Another great episode. Thank you for sharing!!

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Thank you for watching and commenting! It really helps me to promote the videos, I appreciate you!!!!

I milked cows @ the Sam Marcus Dairy on Alondra & Garfield in the '70's! Grew up there in Paramount on that dairy, best memories ever!

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8 ай бұрын

Wow, that's awesome, thank you for sharing that. I don't think I'd ever heard of the Sam Marcus dairy.

My grandfather was Garett Van Rys. He was a dairy farmer in Paramount. I don't know a lot about him, but thank you for a little bit of history

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13 күн бұрын

You're welcome!! Your grandfather was part of a very important period of history in Paramount; dairies are what made the city!

Back in the late 50s and early 60s I lived in South Gate on Imperial near Garfield. If you went North on Garfield a ways toward Stewart and Gray Road, there was a large field or vacant lot where sewer and storm drain pipes were kept. At the far end there was an area where dairy cattle were kept behind a low wooden fence. You could walk by and pet the cattle at their feeding troughs. On the north side of Stewart and Gray Road was the Rockview Dairy, which also had a retail outlet.

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Wow!! Thank you for sharing that! I can picture driving down those streets today, put can’t even begin to imagine the fields and cows around them.

Great job bro. Great vid

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Thank you brotha! Always appreciate you! 🙌🏽

my uncle moved to Paramount in the 60s from Kingston Texas. That's how we ended up in Paramount in the late 70s. In the mid 80s, I would work summers at the Paramount swapmeet from 6:00AM-6:00 PM for $15 bucks for the day.

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2 ай бұрын

I’ve heard it said that the swap meet as we know it today started in Paramount. How was it working there?

Pls upload more unknown California history videos

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8 ай бұрын

Definitely will! Stay tuned!

I'm guessing we drove by there when I was a kid. I recall us driving in the late evening thru some rural area of LA I never saw before and seeing a lot of cows and especially the overwhelming stench of manure. Now I what and where it was.

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9 ай бұрын

Yes, you probably drove through the Paramount/Bellfower area. They actually still had cows there up until the 1970s or 80s if I'm remembering correctly. It was the last dairy left in the area and they ended up moving to Chino.

Interesting, next time when I’m around the neighborhood I’ll check out civic center and find out the upcoming farmers festivities.

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8 ай бұрын

Yes, please do! They’re also working on opening a museum right next to the Hay Tree.

Long gone the days of agrarian societies. Factory farm raised animals . My grandfather would tell me stories about Monrovia and Duarte and all the citrus 🍊 groves .

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7 ай бұрын

I wish I could go back and see the old dairies and citrus fields. It’s hard to picture how massive they were from old photos.