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Places that are gone.......but were there in your youth.

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From Long Beach and So Cal...

Pier Point Landing...going out on the Half Day boats with my Dad. Long Beach Naval Shipyard. My Dad taking us down to see the Iowa class Battleships glide through on their way to and from the dry dock for refit and re-commission.
Working on whatever car dad had on Sunday afternoons, listening to Vin call the Dodger games. Sunday was his only day off, but he took on car work to make extra $, and I wanted to be around him. He was my hero.
Marineland Of The Pacific.
The old Pontoon Bridge before they built the Desmond.
The Crest and Towne Theaters in on Altantic in Bixby Knolls. The Crest was best, had a Balcony. They called them "Lodge" Seats.
Mr C's Restaurant, PCH.
The Edgewater Hyatt House.
The Velvet Turtle
Seeing the big Searchlights everywhere at night, from a car dealership to a concert, any excuse and they were out.
Air Raid sirens once a month.
Seeing, for the first time, the bottom of the big Frigidaire chest freezer in the garage when the Longshoreman went on strike in 1973, and my Dad's union went out in sympathy with them. Trying to figure out how a cut and wrapped deer wound up in there when it wasn't deer season.
That smell when the Helms Bakery truck guy opened the back doors, and our Helms guy, who always had a bag of free donut holes for kids.
Driving by Douglas Aircraft at the Long beach Airport in the family car and seeing a huge new jetliner in the open assembly area at night.
Catching Crawdads in the fountains at Sunnyside Cemetery...and getting summarily booted outta there.
Dooleys Hardware store on Long Beach Blvd. The biggest coolest Model Railroad train layouts in my world, and they got even cooler at Christmas.
10 cent Hot Dogs at Dooleys, 7 days a week.
Shady Acres Miniature Golf
Brownies Toy Store, Bixby Knolls Shopping Center.
5 cent ice cream cones at Thrifty in the center.
Dumping boxes of Tide in the Fountain at Bixby Knolls Shopping Center, creating a wall of bubbles 4-5 ft tall and strangling traffic.
The city closing the Fountain of Bixby Knolls Shopping center.
Scherer Park when it had the cool "creek", and watercourse.
The Rag Factory...Levis Big Bells and boot cuts, seconds that were half price.
Riding our Mini Bikes to the Brand new Jack in the Box at San Antonio and Orange. "Pull forward, and Jack will Speak to You"
N ot if yer on a Mini Bike, he won't.
LBPD chasing us after seeing us parked on our Mini Bikes eating a Burger at Jack in the Box.
Long Beach Honda, the huge one on Atlantic just north of Del Amo.
Working at an ARCO station while in High school, the night the boss told me to fill up my car because after I closed up I was to raise the price of 87 octane regular to 50 cents a gallon, the 93 premium to 54 cents. (what I needed)
Always filling the tanks of the Cadillacs owned by the three Mexican Sisters who owned the Taco Bell up by Jordan on the self serve island, and them letting me eat lunch for free in exchange, while everyone else hadda pay .17 cents for their burritos.
The exit from the student parking lot at Jordan H.S.....where I got my one and only exhibition ticket.
The night we beat Lakewood High at our Homecoming.
Cruising Whittier Blvd....east of the 605.

Nor Cal...
Seeing the SR71 do a night launch from up close, on the base. Watching them start it up, the Big block Buick start engines screaming as the jet came to life.
Seeing the SR71 run down the South Fork of the Yuba River canyon near Bridgeport or circle Lake Wildwood when it came home from a mission.
When they opened a McDonalds in our town. Til then it was a 25 mile drive for a Big Mac. that was the beginning of ruination for this little town, LOL.
Cruising the Yuba City Marysville loop.....the 10th st bridge. Thinking I had moved into a real Life American Graffiti set, and my friends and I were the stars.
Watching Rocklin and Roseville explode seemingly overnight as I was doing my college edumacation.
Leaving the Mickey D's in Yuba City at 1am to do some street drag racing....Slaughterhouse Road, 40 mile Road, Bogue Road....Slaughterhouse was the best.
The cops running us out of Slaughterhouse at 4am cause the farmers were gonna be up soon.
 
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Deadmans point moto cross and western boardwalk complete with saloon and cafe. Used to stop at the Summit Inn and the Outpost for breakfast on the way out.
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I live 5 mi from there
 
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Flyinbowtie said:
From Long Beach and So Cal...

