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Neighborhood Gym Beach Life Fitness Boutique If you were going to try and concoct the perfect neighborhood gym for women at all stages of life, it would be high nigh impossible to come up with a better combination of attributes than Beach Life Fitness Boutique. It all starts with the gyms’ founder and lead instructor,…
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Retail Flower Shop Growing Wild For the past 30 years, Growing Wild Flower Shop has been creating unique and artistic floral arrangements for South Bay residents. The quaint Highland Avenue and 12th Street store is owned by twins Lisa and Lee Hoven, two creative souls who grew up in Manhattan Beach. There’s plenty to…
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We went to lots of fabulous places in 2022 for PhotowalksTV, my streaming travel photography series that’s seen on YouTube, Tubi and the Roku Channel. Photo moments, of course, stand out, but equally special are some of the cool people I met on the road. The joy of traveling and making videos is meeting fascinating…
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Surfing Santa and his South Bay Boardrider Elves will pose for photos with families, and collect toys for the Beach Cities Toy Drive on Sunday, December 11, from 9 a.m. ’til noon, at 22nd Street in Hermosa Beach. Then, from noon to one, Santa will surf with families. Bagels, coffee and donuts will be served.…
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by Ivan G. Goldman Dr. Jon Schwartz had a chiropractic office in Manhattan Beach for approximately three decades, and treated thousands of patients over the years. Few of them knew that for much of that time he was also living another life. In that one he was a skilled gym boxer who sparred with countless…
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by Kevin Cody Manhattan Beach lost one of its most beloved, and longest working downtown business owners with the passing of Cotton Cargo’s Rosemarie Jacobson over the recent Memorial Day Weekend. She was 94. Jacobson opened Cotton Cargo on Manhattan Avenue in 1979, and walked to work from her Marine Avenue home almost daily, into…
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by Ralph Doyle A highlight of the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame Weekend each year is the screening of Brad Jacobson’s video of the recent winter. Some year’s videos have been more memorable than others. The 2015 “Chasing El Nino,” and the 2018 “Chasing Lions” lived up to their titles. In 2015 Angel Luhrsen…
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[Editor’s note: The following stories are excerpted from Easy Reader stories about Beach People who passed away in 2021. For their complete stories, go to EasyReaderNews.com] Kuhlmeyer was a ‘just the facts’ chief Harry Kuhlmeyer joined the Manhattan Beach Police Department, and rose through ranks to become chief in 1980. Three years later, in August…
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Video by Jefferson Graham Special thanks to Derek Levy, Body Glove, Pat Ryan/ET Surf, Jefferson Graham Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame inductee Derek Levy said he first aspired to be Surfing Santa over four decades ago, when he was on the Mira Costa High surf team, and saw Surfing Santa on Easy Reader’s…
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Watch Hermosa Beach chiropractor and surf champ Derek Levy take you to the waves for his second year as the Easy Reader’s Surfing Santa, in this latest video. Surfing Santa is an Easy Reader tradition that’s now in its 42nd year.
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Over 200 kids from the Richstone Family Center, Walk with Sally, Boys and Girls Club and other youth programs, along with an equal number of volunteer mentors from the beach community, and another 100 local volunteers, participated in the 20th Annual Day at the Beach, on Saturday, in Manhattan Beach. The day was hosted by…
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by Kevin Cody During the Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race pre race meeting last month, at Buffalo Park on Catalina Island, race director Buddy Bohn asked for a moment of silence in memory of Tim Ritter. Ritter competed in the 32-mile race from Catalina to Manhattan Beach nine times. But as Bohn and others have…
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by Kevin Cody Work began Monday morning on a tower of love in Hermosa Beach, in the form of a rainbow-colored lifeguard tower, north of the pier. “We’ve experienced some dark days during the COVID pandemic, from George Floyd’s murder to increases in violence against Asians,” Hermosa Beach Mayor Justin Massey said during a press…
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In 1978, retired lifeguard Paul Mattheson brought the cartoon character Surfing Santa to life by paddling out at the Hermosa Beach pier in a wool Santa Suit. When the suit got wet, he almost drowned. The following year, Body Glove made Santa a red and white, neoprene wetsuit, which Matthies surfed in for Easy Readers…
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Ever wonder how some of the Redondo Beach streets got their names? In this first new episode, Derek Levy and Brad Jacobson dive into a little bit of Redondo Beach history. The Lucifers Pizza from their Manhattan Beach location looks good too!
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