Small world. My wife grew up on Karmont, a couple of blocks north of Imperial Hwy. Just west of Los Amigos golf course. She remembers watching the smoke from the Watts riots from their yard.
There's an alley that parallels Garfield in dad's old neighborhood, one or 2 house's off Garfield, and I can vividly remember going with dad to check on my grandpa during the riots and across the street the house on the alley had sandbags on the roof facing Garfield. The neighbors and my grandpa, armed, were taking turns holding watch up on that roof in case the riots made it that far. My grandpa was younger than I am now. lol