Pier Point Landing...going out on the Half Day boats with my Dad. Long Beach Naval Shipyard. My Dad taking us down to see the Iowa class Battleships glide through on their way to and from the dry dock for refit and re-commission.
Working on whatever car dad had on Sunday afternoons, listening to Vin call the Dodger games. Sunday was his only day off, but he took on car work to make extra $, and I wanted to be around him. He was my hero.
Marineland Of The Pacific.
The old Pontoon Bridge before they built the Desmond.
The Crest and Towne Theaters in on Altantic in Bixby Knolls. The Crest was best, had a Balcony. They called them "Lodge" Seats.
Mr C's Restaurant, PCH.
The Edgewater Hyatt House.
The Velvet Turtle
Seeing the big Searchlights everywhere at night, from a car dealership to a concert, any excuse and they were out.
Air Raid sirens once a month.
Seeing, for the first time, the bottom of the big Frigidaire chest freezer in the garage when the Longshoreman went on strike in 1973, and my Dad's union went out in sympathy with them. Trying to figure out how a cut and wrapped deer wound up in there when it wasn't deer season.
That smell when the Helms Bakery truck guy opened the back doors, and our Helms guy, who always had a bag of free donut holes for kids.
Driving by Douglas Aircraft at the Long beach Airport in the family car and seeing a huge new jetliner in the open assembly area at night.
Catching Crawdads in the fountains at Sunnyside Cemetery...and getting summarily booted outta there.
Dooleys Hardware store on Long Beach Blvd. The biggest coolest Model Railroad train layouts in my world, and they got even cooler at Christmas.
10 cent Hot Dogs at Dooleys, 7 days a week.
Shady Acres Miniature Golf
Brownies Toy Store, Bixby Knolls Shopping Center.
5 cent ice cream cones at Thrifty in the center.
Dumping boxes of Tide in the Fountain at Bixby Knolls Shopping Center, creating a wall of bubbles 4-5 ft tall and strangling traffic.
The city closing the Fountain of Bixby Knolls Shopping center.
Scherer Park when it had the cool "creek", and watercourse.
The Rag Factory...Levis Big Bells and boot cuts, seconds that were half price.
Riding our Mini Bikes to the Brand new Jack in the Box at San Antonio and Orange. "Pull forward, and Jack will Speak to You"
N ot if yer on a Mini Bike, he won't.
LBPD chasing us after seeing us parked on our Mini Bikes eating a Burger at Jack in the Box.
Long Beach Honda, the huge one on Atlantic just north of Del Amo.
Working at an ARCO station while in High school, the night the boss told me to fill up my car because after I closed up I was to raise the price of 87 octane regular to 50 cents a gallon, the 93 premium to 54 cents. (what I needed)
Always filling the tanks of the Cadillacs owned by the three Mexican Sisters who owned the Taco Bell up by Jordan on the self serve island, and them letting me eat lunch for free in exchange, while everyone else hadda pay .17 cents for their burritos.
The exit from the student parking lot at Jordan H.S.....where I got my one and only exhibition ticket.
The night we beat Lakewood High at our Homecoming.
Cruising Whittier Blvd....east of the 605.

Nor Cal...
Seeing the SR71 do a night launch from up close, on the base. Watching them start it up, the Big block Buick start engines screaming as the jet came to life.
Seeing the SR71 run down the South Fork of the Yuba River canyon near Bridgeport or circle Lake Wildwood when it came home from a mission.
When they opened a McDonalds in our town. Til then it was a 25 mile drive for a Big Mac. that was the beginning of ruination for this little town, LOL.
Cruising the Yuba City Marysville loop.....the 10th st bridge. Thinking I had moved into a real Life American Graffiti set, and my friends and I were the stars.
Watching Rocklin and Roseville explode seemingly overnight as I was doing my college edumacation.
Leaving the Mickey D's in Yuba City at 1am to do some street drag racing....Slaughterhouse Road, 40 mile Road, Bogue Road....Slaughterhouse was the best.
The cops running us out of Slaughterhouse at 4am cause the farmers were gonna be up soon.
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My FIL was born and raised in Wheatland and is now living there after he retired.
 
