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"It's light, bright and cheerful. "The interior design of the clinic tower is a big change, Hall said . Richardson is a big man in this small town (literally: He's 6-foot-9), and the small town is very much in him . "But they're so concerned in normal circumstances about things falling into the wrong hands that I'm not sure I believe them . "Just the thought of putting a corporate hotel and restaurant there turns my stomach," said former Mayor Sam Edgerton, who uses a Mermaid bar stool as the captain's chair on his 42-foot yacht. The Mermaid, Scotty's and Sea Sprite speak to a previous era in Hermosa Beach and the freewheeling people who lived there .