1961 - Bell Air Fires (Los Angeles) 1962 - Dodger Stadium opens - Pat Brown defeats Nixon in governor's race - Construction of the I-405 freeway 1963 - "Onion Field" Kidnappings & Killings (Hollywood - Bakersfield) - 1964 - Free Speech movement @ UC Berkeley 1965 - Watts Riots (Los Angeles 1966 - Sunset Strip Curfew riots 1967 - Monterey Pop Festival (Monterey) - Summer of Love (San Francisco) 1968 - Black Panther Party Founded (Oakland) - Robert F. Kennedy shot @ the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles 1969 - Tate-Labianca Murders - Altamont -1970 - Clampitt and Laguna wildfires - Manson Trial begins 1970-71 - Zodiac Killer messages San Francisco Chronicle - Worst 2-year drought in California history 1971 - San Fernando earthquake 1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped 1975 - Fall of Saigon 1976-77 - Another severe drought 1977-78 - Hillside Strangler 1978 - killing of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk (San Francisco)
It was several decades ago now that the rumors were swirling about a possible ghost @ Moonlight Beach. There was a definite "buzz" among the Coast Highway vendors and their customers - enough to keep the conversation rolling... Ronnie, for example, the short-order cook at the 1-11 Diner used to compare notes with Sue-Ellen - owner of the guitar shop about the latest "sighting" while Eduardo who owned the Taco Shack near the corner of D Street asked Mel who ran the old movie theater across the street if the real headquarters for the poltergeist might be in one of the older buildings - maybe an attic space. Maybe it's a ghost that goes on field-trips now and then - agreed Manny Uwanco - proprietor of the used book store and cousin to George Uwanco - the owner of George's diner. Everyone tried to convince Lou - of Lou's Records that this thing was real - but he proved to be the skeptic of all skeptics. Truth be told - it was hard to imagine a less hau...
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