Hermosa Beach’s shifting stories on museum display

Hermosa Beach’s shifting stories on museum display

by Laura Garber  The Hermosa Beach Museum’s newest exhibit, “Beaches, Boundaries, and Belonging in the South Bay,” explores how the beach city redefined itself from the 1920s through the 1970s.   The exhibit traces the city’s evolving narrative through Chamber of Commerce pamphlets, local newspaper clippings and oral histories. The exhibit also identifies narratives that Hermosa  didn’t follow. “It was never set in stone that Hermosa would becom…