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I live 5 mi from there
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l haven’t been out there in years. When they closed Deadman’s point weren’t they going to make it a RV park? Is the buildings still there? Or is it a shopping center?
 
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timstoy said:
l haven’t been out there in years. When they closed Deadman’s point weren’t they going to make it a RV park? Is the buildings still there? Or is it a shopping center?
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Nope, there is one dilapidated shell of a building there and that's it.
 
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timstoy said:
l haven’t been out there in years. When they closed Deadman’s point weren’t they going to make it a RV park? Is the buildings still there? Or is it a shopping center?
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Flyinbowtie said:
From Long Beach and So Cal...

Pier Point Landing...going out on the Half Day boats with my Dad. Long Beach Naval Shipyard. My Dad taking us down to see the Iowa class Battleships glide through on their way to and from the dry dock for refit and re-commission.
Working on whatever car dad had on Sunday afternoons, listening to Vin call the Dodger games. Sunday was his only day off, but he took on car work to make extra $, and I wanted to be around him. He was my hero.
Marineland Of The Pacific.
The old Pontoon Bridge before they built the Desmond.
The Crest and Towne Theaters in on Altantic in Bixby Knolls. The Crest was best, had a Balcony. They called them "Lodge" Seats.
Mr C's Restaurant, PCH.
The Edgewater Hyatt House.
The Velvet Turtle
Seeing the big Searchlights everywhere at night, from a car dealership to a concert, any excuse and they were out.
Air Raid sirens once a month.
Seeing, for the first time, the bottom of the big Frigidaire chest freezer in the garage when the Longshoreman went on strike in 1973, and my Dad's union went out in sympathy with them. Trying to figure out how a cut and wrapped deer wound up in there when it wasn't deer season.
That smell when the Helms Bakery truck guy opened the back doors, and our Helms guy, who always had a bag of free donut holes for kids.
Driving by Douglas Aircraft at the Long beach Airport in the family car and seeing a huge new jetliner in the open assembly area at night.
Catching Crawdads in the fountains at Sunnyside Cemetery...and getting summarily booted outta there.
Dooleys Hardware store on Long Beach Blvd. The biggest coolest Model Railroad train layouts in my world, and they got even cooler at Christmas.
10 cent Hot Dogs at Dooleys, 7 days a week.
Shady Acres Miniature Golf
Brownies Toy Store, Bixby Knolls Shopping Center.
5 cent ice cream cones at Thrifty in the center.
Dumping boxes of Tide in the Fountain at Bixby Knolls Shopping Center, creating a wall of bubbles 4-5 ft tall and strangling traffic.
The city closing the Fountain of Bixby Knolls Shopping center.
Scherer Park when it had the cool "creek", and watercourse.
The Rag Factory...Levis Big Bells and boot cuts, seconds that were half price.
Riding our Mini Bikes to the Brand new Jack in the Box at San Antonio and Orange. "Pull forward, and Jack will Speak to You"
N ot if yer on a Mini Bike, he won't.
LBPD chasing us after seeing us parked on our Mini Bikes eating a Burger at Jack in the Box.
Long Beach Honda, the huge one on Atlantic just north of Del Amo.
Working at an ARCO station while in High school, the night the boss told me to fill up my car because after I closed up I was to raise the price of 87 octane regular to 50 cents a gallon, the 93 premium to 54 cents. (what I needed)
Always filling the tanks of the Cadillacs owned by the three Mexican Sisters who owned the Taco Bell up by Jordan on the self serve island, and them letting me eat lunch for free in exchange, while everyone else hadda pay .17 cents for their burritos.
The exit from the student parking lot at Jordan H.S.....where I got my one and only exhibition ticket.
The night we beat Lakewood High at our Homecoming.
Cruising Whittier Blvd....east of the 605.

