The History of Hawthorne California

A short history of the town of Hawthorne, California

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Education

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• Hawthorne
• California
• history
• Cougartown

[kingz9916]

Chefbard: Kiddieland was on Beverly Blvd near Hollywood.

[jerrymiles]

@kingz9916

There was one in Hawthorne too. It was on the west side of Hawthorne Blvd. just south of Imperial Ave.

[wave60]

I'm 50 and just the other day I visited my childhood home on Kornblum Ave. Our family moved south to San Diego in 1965 and seeing our little home brought back memories. I remember a park with life size models of jets back in the day. I wonder if it's still there.?

[jerrymiles]

@wave60

The park is still there (Hawthorne Memorial Park) but the plane is long gone.

[chefbard]

what was the name of the amusment park on 116th and Hawthorne? someone said Kiddieland but I think it was a persons name

[jerrymiles]

@chefbard

That would be Rockwell Kiddieland.

[link101mario]

i would kill to live back in the day when hawthorne looked like it was great city. Now its broken down full of gangs and unsafe

[rapkid69]

i cant picture hawthorne like this

all i see is gangs an tagging an shit like that

but its my home an i cant realy ask 4 it any other way

[SHOOTDAZOMBIE]

@wave60 I live on Kornblum ave. =D

It's really peaceful here

[Jocol85]

@666Navarrete666 Really guy?

[jessaminnn]

Ive lived here since i started grade school i had my childhood here now i have my own baby sad to say even though i had a good child hood in hawthorne i do not want my baby raised in this city not because the city itself but because the people that have come to ruin it it has changed 4 the worst and its not getting any better but i will always love hawthorne

[michaelacwron]

I grew up in Hawthorne and lived on 119th Street. The San Diego Freeway finally took our house in the early sixties and I haven't been back since.

I went to Juan de Anza Elementary school and Jose Sepulveda. My last year was at R.H. Dana in the 7th grade. Gosh I miss the old days.

[SIXPACK110]

Thanks for the video! I was born there in 68 and grew up in Manhattan Beach.The Beach Boys played at my dads high school dance (Costa) beforethey were famous!

[sk84sk]

13 yrs old ive been livin in hawathorne since i was 5 and i love it went to Kornblum Elementary and now Prarie vista middle school , love my city but dang it changed alotttt

[angie31279]

I was born in that Hawthorne Hospital in "79". It's a good city, Hawthorne just looks better as you go down hawthorne bl. torwards Lawndale, torrance ect.

[shamWTF]

i lived in hawthorne for 11 years and moved. I dont miss much of it, but the dirty skate park is tight

[Blahblobify]

@magog77

More than sad, it's frightening. I'm from this area, born in '52, and left it 77. Los Angeles is nothing like it was in the 50's & 60's, it is now a crime infested crap hole, and that is the new face of America. WE OWE THIS TO THE IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL THAT TED KENNEDY PUSHED THROUH IN 1965 THAT REMOVED THE RACIAL QUOTA SYSTEM.

[magog77]

While watching very well done history of your town (I have never been to CA), I noticed a striking similarity to what happened to my town, Detroit. They built six freeways like spokes of a wheel that all ended downtown and destroyed many neighborhoods in the process. Those that had the means moved to the suburbs and the poor, regardless of race remained. Except for about a 3 mile radius around downtown proper, my town is a wasteland. Sad.