Community Corner
Landmark Hermosa: the Strand
If you guessed the Strand in this morning's trivia, you were right.
With Friday being Hermosa Beach's Founders' Day, we salute one of our city pioneers with a look back on our area’s most popular thoroughfare: the Strand.
Traces of the Strand’s story began 110 years ago when Hermosa Beach was officially surveyed for the development of a seaside boardwalk.
Clement L. “Bob" Reinbolt, one of Hermosa’s first settlers, helped survey the city after moving out of his hometown Fremont, Ohio, according to the Hermosa Beach city website.
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Reinbolt led the effort to develop the lay of the land as superintendent of the Hermosa Beach Land and Water Company, which constructed the Pier in 1904.
About a decade later, the city’s beach boardwalk was built of lumber planks and extended two miles along Hermosa’s coastline.
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Portions of the walkway had a “habit of disappearing out to sea” during high tides, wind and surf in the winter, prompting city planners to replace the two-mile walkway with cement, according to Chris Miller’s Hermosa Beach.
A remaining 2,000 feet on the north end of the path was completed in 1926—and the Strand as now we know it was born. When you take your afternoon stroll, or gaze upon the sun setting over the Strand on Friday, think back to Hermosa’s founders who walked the same paths decades ago.
Congratulations to and for correctly guessing today's Landmark Hermosa. We'll have a new trivia next week.