Nor Cal...
Seeing the SR71 do a night launch from up close, on the base. Watching them start it up, the Big block Buick start engines screaming as the jet came to life.
Seeing the SR71 run down the South Fork of the Yuba River canyon near Bridgeport or circle Lake Wildwood when it came home from a mission.
When they opened a McDonalds in our town. Til then it was a 25 mile drive for a Big Mac. that was the beginning of ruination for this little town, LOL.
Cruising the Yuba City Marysville loop.....the 10th st bridge. Thinking I had moved into a real Life American Graffiti set, and my friends and I were the stars.
Watching Rocklin and Roseville explode seemingly overnight as I was doing my college edumacation.
Leaving the Mickey D's in Yuba City at 1am to do some street drag racing....Slaughterhouse Road, 40 mile Road, Bogue Road....Slaughterhouse was the best.
The cops running us out of Slaughterhouse at 4am cause the farmers were gonna be up soon.
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Damn, I'm impressed with both your memory and dedication to pondering this ---- or you've been keeping impeccable notes in your diary over the years 🤔 ;)

I've been rather thrilled just how many places that thread contributions similar to yours have gifted me with so many "Oh Yeahs !!!" as I read.
Anyway, rather than try to recall and most likely duplicate places already listed herein, I'm just going to devote some quiet time to hoping to remember "All the girls I've loved before 🥰" I am not however going to share that list 😁
 
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How about some of us in Phoenix area,

Beeline Dragway
Legend City
Hobo Joes
LaBelles
Ray Korte Chevrolet.....as kids they would let you wander around and dream
 
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Here is my Parker places
Was it a PDQ on the corner of Riverside Dr and California in Parker in the 70's, we would always hit that store on the way to Parker after gassing up across the street and I would collect RR shit by the tracks.
Manor Market
Water slides
Go Carts
Badnochs
 
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LOBOATOMY said:
The Troubadour Loung. Great music from soon to be famous artists. If you were going to make it in Rock and Roll in the late '60's early '70's you had to play there in the day.
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This made me think of the Palomino Club for some reason, even though it's country.
 
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The Buttery Restaurant Santa Anna
 
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Flyinbowtie said:
From Long Beach and So Cal...

Pier Point Landing...going out on the Half Day boats with my Dad. Long Beach Naval Shipyard. My Dad taking us down to see the Iowa class Battleships glide through on their way to and from the dry dock for refit and re-commission.
Working on whatever car dad had on Sunday afternoons, listening to Vin call the Dodger games. Sunday was his only day off, but he took on car work to make extra $, and I wanted to be around him. He was my hero.
Marineland Of The Pacific.
The old Pontoon Bridge before they built the Desmond.
The Crest and Towne Theaters in on Altantic in Bixby Knolls. The Crest was best, had a Balcony. They called them "Lodge" Seats.
Mr C's Restaurant, PCH.
The Edgewater Hyatt House.
The Velvet Turtle
Seeing the big Searchlights everywhere at night, from a car dealership to a concert, any excuse and they were out.
Air Raid sirens once a month.
Seeing, for the first time, the bottom of the big Frigidaire chest freezer in the garage when the Longshoreman went on strike in 1973, and my Dad's union went out in sympathy with them. Trying to figure out how a cut and wrapped deer wound up in there when it wasn't deer season.
That smell when the Helms Bakery truck guy opened the back doors, and our Helms guy, who always had a bag of free donut holes for kids.
Driving by Douglas Aircraft at the Long beach Airport in the family car and seeing a huge new jetliner in the open assembly area at night.
Catching Crawdads in the fountains at Sunnyside Cemetery...and getting summarily booted outta there.
Dooleys Hardware store on Long Beach Blvd. The biggest coolest Model Railroad train layouts in my world, and they got even cooler at Christmas.
10 cent Hot Dogs at Dooleys, 7 days a week.
Shady Acres Miniature Golf
Brownies Toy Store, Bixby Knolls Shopping Center.
5 cent ice cream cones at Thrifty in the center.
Dumping boxes of Tide in the Fountain at Bixby Knolls Shopping Center, creating a wall of bubbles 4-5 ft tall and strangling traffic.
The city closing the Fountain of Bixby Knolls Shopping center.
Scherer Park when it had the cool "creek", and watercourse.
The Rag Factory...Levis Big Bells and boot cuts, seconds that were half price.
Riding our Mini Bikes to the Brand new Jack in the Box at San Antonio and Orange. "Pull forward, and Jack will Speak to You"
N ot if yer on a Mini Bike, he won't.
LBPD chasing us after seeing us parked on our Mini Bikes eating a Burger at Jack in the Box.
Long Beach Honda, the huge one on Atlantic just north of Del Amo.
Working at an ARCO station while in High school, the night the boss told me to fill up my car because after I closed up I was to raise the price of 87 octane regular to 50 cents a gallon, the 93 premium to 54 cents. (what I needed)
Always filling the tanks of the Cadillacs owned by the three Mexican Sisters who owned the Taco Bell up by Jordan on the self serve island, and them letting me eat lunch for free in exchange, while everyone else hadda pay .17 cents for their burritos.
The exit from the student parking lot at Jordan H.S.....where I got my one and only exhibition ticket.
The night we beat Lakewood High at our Homecoming.
Cruising Whittier Blvd....east of the 605.

