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

The song is fitting to the destruction of America. I was born in Long Beach, Ca raised in a New Jersey shore town not much different from So Cal (in the summer months). I am happy and lucky I got to see and experience they way it once was. They say my little town is where rock and roll began.

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EDIT: The whole thought behind this thread is that everything that once was is being torn down, not just the architecture but everything that once was America, I can't help but to think even the illegals coming in are coming for what once was and they want a part of that? Not what is being created.

I experienced most of these places (especially racing) as a 80s SoCal kid.

Im confused. You were never at any of these places?

I've seen lots of things go by by over the years, the ones that really bothered me were saddleback motorcycle park, Irvine meadows, and OCIR.

And the orange groves.

I have been back a few times but never lived there. For the most part No I haven't been to those places but the very same thing is happening here.

I like to look at some of the old California to see what it would have been like had we stayed.

This one I like also.

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I started driving in the mid 80s so my time to see and experience many of these places was really from then to the early to early 90s. Also, I was road bike racing (no, no, bicycle), so the street all over many part of LA, especially the northern sections was our training ground and got to see many of them on two wheels. I too remember many of those paces as a kid riding in my father's car. I went to Jr Hi in the Valley and loved it for its simple, safe environment. Major parts of it is a hell hole now, but slowly changing for the better it seems. Most guys that were around since the hustle and bustle of the 20s in LA must have been sad to see the Valley built up like that after the war by the 50. Changes, it bound to happen. I see lots of old photos and music. They bring back the smell and sound of the late 70s, and the 80s for me. Took the bus to the Palladium to see Motley Crue and Korkas was the best. You know what I miss about old LA? The single family homes with front and back yard. It seems that people don't built those anymore. Every thing that goes up is 3 or 6 stories high with a parking garage down below. Street parking has been blown up for many years now. I hate those things.

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.

Seen many a punk rock show at the Palladium. Also miss Dupar's. We had one 2 blocks from my house. Good food. I remember when they tore it down.

The one thing abut that video... how terrible the air looks. I cant imagine LA smog in the 60s. I DO remember Smog Days in the early 80s. Basically, the air quality was so bad, they wouldnt let kids out to play during lunch.

Edit: 405 freeway showing signs that go to Bakersfield. thats odd.

Oh yeah, smog alert. No Playing on the playground today. Sucks, hate those days. What part of LA are you from?

Really, you like the food at Dupar's? I have it at the one in Studio City. Its was like eating at Denny's. Nothing to write home about. Now, Jerry's Deli is another story.

That looks like the northern section of the 405 near the 118 because of the bridges. That would make sense but the 14 wasn't around in the 60s?

Lived in Hawthorne/Inglewood til I was 12 (police shooting in backyard), then moved to Thousand Oaks (back when it was nothing but horses and western movie sets)

The Dupar's in Thousand Oaks was good.

405 hits the 5/14 split . 5 heads to Bakersfield. 14 heads to Lancaster

Inglewood has turned around and many houses are sold to normal people that have good jobs. It was bad in the 70s up to about 2000.

What state are you in now? You couldn't wait go get out of CA. I wanted CO due to construction boom after college but decided to tough it out and already established myself a bit by then.

Im in Portland, OR. Lived here on and off for almost 15 years now. I enjoy it, though it does get a little much at times (save the leafy green butt mites!)I'm actually going back to LA on the 7th to do some dirt bike riding with my brother up in Gorman.

I was aware about Inglewood. My Nana used to live right on the Hawthorne/inglewood border. Somehow, her 3 bedroom built in the 50 is now worth close to a million. Grandpa used to say that Inglewood was like Beverly Hills in the 1960s.

I was going to go to Lion Country Safari last week, but found out it closed like 37 years ago. 🥺

Makes me think about a time in our country when things were not so upside down......

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

I think they moved to San Marcos and were called that for many years. Now its the SD Wide Animal Park. We were there about 12 years ago when my kid was very young.

Many white folks had been buying em' up in Inglewood as well as Baldwin Hills.

Have fun playing in the dirt. My kid and I were up there a couple weeks in his 4 runner. Rock cut a big chunk out of the sidewall. We limped home. I hope they keep that area wild and no more building. I drove through Pine Mt Club. Its has so many new homes up there, all occupied. Where the hell are these people coming from? Good for real estate prices.

The Valley always sucked.

Loved these when I was a kid... I wanted to go down to the Old Towne Mall and meet this guy...

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Or Kwest. I was surprise KLOS lasted all these years. I think they finally called it quits 10 or 15 years ago.