A drive down to where the editor once lived, Manhattan Beach, and then on to Hermosa Beach, and, on the way home, an encounter with a cherry 1954 Chevrolet Corvette, and a stop at the Western Museum of Flight, across the runway from Northrop Aircraft, where the editor worked when he first moved to California…
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Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach
The famous Lighthouse is still here, although it is now a blues and rock club. Long ago this was where it happened, “The Birth of the Cool” – Chet Baker and all that. Somewhere your editor has a copy of an old vinyl album - Jerry Mulligan and Bob Brookmeyer and their “West Coast Cool” quartet (no piano) recorded here in the late fifties. Times change.