[Fiji Hill]

Disney had walked the east parking lot at the LA County Fairgrounds in Pomona with the city council. They told him, “We already have the Fair, we don’t need an amusement park.”

Anaheim would go on to become world-famous for its major league sports teams and as a site for conventions while Pomona would become a "low-rent" community to be avoided at night.

[morphing libertarian]

after the watts riot the feds relocated parolees and welfare families to Pomona. The realtors in the other cities refused to sell houses to the feds.

Soon there were knife fights in the middle schools and the whites were leaving by the bs load.

We moved to Sacramento in 1978. In 77, Pomona was the armed robbery capitol of the US. (detroit was the murder capitol)