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Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:07 am
by BirdMom
Zazu wrote:*I* was born in Los Angeles. I grew up there. There was a dairy 1/4 mile from my house, and us kids watched *everything* that went on there. Oh yes we did. But now, living in Florida, I can't find a single person who will believe I grew up in L.A. around cattle.
Oh Zazu! When I was little we lived in Torrence and there was a dairy farm behind our street. I barely remember the older boys picking us up to look over the fence so we could see the "moo cows." And Cerritos, where my father-in-law grew up, used to be known as Dairyland! There was also a Cal-Va Dairy farm on 17th Street in Santa Ana - I remember going on a field trip there around the 2nd or 3rd grade and seeing (smelling) all the cows there - the little store building is still there (I just passed by there about a week ago) - the farm part is a mobile home park now.
We didn't move to O.C. until the beginning of 1963 - my father decided to move after the Cuban Missile Crisis - he thought that with all the oil refineries around the South Bay, that would be one of the first areas targeted by the Russians - so when we moved to Huntington Beach, it was like we were moving to the boondocks. I think the equivalent today would be someone moving from L.A. to Norco or worse yet, Baker out in the middle of the desert! Either way, So. Cal. is not the same - it's just too developed and yuppified in most places. At least old Fullerton still has some charm and integrity to it... :dog3:
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 2:12 am
by MEng85
ya can always join the dark side and drive north; join us up here in nor cal :D: :D: best part yet no desert and we got lots of space! :twisted:
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:05 am
by Main Streeter
[quote="MEng85"]ya can always join the dark side and drive north]
You are kidding right? 
There's no open space where you are from Gilroy to Sonoma. Well, maybe a lot or so on cold Mt. Tam. Not sure NORCAL is the dark side, cold side would be more like it :D: Finest areas SOCAL has are the desert lands. Try Glamis or Salton Sea with toys. Nothing better :D: :)
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:27 pm
by MEng85
Main Streeter wrote:You are kidding right? There's no open space where you are from Gilroy to Sonoma. Well, maybe a lot or so on cold Mt. Tam. Not sure NORCAL is the dark side, cold side would be more like it :D: Finest areas SOCAL has are the desert lands. Try Glamis or Salton Sea with toys. Nothing better :D: :)
LOL i never said how far north....ya can always go to humbolt :D: and maybe eurka :)
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:21 pm
by Main Streeter
MEng85 wrote:LOL i never said how far north....ya can always go to humbolt :D: and maybe eurka :)
:D: :D: :)
Dang it MEing, you are ALWAYS 3 steps ahead of me. Give you much credit for quick wit & ingenuity. BTW, found an attraction for you. Fort Bragg....Skunk Trains :locomotiv
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:27 pm
by MEng85
thats pretty interesting.....kinda too far north though...past sacramento and its not the same haha...tryin to get rid of me before i even start eh?!? :p: but nope it aint gonna work :D:
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:23 pm
by Zazu
BirdMom wrote:Oh Zazu! When I was little we lived in Torrence and there was a dairy farm behind our street.
Okay this is now officially scary.
I tell folks I'm from "L.A." because so few people know where Torrance is. I don't suppose there's any chance you're talking about the Rose Bud Dairy on Crenshaw and 182nd St. is there?
Cerritos, where my father-in-law grew up, used to be known as Dairyland!
True dat! And what's now Westminster was then called Dairy Valley. Our first trip to Disneyland, my brother and I tried to hold our breath as we passed through (and nearly out) that place.
We didn't move to O.C. until the beginning of 1963 ... so when we moved to Huntington Beach, it was like we were moving to the boondocks.
I remember when folks took the Red Car to get from Torrance to Huntington Beach. Way long time ago now.
I think the equivalent today would be someone moving from L.A. to Norco or worse yet, Baker out in the middle of the desert!
Baker's not so bad. Try Daggett, where a friend of mine moved.
Either way, So. Cal. is not the same - it's just too developed and yuppified in most places.
One of the reasons I left Manhattan Beach back in 1986 and moved to ... Chattanooga, Tennessee. Boy, talk about your culture shock. That town didn't even have frozen yoghurt!
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:04 pm
by BirdMom
Zazu wrote:Okay this is now officially scary.
I tell folks I'm from "L.A." because so few people know where Torrance is. I don't suppose there's any chance you're talking about the Rose Bud Dairy on Crenshaw and 182nd St. is there?
OMG - we lived off of Crenshaw!!! :dropmouth You and I must have been neighbors and didn't know it! I will have to ask my mom the name of the dairy because I was only 3 when we moved. I believe we lived in the low 190's - I want to say 191st Place, but I'm not sure. That is just too weird Zazu. I don't know if you remember Vince Ferregamo who was QB for the LA Rams in their first Superbowl, but when I met him around that time, someone mentioned I was originally from Torrance, and he said he'd gone to Banning High, wanting to know what school I would have gone to, and it was North Torrance High I would have gone to if my father hadn't moved us.
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:54 am
by Main Streeter
MEng85 wrote:thats pretty interesting.....kinda too far north though...past sacramento and its not the same haha...tryin to get rid of me before i even start eh?!? :p: but nope it aint gonna work :D:
No, not trying to get rid of a new, enthusiastic Cast Member. We need you to direct all the stupidity ]
Re: Spring Break and The Kids who come here
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:24 am
by Zazu
BirdMom wrote:OMG - we lived off of Crenshaw!!! :dropmouth You and I must have been neighbors and didn't know it! I believe we lived in the low 190's - I want to say 191st Place, but I'm not sure. That is just too weird Zazu.
178th St. for me.
You wouldn't have been on 191st Pl., as that would have been inside the Mobil refinery which is on both sides of Crenshaw north of 190th St.
Close though. <cue Twilight Zone theme>