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By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor on every doorstep by a multi-generational American is as great as the possibility of it being delivered by a naturalized citizen. Workers are working harder, longer and at more jobs but for less pay, and more of us are spending more of our income on housing—if we are so fortunate to have housing at all. Add to that an election cycle more caustic than the last, what we’re left
Pictured are pin-up models participating in Whitewall Nationals Warehouse of Kustom Cars and Motorcycles Showcase on July 16 in San Pedro. Photo by Phillip Cooke.
with is a body politic that is either on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion or a people on the verge of coming apart at the seams. In times such as these, a vacation by the waterfront is in order. An essay was recently published in the Smithsonian magazine on the relatively short history of how the beach became a vacation destination.
Writer Daniela Blei noted that before the industrial revolution in Europe, the beach and by extension, the ocean, was a fearsome place in the popular imagination. “The coastal landscape was synonymous with dangerous wilderness,” Blei wrote. “It was where shipwrecks and natural disasters occurred, where a biblical flood engulfed the world.” Industrialization brought greater and more real horrors, and the seashore became a place where people of means could escape inner city air and water [See Summertime page 9]
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ummertime in the Los Angeles Harbor Area is like an endless parade of classic Chevys, Fords, roaring bobbers, choppers and Harleys trekking their way to the coastal areas. This is especially true on weekends. Caravans with hundreds of cars make their way to Paseo del Mar to see and be seen as everyone takes in the sunshine and ocean views from Point Fermin Park and get a bite to eat at Walker’s Cafe. You can’t blame people for wanting to retreat into that nostalgia. We’ve encountered more change than some of us can stand. The specter of terrorism arriving
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