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Landmark Hermosa: Spyder Surf
If you guessed the Spyder Surfboards shop on PCH for this morning's trivia, you were right.
Even though the first shop opened in the 1980s, Spyder surfboards were born a few years earlier.
In 1978, former pro surfer Dennis Jarvis started building his own surfboards. "He called them Spyderboards after his favorite comic book figure," according to an article in the Easy Reader.
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Jarvis then opened at the corner of Artesia Boulevard and PCH in Hermosa Beach in 1983. The shop still sits there now.
"A lot of the guys and the managers up at [Spyder] have been there for a long, long time," Spyder co-owner in August.
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Spyder's block on PCH holds history as the neighboring building was the old Grand View Motel before it later became , according to the book Hermosa Beach, written by photojournalist Chris Miller and Jerry Roberts.
In 1997, Spyder opened its at 65 Pier Ave.
Congratulations to and for winning today's Landmark Hermosa. We'll have a new landmark to guess next Friday.
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