The BeachLife Festival reimagines Redondo
Willie Nelson & Family play BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach Sunday evening. Photo by JP Cordero (CivicCouch.com) Ten thousand people came to the beach last weekend in Redondo Beach, all because a teenage boy lit a fire 28 years ago. Allen Sanford was a thoughtful juvenile delinquent. He didn’t want to do harm. He just wanted people to stop and wonder for a second. So as a 13-year-old kid, he snuck out late one night and lit a little fire in the middle of a street near his home. It was two in the morning, and back then that meant quite a few wobbly drivers were on the road after a night’s carousing. “I’d just light tiny little fires in the middle of the street…. People would be driving home from the bars and kind of trip out, get out of the car and kind of look,” Sanford said. “It was kind of surreal.” He got caught. His dad didn’t see the surrealistic humor in it. Sanford ended up grounded at his house for the next year. His father Joe Sanford, after his initial anger subsided, ended up feeling sorry for the boy. He bought his son a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. For the next six months, Allen sat in his room with the guitar and a cassette player loaded with Led Zeppelin IV…
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