Nor Cal...
Seeing the SR71 do a night launch from up close, on the base. Watching them start it up, the Big block Buick start engines screaming as the jet came to life.
Seeing the SR71 run down the South Fork of the Yuba River canyon near Bridgeport or circle Lake Wildwood when it came home from a mission.
When they opened a McDonalds in our town. Til then it was a 25 mile drive for a Big Mac. that was the beginning of ruination for this little town, LOL.
Cruising the Yuba City Marysville loop.....the 10th st bridge. Thinking I had moved into a real Life American Graffiti set, and my friends and I were the stars.
Watching Rocklin and Roseville explode seemingly overnight as I was doing my college edumacation.
Leaving the Mickey D's in Yuba City at 1am to do some street drag racing....Slaughterhouse Road, 40 mile Road, Bogue Road....Slaughterhouse was the best.
The cops running us out of Slaughterhouse at 4am cause the farmers were gonna be up soon.
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You got me at Helms Bakery Truck….still remember the smell when the driver opened the back doors and pulled open the doughnut drawer.
 
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How about nicely made billet rims.... Not the over the top American Force of today.... but 90's, 2000's,.....you had 3-5 makers that had all sorts of alternatives with super nice billet wheels.. I had some sick boyds on my 93 extended cab chevy and then billet welds on another ford F150 4x4....... 90% of today's aluminum wheels look like cheap crap....fake bead locks, silver/chrome accents, fake do nothing bolts to look like a 2-piece design......its horrible compared to what wheels use be ...so much more natural designs ...
 

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RVRKID said:
Here is my Parker places
Was it a PDQ on the corner of Riverside Dr and California in Parker in the 70's, we would always hit that store on the way to Parker after gassing up across the street and I would collect RR shit by the tracks.
Manor Market
Water slides
Go Carts
Badnochs
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Mac s market
 
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Flyinbowtie said:
From Long Beach and So Cal...

Pier Point Landing...going out on the Half Day boats with my Dad. Long Beach Naval Shipyard. My Dad taking us down to see the Iowa class Battleships glide through on their way to and from the dry dock for refit and re-commission.
Working on whatever car dad had on Sunday afternoons, listening to Vin call the Dodger games. Sunday was his only day off, but he took on car work to make extra $, and I wanted to be around him. He was my hero.
Marineland Of The Pacific.
The old Pontoon Bridge before they built the Desmond.
The Crest and Towne Theaters in on Altantic in Bixby Knolls. The Crest was best, had a Balcony. They called them "Lodge" Seats.
Mr C's Restaurant, PCH.
The Edgewater Hyatt House.
The Velvet Turtle
Seeing the big Searchlights everywhere at night, from a car dealership to a concert, any excuse and they were out.
Air Raid sirens once a month.
Seeing, for the first time, the bottom of the big Frigidaire chest freezer in the garage when the Longshoreman went on strike in 1973, and my Dad's union went out in sympathy with them. Trying to figure out how a cut and wrapped deer wound up in there when it wasn't deer season.
That smell when the Helms Bakery truck guy opened the back doors, and our Helms guy, who always had a bag of free donut holes for kids.
Driving by Douglas Aircraft at the Long beach Airport in the family car and seeing a huge new jetliner in the open assembly area at night.
Catching Crawdads in the fountains at Sunnyside Cemetery...and getting summarily booted outta there.
Dooleys Hardware store on Long Beach Blvd. The biggest coolest Model Railroad train layouts in my world, and they got even cooler at Christmas.
10 cent Hot Dogs at Dooleys, 7 days a week.
Shady Acres Miniature Golf
Brownies Toy Store, Bixby Knolls Shopping Center.
5 cent ice cream cones at Thrifty in the center.
Dumping boxes of Tide in the Fountain at Bixby Knolls Shopping Center, creating a wall of bubbles 4-5 ft tall and strangling traffic.
The city closing the Fountain of Bixby Knolls Shopping center.
Scherer Park when it had the cool "creek", and watercourse.
The Rag Factory...Levis Big Bells and boot cuts, seconds that were half price.
Riding our Mini Bikes to the Brand new Jack in the Box at San Antonio and Orange. "Pull forward, and Jack will Speak to You"
N ot if yer on a Mini Bike, he won't.
LBPD chasing us after seeing us parked on our Mini Bikes eating a Burger at Jack in the Box.
Long Beach Honda, the huge one on Atlantic just north of Del Amo.
Working at an ARCO station while in High school, the night the boss told me to fill up my car because after I closed up I was to raise the price of 87 octane regular to 50 cents a gallon, the 93 premium to 54 cents. (what I needed)
Always filling the tanks of the Cadillacs owned by the three Mexican Sisters who owned the Taco Bell up by Jordan on the self serve island, and them letting me eat lunch for free in exchange, while everyone else hadda pay .17 cents for their burritos.
The exit from the student parking lot at Jordan H.S.....where I got my one and only exhibition ticket.
The night we beat Lakewood High at our Homecoming.
Cruising Whittier Blvd....east of the 605.

