"Tales from 14th Street" Is a look back at childhood days living in San Pedro California. I will share the fun and not so fun adventures of living in the hood during the 80's and early 90's. If anybody grew up in this area during that time please email or comment anytime and share your stories or thoughts.
I guess by now if you are a regular reader then you come to realize that I am very nostalgic and I have been since I was a kid. I love remembering the lost and forgotten, now don't get me wrong I am still up on game with the present and the future but why not love your own history?
The year is around 1990 and the hood homies have been partying hard almost every weekend. If you read before, my window used to face the back of the apartments, so I was always awakened by all the noises. The funny thing is that nobody ever complained or hardly called the cops most likely because it was "todos los concidos" which means all the people we knew. Everybody also seemed way older even though most of them where just teens. Now like before there is always those oldies that sick in your head from a certain time, even though an oldie has been an oldie forever some oldies stay stuck in time (make sense?) Dam aside weed what drugs where people doing back in 1990? lol something mellow I suppose if oldies are involved!
I think people where making-out or getting high when this song used to be on....but they always bumped it.
Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
San Pedro: Peck Park Pool circa 1986
News-Pilot, April, 4th 1986......Now 25 years ago (click on photo to enlarge)
Peck Park Pool in San Pedro is a childhood/teen landmark for those of us who grew up in the area. Generations of kids have visited the pool during summer break. I started going to Peck Park pool around 1996 before that I used to go to Gaffey pool but when I moved I started coming here. My friends and I would "mob" up Summerland to get to the pool. During that time is was the awkward years for my friends and I. The boys started to become interested in girls and the girls in the boys. However, the boys acted a bit more immature about it. My friends and I would wear T-shirts because if we dared go in our swimsuit it was boy drama. Most of the time our peers went to the pool to check out that certain boy or girl of interest. It was not surprising to find couple kissing in the canyons after the pool closed. During the years I was going I never seen graffiti in the pool. By that time there was a heavy duty steal fence and censored lighting. The photo above was from a 1986 News-Pilot article. During the mid-1980s graffiti was at its early stages in Los Angeles and in San Pedro. The pioneers of graffiti where themselves starting out experimenting with bombs and pieces.
My memories of graffiti in San Pedro started during the late 1980s. I would see full blown pieces and characters in alleys around my neighborhood. Down the street from my house there was also a huge wall across from train tracks that graffiti artists would paint on. I can not recall many of the names from back then, however, there were a few talented artists that came out of San Pedro as well as out of towner's coming to paint the tracks.
The article was about the problem that was happening with the pool constantly being vandalized. The methods back then failed because it was such a new problem. They tired leaving the graffiti up instead of buffing it in order to prevent more, that equaled to failure. They thought about barbed wire fencing however, worried about liability issues if someone got hurt climbing the fence. Here is a good quote from the original article:
"Graffiti is a reality and if we cover it before someone sees it we're not doing ourselves a favor"
Back then it seemed like a losing battle, from what I can read some of the work is pretty legit for that time period. Some of the most legible is.
Smurf
Dream On
PWL= Park Western Lomas which was a local gang in the area
RSP 3rd= Rancho San Pedro Third Street, established local gang
Peck Park Pool lives on for a new generation of kids, minus the graffiti.
Peace,
DJ
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The side streets
What's up my peep's
So with that said I am out the door, but will be back shortly.
Alrato
D.J
Monday, June 1, 2009
As always
I been really busy to blog even though I really want to! I got finals this week so my time is on that right now. Hopefully I can get something done because I only get a week break before summer school starts womp womp womp!
I should ask a question though...
What does everybody have planned for summer? anything interesting? post up and share.
I should ask a question though...
What does everybody have planned for summer? anything interesting? post up and share.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Update on "The Hood"
"Tales from 14th Street" Is a look back at childhood days living in San Pedro California. I will share the fun and not so fun adventures of living in the hood during the 80's and early 90's. If anybody grew up in this area during that time please email or comment anytime and share your stories or thoughts.
Photo of of 14th street today, the yellow house in the middle was
where the incident happened.
A couple of weeks ago I had posted about Oscar Barrientos and how he was a young teen in our neighborhood who got killed because of rival gang members. I decided I really wanted to know what might of triggered the motive of his death,and why he was shot.
The gang that resided on the block street was the out cast of San Pedro gangs. Young Crowd was a small gang that started in the 1980's on 14th street by a group of friends that lived in the same area . It is actually originally a gang from Lynwood which was already established and had been around since the 1960's. Somehow they both did not know about each other and the same name usage until a few members of both gangs did a stint in jail. They hooked up somehow and Pedro Young Crowd stayed as a click that grew over time.
They where obviously enemies with the much established Rancho San Pedro, which had been around for decades.
I did some research and I was told a brief story of the incident as it was told at that time. Apparently Young Crowd had went on a mission to go shoot the guys from the rival gang Rancho San Pedro 3rd street. One guy died from that incident and two others where wounded. That same night there was retaliation from the Rancho guys. They got on it quick. Nobody knows how they knew where Oscar lived, but they must of have done their research at one point. The news story is pretty much accurate to what the word of mouth was.
