Comments on Bad kids, Delridge

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I think you've got East and West bass-ackwards here.

Beacon Hill and Cleveland High School are east of West Seattle and Delridge Way. That makes your directional references reversed.

Kinda missed the point on this thread. I know a woman who volunteers at the Delridge Community Center in the evenings and when the appropriate staff is not around (or not paying attention), that area can get overrun by gangsters and wannabes pretty quickly.

Ack. Sorry. I still have to look at my hands to tell left from right.

Yeah, this used to be a rough area of town.

All the rumors were true: razor blades in pom poms during games (cutcha), stogies the size of cigars, baseball bats (beatcha), stay out of our turf.

The locals ruled. Kids, looking for an identity. People got hurt, but the smart ones learned to stay out of trouble.

And then we grew up ... wheat from chaff, those that survived went on to other areas. Big families fanned out like dandelion seeds. Most of us never looked back, until years later.

I will always wear the hood in my heart.