Hawthorne High School: How to get an ‘A’ ?
Before Hawthorne’s own son Brian Wilson was a star Beach Boy. He was a student at Hawthorne High School. He wrote a song for his music teacher and received an ‘F’.
Well 50+ years later and millions of purchases of the song “Surfin'” Wilson’s F was turned into an A!
“Wilson composed the song “Surfin’” while in high school for his music teacher, Fred Morgan. In a tweet shared by Wilson, Morgan said, “Brian wrote a composition for me and it turned out to be ‘Surfin.’ That composition got an F, but it made a million dollars.”
The tweet also read, “Brian’s failing grade has now been changed to an A on this assignment by Dr. Landesfeind!”
The Wilson brothers grew up on Kornblum Ave in Hawthorne. Right off the Hawthorne Airport on 120th Street.
Actually their home was where the 105 Freeway is today. Today, there is a landmark at the end of Kornblum up against the Freeway. It is hard to think of the South Bay lifestyle without thinking about the Beach Boys.
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The area around the home has blossomed over the years. Over at Hawthorne Airport sat the empty Northrop space. That along with much of other South Bay aerospace, left our area in the early 90s. Helping to prolong a local recession that had already recovered nationally.
Today much of the land has been turned to shopping centers, and the famous Elon Musk has headquartered Space EX just South of the Airport.
