[old school]

I contend that this is what happened to the California of my childhood. California was a marvelous place to live as I was growing-up. That is, until the sixties and the “Summer of Love,” when crazies from all over the United States came to California looking for “free-love” and drugs (and never left)! The disease has spread over the years.

[cuz1961]

I contend that this is what happened to the California of my childhood. California was a marvelous place to live as I was growing-up. That is, until the sixties and the “Summer of Love,” when crazies from all over the United States came to California looking for “free-love” and drugs (and never left)! The disease has spread over the years.

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i couldnt agree more !

blaming california for all ills is pure projection of the 60’s freud mao marx loving progs.

my family fled calif in 69 to oregon to escape the 60’s freaks that infested the state from the eastern colleges.

[Inyo-Mono]

I contend that this is what happened to the California of my childhood. California was a marvelous place to live as I was growing-up. That is, until the sixties and the “Summer of Love,” when crazies from all over the United States came to California looking for “free-love” and drugs (and never left)! The disease has spread over the years.

You are correct, the Conservative California I grew up in in the 1950s and '60s began to change with a huge influx of outsiders in the late '60s. I remember driving around with a rifle in my car openly displayed while buying cases of .22s at small convenience stores in the '60s to go rabbit hunting when I was in my teens, no ID needed.