Rural Daly City CA 1970s & Today Farms Greenhouses Homes Stairs Below M P Brown School Quiet Getaway
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- 1970s 110 slide film of a semi-rural area of Daly City, California, beneath Eastmoor Ave., and today. The old path and stairs are still there.
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Thanks for sharing. I grew up on 89th Street since the 1980's and witnessed many changes over the decades. I remember the paths through MP Brown elementary school and it's still there but are now closed to the public. Were all those old pictures of Washington st.? I do remember the empty lots and greenhouses during the 80's.
Thank you for your comment. The pictures were taken basically around Pierce St., Annie St., Edgeworth Ave., and Washington St. The house I liked back then (which now has some nice additions including lanterns on stone columns and a real driveway instead of a 2 x 4 against the curb) is on the corner of Edgeworth Ave. and Washington St. One of the old photos shows an empty lot with stumps as well as a barn and crane in the back. The street sign is hard to see but it is for Washington St. Since most of the lots were purchased for townhouses and other buildings, it's interesting to me that they did not procure the lot with the currently boarded-up greenhouses. Someone cuts the weeds so it is being maintained.
I'm guessing you probably never had the pleasure of seeing a movie at the nearby Serra Theater. It was really a special movie theater back in the days when the nearest theaters were either the El Rey or the West Portal in San Francisco, or the Seavue in Pacifica. The Serra had a curtain covering the screen that they used to open and close.
@@spinsandneedles Was the Serra Theater the one on or near Junipero Serra blvd.?(actually, I am sure it was) I remember seeing "The Hindenburg", starring George C. Scott, there. I have seen other films there, too. Can't recall any more titles. Fun times! There was a pizza place not too far from the theater, that I remember as well.
I also remember Seavue in Pacifica(now a Walgreens, 520 Palmetto). Was dropped off there for matinees, many times!
@@spinsandneedles Just checking, I now can see we are talking about 2 different trails..
@@paulreynolds2569 Hi Paul. Thank you for your comments. Yes, probably two different locations off of Eastmoor Ave. I'll get back to you.
@@paulreynolds2569 That was Shaky's Pizza. The pizza was good and the name fitting for the area. There's a national movie theater website that shows a picture of the Serra with Jaws on the marquee. I really liked the Serra. It had more classic movie house attributes than the Serra 6 but those "new" plain theaters became pretty popular. Somehow even narrow movie posters were made to serve the new theaters.
I was born in 1965 and raised in Daly City, on Lincoln ave., near Southgate, up the street from then Thomas Edison school. My parents decided to move out in 1977, after my older siblings moved on and out. We move to Sacramento. I now live in Benicia.
The area you described with the stairs makes me think of an area we called "Grasshopper Hill" - I wonder if this is the same area? It too was a trail that originated near Eastmoor(nr Westmoor High School)/Terrace View ct and the trail emptied onto Larchmont ave. I was with some friends one day in 1975 or 1976 on that trail and it was one of the most harrowing days of my life. I was mugged by 2 older kids and had knife held to my throat at one point and they threatened to take away my bicycle and beat me with a cane. They had my 2 friends punch me, then let us go. We were all attacked. I had been warned about the area area, about crimes taking place there, etc. I can't but to think the trail you described is the same, but I don't think it is. I don't remember any stairs.. The trail continued a bit on the other side of Larchmont drive. Many areas of Daly city had these spaces between the backyards of homes and the adjacent homes on the next block. What were city planners thinking when these neighborhoods were being built?
A lot of interesting and difficult memories..
Maybe you can recall the book "A Child Called "It", by David Pelzer. I was in the same grade and some of the same classes as his brother, Richard. His horrific abuse story is well known. I was in the Kindergarten or first grade, when he was finally put in protective custody. I never knew David or his predicament. Only after decades, would I learn of his story. We all grew up in Daly City and went to Thomas Edison grade school. The 70's were so crazy and dysfunctional and sometimes violent in parts of D.C.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing and I'm sorry those muggers put you through that terror. Believe it or not, when I was a kid I was mugged too just walking home from a friend's house in the dark. In fact a few months ago I went back to the location and took photos intending to make a video with the story. I'll try to get to it sooner or later. Childhood is usually remembered as being carefree, but for many there were episodes of violence and terror. I hope the two older kids who mugged you were eventually caught.
