What did L.A. used to be like???? (San Francisco, Ducor: pharmacy, gangs)

[Fontucky]

It was all relative to the times. When I was taking home 326 bucks a month in 1974, rent was 235.

[disgruntled la native]

Even adjusted for inflation, home values have gone way up, especially by the coast.

[BluSpark]

Originally Posted by disgruntled la native

Even adjusted for inflation, home values have gone way up, especially by the coast.

Yes...they are NOT making more coastline.

You sound like the guy who goes to the best restaurant in town on a Saturday night and complains there is a line to get a table.

[disgruntled la native]

I'd rather live here more than any other major city in the US. But we can't pretend it's perfect, it has flaws and has deteriorated compared to its past

[Visit a Library]

Originally Posted by majoun

And if they think cops were seriously nice in the old days, they obviously have never heard of Bill Parker, Daryl Gates, and know nothing about what went down in L.A. in the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. Or earlier....

When your house is being robbed, do you want the nice cops to show up, or the cops who know how to put down violent criminal low-lifes?

[Visit a Library]

Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

I miss Laserium!

Laserium was probably the worst possible use for Griffith Park's planetarium. It's the equivalent of turning the Getty into a rave, or having tractor pull rallies at the Hollywood Bowl. Planetariums are for learning about astronomy, not stupid laser shows to the tunes of Aldo Nova or Jan Hammer.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

It was all relative to the times. When I was taking home 326 bucks a month in 1974, rent was 235.

wow, that was a big chunk. I think hubby started out making about $240 a month and our rent was $60 a month.

Nita

[BluSpark]

Originally Posted by disgruntled la native

I'd rather live here more than any other major city in the US. But we can't pretend it's perfect, it has flaws and has deteriorated compared to its past

I do NOT claim it is perfect NOW for a second......but let's not pretend it WAS perfect back in the "good old days" either.

[Twinkle Toes]

Originally Posted by Visit a Library

Laserium was probably the worst possible use for Griffith Park's planetarium. It's the equivalent of turning the Getty into a rave, or having tractor pull rallies at the Hollywood Bowl. Planetariums are for learning about astronomy, not stupid laser shows to the tunes of Aldo Nova or Jan Hammer.

Actually, it was Pink Floyd and the like. But ..... what crawled up your ass and died? Did somebody pee in your cereal? Why are you so cranky? Go take your enema and come then come back - you'll feel a whole lot better.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Visit a Library

When your house is being robbed, do you want the nice cops to show up, or the cops who know how to put down violent criminal low-lifes?

Except they didn't know how to put down violent criminal low-lifes. Many (although definitely by no means all - there have always been some good LAPD officers even in the Parker era and Gates era) were violent criminal low-lifes themselves. A badge only makes a violent criminal low-life more dangerous than they would be otherwise. LAPD from Parker on suffered from being understaffed and having too few cops, which promoted the thug mentality further on the force. If cops with a thug mentality is enough to prevent crime than New Orleans would be the safest city in the US. LAPD in the old days had a great deal in common with NOPD.

The LASD never got the bad rep the LAPD got mainly because while they could be brutal (and Pitchess and Block were bastards) they were more effective at actually controlling crime.