Nor Cal...
Seeing the SR71 do a night launch from up close, on the base. Watching them start it up, the Big block Buick start engines screaming as the jet came to life.
Seeing the SR71 run down the South Fork of the Yuba River canyon near Bridgeport or circle Lake Wildwood when it came home from a mission.
When they opened a McDonalds in our town. Til then it was a 25 mile drive for a Big Mac. that was the beginning of ruination for this little town, LOL.
Cruising the Yuba City Marysville loop.....the 10th st bridge. Thinking I had moved into a real Life American Graffiti set, and my friends and I were the stars.
Watching Rocklin and Roseville explode seemingly overnight as I was doing my college edumacation.
Leaving the Mickey D's in Yuba City at 1am to do some street drag racing....Slaughterhouse Road, 40 mile Road, Bogue Road....Slaughterhouse was the best.
The cops running us out of Slaughterhouse at 4am cause the farmers were gonna be up soon.
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Man our paths had to cross at some point!, I think I’ve been to every place you mentioned in Long Beach and with the 50 cent gas we have to be close in age. Did you ever eat at Russell’s hamburgers and pies on Atlantic across from the Crest theater? They had great food. My Mom was the manager in the outside drug department at the original Von’s on Atlantic Ave. She would take me to work with her once a week in the summertime and I would dust, read and arrange the magazine rack and mostly got in her way. We would go to lunch at Russell’s and then she give me money to go across the street to the Creast theater for the afternoon double feature. I liked going up to the Lounge upstairs, it was such a beautiful theater I always thought it should have been preserved. Sometimes I would go to Towne theater across from Vons depending on the movie. Rode skateboards in Shear park and checked out the bikes down the street at Long Beach Honda. It was a great time to grow up in LB!
 
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Props to FlyinBowtie. We must have grown up in the LB area around the same time. Just a few adds to your great list: On the Pedro side of Terminal Island was the San Pedro ferry. Believe that ferry building is still there. Norms Landing in San Pedro and Frankie Hall’s 22nd St Landing, still there under different names. At Douglas Aircraft the remnants of the WWII bunker entrances. Once saw Hugh Hefners private jet in later stages of completion parked outside of Douglas. Couldn’t mistake it, all black with the bunny profile in white on the tail. Swimming at the Colorado Lagoon in Belmont Shore, beware of the rumored whirlpools. Hamburger Henry’s 2nd St Belmont Shore. No Name Omlette 2nd St. The LB Cinnamon Cinder at the traffic circle. Big names Ike & Tina, Stevie W etc. Local HS big games played at LB Veteran’s Stadium. Prime Rib at Mike’s Chinese - Hawaiian Gardens. Also MarMacs in Downey. The great Gas Wars once held by the rogue independent stations. I remember 18 cents per gallon. Swimming at the Plunge at the LB Pike. The Diving Bell at the LB Pike.

Recall boxer Jerry Quarry and family hanging out at some of the bars in Downey. Believe they actually lived in Bellflower.

Great thread. So many good memories of what So Cal/LB once was.
 
