Well, the beach cities and the Valley were fun back then!
Now a house in Hermosa is a coupla million and the surfers all have to live in Hawthorne.
And the Valley is just Mexico. ValGirls all gone....
Guess the Seventies were the end of middle class LA which is the point of the article. funny thing is that no one knew that then. The party was supposed to go on forever...
I lived in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach in the early eighties. Eventually the commute got to me and I moved inland.