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   DEDICATION SET FOR MONUMENT TO HAWTHORNE'S BEACH BOYS   
   Site of the South Bay home of Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson is to be a   
   designated California Historical Landmark on May 20, just in time for   
   summer.   
   By Ian Gregor   
   Daily Breeze   
      
   In December 1963, 19-year-old Fred Vail offered this simple introduction   
   in front of a few thousand people in a Sacramento arena: "And now, from   
   Hawthorne, California, to entertain you tonight with a gala Christmas   
   concert and recording session, the fabulous Beach Boys." A few months   
   from now, Vail once again will speak on behalf of the band he promoted   
   and later managed.   
      
   This time, the venue will not be a theater or stadium, but the spot   
   where 119th Street dead ends into a freeway sound wall in northeast   
   Hawthorne. That's the site where Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson grew up   
   in a five-room house with their parents, Audree and Murry Wilson, and   
   rehearsed songs with band mates Al Jardine and Mike Love. On May 20, a   
   monument is scheduled to be dedicated there designating it as an   
   official California Historical Landmark, promoters of that cause said   
   Monday.   
      
   Vail, now 60, will be one of the featured speakers at the dedication   
   ceremony. "I think it's 20 years overdue, maybe more," said Vail, who   
   owns a recording studio in Nashville, Tenn. "Certainly to me it honors   
   not only the Beach Boys as a group and Hawthorne being the city   
   associated with them, but really honors the legacy of the entire Wilson   
   family."   
      
   The effort to get landmark status for the old Wilson family home site   
   was led by Harry Jarnagan, a construction engineer and Beach Boys fan   
   from Tracy, Calif. In August, the California Historical Landmark   
   Commission approved Jarnagan's application.   
      
   The Wilson home, however, no longer exists. It was demolished in the   
   1980s to make way for the Century (105) Freeway. "I'm just amazed that   
   the house got torn down to begin with," said Vail, who promoted the   
   Beach Boys from 1963 to 1966 and managed the group from 1969 to 1971.   
      
   The landmark status committee held a design competition for the monument   
   that will be built at the site, and received 16 entries from the United   
   States, United Kingdom and France, Jarnagan said. Most proposals, which   
   can be viewed at www.beachboyslandmark.org, feature images of   
   surfboards, waves or musical notes sculpted from brick, bronze and   
   granite.   
      
   The monument will incorporate a bronze plaque designating the place as   
   California Historical Landmark No. 1041, and donated bricks, which have   
   been inscribed with the names of people who have donated $100 or more to   
   the project, Jarnagan said. The winning entry will be chosen by a panel   
   of Hawthorne officials and Wilson family members, he said.   
      
   Jarnagan initially wanted to unveil the monument on March 7, 2005 -- the   
   60th anniversary of the day Murry and Audree bought their 119th Street   
   home. But he pushed it back, figuring the weather would be better in   
   late May.   
      
      
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   You can still buy a brick for the monument at   
   http://www.beachboyslandmark.org   
      
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