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Old 05-24-2012, 03:48 AM
 
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Oxnard 1961 - YouTube

Let's see some Oxnard love!
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Old 05-30-2012, 03:03 AM
 
Location: Shallow alcove hidden from the telescreen
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Cool! Wonder what it'll be like looking back on today's Oxnard 50 years from now!
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Old 05-31-2012, 12:40 AM
 
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It would not have been right to leave out the good old Bank of A. Levy!

A fixture.

And $#*****#% GTE!
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Old 12-21-2014, 11:03 PM
 
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Thank you so much for posting this. While my parents never lived in Oxnard itself, they were there often, and seeing this gives me a visual that feels like it might be what they saw and enjoyed there (1958-1970 in PH & Ventura). Any number of these women hypothetically could be my mother (lookswise) and the brunette in the black dress in the switchboard bit actually moves like she did (she was a switchboard operator on the base in 1963-65, but I'm guessing this footage is from Oxnard's phone company).
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Old 12-21-2014, 11:16 PM
 
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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I recall traveling to Oxnard in the early 70's from San Francisco. I was very young and my father and mother drove us via US 101. Our car had a flat tire and we were not aware of it. Another motorist notified us by honking at us. We were there to visit a family friend, who had a nice home in Oxnard. Haven't been back since. I'm sure it's changed.
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Old 12-22-2014, 04:22 PM
 
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I recall traveling to Oxnard in the early 70's from San Francisco. I was very young and my father and mother drove us via US 101. Our car had a flat tire and we were not aware of it. Another motorist notified us by honking at us. We were there to visit a family friend, who had a nice home in Oxnard. Haven't been back since. I'm sure it's changed.
It changed and then changed again. Late 70s - 90s it was a place with lots of gang bangers / the Norteno-Sureno conflicts, etc. Then gentrification set in.
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Old 12-25-2014, 01:00 PM
 
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Spent a lot of time in Oxnard in the 50s and early 60s. What a great place it was 'then'. Always felt very safe, day or night. My uncle had his CPA business on the 2nd floor of an office bldg on A Street, and we would always go to the drug store on A Street and sit at the soda fountain and get those great ice cream floats.

SkyView Drive-In was a wonderful place to take in a movie, and again, VERY safe!

Went to a lot of parties in the early 60s, great people and had a wonderful time.
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Old 03-29-2015, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Simi Valley, California - which was once part of the USA
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It changed and then changed again. Late 70s - 90s it was a place with lots of gang bangers / the Norteno-Sureno conflicts, etc. Then gentrification set in.
Gentrification? What? That whole part of Ventura county is crap besides Ventura itself. Oxnard is a large ghetto that exists only to house agricultural workers?


The only nice part of the county is the Conejo Valley.
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