Featuring the Weekly Newspapers of Hawthorne, Inglewood and Lawndale Hawthorne Press Tribune Lawndale Tribune AND LAWNDALE NEWS Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 23 - June 10, 2021 South Bay Seniors Begin their Day Inside with a Special Morning Breakfast This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals ......................7 Classifieds ...........................2 Entertainment .....................2 Hawthorne ...........................3 Lawndale .............................4 Inglewood ............................5 Legals ................................4,6 Pets .......................................8 Congratulations to our seniors and thank you to the Hawthorne food services team for providing our students with an excellent senior breakfast. You are appreciated. Photo courtesy Hawthorne High School. Seniors .................................3 John Van Hamersveld Anticipates Another “Endless Summer.” By Duane Plank Van Hamersveld marveled at his induction Airplane. And he also (presumably) received John Van Hamersveld may not be an El into the ESHS Hall-Fame, mentioning that a paycheck for his artistic work that graced Segundo resident, but the Rancho Palos when he saw his portrait gracing a school publications like Esquire, Billboard, and the Verdes local and renowned graphic artist and campus wall, he could not help but think that rock bible, Rolling Stone. illustrator has established a large footprint in selected Hall-of-Famers usually were athletes, Van Hamersveld related that he was selected the South Bay and across the pop culture like baseballers the Brett Brothers or Scott to design the artwork for the cover of the Weekend canyon for more than 60 years. “El Segundo McGregor, or maybe scientists (must admit Beatles Magical Mystery Tour album. He said is where my career started, as a surfer and those inductees’ names were unfamiliar to that the accompanying MMT film bombed, Forecast an artist,” Van Hamersveld has said. me), not graphic artists. but that the album was not so shockingly, An El Segundo High School graduate, Van Hamersveld also happens to be the phenomenally successful. “That was my class of 1959, ESHS Hall-of-Fame inductee talented man who designed the splashy poster success there,” he reminisced. in 2017, the acclaimed graphic artist is also for the still iconic 60’s surf film, the Endless Van Hamersveld said that the “most unique” the designer of the colorful imprimaturs that Summer. And, oh, by the way, he is credited cover that he designed was for the Rolling Friday grace the façade of a Department of Water with designing album covers, more than 300, Stones “Exile on Main Street” album, adding Sunny of Power tower in El Segundo. You can for a few bands that you may have heard of, that his renderings that graced the old vinyl view the tower as you travel East on Grand while he worked for Capitol Records in the records allowed him to be “paid really well.” 71˚/58˚ Avenue after making a turn from Vista Del mid-ish sixties as head of design/art director. After finishing his tenure at Capitol Re- Mar or while traipsing to or from the beach How did Van Hamersveld score the gig at cords, Van Hamersveld took advantage of as we fast-forward to the summer of 2021. Capitol Records? He said that at the time, his burgeoning entrepreneurial opportunities that Hopefully, as the pandemic continues to Endless Summer poster, which is featured in were blossoming some 50 years ago. Large abate, this will be the new Endless Summer the Smithsonian, was “selling like hotcakes” record stores were starting to make their Saturday for fortunate beach residents like us. in college campus bookstores and the like, imprints in suburban concrete jungles, and, Suzanne Fuentes, the long-time member and that he was invited to meet with a bigwig as luck would have it, flashy vinyl record Sunny of the El Segundo City Council, helped at Capitol Records. Van Hamersveld took his jacket covers were a great way for stores 72˚/61˚ facilitate Van Hamersveld’s induction into poster to the meeting, and the record execu- to catch the eye (and open the wallets) of the ESHS Hall-of-Fame and his selection to tive made the (incorrect) assumption that Van music aficionados. design the DWP tank mural. The tank mural Hamersveld also designed album covers. On a personal aside, it is great to see the unveiling took place in April of 2018, after Not quite, but Van Hamersveld said that comeback in the interest of vintage vinyl what Fuentes described as a “warp-speed” he “didn’t say a word” to correct the exec’s albums. I only wish that I hadn’t offloaded Sunday design and installation process, and was at- false assumption and gladly accepted his almost all of my 60’s+ plus collection of tended not only by local residents but also nearly immediate job offer. This led to Van records when my record player died about a Sunny a veritable “Who’s Who” of surfing. Hamersveld designing a boatload of more than dozen or so years ago. Instead, it seems that 73˚/62˚ Fuentes said that Van Hamersveld’s artwork 300 splashy, and oft-times, psychedelic album I am only left with the records (RUSH, David “provides a beautiful entrance to El Segundo. covers, including artwork and or promotional Sanborn, Ted Nugent) that no one wanted at Seeing John Van Hamersveld’s vibrant art posters for the vinyl efforts of the Beatles, the time, even if they were offered up for free. installation,” Fuentes said, “always makes Rolling Stones, KISS, Grateful Dead, Blondie, Van Hamersveld started working to promote me smile!” the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, and Jefferson See Van Hamersveld, page 5 Page 2 June 10, 2021 Finance Pursuing A Mortgage With Entertainment ‘Less-Than-Perfect’ Credit In Breaking Boundaries, David Attenborough (BPT) - Owning a home is the cornerstone backed or guaranteed by the Department of of the American dream. 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