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Someone grew up here.
This was their neighborhood.
These objects are some of the remains.
Shown here is a place with a beautiful view of the beach disrupted and uprooted because of the growing LAX airport.
I’m interested in the in-between spaces in our reality, places that are forgotten and dislocated from their past identity.
// Surfridge was developed in the 1920s and 1930s as “an isolated playground for the wealthy.” A small airfield opened to the east of Surfridge in 1928. It became a popular location for residents to see air shows. The growing number of commercial flights into Los Angeles following after World War II meant a higher number of planes flying low over Surfridge. Many residents learned to co-exist with the noise from propeller planes, but jet engines were impossible to ignore.“If you lived in Surfridge prior to the late 1950s, you had to raise your voice a bit when having a conversation. After the jets came, you had to literally stop talking when they took off,” said Duke Dukesherer, a business executive who has written about Surfridge’s history. In the 60s/70s home owners were forced to sell their property to the City. Today one can see only barbed-wire fences protecting vacant land and old streets where houses once sat. The area is now the protected habitat for the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly. //
Someone grew up here.
This was their neighborhood.
A place with a beautiful view of the beach and the constant disruption of the noise pollution from the growing LAX airport.
I’m interested in the in-between spaces of our reality, places that are forgotten and dislocated from their past identity.
// Surfridge was developed in the 1920s and 1930s as "an isolated playground for the wealthy." A small airfield opened to the east of Surfridge in 1928. It became a popular location for residents to see air shows. The growing number of commercial flights into Los Angeles following after World War II meant a higher number of planes flying low over Surfridge. Many residents learned to co-exist with the noise from propeller planes, but jet engines were impossible to ignore."If you lived in Surfridge prior to the late 1950s, you had to raise your voice a bit when having a conversation. After the jets came, you had to literally stop talking when they took off," said Duke Dukesherer, a business executive who has written about Surfridge's history. In the 60s/70s home owners were forced to sell their property to the City. Today one can see only barbed-wire fences protecting vacant land and old streets where houses once sat. The area is now the protected habitat for the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly. //
Surfridge - The Forgotten Town Of The Wealthy
Surfridge was once a beach-front paradise for the rich and famous. However, by the 1970′s most of the residents were forced out of the town because of the expansion of LAX. Take a look around Surfridge then and now!
Fascinating! I drive through that area quite often as it's a bit of a shortcut to avoid the 405 freeway sometimes.
Read more here. YouTube video here.
Reclaimed console table. Red oak and steel.
where depth means blue #14 top of sandpiper street hill, surfridge ca
field recording 5:00
2013
Surfridge. September 2013.
