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Damn, Alpha, Y'all Rollin' HARD Up That Way

Croydon has a history of being a very tough blue collar neighborhood .
Just a few anecdotes for your reading pleasure .
About twenty five years ago some kids were hanging on a neighborhood corner with a cooler full of beer . A local thirty something loser asked for a beer and was rold to fuck off . Mr. Loser thought this was all in fun and help3d himself to a beer .
Being that he was told no they did the next logical thing shooting him with a flare gun and setting h8m on fire .
Neiborhood boys oder a pizza from Pop's Pizza . Pops himself shows up to deliver said oven baked delicious treat . Boys chase Pops around the hood shooting him twice in an attempt to mug him .
Up until the Sixties if your drivers license said you were from croydon alot of bars would deny you entry .
One day while driving thru the hood a group of roughly ten teenagers rushed my car attempting to kit it as it went by . I screeched to a stop got out and was immediatley surrounde by said upstanding yute . One walked up , got right in my face and informed me that " we're sixteen and seventeen , we're gonna fuck you up and if you hit any of us we'll sue . " I commended him on his brilliance and informed him that he would be the first to die . When I went for him they scattered like roaches .
I could go on with more stories but you get the idea . And yet some of the nicest people I know live there .
 
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While not Sherman Oaks I wouldn't say Chester . But then when I think of it I think of the City of Chester . That is akin to escape from NY . I worked down there and had some near death fucked up incidents in that shithole .
 
While not Sherman Oaks I wouldn't say Chester . But then when I think of it I think of the City of Chester . That is akin to escape from NY . I worked down there and had some near death fucked up incidents in that shithole .

Being sort of the back lower corner of PA, yeah, shithole pretty much applies, like the back end of a squatting dog. South DelCo can be brutal in spots, but Chester is a war zone.
 
Kids will be kids, you think it's rough there, I had my truck egged last Saturday night, one egg, but I had to wash it off myself. Seriously those sound like some rough neighborhoods.
 
Absolutely! Grew up with it. Still a huge fan. My surrogate (very sorely missed) "crazy uncle";

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And, can you imagine how blessed a person had to have been to have made a living doing what Mel did ? Good Lord !
 
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And after all that work on your .gif, too. Poor 1J's flying shitter is static, as well.

I kinda lost interest for a while, figuring it (the Hide website) would work itself out in time. J's .gif really fascinated me as a newb, "way back when":whistle:. Would really love to see .gifs work again, particularly his. I suspect bandwidth issues relegate that function to the bottom of the stack.

BTW, thanks for your help and the L/T's web link, greatly appreciated !
 
I kinda lost interest for a while, figuring it (the Hide website) would work itself out in time. J's .gif really fascinated me as a newb, "way back when":whistle:. Would really love to see .gifs work again, particularly his. I suspect bandwidth issues relegate that function to the bottom of the stack.

BTW, thanks for your help and the L/T's web link, greatly appreciated !

Adee, adee, adee, you're um, uh, yeah, welcome!
 
I know a couple guys from croydon, I wouldn't want to fight them as I'm pretty sure that's how they spent all their free time growing up.

There is a nice gun shop there, picked up a case of .405 Winchester there a few years back for cheap as they had been sitting for quite a while. I guess there isn't a lot of people in the suburbs looking to hunt lions.
 
I know a couple guys from croydon, I wouldn't want to fight them as I'm pretty sure that's how they spent all their free time growing up.

There is a nice gun shop there, picked up a case of .405 Winchester there a few years back for cheap as they had been sitting for quite a while. I guess there isn't a lot of people in the suburbs looking to hunt lions.
Johnson's. Bought my first pistol from them when they were acro9ss the street on Cedar on the corner . Used to be a Body Work Supply/Gun Store .
 
If you can overl99k the violent onuckle heads it really is a quaint tight knit community .I lived there fot about four years . Went to church one Sunday at St Thomas Aquinas , me in a suit wife in a dress . Priest asked what we were all dressed up for .