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Neighbors Helping Neighbors Rodney Freeman and the Jamele Boys

The concept of neighbors helping neighbors is alive and well in the Hollywood Riviera. For proof, all you need to do is drive by the upper Riviera just about any afternoon and theres a good chance youll see Rodney Freeman on a walk with the help of his young neighbors. learned they wouldnt be able to have sidewalks for the kids they decided to look elsewhere for their home. Driving down the hill toward the Riviera, they came upon a real estate office with a blackboard outside listing a home on Via Pasqual. The Realtor on duty showed them the house using the glow of matches it was dark by then and the rest is history. Like many homes in the area at the time, the tract house was built to attract GIs returning from the war with its affordable price and desirable location. The Hollywood Riviera has changed substantially since Rodney and his family moved in. The area sloping down the hill toward the ocean was once bean fields, where farmers cultivated their crop and hang gliders took off for the beach below. Local kids would come to hunt jack rabbits and skunks. Today, that area is dotted with million dollar-plus homes boasting panoramic ocean views. For a night out, Rodney and Sheryl would head to the Hollywood Riviera Club for dining and dancing. The Club opened in 1930 on the site that is Miramar Park (just north of the main Torrance beach ramp). The Club was the site of many wedding receptions, proms and parties. On Christmas Day 1941, at the start of WWII, the first sighting of a Japanese submarine was made from the Clubs veranda. Because one half of the club was in

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Rodney, who turned 96 years old in June, is at an age where he still loves walking outdoors, but his legs are a bit shaky. So several times each week his neighbors down the block, the Jamele boys, stop by his house to take him on a stroll. Though eldest son Matthew used to walk with Rodney, now that hes away in college the next Jamele in line, Chase, gets to lend a hand. And not too infrequently Chase is joined by his friends -- a group of five or six very tall teens enjoying some outdoor time with a very wise older man. Rodney and his wife, Sheryl, have lived in the same house in the Riviera since 1953. They raised three sons there and wouldnt dream of living anywhere else. Their journey to this area started when Rodney owned three lots in Palos Verdes across from the La Venta Inn. Though the lots were beautiful, when Rodney and Sheryl

Redondo where the liquor licensing regulations were stricter and half in Torrance, at a certain time each night the bartender would close the Redondo half of the bar and tell his customers to slide down to the Torrance side to finish their martinis and gin and tonics. This persisted even when the club was in outside hands, as a public bar, until it burned down in 1958. You dont have to look far to see the good will in our community. One generation helping another ..the gift of giving continues on in the Riviera.

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