Comments on: The LA riots, 20 years later, viewed through food http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/the-la-riots-20-years-later.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 11:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Matthew Petty http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/the-la-riots-20-years-later.html#comment-1406094 Matthew Petty Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156924#comment-1406094 "It was like porno for foodies, porno for foodies, porno for foodies..." “It was like porno for foodies, porno for foodies, porno for foodies…”

]]> By: Jonathan Badger http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/the-la-riots-20-years-later.html#comment-1406013 Jonathan Badger Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156924#comment-1406013 Yeah, a lot of people don't remember that the riots extended to K-town, now hipster central of LA. Although maybe Gold merits unironic hipsterdom as apparently he really *was* living there before it was cool. Yeah, a lot of people don’t remember that the riots extended to K-town, now hipster central of LA. Although maybe Gold merits unironic hipsterdom as apparently he really *was* living there before it was cool.

]]> By: esme http://boingboing.net/2012/04/26/the-la-riots-20-years-later.html#comment-1406010 esme Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=156924#comment-1406010 I can't believe it's been 20 years.  I moved out of SoCal when I was a kid, and came back to LA for college at USC in the fall of 92.  I remember walking around the neighborhood, especially up Vermont Ave, and seeing tons of burnt-out buildings.  It was years before many of them were rebuilt. I remember hanging out on the sidewalk one night waiting for a punk show to start at Jabberjaw, when the cops came up and started talking to me.  I was used to being hassled by the cops and thought they were just telling me to move along, when I realized they were concerned about my safety as a white kid in that neighborhood. When I left in 96, things were looking up.  There was a shiny new Ralph's at the corner of Vermont and Adams.  I haven't been back much since then, so it was great to read this piece and see the ongoing changes in the neighborhood through a foodie prism. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years.  I moved out of SoCal when I was a kid, and came back to LA for college at USC in the fall of 92.  I remember walking around the neighborhood, especially up Vermont Ave, and seeing tons of burnt-out buildings.  It was years before many of them were rebuilt.

I remember hanging out on the sidewalk one night waiting for a punk show to start at Jabberjaw, when the cops came up and started talking to me.  I was used to being hassled by the cops and thought they were just telling me to move along, when I realized they were concerned about my safety as a white kid in that neighborhood.

When I left in 96, things were looking up.  There was a shiny new Ralph’s at the corner of Vermont and Adams.  I haven’t been back much since then, so it was great to read this piece and see the ongoing changes in the neighborhood through a foodie prism.

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