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By Lyn Jensen
Special to the OC Voice

Every Tuesday night from 5 – 9 the first three blocks of Main Street, just inland from the Huntington Beach Pier, are closed off to automobiles for the Surf City Nights street fair and come alive with friendly pedestrians listening to the sounds of music.

Adam Ho performing on a recent Surf City Night. Photo by Mark Dimalanta

For at least one night a week you can forget the popular image of downtown Huntington Beach as an overcrowded cruising center, tourist madhouse or brawl-infested beer mall, watched over by platoons of police standing on street corners.

Smell the odor of kettle corn, cinnamon bread and salt air all mixed together while you hear some music you didn’t know you didn’t know, as the nineties-era radio ad used to say.

Promoter Steven Bradford of Bayside District books Surf City Nights shows featuring some of the finest local entertainment, ranging from breakdancers to young guitar heroes like Adam Ho, who is 19 years old and is probably the best pop act to come downtown since city officials foolishly tore down the world class Golden Bear night club more than two decades ago. Read the full story