The Hermosa Beach Historical Society & Museum’s most current exhibition, which opens Saturday, May 22, will check out the introduction of skateboarding in the city and the rest of the South Bay through photos, video and other media.
The display, entitled “Skateboarding, Then,” marks the very first occasion at the museum open up to the general public because the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2015 — and it will be the museum’s very first student-led exhibit.
Museum Collections volunteer Dylan Lombardo, a 2017 Mira Costa High School graduate who will go to UC Santa Cruz in the fall as an art history significant, stated he initially began offering at the museum last summer season to end up being more included with the neighborhood. He began going through cabinets filled with pictures that belong to the Easy Reader Photographic Collection and stumbled upon a folder of classic skateboarding pictures. The discover, he stated, left him “blown away.”
“It’s really cool to see these photographs from back in the day,” Lombardo, who matured in Hermosa and is a passionate web surfer and skater, stated, “when all of these people started skating and making the tricks that I do now when it was new and they were inventing all these things.”
The display likewise includes items from the personal collection of Skateboarding Hall of Famer Cindy Whitehead, who dominated the male-dominated sport in the 1970s, and a skateboarding movie from regional real estate agent and public-access tv host Gerard Ravel.
Jamie Erickson, museum director of operations, stated she hopes student-led exhibits will end up being a custom.
“It’s a good experience for the local kids to not only get the opportunity to curate a whole exhibition on their own,” Erickson stated, “but to have that in the context of their own community.”
Skateboarding is a terrific subject, Erickson stated, since “it’s finding something that a lot of the different generations have in common.”
Lombardo stated his preferred image included in the exhibition is called “Youth Push,” which reveals 10 kids moving a skateboard ramp on Palm Drive in between 14th Street and Pier Avenue, in Hermosa Beach.
“It represents what skateboarding is for me and that is unity, freedom and fun,” Lombardo stated. “These kids pushing the ramp together in order to skate is very powerful to me and reminds me of how great it is to be skating with friends.”
The display’s opening will range from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Tickets will have a timed entry and masks will be needed. Temperatures will likewise be taken and hand sanitizer will be offered.
The display does not yet have an end date, however will be offered to see after the opening by visit just Wednesday to Saturday.
To reserve a ticket: hermosabeachhistoricalsociety.org.