Post #482052 by TikiG on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 7:41 AM

I've seen a copy of the original book, first printing and it is amazing! I can imagine this new revised edition. I'll buy a copy soon I'm sure.

Back in the early 90s between loves and steady jobs (mostly in Anaheim) I lived in a few of those googie motels, paying weekly rent. All run-down roach motels at that point in history, many run by Asians that could barely speak English and occupied by single parent family's, drug addicts, barely surviving down-and-outers and gang members. Everything well hidden and pushed aside by your typical Orange County neighborhood mindset people.

West Ave, Katella Ave and Harbor Blvd.

This was when Disneyland still had the parking lot out front. Anaheim was in turmoil politically. Googie architecture was being ripped apart wholesale. Luckily I documented some of that by photographs and mini VHS tapes.

Bittersweet memories! Character building experience for me and I wouldn't exchange those experiences for anything else..looking back now.

Amazing where life takes us on our journeys, isn't it? :wink: