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Let
The Good Times Roll by John Newlon
Cruisin'
For a Bruisin': Riding in Hot Cars, Getting in Fights in 1959
South Bay
By Sandy Cohen DAILY BREEZE
Hamburgers were 15 cents. Cars were American. World War II veterans could buy houses in Torrance for a dollar down.
It was 1959. Dairies lined Hawthorne Boulevard, Artesia was a two-lane road and North High School was new.
John Newlon was a senior at North High, one of dozens of guys who belonged to a rowdy car club called The Greek Gods. Mostly they were a social group, on a perennial hunt for booze, parties and girls. They'd ditch school, drink cheap wine and brawl with guys from rival clubs.
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