I have an aunt who was born and raised in Compton. A few years after she moved to San Bernardino County, a man involved in the petroleum industry named George H. W. Bush moved with his wife and son George Walker to a home on Santa Fe Ave. and Myrrh St., about three blocks from where my aunt had lived. Bush’s wife Barbara later described Compton as a “lovely” town.
I think that some Mexicans have moved in after the Blacks messed up the place and have tried to improve the area. The Blacks move away when the Mexicans come around. So the place improves. But those main north-south boulevards in Compton are still dangerous, messy, and precarious to say the least.