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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
 Wow, your childhood home was on the beach t2? What did it look like before the 'moderization'?
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It wasn't a modernization. It was a demolition.
The house looked like many others down that way, big, single-story frame places with deep eaves. Built in the teens or twenties. The yards were brick (front and back) with a sand yard on the north side. I dunno where that palm tree came from, we just had ice plant
The place there now is a 4-unit condo building.
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Originally Posted by tovangar2
A view from the south, ca 1920s. The Redondo power plant may be seen at the lower edge. Santa Monica Bay curves around to Malibu, upper left.
The Manhattan Beach Pier is the next one north. Farmland (including the famous flower farms) and countryside were not far away.
Tiny Hermosa is just 15 blocks from east to west and 40 blocks from north to south.
This view explains why my mother was always so anxious to escape "into town". Hermosa was too provincial for her.
My childhood home was five blocks south of the pier at 7th and Strand, now demolished and replaced with condos:
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