Thinking about elementary school

[pinboy3niner]

8. Not at all

It was a suburban HS that never had any problems when I was growing up.

When I checked out what I'd heard, I found that there'd been shots fired at a bus stop a few blocks away from the school and another nearby 'shots fired' incident.

Apparently that was all it took to create the 'Drive-by High' myth.

Things did change, though. My old Catholic church, down the street from the HS, was near a major intersection with a liquor store on the corner. When I returned for a visit after 10 years away, it had become a hooker corner.

They also were bulldozing the Falk Ranch, the ranch at the end of my old street where Betty Grable and Harry James used to train quaterhorses.

And the craftsman home I'd rented while attending USC had been razed for new townhomes.

Like the man said, you can't go home again.