The name Grasshopper Hill sounds familiar but I don't remember if that is where it was. The area below Eastmoor Ave. beneath Westmoor High is familiar to me. I recall that Eastmoor had a landslide there once perhaps affecting one of the apartment buildings or maybe it was just the road. There have been other landslides. I remember the area with the trees well because someone I knew built a treehouse in one of those trees. It was really nice like a little room with a roof but when the authorities found out about it the DCFD burned it down. I remember cutting across yards too and some of the little trails a kid could find. I think the builders put in as many roads and houses as they could but not bing a flat city, some of the hills got in the way of using up every last acre.
I never read that book and so I looked it up today. The New York Times took some issue with some of the stories, but there's no doubt many children were abused in the worst ways, so there's no reason to doubt the author went through at least some of what he described.
Anyway, you're right about the 70s and I think it's important for people who think Daly City was "nicer" then than today just turn a blind eye to the past. The Peninsula had the Gypsy Hill killings in the 70s and there hasn't been anything like that since. Before that Westmoor student Anson Stout, Jr., killed a neighbor woman of his in San Bruno. I did a YT video about that because he had been previously arrested for a sex crime in San Francisco and fooled the psychiatrists claiming that he had changed.
@@spinsandneedles Wow. A lot of dark history, for sure.. Managed to survive and there were plenty of fun moments while growing up to..Plenty of youthful adventures, despite some real family challenges I personally had.
My friends and I were threatened not to tell anybody about being "jumped". Well, I did. My brother's friends went down to the area and found and "thrashed" the one assailant who remained there, whilst the other assailant had already taken off. That was was pretty much the end of it, afterwards. I think I vaguely remember reporting the incident to the cops, it went nowhere. But similar reports of other attacks by these 2 had been reported t the cops.
You might look up Kevin Domino of Pacifica(moved there later) - he lived up the street from me and was one of the kids who was with me when we were attacked(his younger brother was the other kid). We were often up to mischief.. Anyway, in 2001 or 2002 Kevin was convicted of robbery and stealing a car and running over a protester while evading police on Skyline blvd. Crazy story - he backed up to run over the guy a second time. Suffered broken legs, but survived. Kevin was booked in Redwood city. I have not had contact with him since we moved out in 1977.
Do you remember the freak storm of 1976, bringing hail, lightening and even SNOW to Daly City?! A lightening bolt came down within 15 feet of me, striking the pavement!
I just briefed myself about that murder committed by Anson Stout. It was before my time though. I think my parents moved to Daly City at the Lincoln ave. address around that time. They lived for a few years in the Westlake area, in the apartments across the street from the shopping center. I really think D.C. went downhill throughout the 60's-70's. Just some really bad chracters. I molested by a neighbor's 12 yr old son, when I was 5-6. The older brother of his was the same person who went after my attacker who mugged me(when I was 10-11). Our families were really good friends and we went on many outings together, many of their kids being the same age as my siblings. Too bad the had the one black sheep. The guy(molester) really had serious issues and the family just looked the other way.. I could go on ad infinitum about all this stuff but I should probably stop! But just to say, it all happened in Daly City!
@@paulreynolds2569 Yes I remember the snow storm of 1976. It was a school day and I think I skipped a class. I guess the snow arrived in the morning and melted by the end of the day. I don't remember the lightning. You lucked out!
@@paulreynolds2569 Most of the Daly City we grew up in was built in the mid to late 1950s, so if it went down hill in the 60s and 70s, it didn't take long. Some of it was even being built in the 60s and 70s. But kidding aside, every city and town had the same problems. I've studied a lot of 20th century crime and oddballs and criminals were everywhere. Many kids even in the "nicest towns" either had someone expose themselves to them or they were molested. It was more hidden in those days and untold numbers of authority figures got away it, but there were also a good many arrests and incarcerations. The real problem were the serial offenders who became worse because not enough was done to stop them. Criminal psychology and profiling had a lot of catching up to to do, as did sentencing guidelines. Books by F.B.I. profiler John Douglas are great in that regard, as is the Netflix show Mindhunter. The agents are based somewhat on real agents but their lives are fictionalized. The criminals however are based on real ones, including Son of Sam, Charles Manson, and the Santa Cruz Co-ed Killer Edmund Kemper.