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Gloom Patrol: There's Always Tomorrow ...
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 The impending release of Bad Day L.A. has everyone pondering L.A.'s fate.
Los Angeles has always had this dystopian tinge - in history as in pop culture - where our own socio-racial imbalances spur riots and riot parody movies, we suffer disasters and disaster movies, and we endure/enjoy gleeful nonsense like Escape from L.A..
L.A. City Nerd wonders aloud about the Worst Day in Los Angeles history - as if it's easy to pick out even one. He suggests October 24, 1871 (the Chinatown Massacre), August 11, 1965 (the Watts Riots), April 29, 1992 (the post-Rodney King verdict riots) ...
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Let's add a few recent earthquakes (March 10, 1933, Feb. 9, 1971 and Jan. 17, 1994), some violent culture clashes Aug. 1, 1942 (the Sleepy Lagoon murders and subsequent Zoot Suit Riots) - and I like FranklinAvenue's suggestion of March 12, 1928 when the St. Francis Dam collapsed and killed 400 people.
But the city's history is being rewritten every day, so this list is subject to change without notice.
Anyone care to predict the date of our next "Worst Day?"
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 12:53 PM
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