Moonstone is South Bay's rock of ages

From: Daily Breeze | Date: January 23, 2005| Author: Kristin S. Agostoni DAILY BREEZE | Copyright information

Tucked away inside Mary Barrett's jewelry box is a pair of silver teardrop earrings that can carry her back six decades.

Their translucent milky-white stones give off a glimmer in her dimly lit Redondo Beach kitchen, and then trigger memories the 79- year-old made as a teen.

In the 1940s, as the school days came to an end and Barrett met up with her three sisters, they'd head down to the water and scour the sand.

Roughly between Second Street in Hermosa Beach and the foot ...

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