
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley (a suburb of Los Angeles) when it was still filled with orange groves and neighbors rode by on horseback. My street had no sidewalks and it was safe for us neighborhood kids to ride our bikes and explore construction sites (collecting the slug cutouts from electrical boxes) and feed the ducks at the unfenced lake at the historical Encino Adobe.
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