Ebb & Flow Art Exhibit HB
Centennial
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On the cover of the announcement
for the Art Exhibit celebrating
Huntington Beach's Centennial in
2009 is the photo of a swim suit
beauty lighting a sign,
"HUNTINGTON BEACH, California's
Finest Bathing Beach". This has
long been one of our favorite
old photographs of Huntington
Beach because of its inclusion
of oil derricks in the
background. Huntington Beach as
a modern city grew from
its turn-of the 20th century
roots with focus on tourism,
first, then oil next, and back
to tourism now in the 21st
century.
Inside the
exhibits presentation folder is
a photo showing a huge wave that
devastates the Huntington Beach
Pier. Like so many cities along
the California, the destruction
and re-building of piers occurs
decade to decade as large storms
come ashore. It represents the
title of the exhibit, Ebb &
Flow.
Difficult to
compile because of the large
number of copies of photos and
artifacts, according to an art
center curator, the exhibit is a
display of models, videos.,
photos, documents and artifacts
from 100 years of the seaside
city that blossomed, thanks to
its namesake "Huntington" of oil
fame, Henry E. Huntington. It
would have grown eventually
anyway, but the wealthy
industrialist's decision (or
agreement) to run the Red Car /
Pacific Electric train through
and stop in Huntington Beach,
helped build its reputation
around 1904 as a vacation spot.
During this
exhibition event, each Friday,
Saturday and Sunday you can take
a docent led tour with members
of the Historic Resources Board,
who will discuss the exhibit in
depth. Also available during the
art display that runs between
January 17 and February 22,
2009, are several lectures about
Huntington Beach. For those
seeking to connect with the
past, may books have been
written about its history. But
this display may offer another
dimension to your current
understanding of life and
transitions (ebb & flow) of
Huntington Beach, California.
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