Insomniac sleeps: Bob Hare, founder of a beat generation icon, exits the scene
Bob Hare made his mark from 1958 to 1963 as owner of Hermosa’s beat-generation Insomniac coffeehouse, where Allen Ginsburg read “Howl,” Sonny Terry wailed the blues and Linda Ronstadt sang folk. His establishment across the street from the Lighthouse Café served as a creative salon with 50-cent coffee, “the cup that cheers, but […]
Respected police chief to leave Hermosa Beach
Police Chief Greg Savelli, widely credited with improving police standards, forging fresh links with residents and stemming a tide of lawsuits against the city during his five-year tenure, will leave Hermosa Beach on Jan. 12 for a “new challenging opportunity.” “I have accepted a new professional opportunity,” Savelli confirmed in an email. “I am awaiting […]
Boyfriend arrested in fatal Hermosa Beach shooting
Shortly after 5 o’clock on New Year’s Eve morning, residents of the Seahorse apartments in the 700 block of Manhattan Avenue heard a woman in a downstairs unit scream, “Don’t shoot.” The plea was followed by the sound of a pop, and then silence. One of the neighbors called Hermosa police, who arrived at the apartments […]
Woman’s death in Hermosa prompts homicide probe
[scrollGallery id=295] (Updated Jan. 1, 2011, 3 p.m.) Shortly after 5 o’clock on New Year’s eve morning, residents of the Seahorse apartments in the 700 block of Manhattan Avenue, in Hermosa Beach, heard a female neighbor in a downstairs unit scream, “Don’t shoot.” The plea was followed by the sound of a pop, and then there […]
Tattoo Beach: The quiet persistence of an artist opens Hermosa to the brave new world of tattoo parlors
Artist Johnny Anderson opened his landmark tattoo parlor just before the dawning of the year, but it was in 2011 that he became the Johnny Appleseed of tattoos, watching as three more parlors followed the road that he had paved. The shops opened after Anderson, 32, spent three years in the court system overturning a […]
Simmer Down: Hermosa Beach’s year that wasn’t
It was the year that almost happened in Hermosa Beach, but didn’t. A potentially bankrupting $700 million lawsuit kept the city in a holding pattern, the frequently controversial nightlife scene kept itself out of harm’s way, and the town was largely spared from the ax man and the tax man. As 2012 prepared to dawn, […]
Hermosa Beach: smoking, money, and the Dirty Boogie
In many ways Hermosa Beach was in a holding pattern in 2011 (see “Simmer down”). The potentially bankrupting Macpherson Oil lawsuit had seen major action in 2010, and stood poised for still more major action in 2012. But between those bookends, 2011 passed without great consequence. The city’s nightlife scene kept itself out of harm’s […]
Arrest made in Hermosa Beach firehouse theft
Police have arrested a 52-year-old Torrance man who allegedly entered the Hermosa firehouse through an open door moments after firefighters left on a call, went to the living quarters where he rifled through a firefighter’s backpack, found his keys and stole his Dodge truck. Police arrested Richard Warren Pollock in Victorville after he tried to […]
Time remembers Hermosa Beach home it forgot
The clock has begun to tick again for the home that time forgot – a funky, 1950s-era apartment complex where the rents stood still as long as landlord Jack Hoy lived. With Hoy’s passing earlier this year, rental rates for the tenants of the complex, on the corner of Eighth Street and Manhattan Avenue, will […]
Hermosa man avoids “Who’s Still Standing” TV trapdoor
Jared Young, a Hermosa musician and volleyball coach, had a televised decision to make. The one-night star of the NBC-TV trivia show “Who’s Still Standing” – the premiere episode, mind you – had already watched five opponents drop through trapdoors as they were eliminated from the game show, which aired prime time Monday. Host Ben […]
Hermosa Beach names interim school chief
Reaching into the past to go forward, the city school district has appointed former Superintendent Alan Rasmussen to the post on an interim basis, while a permanent replacement is sought for Bruce Newlin, whose three-year commitment to the post has ended. Rasmussen, 64, previously led the Hermosa district for three years ending in 2000, when […]
Snowfest rocks Hermosa Beach
Top area snowboarders did back flips over a tall ramp and 180-degree turns atop a Mercedes Benz sedan, wowing hundreds of spectators lining “Mount Hermosa,” a sloping, 60-ton snow field on upper Pier Avenue, for Saturday’s second annual Spyder Snowfest sponsored by Spyder Surf, Volcom and Electric. Celebrity judges included two-time snowboarder of the year […]
Hermosa Beach balks at South Park community garden
The City Council has balked at creating a community garden at South Park, calling for further study before another meeting on the subject in January. Councilman Jeff Duclos has spearheaded a move to place a community garden, with inexpensive plots leased to Hermosans in a rotating lottery, on the northeast corner of the grassy, 4.5-acre […]
Another missing Hermosa time capsule
When officials buried Hermosa’s “millennium time capsule” at the foot of the Pier Plaza pedestal clock in 2008, they registered the underground cylinder with the International Time Capsule Society, which promises to keep a record for whomever decides to dig it up 100 years later. And it’s probably a good thing. If the 21-year-old society […]
Hermosa Internet entrepreneur named to post
Hermosa entrepreneur Frank Addante has been appointed to the board of directors of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Los Angeles (CASA-LA), a nonprofit organization serving the interests of children in the dependency court system and in foster homes. Addante is founder and CEO of the Rubicon Project, an online advertising technology company with more than […]
Peninsula Charity Turning Outward
Vicki Scrimger and Alan Cook are happier from helping people The rewards of helping others are well known to Vicki Scrimger and Alan Cook, who are among the volunteer angels of the 40-year-old Community Helpline, one of the Peninsula’s enduring and well-known altruistic organizations. Scrimger, a marriage and family therapist, has been helping the Helpline […]