Just Down the Road

Brian Wilson and Southern California

Dennis, the brother who surfed.

"Endless Summer" was the first album I ever bought with "my own money," as we used to say. I purchased it at the Gemco at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Hawthorne in Torrance. 1975. The Beach Boys themselves grew up in the neighboring suburb of Hawthorne just down that one road, a point of South Bay pride. The ban…