2500 Strand - Growing up in Hermosa Beach, California, during World War II, A Memoir

by C. Scott Littleton

C. Scott Littleton’s memoir of growing up in Hermosa Beach, California offers a unique and intimate portrait of life on the beach during World War II. 2500 Strand focuses on the years the Littleton clan occupied the beach front property of 2500 Strand. This touching personal history elucidates how one American boy saw the events of a world in from the news of France’s capitulation to Germany in 1940, to the tumultuous years in the wake of Pearl Harbor, the underlying war hysteria of Japanese internment camps and nightly air raid drills, and a first-hand account of the famous and unexplained “Battle of Los Angeles.” With his typical scholarly insight, attention to detail, and deep love of history, Littleton’s memories are unforgettable.

252 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Linda Malcor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Being a native Californian, I found this autobiography of Littleton growing up in Hermosa Beach absolutely fascinating. I loved seeing places I know through Littleton's eyes as his screenwriter father became blacklisted and his mother worked as a Rosie the Riveter during WWII. For UFO fans there is also an eyewitness account of the Battle of Los Angeles. An entertaining look of L.A. in Littleton's youth. (He actually got to visit the house he grew up in during the course of writing this memoir.)