It happened January 6, 1992 at 3:45 a.m. on . That is interesting because as a kid I did not realize that sure was a crazy way to start the new year.
From what we heard the guys who shot Oscar where never found. The hood version of story said that they went up to the window and shot Oscar in the head. The news story says otherwise. The reason we heard that was because there was footprints in the mud by the window and blood splatters near the cement. The kids inside where his sister who was my age and two brothers. The family moved out shortly after the incident.
(Disclaimer) In anyway these stories meant to glorify or side with any particular gang, the stories on this blog are just my re-telling of what was around me as a kid.
Special thanks to Random Lengths News for finding the news archive.
Photo of of 14th street today, the yellow house in the middle was where the incident happened.
A couple of weeks ago I had posted about Oscar Barrientos and how he was a young teen in our neighborhood who got killed because of rival gang members. I decided I really wanted to know what might of triggered the motive of his death,and why he was shot.
The gang that resided on the block street was the out cast of San Pedro gangs. Young Crowd was a small gang that started in the 1980's on 14th street by a group of friends that lived in the same area . It is actually originally a gang from Lynwood which was already established and had been around since the 1960's. Somehow they both did not know about each other and the same name usage until a few members of both gangs did a stint in jail. They hooked up somehow and Pedro Young Crowd stayed as a click that grew over time.
They where obviously enemies with the much established Rancho San Pedro, which had been around for decades.
I did some research and I was told a brief story of the incident as it was told at that time. Apparently Young Crowd had went on a mission to go shoot the guys from the rival gang Rancho San Pedro 3rd street. One guy died from that incident and two others where wounded. That same night there was retaliation from the Rancho guys. They got on it quick. Nobody knows how they knew where Oscar lived, but they must of have done their research at one point. The news story is pretty much accurate to what the word of mouth was.
It happened January 6, 1992 at 3:45 a.m. on . That is interesting because as a kid I did not realize that sure was a crazy way to start the new year.
Here is the news archive from the incident.
2 teens die in gang shootings - San Pedro attack, retaliation turn deadly for 17-year-olds
Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) - Monday, January 6, 1992
Author: Anne C. Mulkern
Gang members shot at rivals on a San Pedro street corner Saturday, killing one youth and
prompting a retaliatory attack that left another dead, police said Sunday.
Hugo Resendiz, 17, of San Pedro , died about 11:40 p.m. Saturday, five hours after he
was shot in the chest, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Jim O'Connor.
"Two gang members walked up to three rival gang members at the corner of Fourth Street
and Grand Avenue," O'Connor said. "They yelled a gang name and began shooting at the
gang rivals, hitting all three."
Resendiz's companions, who were not named, were hospitalized at County Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center in satisfactory condition, O'Connor said.
After questioning the wounded youths, police arrested James Michael Beck, 18, and Javier
Haro, 19 at Beck's home in San Pedro , O'Connor said.
Violence erupted again about 3:45 a.m. Sunday when gang members seeking revenge for
Resendiz's death fired 12 bullets through the front window of a house in the 200 block
of West 14th St., O'Connor said.
Oscar Barrientos, 17, was shot in the head and killed as he slept on a couch in the
front room, O'Connor said.
"Many of the shots passed through the back living room wall, barely missing three
pre-teen children and their mother and father," O'Connor said.
No arrests were made in the second killing, but police were questioning rival gang
members, police said.
Section: LOCAL
Page: A3
Index Terms: NEWS; SHOOTING . GANGS.
Record Number: 0000376659
Copyright (c) 1992, Daily Breeze, All Rights Reserved
From what we heard the guys who shot Oscar where never found. The hood version of story said that they went up to the window and shot Oscar in the head. The news story says otherwise. The reason we heard that was because there was footprints in the mud by the window and blood splatters near the cement. The kids inside where his sister who was my age and two brothers. The family moved out shortly after the incident.
(Disclaimer) In anyway these stories meant to glorify or side with any particular gang, the stories on this blog are just my re-telling of what was around me as a kid.
Special thanks to Random Lengths News for finding the news archive.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
The Hood!
"Tales from 14th Street" Is a look back at childhood days living in San Pedro California. I will share the fun and not so fun adventures of living in the hood during the 80's and early 90's. If anybody grew up in this area during that time please email or comment anytime and share your stories or thoughts.
14th & Palos Verdes St posse in San Pedro
Funny picture I found of the street mocosos of my bothers generation. He is the one with the three jersey in the front, it looks like he is about six years old here. He is 33 now so this must of been early to mid 80's.
The kid with the red T-Shirt in the back was Oscar Barrientos he is dead now. He got shot when we still lived in the area. I was about ten years old at the time. He had later on joined a gang and had gone to jail for a bit. He was out no longer then a couple of weeks when rival gang members shot him in the middle of the night while he slept. I guess they somehow knew he slept on the living room couch and crept right to the window and pulled the trigger. The shot him directly in the head. I can still remember clearly the shock the neighborhood was in the next morining, you could hear his mother scream from down the block. He was 18 years old when he passed still a young kid. That was the early 90's when shit was cracken with gang activity at it's fullest, it seemed to be all that was around us at the time.
