Good ole V Town!
Unless you lived in Vallejo during those times, you could never grasp how rough that place was.
Until I read your post Doc, I wasn't going to share any of my experiences of getting guns pulled on me or getting shot because I knew it would sound exaggerated to most of the people on here.
If you read the Times Herald often, you read about some of my unfortunate situations more than once.
In 1987, a car I was riding in was riddled with 11 bullets near College Park. I thought I was hit in the head but was only cut by flying glass, my buddy took one in the hand, damn near took his ring finger off.
They never did find out who the hell it was, I think Vallejo PD investigated us more than the punks that shot the car up.
Another time in 1989 I was involved in a huge fight in the back of a nightclub on Solano Ave. If I remember right it was called Jenica's.
This one started over a gun being shoved in the face of one of my buddy's, I got eight staples in the back of my head and a face full of pepper spray from some stupid bitch trying to break it up.
Like I said, if you didn't live there back in the day, you'd have no clue how fucked up that place really was.
It's still a shithole bro. my mom still lives there. in the heyday of the crackhead, it was insanely violent, now in the era of the tweaker, its just fucking wierd. i came for a visit a few months ago, and in the middle of the night the dogs started barking. two tweakers were tryin to steal the taillights off my mom's shitty old pickup... dude. tailights. hunkered down in the dark pullin out the screws to steal the plastic tailight lenses. WTF?
one of her church members across town woke up in the night hearing people in the front yard, she called the cops (who never came) and when she came out in the morning... some tweakers had installed a sprinkler system in the middle of the night. dug the trenches, laid the pipes, installed the popup sprinkler heads, they even connected it properly to the watermain... of the house next door. WTF??
a few days later a tweaker broke into the house of one of her neighbors up the street in the middle of the night. he entered the home undetected, and made his way to the objective without waking the sleeping occupants... drew hmself a scented bubble bath lit some aromatherapy candles and slipped in for a soak. and fell asleep. he was still peacefully dozing in the bubbles when the family got up in the morning to discover their guest.
man i miss crackheads. at least their motivations are somewhat understandable.
the only thing that hasnt changed is "Funland" the creepy porno shop on hwy 29... it still looks like a perverted Chuck E Cheese on the outside with the 365 day a year rainbow chaser christmas lights.
