Posted on 11/21/2012 10:19:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
That must be a treasured photo.
I mapped out that location on yahoo maps. I guess you don’t visit the old home much anymore.
Just curious, when did your parents move from that house? Do you still live in Southern California?
LA has one of the worst mayors in the US and the city council rivals SF. It is actually bankrupt.
Former mayor Riorden is trying to put the employees on 401k type retirements instead of defined benefit pensions. The screaming is deafening and the LA Time provides the megaphone.
Heck, even Missing Persons back in the 80s sang that “Nobody Walks in LA.”
Well the good news is, that when the Big One hits, you won’t be able to tell the difference.
According to my father, Los Angeles was a great city when he moved there in the 1933. The word “smog” did not exist. There was great public transportation, good economy, jobs in the oil industry etc. The place went to hell after World War II. The war brought “diversity” to the city.
Oh, please.
Up till about 1975, Los Angeles was the greatest city in the United States. By any measure — income, manufacturing, growth, public school system, rate of home ownership, medicine, science, and resident life satisfaction.
Those stats are indisputable.
We’ve been invaded and occupied by a foreign country, (thanks for nothing, the other 49 states), which destroyed us.
But it was great ride for a great — greatest — city.
I wonder how the bro got a brand new pair of Adidas tennis shoes.
Haven’t been anywhere in LA for several years. Took my grandson to Disney in 2004. First time I had been there in several years and told him to enjoy it because we wouldn’t be going back. Really gone downhill compared to what it was. Then took both the grandsons to Lego Land in 2008 but stayed in a great hotel adjoining the area. Drove in and drove out. We do love parts of San Diego though. Such a shame. They literally had it all and just blew it, not only for them but for all the people who really envied their lifestyle and used to love to visit. Thanks for sharing the pics. Makes me so sad.
When I drive into Houston from the suburbs I notice more and more areas are becoming a bit raggedy looking and the area where I feel safe grow smaller and smaller. Happening to all the major cities. Tremendous waste, mismanagement and corruption is catching up.
You just can’t hide civic pride like that.
RE: Took my grandson to Disney in 2004. First time I had been there in several years and told him to enjoy it because we wouldn’t be going back.
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If you just stayed near Disneyland you are OK. Disneyland in Anaheim is 30 miles away from downtown Los Angeles ( the armpit of the city ).
“If the writer’s new neighborhood is clean, safe, affordable, and blessed with good schools, I guarantee him it will not be that way for long.”
My aunt and uncle (now dead for probably 20 years) lived in Pomona and left for Bishop ( halfway up the backside of the Sierras toward Reno, NV) probably five years prior to their demise. They left Pomona because it was not a safe place to live in the mid-1980’s. Pomona is probably at least 40 miles from downtown LA. so I don’t know where this author is hanging his hat and feeling safe. San Bernardino is still further east, and it’s going bankrupt thanks to the illegals.
I recently spent a week in the LA metropolitan area, and as I traveled around the city, it occurred to me that I couldn’t see much of anything that amounted to any sort of enterprise that involved actually producing anything. Retail and residential, that’s about it.
I mentioned this to a friend I was talking to on the phone, and asked him what in the world this city was running on. His reply was memorable. “Debt.”
He was fundamentally right. And it can’t go on forever.
I drove through LA for a wedding about four years ago and hadn’t been there in probably 15 years—I was shocked at the state of the infrastructure and just how bad the place looked. Sad, for such a beautiful locale and so much money there. There is really no excuse for it.
You can’t see him in the photo but there is a dead guy behind the telephone pole.
I never thought of LA as a city, it’s more of an urban sprawl area with no real defined center.
“The place went to hell after World War II. The war brought “diversity” to the city.”
Ditto for the Bay Area. Grew up in Contra Costa in the ‘50’s. Even then, no one went to Richmond. Kaiser Shipbuilding and Ford supported the War and the labor came from principally the South. When the war ended, the “immigrants” stayed on even though there wasn’t much for them to do except build a ghetto, knock out illegitimate kids, and take welfare. I remember when they sued the welfare agencies to stop the “unannounced” visits, because it screwed up their ability to move the kids around so they could get more money. Still pretty much the same today, except that they have an “indian casino.”
I lived in Moreno Valley when I was stationed at March AFB. There were parts of that town I would avoid and it was a relatively new city in 1991.
Doesn’t take long for the undesireables to find new preying ground.
If you include the surrounding areas of Los Angeles, then you have a diverse economy with lots of industries.
Hollywood is just 8 miles from downtown LA and is of course the film, entertainment and arts capital of the world (television, motion pictures, video games, recorded music).
The contiguous ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together comprise the fifth-busiest port in the world
The city is home to six Fortune 500 companies. They are energy company Occidental Petroleum, healthcare provider Health Net, metals distributor Reliance Steel & Aluminum, engineering firm AECOM, real estate group CBRE Group and builder Tutor Perini.
Other companies headquartered in Los Angeles include California Pizza Kitchen, Capital Group, Capstone Turbine, The Cheesecake Factory, Cathay Bank, City National Bank, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, DeviantArt, Far East National Bank, Farmers Insurance Group, Fox Entertainment Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Guess?, Hanmi Bank, Herbalife, J2 Global Communications, The Jim Henson Company, KB Home, Korn/Ferry, Latham & Watkins, Mercury Insurance Group, Oaktree Capital Management, O’Melveny & Myers, Pabst Brewing Company, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Premier America, Premiere Radio Networks, Rentech, Sunkist, The TCW Group, Tokyopop, Triton Media Group, United Online, and VCA Antech.
The metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of many companies who moved outside of the city of Los Angeles to escape its high taxes and high crime rate while keeping the benefits of remaining in close proximity. For example, Los Angeles charges a gross receipts tax based on a percentage of business revenue, while many neighboring cities charge only small flat fees.
The University of Southern California (USC) is the city’s largest private sector employer and contributes $4 billion annually to the local economy
According to the city’s 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top ten employers in the city as of 2009 are, in descending order, the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, Fox Entertainment Group, Farmers Insurance Group, TeamOne,and Aerospace and Defense Company, Northrop Grumman
Just imagine how well all these companies would do without the massive weight of the People’s Republic of Kaliforia’s taxation and regulation!
Top ten employers you had to get to #5 before you run into a privately owned entity. That’s just sad.
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