In the future, there will be references to "The Hill."
This is what's left of it thanks to urban sprawl....
View Larger Map (You'll have to click in a few to see it. For the uninitiated, it's the big brown space in the middle of the houses. In the larger view, almost directly north, one can see the location known as UTK (more later.) Continuing north is White Wash, and eventually, Alan's house.
Back in the 70s, the area around the hill was all open mesa. Granted, it was a dumping ground/race-track/party grounds, but it was our dumping ground/race-track/party grounds.
Here is a Google Earth Street-Level Shot..
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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The Hill. How can only one man begin to sum what is the Hill? Cast a deaf ear to any fool who would suggest that they alone are all-knowing of the HILL. Only one creature alive on this planet has all knowledge of the Hill and it's history....."THE BUNNY!"
ReplyDeleteGod... That reminds me of the time we were hanging out there at the HILL(Summer of 79) to avoid a party of Brian Rogers. Those two guys and the chick showed up and started talking to us. I started telling them about how I wanted to be standing in the bed of a truck with golf cleats on and when the rabbits came buy I'd jump out on them and jump up and down and.... Jeeze. I was a sick fuck. I think they eventually left. Or we did.
ReplyDeleteI guess we ended up at Rogers' house. I think that was the night that me and whoever Blane's woman was at that time (Joanie?) were sneaking around the house secretly tape-recording people's conversations. Or maybe it was Brian's woman.
This is when I was heavy into Darvon and Hurricanes.
Also note that the HILL was the real transitioning ground between the Moonpie Alliance into the Stormtrooper Cartel.
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The trio that you speak of. I remeber he told us the story about him and his uncle fishing. They put the 12' jon boat in the water and the uncle said, "don't let go of the rope while I go lock the stationwagon." When the uncle returned, he found the jon boat completely submerged with a rope disappearing into the water. "what the fuck," the uncle sreamed, " we forgot to put the plug in the boat. The moron answered, "YEP, but I didn't let go of the rope!" HAR, har, har....Thats about the time I just walked away.
ReplyDeleteHoly hell, yes! That was them. I'd forgotten that part. That was great.
ReplyDeleteGlad to help when possible.
ReplyDeleteThe hill was also the scene of the most dramatic driving ever witnessed. Jones came flying past with a Albuquerque police car on his tail. We watched, almost like watching in an arena with the panoramic view, this driving spectical unfold. We watched for a good ten minutes until they drove outta sight and the night went dark. One hour later, a figure comes out of the darkness toward the campfire, it's Eskew! We all told him about Jones and he said, "no shit! I was in there with him!" We had not even seen Eskew in there when Jones flew by. long story short, Cops surrounded Jim with guns drawn and arrested him. When Eskew asked the police, "what about me?" They just said, "start walking." And so he did, all the way back to the hill.
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