article_snippet: Hawthorne is indeed a place of sun (263 days a year) but no surf and little romance.
article_snippet: It's a charmless city that expanded on the back of the post-war aviation industry (Los Angeles International is only five miles away).
article_snippet: Hawthorne Boulevard, with Hawthorne Boulevard low-rise jewellery shops and furniture stores, is no place for the young.
article_snippet: There's probably no road that better embraces the joys of LA - steep hills and canyons to one side, broad beaches and ocean to the other .
article_snippet: There's probably no road that better embraces the geographical joys of LA - steep hills and canyons to one side, broad beaches and ocean to the other - and
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