[Windflier]

When I first went to SoCal as a kid in the 70s with family to visit cousins who lived near the beach - I thought I had stepped through a time-space portal into some advanced version of western civilization.

Native Angeleno here. I can vouch for the fact that SoCal really was like that for an all too brief moment in time.

I must say, I do miss it. We'll never see its like again.

[Texan5]

MrT5 really enjoyed being stationed in SanFran at the Presidio in the 80’s-more than 10 years later, he had a 60 day TDY there-he came home mourning the changes, and the ruin of a vibrant, lovely place. It is sad when places are ruined for everyone by the bottom feeders of society, and their masters who provide that Roman mob with bread and circuses...