Exhibit Opening: Beaches, Boundaries, and Belonging in the South Bay

From the “Aristocrat of the California Beaches” to the originator of the Ironman, Hermosa and the South Bay have been home to a vast array of residents with claims to local status. The Hermosa Beach Museum’s next rotating exhibit, Beaches, Boundaries, and Belonging in the South Bay, draws on Chamber of Commerce pamphlets through the decades, local newspapers, and oral histories to explore how the beach community defined itself in its formative years between 1920 and 1970. While California holds a place in the public imagination as a surfers’ paradise, its coast has housed diverse – and often competing – visions of the present and future over the twentieth century.

Opening October 23 at 6pm with an introduction from Museum Staff at 6:30pm, this exhibit explores those visions in Hermosa and the South Bay.

All are welcome, no RSVP necessary.

You may also like the following events from Hermosa Beach Historical Society & Museum:

• This Saturday, 4th October, 11:00 am, Anatomy of a Skateboard - Family Workshop in Hermosa Beach
• Next month, 8th November, 09:00 am, The South Bay New Deal: A Bus Tour of WPA Art & Architecture in Hermosa Beach