South Redondo Beach takes to the street to sing, six feet apart
David Poster, Betty Baron Anderson and John Rubiner join neighbors in South Redondo to sing Bill Withers “Lean on Me.” The neighbors are gathering to sing every Sunday at noon. Photo Over the past three Sundays, neighbors in South Redondo have left their homes at noon to stand six-feet apart and sing. On the first Sunday, they sang “America the Beautiful.” On the second Sunday, they sang Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl anthem “This Land is Your Land.” This past Sunday’s theme was Halloween in April. Over 50 neighbors came out in costume. The singing began with a celebratory “Star Spangled Banner,” followed by a somber note. “That was the only song my husband ever took his hat off for,” long time South Redondo resident Betty Baron Anderson said when the singing stopped. Her husband Mike died Friday of lung cancer. His black cowboy hat with its band of silver and turquoise rested on a table with a photo of him next to his 1999 Plymouth Prowler. His wife said the Prowler was her favorite of the four hotrods that Mike, a former aerospace mechanic, took to the Ruby’s car show every Friday evening in summer, until his illness. She was fortunate, she said, to have been able to bring him home…
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