Blast from the Past

[ickaimp]

Hahahahaha. Hahaha. Ha. ha.

Reading an article on Reuthers about Gangs in Arizona and got a bit of a blast from the past.

-One of the gangs mentioned was 'East Side Torrance'.

From age 4 until I was about 10, I lived in the Harbour Gateway area, which was in the middle of EST territory. Only white family for five blocks in any direction. We moved about 6 months after our house got tagged with 'EST' and someone got beat up on our front lawn.

... To this day, the sound of police helicopters makes me sleepy, cause it was my favourite lullaby as a kid.

Well, it looks like EST has expanded past the east side of Torrance and the Harbour Gateway area of LA and into Southern Arizona. >P Joy.

And co-workers in New Zealand wondered why I laughed when they complained about the 'scary graffiti' done by dumb-shyte kids in the parks. >D

Comments

[scribe-ari.livejournal.com]

I hear ya on the helicopter lullaby.
I grew up on E. 211th St, in Lakewood
the gutter infront of my house was the border with Hawaiian Gardens.
It was always bloods vs crypts in my area. They built a 7 ft fence with razor wire around the top around the local High School pool to keep the gang morons from getting in drowning folks in it.

One thing I miss... the Foster's Freeze that was on the corner. So much yum.

[purplevks.livejournal.com]

Thats.. nasty. I've spent my entire life in smallish towns, or university towns, with the occasional family visit to place like Norfolk, or Kingsport. Or little, itsy-bittisy places like Wise, VA. You know, one of those place so small the 45 minutes it takes to get to the next town over is considered a long drive, only recently got a decent cell phone signal, and the only thing on the radio is Gospel, Nascar, Country, and sports, in roughly that order. That type of thing is scary to people like me, and probably why we live in the places we do.

I think my lullaby is about equal -- a certain Metallica CD -not sure what the name is- is practiclly guaranteed to knock me out.

Annndd~ I made an icon. Well, I made three, but one of them used one of your images.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

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Man, I hope they stay away from our area. Where I grew up we didn't have gangs, but we did have waterfront thugs, usually hanging around specific boats (the ones that ran cargos late at night, packed in zip-lock baggies and looking suspiciously like oregano.) You stayed away from their areas; they were sharks. No organized gangs even now, though, for the most part; they're everywhere in places like Miami and Tampa but not much in the PC area.