Remember when?

[+ Lucky]

There used to be lots of hot boys on Polk Street and Santa Monica Blvd? When guys used to wear short little hot pants? When the baths were packed with young cuties who actually wanted to have sex? When a naked pic of a hot actor was still unusual?

And when jeans were worn so tight they looked like they were painted on? When guys use to take a Brillo pad to the crotch of their jeans to make it look like their genitals had worn out the area?

I miss the old days! (Sometimes!)

[jackhammer91406]

Lucky,

Did we try new coffee blend this morning? Something with "retro kava" in the name? Wasn't it just this week that you had a new lounge in Long Island named after you? Was this for a life time achievement thing or are you relly living the good new days!

I remember my grandparents (ha) talking about the Selma Ave. boyz, and I did wear an occasional pair of very short cutoffs on the beaches in Santa Monica and Venice (before the upgrade). But I was only 2 years old.

 

:7

[bigguyinpasadena]

My dearest lucky,living in memoryland this morning?I visit there myself,lately I find myself visiting quite often !

Our new chief of police Bratton has instituted his "broken window-quality of life"campaign in los angeles-and that includes major sweeps of Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards.

Meanwhile,since Hahn(and more recently Bratton)have been in charge homicide rates are up 11%,and major crime up 4%.We also are having a flare up in gang related crime.

It is so much easier to bust those involved in the victimless crime of prostotution.very little danqger to the cops-and it LOOKS like you are doing something.

Callboys beware!There is also an increase in Vice bust for online and print ad hookers also!

[Uncle Bill]

Hey, Big Guy.

 

I agree with your comments about the changes in LA, but where do you get your stats on the crackdown on on-line and print-ad escorts? I haven't seen anything on this. The big change I've read about is confiscating and selling cars that johns use in soliciting.

[Guest DevonSFescort]

The only reason I can remember all that is because I wasn't there... :+

[jackhammer91406]

Devon,

Were you at a circuit party instead?

 

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[bigguyinpasadena]

Dearest Uncle Bill,there are a couple of sites I visit that are sexworker forums(supposed to be restricted-but because I help these kids out,,,,)And a legal forum for sexworkers.Lots of red flafes going up lately.

[+ Axiom2001]

The many (wholesome looking) boys on Polk St. sort of disappeared and evaporated when this street died some seven or more years ago. As far as Santa Monica goes, my LA friends discussed the same thing when they drove me to a special event last March. Hunting and being hunted were sizzlingly easy prior to 1984.

 

I, at times, yearn for those days and the ones prior to them, for I did not really exceed or fulfill my sexual appetite although I have innumerable opportunities to have done so! Perhaps I am better for being reserved!

[Huey]

I sure remember the time when Santa Monica Blvd. was loaded with long hair, twinks ... all having fun, making money, partying all night ... then ending the excitement at Arthur J on the corner of SMB & Highland. I remember when fees were 20 - 40 (on the very high end) for about anything one could imagine. It was a carefree time for both street boy and trick.

 

I sure remember how it all came to a screaching halt as the word about AIDS spread as fast as the virus. As the LAPD vice unit began targeting the area on a regular basis arresting pretty much everybody that seemed to be enjoying themselves. I remember how only the desperate remained on the streets and the twinks faded away.

 

I sure remember the happy times with some reservation. Too many throwaways with no place to live ... too many too young runaways just looking to survive and too many boys who headed to Hollywood to become stars only to become hustlers. Survival sex workers were the saddest of the lot.

 

I sure remember the good old days. Like any era, trend, movement the bad was overtaken by all the good ... it was a fun time, that I miss every single day of my life .

[Guest fukamarine]

>The big change I've read about is confiscating and selling cars that >johns use in soliciting.

 

I've heard about this too and it really pisses me of if it is true.

 

Would they confiscate and sell a 50K Lexus or a 200K Rolls just as quickly as a junker?

 

If so, than that is the same as fineing them the value of their car

which means a lesser fine for poor folks and a whopping big one for the rich. Where is the equality in that?

 

And what about the poor slob who needs his car to earn his living, or even needs it to get to work - which must be about everyone in LA.

 

I also find it hard to believe that some of the rich LA residents wouldn't raise bloody hell and sue the city for what is nothing but legalized robbery.

 

If there is a law against soliciting - and I'm sure there is - OK, arrest the guy, haul his ass into court and fine him a 1000 bucks or whatever. But there is no rational reason to steal his car. Imagine making payments on a car you no longer have!!!!

 

You guys better hope Asscroft doesn't get wind of this. She would think it's a great idea and instigate the practice all over the land.

 

Am I ever glad I live north of the border!

 

fukamarine

[+ Lucky]

Yup, I was nostalgic this morning after reading the street hustlers forum. Sure there was a downside to it all, as we particularly know in retrospect. Somehow though it was a very innocent age that I don't think we will see again. And it was fun.

Still nostalgic!

[bigguyinpasadena]

Just returned from running errands in town,took a drive down SM blvd.One working boy-and one only was being questioned by a b&w,there were no other pedestrians from Highland to La brea.On a Friday night!

[Guest DevonSFescort]

Not that I can remember.

[+ Axiom2001]

I don't believe in plagarism, but you wrote what was precisely on my mind but was not expressed by me. You wrote succinctly as well as eloquently! Thanks, for I truly enjoyed reading the ideas which reflected not only Santa Monica or Sunset Blvd., but Polk Street in the North.