a semi-retired landscape and surf photographer and a board member of the Hermosa Beach…
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