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Makes me want to live in a trailer park

posted 4 years ago by jekporkins (1985)
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Great setup with the beginning with everyone bustling about in the trailer park. They got nice people chitchatting and helping each other out, a nice mix of kids and adults, and the homes are all nestled in this little forested valley. Lewis walks up to a snack shack with benches, a grill, and video games. Later on that night the guys are drinking beers and playing cards and everyone seems so excited Alex is about to win his game.

I dunno, that community looked like a place I could kick it at for a while. Get me a doublewide with a cooler and chairs out front and I'll watch the sunsets while I sent Lewis around to shoot my neighbors with his dart gun.

[–] retieredactor (1013) a year ago

https://maps.app.goo.gl/SnSs3B416DvEh7HW6

It’s still there but the trailer park is gone. Many were forced off the land in the late 1990, early 2000s due to “Hazardous Conditions” You could find many such small communities up there in the past.
25 years later its all gone.

[–] retieredactor (1013) a year ago

https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/rio-cafe-and-groceries-santa-clarita?select=5mCw5qbdVc840mPXvzzxLA

[–] aavfreak (3387) a year ago

It reminds me a lot of the apartments in my area when I was growing up. It was a poor area and most people didn't have a lot to do but hang out and socialize. It was much the same environment, with common areas and all kids were everyone's kids. Parents would whoop the neighbors' kids when they were out of line. They'd feed them when they were hungry, too. It was as true of a community as I've ever experienced.

That was the 70s and 80s, so it was a much different time.