My second tour of downtown Carlsbad where it becomes obvious that big money is taking over and if you don’t like it you better say something quick. P.S. Do you know what Elm is?
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Will the non-elite eventually revolt?
God save Johnny Rotten!
He’s enduring anarchy in sunny California, where homeless punks are vandalizing his home.
The former Sex Pistol, punk icon and scourge of the establishment is now appealing to LA cops for help as the unruly young proletariat invade his fancy Venice Beach home.
The mouthpiece of 1977’s “Anarchy in the UK” — born John Lydon — was ranting to Newsweek’s Paula Froelich in an interview to promote the Museum of Arts and Design’s new exhibition “Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986.”
He told her the homeless situation in his swanky LA neighborhood is so bad that thieves are tearing the bars from the windows of his multimillion-dollar home, lobbing bricks, setting up unsightly tent cities and littering the beach with syringes.
“A couple of weeks ago I had a problem,” the former punk prince opined. “They came over the gate and put their tent inside, right in front of the front door. It’s like .?.?. the audacity. And if you complain, what are you? Oh, one of the establishment elite? No, I’m a bloke that’s worked hard for his money and I expect to be able to use my own front door.”
The “Never Mind the Bollocks” hell-raiser added that these unwelcome visitors “tried to steal the iron bars off the windows” to sell as scrap metal.
And his wife, Nora, who is battling Alzheimer’s, “cannot cope” because of all the vicious vagrants in the city.
“My wife’s ill and she can’t cope with this. But at 2 a.m. last week, a brick whizzed through the top floor window, the bedroom. Sorry, Mr. Policeman. I need your help.”
He added: “The vagrants moved in en masse .?.?. [in] tent cities. They’re all young; they’re all like 24.”
Rotten added of the punks: “They’re aggressive, and because there’s an awful lot of them together they’re gang-y. And the heroin spikes .?.?. You can’t take anyone to the beach because there’s jabs just waiting for young kids to put their feet in — and poo all over the sand.”
https://pagesix.com/2019/04/26/johnny-rotten-wants-cops-to-stop-homeless-punks-says-wife-cant-cope/
It is too late. I’ve seen this happen too many places. South La Jolla adjacent?
Long time locals still call Carlsbad Village Drive by its original name which is Elm
Long time locals still call Carlsbad Village Drive by its original name which is Elm
I think you’d agree that those license-plate frames are few and far between these days. I rarely see them any more – to click this photo while filming was lucky!
Ok, some more on the Village;
1.) Grand Ave is supposed to have (2) single lanes for cars either direction. The rest of the width will be pedestrian if it ever happens and I hope it does.
2.) The churches are not zoned for residential, “Village Barrio-Other”.
3.) Parking- heaven help us if we have to walk 40′ to our chosen destination. I’m going to bet most people’s longest walk for the day is from the far end of Costco’s parking lot to the meat department. The moment a city has a “parking problem” is the day you know they are thriving. Downtown El Cajon has plenty of parking right in front of your favorite businesses there.
4.) Regarding the abandoned houses on Oak, (south of Elm, I mean CVD), this one is juicy; the local myth/legend/rumor is that they are owned by a Russian/Kazakh who is on the lamb and is hiding out in the south pacific because he messed with the mafia. Wants all cash offers with no due diligence, 15 day close.
Thanks for the details! And yes on Russian:
https://www.bubbleinfo.com/2010/12/11/international-intrigue-in-carlsbad/
“Will the non-elite eventually revolt?” Could very well happen. The wealth gap keeps getting wider and if this continues, they’ll come with pitch forks and/or semi-auto weapons.
At least the elite can afford to hire armed, ex-military, armed security. Since local PD can’t seem to be in all places at all times.