Posted on 11/12/2012 5:23:43 PM PST by Rebelbase
60 years ago California had a 45 bounty on them!
San Bernadino had a 5 cent bounty on blue jays and I uaed to shoot them for target practice with a .22 and the bounty paid for the ammunition!
I always get a weird feeling when I go through that town. Something really creepy about it. I think most of the people may be zombies.
It draws a certain sort and always has, it’s just that the past few decades have seen a large influx of garden variety leftists, hippies and occult oriented people of various stripes. The city itself had quite a boom just prior to the Great Depression with many very elaborate Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings, which survived largely intact because the city went bust and a lot of the downtown just sort of sat there, unmolested, until the debts were finally cleared in the late seventies. It was a summer resort for people of means, even very prominent people, authors, musicians, political figures and old money families. A lot of the weirdness appears to center upon their old homes and hangouts. That’s what they’re picking up and like it. That’s what you’re picking up and don’t. It’s a nice enough old town, I don’t mind hippies so long as politics can be avoided. But, that vibe is there.
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