One of my aunts still lives in the same vecindad we lived so whenever we go visit her it's like being back in our childhood days. I taken pictures before of the area and will soon be putting them up on upcoming posts.
14th & Palos Verdes St posse in San PedroFunny picture I found of the street mocosos of my bothers generation. He is the one with the three jersey in the front, it looks like he is about six years old here. He is 33 now so this must of been early to mid 80's.
The kid with the red T-Shirt in the back was Oscar Barrientos he is dead now. He got shot when we still lived in the area. I was about ten years old at the time. He had later on joined a gang and had gone to jail for a bit. He was out no longer then a couple of weeks when rival gang members shot him in the middle of the night while he slept. I guess they somehow knew he slept on the living room couch and crept right to the window and pulled the trigger. The shot him directly in the head. I can still remember clearly the shock the neighborhood was in the next morining, you could hear his mother scream from down the block. He was 18 years old when he passed still a young kid. That was the early 90's when shit was cracken with gang activity at it's fullest, it seemed to be all that was around us at the time.
One of my aunts still lives in the same vecindad we lived so whenever we go visit her it's like being back in our childhood days. I taken pictures before of the area and will soon be putting them up on upcoming posts.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Ralph's downtown and my coupon's
photo via googleMy friend and I went grocery shopping last night at the Ralph's in downtown; we had spent Sunday night clipping coupons so we decided to use our coupons there since they double coupons still up to a certain amount. Well the downtown Ralph's is really nice and new, the selections are more gourmet and the "Fresh Fare" theme means it is more upscale targeting a different demographic (hence higher prices). But we decided to go anyway and use our coupons and only buy stuff on sale. As we browsed some of the isles we noticed that even the sale items weren’t that great of a savings. I was not sure how their double coupon program worked there since it had changed,so I decided to ask the customer service desk. There where two what looked like GM clerks setting prices I asked them how their double coupon thing worked, but they had no idea. One girl then spotted the manager and asked him about it. The manager was a young Hispanic guy with a shaved head you could see tattoos on his neck and arms under his white coller shirt. He looked like he could of been some gangster but it seemed more to me like he was just a LA guy who was trying making the "gangster look" cool and was tatted down like most people . He was nice and professional but he said that they don't double coupons, which got me annoyed. I told him the other Ralph's do double coupons. He said they did not there but he seemed confused about it as well. I told him dang this Ralph's is really tying to be all bougie. He just laughed. I guess they are not used to people really bothering with a coupon who knows. There is a Ralph's by my job in Lomita with a big banner that says " Double Coupons Everyday" I should have expected that from that Ralph's but I did not think they would not know anything about coupons. We kind of got annoyed at the high prices. We found a couple of good deals like on Ralph's brand bagged and sandwich cheese and toothbrushes in which we used one coupon we had at face value but that's it. We just decided to go randomly and look for only the sale deals that you can't pass by but as far as a full grocery cart we are heading elsewhere. We headed to Food 4 Less and tomorrow we are going to the 99 cent store. During these times you got to be smart about your shopping. It was shocking at some of the prices at that Ralph's. I worked at Vons when I was younger and the savings I got from using coupons was wonderful! This was back in 2000 thru 2004 when the prices where cheaper and they doubled coupons. I would get the best deals, now I gone to Vons and it is expensive and they don't double coupons. I had to give up going there even though I felt at home there.When I got home I went on the Ralphs.com website and signed up to get the weekly ad emailed to me. I also noticed there was a Ralph’s not much further to us on Third St and Vermont. I think I am going to start going to that one because I know it will be much cheaper then the downtown one. I also like going to all the smaller chain Hispanic grocery stores for their cheaper prices but it does mean going to a couple different stores to do your shopping. Again times are rough and we got to be smart to survive.
Does anybody have money saving shopping tips to share?
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Dia De Los Muertos Alter
My Dia De Los Muertos alter for this year is pretty much done, I might just add a few more acessories. I also wanted get some yummy Pan De Muerto, I passed by the bakery down the way but they ran out of it till tomorrow.
Dia De Los Muertos is Nov 1 and Nov 2
Shout outs to all the family and loved ones that passed represented on my alter
Grandmother: Isabel
Grandfather: Agustin
Grandmother(moms side)
Maria De Los Angeles
Great grandfather: Antonio
Great grandmother :Maria
Relatives (second uncle)
Pedro Correa
Great Aunt
Elena Jimenez Sandoval
Friends
Francisco " Pancho" Esparza
Gilbert Rodriguez
Not pictured
Seferino " Bubba" Rosales
Casper
My beloved dog "Negra"
Dia De Los Muertos is Nov 1 and Nov 2
Shout outs to all the family and loved ones that passed represented on my alter
Grandmother: Isabel
Grandfather: Agustin
Grandmother(moms side)
Maria De Los Angeles
Great grandfather: Antonio
Great grandmother :Maria
Relatives (second uncle)
Pedro Correa
Great Aunt
Elena Jimenez Sandoval
Friends
Francisco " Pancho" Esparza
Gilbert Rodriguez
Not pictured
Seferino " Bubba" Rosales
Casper
My beloved dog "Negra"
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