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stephenkatsea said:
Props to FlyinBowtie. We must have grown up in the LB area around the same time. Just a few adds to your great list: On the Pedro side of Terminal Island was the San Pedro ferry. Believe that ferry building is still there. Norms Landing in San Pedro and Frankie Hall’s 22nd St Landing, still there under different names. At Douglas Aircraft the remnants of the WWII bunker entrances. Once saw Hugh Hefners private jet in later stages of completion parked outside of Douglas. Couldn’t mistake it, all black with the bunny profile in white on the tail. Swimming at the Colorado Lagoon in Belmont Shore, beware of the rumored whirlpools. Hamburger Henry’s 2nd St Belmont Shore. No Name Omlette 2nd St. The LB Cinnamon Cinder at the traffic circle. Big names Ike & Tina, Stevie W etc. Local HS big games played at LB Veteran’s Stadium. Prime Rib at Mike’s Chinese - Hawaiian Gardens. Also MarMacs in Downey. The great Gas Wars once held by the rogue independent stations. I remember 18 cents per gallon. Swimming at the Plunge at the LB Pike. The Diving Bell at the LB Pike.

Recall boxer Jerry Quarry and family hanging out at some of the bars in Downey. Believe they actually lived in Bellflower.

Great thread. So many good memories of what So Cal/LB once was.
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Our paths must have crossed also! Cinnamon Cinder, Mike’s,MarMacs wow we should have a LB reunion. Some of the places you and Flying Bow tie I haven’t thought about in years!
 
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Neglected to mention Schuster Boats - Taihiti, once in Bellflower. And Eliminator once in Huntington Park. Major players in getting this whole So Cal performance boat thing started.

Jerry Quarry passed in his early 50s in Paso Robles. Early onset of dementia was listed among the causes of his death. Sad deal.
 
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cofooter said:
I remember Casey's had a great happy hour, free snack in those days
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City of Orange-
Casey's Bar and Grill
Racer's Pit Stop
CZ/Jawa
Cruising Orange Mall
Orange Engine- Ferdie and Eddie with unlit cigars
Bikeland
Western Sports O'rama- https://bmxsociety.com/topic/44145-western-sports-orama/
Lakeview/La Palma in Anaheim for street racing

Damn we're old!
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we used to stop at Racer’s Pit stop on our way to Saddleback Park. Cool place and had a good selection of products.
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Our paths must have crossed also! Cinnamon Cinder, Mike’s,MarMacs wow we should have a LB reunion. Some of the places you and Flying Bow tie I haven’t thought about in years!
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My wife was once the “front door girl” (took your money) at the Cinnamon Cinder for Mickey Brown Mgr and partner with Bob Eubanks.
 
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… I live about a mile as the crow flies from the Palomino club …where it used to be in North Hollywood…
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I was only there one time and can't even remember who was playing, but we always heard them advertising in the IE on KCKC.
 
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Gilmore field
Pan-Pacific auditorium
The SS Catalina ( the great white steamship).
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Pan-Pacific auditorium mid to late fifties gm concept cars love to go there every year with my dad, was 11 to 15 years old . what memory's , Van Nuys Blvd. in the 60s and 70s sometimes Sunset Blvd. But could write a book !!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Pan-Pacific auditorium mid to late fifties gm concept cars love to go there every year with my dad, was 11 to 15 years old . what memory's , Van Nuys Blvd. in the 60s and 70s sometimes Sunset Blvd. But could write a book !!!!!!!!!!!
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Pan Pacific Audiitorium home of the LA Sportsman’s and Boat Show. Recall waking around in large yachts parked in there. Precursor to the LA Boat Show. Next to Gilmore Stadium, home of the PCL baseball Hollywood Stars.
 
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timstoy said:
Our paths must have crossed also! Cinnamon Cinder, Mike’s,MarMacs wow we should have a LB reunion. Some of the places you and Flying Bow tie I haven’t thought about in years!
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Graduated Wilson class of 80. Used to hit the MarMacs on Knott. I completely forgot about the pontoon bridge.

Street racing Santa fe and Del Amo, a spot up in Compton and Orangthorpe,
The new planes rolling out of the paintshop at Douglas and crossing Lakewood Blvd.
 
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I raced all the local So-Cal tracks in the 70's..

Raced Carlsbad with the OTHG.. early 2000...
 
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