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This is Vasquez Rocks Park way out in the middle of nowhere between North Los Angeles and Palmdale. Despite being very closet to a majorly overcrowded city, these wild lands are as pristine and inaccessible as you please. The rocks are named for bandito Tiburcio Vasquez , that son-of-the-mayor have-a-baby-with-your-11 year old-niece robin hood of California, minus the give to the poor bit, but I’ve talked about him before. He got around, and was hung for murder in San Jose in 1875. You’d never guess that the dude in the bio picture is like…28…
Anyways Vasquez rocks: If you think you’ve seen this place before….well, you probably have! it’s a particularly good spot to have a slow-motion fight with the lizard men who live in the tunnels under Hollywood: what? lizard men don’t live in tunnels under Hollywood?! au contraire says the west coast’s paper of record : however that was in 1934, and the paper has changed ownership since the mystery-minded sensationalist Otis/Chandler family launched the paper in 1881 then lost control somewhere in the mid 1980’s. The current publisher is much less interesting Ross Levinsohn, who is (shock and surprise) from New York, and as far as I can tell does not and has possibly never lived in California. I’m sure he has several large houses here nevertheless. Current LATimes headline from today ‘How Northern California’s destructive wildfires could exacerbate the state’s housing crisis ’. How? Could? Such reporting is too wonderful for mere mortals.
Lizard people aside, there are a lot of tunnels under Los Angeles, as is the case with major cities. Here’s a fun article showing the construction of a bunch of the 1920’s ones There were electric tram lines operating even in 1934, when the article about the lost tunnels of gold came out. In the 1950’s LA held air raid drills and got everyone down into the tunnels, all the men wearing snappy suits and exceptionally loose pants, legacy of the zoot suits, and the women with the victory rolls hairstyle of the wartime.
I’ll leave you with an interesting rabbit hole to travel down that may place the original crazy lizard people story from the LA Times in a different light. The Vasquez rocks are home of a series of very interesting petroglyphs. some examples: These show the traditional ‘squatting man’ type and ‘duck headed man’ and ‘9 rung ladder’ common to North American Indians….and also European Neolithics… In fact, these particular designs of petroglyphs occur all over the world, and here’s the real kicker, grouped by latitude. Here’s former Lawrence Livermore labs high energy density nuclear physics expert Anthony Peratt talking about his extremely interesting research cataloguing 50,000 petroglyphs across the world: and if IEEE, plasma experiments and electromagnetism isn’t the thing for your Wednesday…
…you can always read a comic book

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This is Vasquez Rocks Park way out in the middle of nowhere between North Los Angeles and Palmdale. Despite being very closet to a majorly overcrowded city, these wild lands are as pristine and inaccessible as you please. The rocks are named for bandito Tiburcio Vasquez , that son-of-the-mayor have-a-baby-with-your-11 year old-niece robin hood of California, minus the give to the poor bit, but I’ve talked about him before. He got around, and was hung for murder in San Jose in 1875. You’d never guess that the dude in the bio picture is like…28…
Anyways Vasquez rocks: If you think you’ve seen this place before….well, you probably have! it’s a particularly good spot to have a slow-motion fight with the lizard men who live in the tunnels under Hollywood: what? lizard men don’t live in tunnels under Hollywood?! au contraire says the west coast’s paper of record : however that was in 1934, and the paper has changed ownership since the mystery-minded sensationalist Otis/Chandler family launched the paper in 1881 then lost control somewhere in the mid 1980’s. The current publisher is much less interesting Ross Levinsohn, who is (shock and surprise) from New York, and as far as I can tell does not and has possibly never lived in California. I’m sure he has several large houses here nevertheless. Current LATimes headline from today ‘How Northern California’s destructive wildfires could exacerbate the state’s housing crisis ’. How? Could? Such reporting is too wonderful for mere mortals.
Lizard people aside, there are a lot of tunnels under Los Angeles, as is the case with major cities. Here’s a fun article showing the construction of a bunch of the 1920’s ones There were electric tram lines operating even in 1934, when the article about the lost tunnels of gold came out. In the 1950’s LA held air raid drills and got everyone down into the tunnels, all the men wearing snappy suits and exceptionally loose pants, legacy of the zoot suits, and the women with the victory rolls hairstyle of the wartime.
I’ll leave you with an interesting rabbit hole to travel down that may place the original crazy lizard people story from the LA Times in a different light. The Vasquez rocks are home of a series of very interesting petroglyphs. some examples: These show the traditional ‘squatting man’ type and ‘duck headed man’ and ‘9 rung ladder’ common to North American Indians….and also European Neolithics… In fact, these particular designs of petroglyphs occur all over the world, and here’s the real kicker, grouped by latitude. Here’s former Lawrence Livermore labs high energy density nuclear physics expert Anthony Peratt talking about his extremely interesting research cataloguing 50,000 petroglyphs across the world: and if IEEE, plasma experiments and electromagnetism isn’t the thing for your Wednesday…
…you can always read a comic book