H.E.R.M.O.S.A.

A beach town located just south of LAX airport, Hermosa Beach is renowned for its former surf/skate culture, punk culture and was a seminal town in the Jazz music era. A club called the Lighthouse is still there to this day and the last time it was on film was in "La La Land" with John Legend as a cameo. Just across the street used to house a bar that you could literally strip right out of a Tarantino movie, a place called the "The Mermaid." Some days I would just park my car there and watch the roller girls, talk to skateboard shapers who bragged about their easy life as a quasi doorman and play my guitar as the sun would set day by day. The owner of the establishment "Boots" by that ti...View all