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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 07:25 PM Original message |
Boomers: California must have seemed like some kind of paradise |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. We had orage groves all around |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
34. yes. where were you? I grew up in Redlands ... |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. It was, in the 1960s |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. Don't really consider myself a boomer |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
4. It still is nice BUT |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 09:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I'm a San Jose son too |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. I do and will always love my San Francisco |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. At the risk of sounding dumb, J-Town RAWKS!!!! |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. We have one too, you know |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:59 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Consider Seattle a case of a multiculturalistic sucess! |
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triguy46 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. Perhaps. But as my 107 year old Grandmother said: |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-07-10 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
9. Ahhh... Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga.... |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
10. I lived in California, mostly in the Bay Area, from 1969 to 1975, |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
11. I remember 35 years ago climbing the mountains and seeing the big brown bubble of LA smog |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 09:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Now that's a vacation! |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:52 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. ... Relax! -- said the nightman -- We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 09:32 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Stanley Dean Baker... |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. So they're both on the loose again. |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
12. and they all sang about stuff that meant something....social and environmental justice |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
13. You forgot the Beach Boys |
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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
14. Was far out man. Lived in Hollywood mid/late 60s. A lid was $10. and clean. The acid was |
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tainted_chimp (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 07:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. Just for you, ohiosmith: |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
15. The smog, the earthquakes, the traffic |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. When I was a kid it was mythic |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 06:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Still Mythic to me |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
21. BEFORE: Mickey Mouse Club; Lennon Sisters; Calif. Girls; LIToBeaver; Zorro; etc. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 05:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. It still has many elements of all of that |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
25. I've always said that if I wasn't married with children in the late 60's, |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. It's usually more fun in theory |
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kayakjohnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
26. Well, and actually before the boomers came along... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 08:53 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Hell, all of California is like that! |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 05:40 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Despite the changes (and man, have I seen some!) California is still paradise |
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Tikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. It was magical..there are times now.. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
33. I grew up in So. Cal.in the 60s. Looking back on it, it was |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
35. Even back in dust bowl days. |
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