My mom found out and wasn't very happy with dad at the time, besides it ruined my cordaroy white flight out fit my aunt laura bought me. When ever I fly into compton airport I can still remember the yellow piper cub my dad would give me a ride in and the resturant at the airport and the malts and burgers and french fries!!!I got my first plane ride there in 1952 ,i was 6.5 mo's old in my dad's inland sport ,it was a open cockpit high wing plane and is now in kanases city. I can still remember the guard gates at each end of our street for a while untill the aacu said that it was illegal to have a gated aera in compton. i can remember sneeking out of class and going either to my dad's shop or the airport ,because I was so into planes.I remember twin girl's too, jane & june, their dad was a foot ball player ,and I think he died very young. my dad had a auto shop there from 1948 to 1959. It was a little bit scary after the Watts riots but until that time it was a nice place to live and even after that, we were still able to walk around.Hi, every one, I use to live in compton ca, born there at los campanas hospital near compton airport. then and my mother told stories of quality schools in the city. I have many great memories and friends and good times growing up in the city of Compton also known as the Hub city. My parents stayed in Compton until 1977 or 78 as the city bought their property to put in the Compton City Mall-I don't know if that ever happened. Another special treat was to be able to go to Jerry's BBQ on Long Beach Blvd. All of my brothers and sisters and myself went to OLV. My father came to Compton in 1929, lived through the Compton City earthquake went away to the Marines and came back and decided Compton would be a good place to raise a family. We always walked past the Heritage House. As a special treat sometimes we got doughnuts at the Compton City Bakery also on Willowbrook or we took trips to the library near city hall. Sometimes she would take my brother and myself to the old Pacific Electric which ran on Willowbrook to Long Beach. I remember hearing about things like Tinytown, but one of my favorite things to do was to walk to downtown Compton with my mother and go shopping in the downtown area. We then moved to Laurel and lived in an old Craftsman style house that was built in 1918. When I was really small we lived in a house on Spruce St. My older sisters tell stories of "covenant's" which restricted people from buying or selling property to black people. I had a great many brothers and sisters as I was the last of 10 children, but their memories of growing up in Compton were quite different than mine. We walked all over the city and Compton really didn't get "rough" until much, much later. I went to grammar school with whites, blacks and people of Hispanic decent as well well as Filipinos etc. There were so many great things about living in Compton and during the time that I lived there, Compton was pretty well integrated. I went to grammar school at Our Lady of Victory on Palmer. I was born in Las Campanas hospital Compton in 1954 and was raised in a house on Laurel St. Best place for info may be the libraries of the school system. So much discourse between the diverse student population, which was a refection of the families of that day. That was the beginning of the end of White residents in Compton. Blacks and Hispanics were bused to Dominguez from the West side of Compton to desegregate the schools after the Civil Rights Legislation. Dominguez High was still about 60% white in the late 60 s, maybe more. Don Manuel Dominguez was a Spanish land baron long before the city became heavily populated by Blacks. There's a reason the newest of the three high schools inĬompton was named Manuel Dominguez High. Any body know when Compton became predominately Black and then Latino? Is there a good hisstory of the city? and how about a good history of the post war suburbanization of the whole region? Thanks, LAQUESTS. The way Los Angeles city and county developed is truly fascinating. I recently read "My Blue Heaven" a history of Southgate and also DJ Waldies "Hply Land" his memories of growing up in Lakewood. I recently came across a l959 Compton High School yearbook (the El Companile) and was shocked to see that of the 450 or so senior pictures about 63% were white, only 20% black and the rest Latino.
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