East Palo Alto: Life on the other side of Silicon Valley's tracks

[Smiley650Agony]

East Palo Alto: Life on the other side of Silicon Valley's tracks - CNET


found this today, thought it was a good read

 

[OuijaBoard]

EPA is no joke! my friend was from there..
said they would just drop off bodies in front of the police station !

Not sure if it's still as grimy now.but in the 90s people would say.. don't drive thru EPA lat at night..
cause the bullets just fly all over.. ha ha ha ah ah ah ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !

 

[Chapo Guzman v2]

EPA folks are getting moved out by the tech workers who are looking for a cheaper place to live than WPA.

 

[Smiley650Agony]

EPA is no joke! my friend was from there..
said they would just drop off bodies in front of the police station !

Not sure if it's still as grimy now.but in the 90s people would say.. don't drive thru EPA lat at night..
cause the bullets just fly all over.. ha ha ha ah ah ah ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !

my pops told me about that. when they first opened the police station they dropped a body on the steps

 

[OuijaBoard]

Dammm.. so that was a true story! ha ah ah aha ah aha haaaaaaaaaaa
All this time i thought my friend was just trying to scare me..

 

[OuijaBoard]

Dammm.. so that was a true story! ha ah ah aha ah aha haaaaaaaaaaa
All this time i thought my friend was just trying to scare me..

 

[Chapo Guzman v2]

EPA was the murder capital of the U.S. at one point in the 90's so that's not so far-fetched. In Mexico they hang them from bridges and cut their heads off and lay them on the roadside.

 

[Smiley650Agony]

yea shit was pretty bad back then. They knocked the drug spots down, built a big ass four seasons and in another part of the city they built an Ikea lol

My pops went to Juarez to fix my grandmas papers and he was talking about theres a night cerfew, if its dark you cant walk outside. Talking about they threw a grenade in a cop car the first night they were there

 

[Chapo Guzman v2]

I always forget that's still EPA. You basically gotta go past that first light as you're going west on University ave lol. That 7 Eleven is sketchy too.

Yeah Juarez is like one of the most disputed territories in Mexico. All these cartels beef it with eachother and then eventually ally with eachother then beef it again.. never-ending vicious cycle.

 

[Fruitvale_Mac]

yea shit was pretty bad back then. They knocked the drug spots down, built a big ass four seasons and in another part of the city they built an Ikea lol

Yup Whiskey Gulch used to be maney before they knocked it down

I used to be out that way a lot. EPA started changing back in the early 2000's though, tech offices started moving near the Dumbarton and real estate investors bought up a lot of the land around University, Stanford students looking for cheap housing took over the new housing they built on the other side of the Best Buy. Over The Ramp gentrified too although some of those apartments are still shady.

 

[Smiley650Agony]

Yup Whiskey Gulch used to be maney before they knocked it down

I used to be out that way a lot. EPA started changing back in the early 2000's though, tech offices started moving near the Dumbarton and real estate investors bought up a lot of the land around University, Stanford students looking for cheap housing took over the new housing they built on the other side of the Best Buy. Over The Ramp gentrified too although some of those apartments are still shady.

Yea, I remember that shit. I used to go to the blockbuster there and the big ass mexican supermarket store too.

Shit if you drive down willow up towards Facebook, you can tell right away how gentrified it is. On the Menlo Park side you got brand new bad ass apartments (Im sure they run for more than 2500 each) and you got busted ass EPA homes on the right lol Im sure facebook is gonna run this city in between 5 years. Shit in the 3 years Ive been working at facebook they built about 5 big ass buildings and still building more in EPA