They're tearing it all down, Please don't go.

[smadsen]

Common theme. Real estate values killed auto race tracks and drive-in movies. Condos & strip malls have a higher ROI. Cal Speedway is next.

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by look 171

The best thing about that video is the end. 93 KHJ. That's been burned into my brain from years of hanging out at the park on our dead end street. All the older girls use to play that damn station since I was old enough to play there.

That's funny, I have been listening to this for a week straight. and what is the red convertible interior in that last video?

[gtc]

Originally Posted by look 171

I think its always been upside down, we were too young to noticed it and had other interests.

Exactly. I'm sure every generation going back to the Pilgrims has thought things need to stay the way they were when they were 16.

[sammyg2]

These are very dated (1995 and 2006) but relevant to the topic

[sammyg2]

[Tishabet]

Originally Posted by gtc

Exactly. I'm sure every generation going back to the Pilgrims has thought things need to stay the way they were when they were 16.

+1, today is perennially tomorrow's "good old days."

Well listen
Well the modern world is not so bad
Not like the students say
In fact I'd be in heaven
If you'd share the modern world with me
With me in love with the U.S.A. now
With me in love with the modern world now
Put down the cigarette
And share the modern world with me

[Scott Douglas]

It's funny, I was born in NJ and grew up in a coastal town here in SoCal.
First DJ I remember was Wink Martindale.
The thing I remember most about life back then was the crappy air quality. Smog so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Can remember driving down to Torrance to see my aunt and uncle, before there was a 405 fwy and there were still strawberry fields lining Hawthorne Blvd south of Del Amo.

[flatbutt]

The original Stone Pony in Asbury is something I miss. It isn't an old icon opening as recently as 1974 but it was a great little dive. I saw the Boss, Southside Johnny, Bon Jovi live and up close there.

Now it's a much bigger venue with an outdoor stage.

[sugarwood]

Drive in. Obsolete and terrible compared to modern home theaters. Maybe we should go back to covered wagons?

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by look 171

I think its always been upside down, we were too young to noticed it and had other interests.

Where you look and how hard you look is a part of it.
Compare 2021 Life to 1945 Dresden.
At any point in history some place in the world seems to have some downs.
Some other place might have some ups.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by look 171

I think its always been upside down, we were too young to noticed it and had other interests.

Not as upside down as it is now.......

[look 171]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I never got to cruise Van Nuys Blvd. I was way too young but only heard about it when I was about 10. By then, it was all over. This was in the

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

Where you look and how hard you look is a part of it.
Compare 2021 Life to 1945 Dresden.
At any point in history some place in the world seems to have some downs.
Some other place might have some ups.

My father was born around the WW2. He always told me things aren't so bad compared to when he was a kid.

[Baz]

Some very cynical lyrics here....great song though.....

[look 171]

Originally Posted by Baz

Not as upside down as it is now.......

I know and agree with you. Being a few year over 50, I can't stand the way typical younger folks think, that I mean people in their 30s.

One thing I always thought of was the hippies. I can't imagine how their parents, the conservative (that would be us now) greatest generation must think of them? Pot head, long hair, dirty, devil music and jobless hitching hiking across the country. What a mess, but many turned out OK. I am sure this entitles generation will be OK too, in time. I worry about the kids in high school today. I listen to their parents and I shake my head in shame. Wait until they get to their 30. We are screw if they continue down this path.

[svandamme]

it's the same all over the world where real estate gets crowded and expands out in open space, and environmental noise pollution ordnances and what not take over.

Mankind peaked in the previous century, somewhere in the latter half.
Now we are to compromised to peak at anything except people count.

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

The original Stone Pony in Asbury is something I miss. It isn't an old icon opening as recently as 1974 but it was a great little dive. I saw the Boss, Southside Johnny, Bon Jovi live and up close there.

Now it's a much bigger venue with an outdoor stage.

I was there a few times. By shear luck I was standing out front when it was announced Clarence passed. It was a sad day.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by look 171

I never got to cruise Van Nuys Blvd. I was way too young but only heard about it when I was about 10. By then, it was all over. This was in the

Van Nuys was too far away, we cruised state college blvd and occasionally went all the way to Whittier Blvd. when our cars were running good. That was the big league for us

That was back in the day when a cop caught you with a six pack of beer and you were only 18, he'd make you pour it out on the side of the street and give you a warning.
IF you were smart enough to say yes sir and no sir and tell him the truth.

[jcwade]

I remember all of those places and frequented many of them.
Particularly the drive-ins in the SFV.
I remember the air in the 60's as a kid.
If you went out and played you would come in gasping for air.
And you couldn't see the mountains except after a rain storm.

[sammyg2]

circa 1959
like endless summer, only for drag racers instead of surfers