Search Results: Derek Levy

Surfing with Santa through four, surf stoked decades

By Easy Reader Staff / December 10, 2020

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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Odd History About Redondo Beach’s Street Names (Video)

By Brad Jacobson / December 2, 2020

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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Old School Manhattan Beach (Video)

By Brad Jacobson / August 21, 2020

Manhattan Beach’s downtown area has changed a lot through the years. Do you remember the Hibachi, the La Mar Theatre, Manhattan Coolers, La Paz, Ocean Liquor, Zeppys Pizza etc? Yeah, Manhattan Beach has some great places now but there was something special about these past places. Derek Levy and Brad Jacobson take you on a…

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Hermosa Beach’s CRAZY Past and Present (video)

By Brad Jacobson / August 3, 2020

Hermosa Beach past and present. You probably know it as a great place to go out for a few drinks and a good meal but there’s more to it than that. Join Brad Jacobson and Derek Levy as they take a walk through the famous Hermosa Beach Promenade to share some of its past.

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Distant Shore: Los Angeles County unlikely to lift beach closures until at least May 15 [UPDATED]

By Ryan McDonald / April 22, 2020

After Los Angeles County ordered the temporary closure of all beaches late last month, Hermosa Beach resident Chris Brown began a routine of strolling west on one of the city’s walk streets right up the edge of The Strand, which had also been ordered closed, and watching the sunset. Eventually he stopped strolling. Brown, an…

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Beach kids – SB Boardriders

By Judy Rae / September 19, 2019

Grom-O-Rama

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Breakwater: the early days Longboards, no wetsuits and already hierarchical

By Mike Purpus / June 14, 2019

The first time I rode the Redondo Breakwater was the winter of ‘62. I was a 12-year old-grom. I paddled down from 30th Street in Hermosa. A lifeguard truck spotted me at 26th Street and followed me the rest of the way. The Breakwater was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) project, begun during the Great…

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Letters to the Editor 5-16-19

By Judy Rae / May 16, 2019

Read about it. Write about it

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BeachLife brings Big Wave Awards to South Bay

By Ryan McDonald / May 11, 2019

The sun was sinking behind surfer Alex Gray, illuminating the Beach Cities and Palos Verdes Peninsula surf breaks, where Gray has scored some pretty sizeable waves. But some far bigger waves were about to unfold right behind him, inside Redondo Beach’s Seaside Lagoon. Gray had the honor of presenting the men’s biggest paddle award, the…

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‘Chasing Lions’ looks back on Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan winter surf

By Kevin Cody / April 25, 2019

In “Chasing Lions” Jacobson weaves in a semi fictionalized account of former pro surfer Chris Wells and his companion Natalie Soderstrom starting off the winter hopefully with the two January swells, only to be disappointed when winter goes out like a lamb.

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Hap Jacobs, last of Hermosa Beach’s Golden Age of Surfing shapers, shapes final surfboard

By Kevin Cody / April 7, 2019

Hap Jacobs, the last of Hermosa Beach’s legendary shapers from Surfing’s Golden Age, shaped his last surfboard last week.

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Best of the Beach 2019 – Sports

By Judy Rae / March 15, 2019

Best of the Beach 2019

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Big Wednesday: Redondo Breakwall, El Segundo Jetty proves it’s not a myth

By Kevin Cody / January 15, 2019

Redondo Breakwall surfer Chris Rodriguez planned to go by boat from King Harbor to surf Indicator in Palos Verdes last Wednesday morning. He had a new, 7-foot-6 Pat Ryan board he wanted to test in big waves and the Breakwater didn’t look big.

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Letters to the Editor 11-22-2018

By Judy Rae / November 23, 2018

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South Bay Boardriders Club: 2018 Report

By Kevin Cody / November 20, 2018

  South Bay Boardriders President’s Report           South Bay Boardriders hosts Big Wave Challenge             South Bay Boardriders Club scholarships       Boardrider contests go high tech       South Bay Boardriders Grom-O-Rama

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South Bay Boardriders host Big Wave Challenge

By Kevin Cody / November 20, 2018

The South Bay Boardriders Club established the Big Wave Challenge in 2011 to recognize a select group of surfers who chase big waves.  Waves must be at least “Triple Overhead” and caught between Indicator in Palos Verdes and Dockweiler State Beach in El Segundo.

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