Some memories were real and some just recollections of other representations – like seeing the observatory in Bowfinger and wondering if I was remembering Rebel Without a Cause or a second grade field trip. It was as though fragments of my life had been archived for me in media space. I could look for a familiar stretch of road, a bit of the skyline, or a clean but otherwise familiar segment of sidewalk, and it didn’t even matter who, what, where, or why was taking place in the story on screen. that I realized my homesickness could often be softened by a click of the remote. All my life, I lived with a foot in each L.A., the one that’s outside my living room and the one that’s inside my living room, oblivious to the fact that I lived in a famous city.
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And on April 29, 1992, the corner of Florence and Normandie “blew up” into a full blown riot, sparked by the acquittal of the four white officers who beat black motorist, Rodney King. Even marginalized localities like Inglewood, Compton, and East L.A., which especially during the 1980s and early 1990s were being ravaged by urban warfare, got to be the stars of movies, songs, and many music videos. River to the Griffith Park Observatory, from the Hollywood Sign to Venice Beach, the places I had been in, through, and around were inscribed with meanings in ways that I could never fully grasp. In high school, it never seemed strange that the Peach Pit on Beverly Hills 90210 was the same as the Rose City Diner. When I was five, I remember being secretly bummed that my mom never took us to the disco-classical mural from Xanadu, which I was convinced had to be hidden somewhere in Venice Beach. It used to seem perfectly reasonable that the freeways on CHiPs looked just like the ones I rode to school. But further run-ins with the law ensued, and Ramos/Chaka last appeared in the pages of the Los Angeles Times in October 1998, when he was sentenced to 15 months in jail for stealing three pairs of Nike shoes from a Mervyn’s department store, violating his probation on previous offenses.Landing in the Midwest after a lifetime in Los Angeles, I was shocked to learn how “famous” that great city really is. By the mid-1990s he claimed he’d found religion and tried to translate his creative drive to legit wall murals (right). shift, armed with black and silver spray paint - seven cans hidden in a backpack. His MO, according to an account he gave police, was to work an 11 p.m.-to-5 a.m. Ramos, who took his spray name from a furry character on the mid-1970s fantasy television series, ‘Land of the Lost,’ had been pinched plenty of times before as a juvenile, but having reached the age of majority he was sentenced to three years’ probation and 1,560 hours of graffiti-cleanup duty. The authorities alleged that the wispily built kid who grew up in the Aliso Village project had left his mark in more than 10,000 places, resulting in more than $500,000 in property damage. Ramos was 18 when police caught him pen-handed in November 1990, using a marker to scrawl ‘Chaka’ on a traffic light pole in Lincoln Heights.
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