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Los Angeles Following in the Footsteps of Detroit. The slow, steady decline of a once great city.
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| 11/21/2012
| Jack Dunphy
Posted on 11/21/2012 10:19:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Blue Ink
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.If you watch some of those early 1970s TV shows based in LA like Adam-12 and Emergency!, you can see the mostly clean streets and nice tree-lined neighborhoods. Most of LA actually looked like that at one time.
To: hattend
You can’t see him in the photo but there is a dead guy behind the telephone pole.He's still there.
To: rigelkentaurus
LA was a great city and could be again.
This is LA too.
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posted on
11/21/2012 2:21:06 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: hattend
You can’t see him in the photo but there is a dead guy behind the telephone pole.Just damn!
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posted on
11/21/2012 2:51:39 PM PST
by
houeto
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To: jeannineinsd
Just curious, when did your parents move from that house? Do you still live in Southern California? Would have been in '54 I think. We moved around a bit. I played Little League baseball in Compton, went to High School in Baldwin Park, joined the Army in '66 and have not really been back since. Those are not safe neighborhoods today. In fact, if I never see California again it will be too soon.
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posted on
11/21/2012 5:14:01 PM PST
by
Chuckster
(The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
To: Yaelle
Ha! I took one look at that second pic and said Manhattan Beach. I think I ate at a restaurant just around the corner from there.
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posted on
11/21/2012 5:32:11 PM PST
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: SeekAndFind
...the city’s political transformation that has seen power shift from business and homeowner groups to those identified with labor and ethnic solidarity — a shift the current civic leadership openly encourages. That way lies trouble, which is why the Dunphy family decamped for a neighborhood that is clean, safe, affordable, and blessed with good schools. A statement designed to elicit outraged cries of "RACISM!" from our liberal friends.
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posted on
11/21/2012 6:20:44 PM PST
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
To: SeekAndFind
I think the term for all of this is *vibrant*. If this is vibrant, I’ll take dull anyday.
To: SeekAndFind
I think the term for all of this is *vibrant*. If this is vibrant, I’ll take dull anyday.
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