by Kevin Cody In 2007, Hermosa Beach Public Works Supervisor Mike Flaherty gave artist Daniel Inez 20 Hermosa Beach street signs that the city was replacing.
by Ralph Doyle Surfboards as art canvases isn’t a new idea. But Leadership Hermosa Beach is taking surfboard art to a new level with its Boards Across Hermosa.
“Sunday morning.” Photo by John Post
January 1, 2000, on the first day of the new year, new century and new millennium. Photo by John Post
Shortly after returning to Manhattan Beach from Vietnam, in 1969, 21-year-old John Post photographed a mirror reflection of the Manhattan Beach pier from his small, 9th Street apartment, half a block up from the beach. He took the photo with a Pentax, the poor man’s Nikon.
Though Post was studying photography on the GI Bill at El Camino College, he could not have known that, half a century later, that photo would be the first of over 100 photos to appear in his recently published coffee table book, “Manhattan Beach Pier: Portrait of a Pier through a Lifetime of Photography.”