Quote: (06-16-2013 07:00 PM)Fisto Wrote:
I lived in LA and Southern California for 8 years. LA is a shithole because of 2 things, 3rd world people bringing over their problems and shitting out future criminal babies and throwing their mayonaise slathered corncobs on the street with the rest of their garbage and the other is the liberal policies that encourage their immigration.
Tellin' it like it is. I've been in SoCal my whole life, and my family on my mom's side has lived here since the 40s. My grandpa set up shop in a small town north of L.A. after WWII.
I've talked with my uncles about what life was like there during the 60s. It's insane. Every weekend, high school and college kids would flood the beaches and throw massive parties. Bonfires, drinking, sex, drugs, you name it.
When I was in high school, we'd throw bonfire parties and we'd see the beach patrol buggies off in the distance and we knew party's over. After a certain point we just stopped trying and kept it to house parties, which of course would also get raided by cops.
Even more off topic: My dad moved to Santa Barbara in '69 after he got out of Vietnam. Anyone who surfs has heard of Rincon, it's one of the most famous surf spots on the west coast. He said you'd be LUCKY to go out there and see a couple other guys, that you looked forward to it so you'd have someone to talk to. This is Rincon:
This is Rincon now:
10 guys fighting for each wave.
My point is I'm normally not one for glorifying the past, but by all objective accounts it seems like southern california in the 60s to early 70s was really an amazing place, a once-per-generation thing of being in the right place at the right time.