Wow, this is wild! I remember the Golden Bear!!!
I left home from San Fran with 2 friends headed to LA, we first got a cheesy cheap apt on Garden Grove Blvd, then another in Westminster. My friend had a 52 Chevy panel wagon for the surfboard and we would cruise 39 to the beach picking up the hitching babes. Thank you god for the blondes who were
everywhere.
The Golden Bear rocked! Funny what we remember, but it sticks in my mind seeing the Box Tops there before they hit big.
Not long after moved to H'wood. The drugs had been flowing heavy in SF what with the Kesey parties and all but jeez those kids from H'wood High had their heads in the bucket so damn deep surprised even me. Needle freaks. The entertainment industry is a sewer.
I didn't like the botanicals so much but Owsley was my best friend. STP was tops what with the full body visuals but you had damn better have really good seat belts.
I'm happy where I'm at now, having a great woman changes one's life. But them there memories are truly golden. Every time I start to wax about the Fillmore, Huntington, the Whiskey, or La Honda the woman growls out of envy and then bops me up the side of head . Small price to pay.
And yea, the EVO would have been a game changer. And the weed . . . there was the occasional Hawaiian but mostly it was shit compared to now. There was the Peace Weed laced with PCP, but man, who wants to forget how to get off the mountain for the whole day?