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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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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 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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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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Grom-O-Rama
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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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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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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, 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
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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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Read MoreSouth 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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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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