I remember articles like the one that Will O' Wisp posted, back when I was a teen. In 1985, aside from the Nightstalker/Richard Ramirez serial killings, Los Angeles and SoCal were still kind of basking in the afterglow of the very successful 1984 Summer Olympics, not only logistically successful, but the most profitable Olympics at the time (and even since?), and things were actually very optimistic around here. Yes, there were gang killings, but in 1985, they still tended to stay in their own neighborhoods. We had a strong manufacturing base, the aerospace industry, big trade with the Pacific Rim, especially with Japan. And of course Japan in the 1980s was considered a big economic miracle/Wunderkind.
So I can see why these kinds of predictions about LA would have been made back in the mid-1980s.
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