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Landmark Hermosa: The Centennial Wall

If you guessed the "Show of Hands" wall by the skate park for our morning trivia, you were right.

The red, blue, and yellow hands filling the walls outside the municipal skate park commemorate the city's centennial. Hermosans painted the town in celebration of this anniversary on January 14, 2007.

The celebration began in 2006 with the "100 Acts of Beautification" project, which allowed residents to get involved in embellishing the city.

"We want to polish up the city and leave Hermosa Beach in even better condition for the next 100 years," said Mayor Michael DiVirgilio, who was a city public works commissioner at the time, in a 2007 Hermosa Beach Neighborhood Association newsletter.

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As part of this year-long beautification project, hundreds of locals dipped their hands, and even their children's feet, in paint, marking the walls that sit on the corner of Pier Avenue and Ardmore Avenue.

The painting occurred in September and October 2007. on Sept. 16 and October 6, 2007. After a huge success, the community held another painting day on January 13, 2007.

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More than 1,000 hand and footprints fill the walls of the skate park today.

Congratulations to Ken Hartley for winning today's Landmark Hermosa. We'll have a new landmark to guess next Friday.

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