Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Horseshoes at Sunken City

Someone recently mentioned in passing that there had been a secret horseshoe pitch at Sunken City until the Department of Recreation and Parks took it out... Anyone know anything about this?

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16 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I do, but its a secret, duh...

Einar

11:11 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

maybe all those people who've fallen off the cliffs there were on their way to play horeshoes (at night, LOL!!)

12:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now that you've revealed the secret, you'll have to sleep with the fishes. Tuna fishes, naturally. ;)

10:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't know how it could be secret if it was fully visible as one walked on the path along the cliffs. My recollection -- not that I've ever "tresspassed" in Sunken City, mind you -- is that it was on an area that basically was an extension of whatever street Walker's is on.

1:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't mind the horseshoe area in Sunken City - which incidentally has been there for a few years, it's the grafetti the lowlives have written on the cliffs that is disturbing to me. PROOF that they could give a damn about what our Higher Power created. Of course, if someone were to grafetti their child or loved one, their tune would change.

10:23 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You could say the same thing about anybody who has ever paved a road, graded a hill, or cut down a tree. I mean, if our Higher Power had wanted there to be roads and houses and lumber, He would have miracled us some, wouldn't He? And you could certainly say the same thing (with much more credibility) about anybody who has ever erected an ugly billboard or a depressing subdivision of tract housing on what was once open pasture.

In fact, I would like to appeal to all of you for help in my new militant direct-action project: building little tiny planned communities on the children of real estate developers. Sure, it may sound harsh, but it's the only language these kinds of people understand. Who's with me? I say, WHO'S WITH ME?

12:04 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your point about the Higher Power is well "spoken" and as far as building those "little tiny planned communities on the children of real estate developers" Why not?

8:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've got madel making experience. Let's do it! ;D

9:17 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Umm, "model," I meant.I guess I was just too excited about an art project again.

9:19 AM  
Blogger Phillip said...

So, it's still totally cool to graffiti on the broken roads & sidewalks, right? Or is your "higher power" the City of Los Angeles? (How does one graffiti on a cliff, anyway? Who the heck paints dirt?)

10:01 PM  
Blogger Marshall Astor said...

Assholes paint dirt - anyone doing a tag on dirt is a grade A loser.

6:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does this mean that the "Higher Power" didn't want us to have hospitals, homes (other than caves, of course), airplanes, vehicles, or paved roads? How about the wheel?

Could you please make a list of what the "Higher Power" meant for us to have and what we should get rid of, oh "Wise One(s)"?

8:37 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

speaking of sunken city, has anybody noticed the beef between janice and doug epperhart that's erupted in the press over the past few weeks?

i would be willing to wager the dispute has to do more with an article by dennis lim about who's going to run for her seat that came out last year than a silly fence.

9:27 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous wrote:

Does this mean that the "Higher Power" didn't want us to have hospitals, homes (other than caves, of course), airplanes, vehicles, or paved roads? How about the wheel?

Could you please make a list of what the "Higher Power" meant for us to have and what we should get rid of, oh "Wise One(s)"?


Dude, I already did that. And mine was funnier.

5:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You know, I have to side with Doug on this one, since Janice just admitted that they are going to waste 50 grand on a fence that they already know is going to be replaced. That's okay, I guess, because she can always just demand we pay yet another parcel tax to fund it.

Imbg was funnier with the "higher power" thing, BTW.

2:58 PM  
Blogger mjp said...

The horseshoe pit has been there for years, as "anonymous" pointed out. It started on the vacant lot on Shepard and moved down into Sunken City.

I don't know how secret it was, considering dudes would stroll in there pretty much every weekend with cases of beer hoisted up onto their shoulders.

Everyone knows what goes on in Sunken City, and no one cares. When our pal Graham built his giant prefab on Paseo he said he had a "hotline" number to call police when teenagers were out there dancing on the edge of the world every weekend night. He used that hotline a few times until he got tired of being told they wouldn't come out just to roust kids.

You know, unless they fall and die. Then they can say how tragic it is and how a fence will make everything better.

We left Point Fermin this month after 8 years on the corner of Carolina and Shepard, and a big contributing factor was the noise (and the pollution and the million other things that throw a monkey wrench into what could be a great little neighborhood.

3:44 PM  

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