Pic by Terry Worthington from the official Rigs of Huntington Flickr page
The beautifully detailed Second Life recreation of old Huntington Beach inspired this apparently real, very 60s-flavored revery* by reader Luther Weymann:
Wow. 424 12st Street, Huntington Beach. 1967. Climbing on the rocking horse oil pumps and riding them like the bulls in the bar while on acid. Good times. Traded a quart of reds for a bag of weed window to window while driving on the 405 with no one we knew. Doing a joint in the back of Mystic Arts World in Laguna then going next door to Taco Bell. Yumm. And the surf at the pier? All my buds had buds in bags on our boards. Angelo answered the knock at the open front screen door while I was breaking down a key into baggies on the living room floor and he turns his head and says this officer won't arrest us if we'll give him some buds. Cost me 4 bags and some rolling papers to get out of that mess... And yeah there was a three day round trip drive to Monterey Pop in the VW van.
I'm telling you youth is wasted. Oh there is the "on the young part" but I'll just leave it at "youth is wasted".
Memories of Huntington. Thanks.
Notably, the Rigs of Huntington was created by a Frenchwoman (Jade Koltai) who has never visited the beach in real life, working only from archival photos. But the virtual world recreation of a real historical location was still vivid enough to inspire genuine nostalgia for a place long since changed.
*With minor edits of Mr. Weymann's comment by the editor.
Thanks for the post. I left out many funny stories including the son of the town's mayor who was paying us rent to live in our rough garage along the back alley in Huntington who stole 100% of everything Angelo and I owned in the house while we were gone and then a month later asked us if he could move back, and when we let him he setup all our stolen stuff in the garage. How high do you have to be to do that? We were kids who did stupid stuff, now 52 years later none of our youthful personalities survived, only the memories.
Posted by: Luther Weymann | Monday, October 28, 2019 at 06:44 PM