Now that cops are reluctant to enforce

[AzRednek]

His biggest culture shock I heard second hand from my X as she was told by his wife. When they arrived in the USA they lived several weeks in officer’s quarters at Luke AFB. Later they were moved to an off base apartment with enlisted. When they were moved he was ordered to no longer wear his uniform. While on base he was saluted and treated with respect. Off base he overheard the Airman calling him Colonel gook. If I recall correctly there was a problem at the Luke grocery store when he arrived in civilian clothes. I think he may have lost his PX privileges. 
 

I know real good about the stench from cooking. There was an old strip mall I delivered mail to a couple times a week. It was mostly small retail shops and offices for contractors and the like. It was a low rent 1950’s construction and had the old way of having their mail delivered inside the business. Right in the middle somebody opened a Mexican restaurant. It didn’t have air conditioning just the old evap coolers. The steamy stench was unbearable, felt like it stuck to my clothes and turned my stomach. I don’t know what they were eating in there. Everybody was eating what looked like a thick soup and tortillas. I was relieved when the regular carrier, a green carded Philipina told me they were closed by the health dept and city. They didn’t have a business license or health dept certificate. I cracked up when you mentioned horse hooves. It wouldn’t have surprised me if that was what was on the menu. The shop right before was a Mexican saddlery and leather shop that had a pleasant smelling odor and the shop after made and sold leather biker clothes that smelled of burned Marijuana. I’ve always wondered if the restaurant wasn’t cooking left over leather cut to close to the arsehole. 

[Dr.Hess]

There's a The Grand Tour episode on Amazon Prime where the 3 guys start out in Cambodia with boats and work their way down to Vietnam and out to sea.  It is well worth watching.  In Cambodia, after the socialist got done with them, the people were down to eating bugs.  Somehow, the taste for bugs stayed after the social democrats were finally run out after killing millions.  Anyway, watch it if you have Prime.  One guy is in a PBR replica. 

[AzRednek]

In the 70’s in an area not far from where I live. Karl you might remember Sunnyslope. Pretty much run down with plenty of 1940’s small cheaply made frame houses built for returning WW2 Vets.A lot of Vietnamese, Cambodian and some Thai refugees moved in the area. The adults were fine but the kids started forming ethnic gangs. The Cambodian teen gangs were ruthless, drive-bys and arson was common against Thai and Vietnamese families and they were forced out. I’m told the majority moved to Las Vegas.  

[karlunity]

That wont talk back should not be overlooked

You get illegals, for say construction, and pay them 25 to 50%  and H1B for half pay who only keep their visa for them and the family as long as they keep the job, so they best please the boss and they know it....it is the new slavery and no mistake  nor is it good for America as it breeds, if left un checked, a submissive people yet   angry and ready to set the land ablaze

karl

[FC]

My guess was the restaurant was cooking chitlins or menudo.

Grand Tour is the show name?

[AzRednek]

13 hours ago, The Zen Master said:

Yep, I remember - we called it Slimy Slope! There were lots of tweekers living there too.  Strange part of town was probably nice in the 60's.

I always wanted to live across I-17 from Ben Avery's!

In the 50 and early 60’s Sunnyslope was a tourist attraction. There were still wooden sidewalks, hitching posts and water troughs. Seeing a sun wrinkled prospector wearing a gun and riding into town on a mule wasn’t unusual. By the 60’s though it was most likely and actor. I had a girlfriend briefly about 66 whose father owned a camera shop there. He and some of the other merchants tried to keep the old west image alive for tourists. They paid a couple of ol’timers that looked and dressed like Gabby Hayes to wonder around or take a seat along the wooden sidewalk.
 

The town originally started as a tuberculin clinic in the late 1800’s. The area grew as others with respiratory problems migrated there for the warm dry air. Sunnyslope attempted to incorporate in the late 50’s but Phoenix annexed it to swallow up the sales tax revenue from the numerous businesses that sprang up as a result of the Post WW2 housing boom. By the late 60’s the area went to hell and most the small retail businesses were gone. Rent was cheap as the cheaply made houses were falling apart. 

I loved going there in the 50’s as a young kid to see what I thought were real cowboys and horses. I would often sneak a carrot or celery stalk to feed a horse or donkey at a hitching post. There was an actual sit down A&W Root Beer restaurant where the minors, prospectors and Deputy Sheriffs gathered late afternoon. Used to get a burger and fries served in a basket. Root Beer came in a frosted mug but Coke or Pepsi came in the bottle with a straw in it.
 

One incident will always stick in my mind. The reaction of a Deputy when my little brother about 4-5 years old. Touched then grabbed a Deputy’s holstered gun as he sat up at the front counter. Afterward it took my brother a few years to get over the fear of seeing a cop. I didn’t see it as my dad insisted I go scrub my hands after petting a horse’s snout swarming with flies. All I saw was the cop shaking a pointed finger at him. I was told the Deputy swang around rapidly, knocked my brother down and unholstered his gun.
 

The former tourist area is now a large hospital surrounded by hundreds of medical offices. The majority of my Dr visits and physical therapy is done there. Often I guess just for the hell of it I’ll return home driving through Tweaker Town to do what best described as sight seeing. Rarely do I go through without seeing a cop. Dopers passed out on sidewalks, homeless gathered under shade trees and some of the creepiest looking skin and bones whores that look like they could pass a disease by simply looking at you. 
 

