A ghost town
This comes from Melissa Pamer's Sunday story on "No Man's Land"
At Alta Dena Dairy, a drive-thru convenience store that is one of a handful of businesses in the area, fewer customers are coming by after dark.
"Everybody's scared," said store owner Doo Kim. "At nighttime, nobody wants to walk."
Kim, 57, has worked at the dairy 22 years. He never felt the neighborhood was unsafe, but now he and his wife are frightened some evenings.
Kim heard the shots that killed Salas, and a memorial with stuffed animals and candles still stands for her on Peck Road across from the store.
Business was brisk at the dairy on Saturday, with cold drinks a top choice for the warm, sunny day. At night, the neighborhood tells a different story, residents say.
"The whole unincorporated area is like a ghost town," said Jose Bennett, 63, who has lived since 1966 in a neighborhood that was once all white, then mostly black and is now largely Latino.
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There's probably a lot of businesses hurting, expecially when dusk sets in...I wonder if folks are leaning towards dining out of the area and how about those clubs that have been noted as gang hang-outs...are they still busy? The economic crunch is hurting all over, can you imagine the impact on Monrovia's little businesses and restaurants. I heard that Friday's street fair was pretty quiet. Having gone to a few of these recent group gatherings it made me think that maybe the community will create ON-GOING activities in addition to that which takes place on Friday evenings and hopefully when this violence brings back some sanity... Maybe the various parks can get the city and law enforcement to continue to visibly support any such events. People coming together is wonderful and parks can offer a neutral grounds..maybe leaders will continue to speak at the parks (civic/religious/activists) & muscians spread there sounds? Maybe I'm just a DREAMER.....
I was downtown Friday night and the restaurants looked like they were doing a good business.
I also drove through the s/e side of town, actually from Peck over, and must have run into about 8 units, CHP, MPD. LASD and Azusa P.D.
Didn't see too many people on the street.
Local Boy
Glad to hear that...Local Boy...I hope it stays that way (both the UNITS and the patrons)!
The increased patrols are pretty amazing to see anywhere in town, but particularly around Rec Park and points south. Long needed.
In talking with some of the merchants they are having a really tough time the last couple of weeks. I've made it a point to spend more time on Myrtle if anything to support the merchants.
any of you guys ever been on G ST over in duarte ??? if you havent you need to go check it out what amazes me is the lack of authority of lasd before the shootings started there justo be about 30 or more of those duroc thugs just loitering smokin weed its kinda scary a couple of years ago my sister drove into that stret on accident boy was that a big mistake she told me one of those thugs opened her door and jumped inside the car and harrased my sister and her 2 friends they were verry scared and didnt know what to do but thank fully he got out with hurting them .
Goodall a.k.a G Street. Is the know hang-out for all Du-roc crips. Always has been. That's why they made it a one-way street because of all the gang activity and the drive-by shootings. So if anyone is thinking about just driving through to just look its not a good idea. Oneway in and out someone is bound to give you a funny look or try and get in your car thinking your looking for something.
in the know
its funny how everyone knows about G ST but the copers dont do anything about but then again the cops are always softer on the black crowed becuase they always claim the cops are racist . i know for sure if G ST was a mexican gang member hang outit would of been shut down rather quicly
You trying to say Hispanics don't play the race card? That's not even close to being true. I've seen it done more than once.
Goodall, Euclid, Wesleygrove, South Shamrock, Monrovista and that entire area have always been heavily patrolled. More officers are needed on a consistent basis to do what needs to be done, no doubt about that, but cops don't avoid Goodall or any other street.
Local Boy
Local Boy,
Thanks I could not have said it any better.
If anyone knows about Goodall they will know that it use to be only black familys living on that street. Then the crime got so bad in the 90's they started moving East towards Fontana and the Hispanic familys moved in. I believe there are only four or five black family owned homes on the street now it could be less I am not sure.
Monrovian, every race plays the race card when it comes to the police and about not shutting down the black gang houses oh yes they buy them out and make them move to other cities just like they do the hispanic gangs. They have never been "soft" as you call it to blacks. I have black men married into my family and I hear the stories. All races tell the same story white,black and brown.