[A Navy Vet]

A big part of my early teen soundtrack. I actually surfed to his early surfing music. They lived in Hawthorne, I lived one town over in Gardena. Really like his later hits more than the surf stuff. Good Vibrations was considered a critical masterpiece and was in many movies, along with some others.

Sad day for me. I literally grew up with those guys. Dennis (drummer) and I used to surf at Hermosa Beach. Dennis is also gone.

[dennisw]

“Sad day for me. I literally grew up with those guys. Dennis (drummer) and I used to surf at Hermosa Beach. Dennis is also gone.”

The rap on him that he was only good enough for live shows. The Beach Boys brought in excellent session drummers for their records. That Dennis was a big drinker, and this is how he drowned. Am I right?

[Flash Bazbeaux]

I moved to that area in 1983, about three months before Dennis drowned, and shortly before the I-105 freeway really got going. Space X is now about a block from where I used to work, on W. 120th Street east of the Hawthorne Airport. I had been told once that they lived down by Leuzinger High School, but they were on 116th, near the airport.

I went to Holly’s once, before it switched over to the Hawthorne Grill, and years before it was in Pulp Fiction. I recognized the fake rock decor immediately when I saw the first scene it was in. Took my family to Pan’s, owned by the same family, about eight years ago on our way to Disneyland. It was only about three years ago I learned that my apartment on W 136th Street near Prairie was about four short blocks from Marilyn Monroe’s childhood home.