Two sisters that lived in that run down area my buddies and I dated in the 60’s. We almost felt sorry for them they were so poor. They really appreciated time away from home and their drunken father. They never minded going to a buck a car dive-in movie, were both a lot of fun to cruise Central with. Myself and buds tried but we never got lucky with either. At best we could get them to drink some Ripple or Sloe Gin but never enough to get them drunk. Don’t know how the hell they did it or who foot the bill for their education but both are now Dr’s. One is a Vet, was working for a drug company, probably retired by now. The older one a DO. Last I heard about her she was teaching in an Osteopathic clinic on the Navajo Rez. I felt awful hearing she turned out fat and ugly. She was pretty as a teen, blessed with huge boobs but could be a PIA because she was always correcting everyone’s English. If my friend and I got a bit goofy from drinking she would insist, better said demand she do the driving. 
 

[AzRednek]

13 hours ago, The Zen Master said:

Yep, I remember - we called it Slimy Slope! There were lots of tweekers living there too.  Strange part of town was probably nice in the 60's.

I always wanted to live across I-17 from Ben Avery's!

BTW, the area by Avery’s Shooting Range on the east side of the freeway is growing rapidly. Nice homes and shopping centers. I’m told you’re lucky to find a house there under 250,000. The legislature prevented home building west of the freeway. A corporation with big bucks wanted to build houses near the range offering up big bucks to move the range north. The legislature designated Avery’s as a historical sight to prevent it from being sold. Zoning regs were changed in the area surrounding the range prevent residential housing being built. It is one if not the biggest shooting ranges in the world although at best only 10% is used. From what I’ve heard. The state requires an event host to purchase liability insurance. I participated in a shooting event hosted by the Sunnyslope VFW. The one day four hour event with apx 25 shooters insurance was going to cost apx $1,500. They moved it to a private range instead only costing $7.50 per shooter and participants signing a liability release. 

Avery’s was greatly expanded and was going to host the Olympic shooting events after California laws being so chicken sh!t pretty much made hosting the shooting events impossible. It took California, Orange County and Los Angeles all to get together briefly changing laws and regulations and Avery’s lost out. Sometime in the early 70’s  I attended an unofficial shooting competition there with Russian and USA shooting teams. There was another country participating but I can’t remember who. Might have been Finland but I’m not sure. As much as I hate to say it, watching the event was boring and I didn’t return after the one day. 

[Dr.Hess]

9 hours ago, FC said:

My guess was the restaurant was cooking chitlins or menudo.

Grand Tour is the show name?

The Grand Tour.  Great show.  The guys from Top Gear, one of whom got fired and the other two quit, went and started their own Prime show.  If I recall, Amazon was paying in the hundred million dollar range for the shows.  Top quality production.  Here's the one through Cambodia and Vietnam:

https://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Tour-presents-Seamen/dp/B0829F9Q2S/

 

[Dr.Hess]

I had 2 more of them damn deer in my front yard yesterday as I was putting bird seed out.  Walked to about 15 ft from one before it left.  Can't get rid of them.  I've killed 2 with a Lexus.  Rather expensive, but probably cheaper than a deer hunt in Texas.

[FC]

Yeah.. it's gotten expensive to hunt, but that might not last since people go hunting less than they used to.

[Dr.Hess]

I used to own 24 acres outside of Calvert.  Plenty of deer on it.  The 20-ish acre parcel 2 over was bought by some hunters.  They put an old used trailerhouse on it, then during deer season, they hunted until they found a fence, including on my land.  At Christmas, I noticed a cedar tree missing.  There was a Christmas tree visible in their trailer.  I went one day and found a kill zone cleared out. I went there, very well armed, opening day and up in a tree on the property right next to my property line was one of them.  I reminded him that he was not on his property, I did not want anyone hunting on mine and suggested he move on.

[spec4 e4]

Since I am traveling for a living, aka truck driver, I have been seening alot of police not doing their job out here.  They just set in their cruiser and watch people.  Scale houses just doing their thing and mostly not inspecting.  I will say that people either getting braver or more stupid trying to cut a truck off these days.  Glad I have my own dash cam in the semi.  I ran into the blonde hair cop that pull me over after I got my truck done(short story) the other day at the house, she said that they were told to step back by the captain.  And then she told me that rumors was that it came down from the governor, how true it is, I don't know.

The short story.  I mostly got my 97 F150 done from the paint, lights etc.  I was driving down Mo 58 and then I see red and blue lights.  Thinking , wtf did I do to get pull over.  So I pull into a gas station and she walk up and she told me she was glad to see me again and that she had not seen my truck driving around in  six months.  Told her I had it painted and did a few extras to it.  She then told me it look real nice and she wanted my body guy info.  I give it to her and she let me go.  She been to my house a few time because of next door.  And that's a long story.

Rob

 

[FC]

Interesting.

I figure supply and demand on hunting leases.

[AzRednek]

My former step daughter married into a huge family operated corporate farms. For years people from cities would come hunt deer on their land and they didn’t mind. Then a hunter forked it up for everybody, drove into an irrigation ditch injuring himself and passenger. Then they filed a lawsuit against the family and corporation settling for six figures. Now the family hires security and off duty cops every deer season removing the hunters. 
 

Karl I’ve heard Texas farmers and ranchers encourage and welcome feral hog hunters. The area my X came from in Illinois corn and tomato farmers especially encourage deer hunters. They lose a lot of crops the deer feed on.