When the first aquaplane race from Catalina Island to Hermosa Beach by way of Manhattan Beach was held in 1935, the race got unofficially nicknamed the “ironing board derby.” It would later officially be named the National Aquaplane Race. What in the world am I talking about? Let me explain. Despite the name, aquaplane racesContinue reading “The National Aquaplane Races caused a sensation in the beach cities in the 1930s and 1940s”
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Author and Renaissance man Leonard Wibberley spent much of his life in Hermosa Beach
By the time his most famous novel, The Mouse That Roared, was published in 1955, Irish-born Leonard Wibberley already had lived and worked in a variety of jobs at a variety of locations all over the world. Born on April 9, 1915 in Dublin, he was the youngest of six children. After his early yearsContinue reading “Author and Renaissance man Leonard Wibberley spent much of his life in Hermosa Beach”
