Bar hopping’s glory days
“Talking Seagull” by Jerry Averill. December 12, 2015, Manhattan Beach pier. I was shooting the surfers and noticed this seagull opening his mouth really wide.Manhattan Beach pier.Nikon D7100. Honorable mention by Pete Whalon Travel back in time with me for a nostalgic journey to the ‘70s and ‘80s in the South Bay. The classic beach cruise in the ‘70s and ‘80s began at 45th St. and Highland Avenue, dipped down to Manhattan Avenue and then to Hermosa Avenue, which turned into Harbor Drive, culminating at the Redondo Pier. I received my honorable discharge from the Army in 1971 after spending 22 months in Vietnam. I had just turned 22 and for the next two decades that hallowed stretch of pavement would be my “adult playground.” The bars, clubs and restaurants offering music and dancing littered those streets of the three beach cities. For a young single male on the prowl, it proved a mecca for meeting nubile, perky, suntanned chicks (yes, that’s what we called them before the invasion of political correctness). And for most of that period the Red Onion on Harbor Drive was, hands down, the quintessential stop for achieving that goal. If you arrived at the “O” after 9 p.m. on a Friday…
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