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The Worst Thing About My City: Anaheim

Heh.

From MSN City Guides:

"Anaheim: Downtown Anaheim
Just a mile and a half from Disneyland, downtown Anaheim should have thrived these past 50 years just from people getting lost and ending up there on the way to and from the park. If only 3 percent of the park’s estimated 14 million yearly visitors somehow stumbled into the central city, more than a thousand people a day would pass the businesses at Broadway and Harbor. And what are those? Two tall bank towers, the public library and a Carl’s Jr. restaurant that looks like it was built during the Kennedy administration and hasn't been remodeled since. The nearby Center Street Promenade offers a few more options—including a small jewelry store and a couple of cafes—but you couldn't spend an afternoon there."

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Anahiem Sucks

Cops suck...my job sucks...it all sucks...

You can keep the PIZZA just leave me the CUST!!

by Amnesiac727 on Jun 5, 2007 12:52 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Damn, and you have to find that out every day.

What, about 727 times now?  Why don't you apply for a job as an Anaheim cop?  Trifecta!

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jun 5, 2007 2:23 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

barf!

...seriously

You can keep the PIZZA just leave me the CUST!!

by Amnesiac727 on Jun 5, 2007 5:11 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

To pile it on...

...you could then moonlight as a rent-a-cop at Angel Stadium!

by PositionPlayerProd on Jun 5, 2007 7:45 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

have you ever been to an Angels game?

They have the entire police department direct traffic out of the stadium after every single game. Meanwhile an old lady is being held up at gun point at the other end of town.

You can keep the PIZZA just leave me the CUST!!

by Amnesiac727 on Jun 5, 2007 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I have been to a game once, in '02...

...and all I can remember, aside from the A's losing, was the female cheering squad (at least I think that's what they were) that would've be more at home in Miami or even Chavez Ravine.

by PositionPlayerProd on Jun 5, 2007 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Anaheim is a turd hole

The only thing of worth in Anaheim is Disneyland, and the dumb ass city is fighting them also!

When they improve transporter technology, can we beam Disneyland up and place it right next to Cisco Field? We would treat that place so much better than those animals would.

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 5, 2007 1:22 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

dude... that's the original Carl's Jr...

not the original building, but the original site, with a building from the 50's.  

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."- former A's pitcher Satchel Paige

by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Jun 5, 2007 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

My first thought on reading this diary was...

Anaheim has a downtown?  I've been there at least two dozen times and I never noticed it.  Now I see why he's pissed.

"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer

by alox on Jun 5, 2007 2:25 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Don't forget Curt Pringle, the current mayor

and the man who hired private security guards to intimidate Latino voters at the poles.  .

Anaheim is so bad that Disneyland spent millions of dollars to re-construct the 5 freeway maze so that cars could just drive straight into Disneyland and back out, without ever having to see the city.  Oh, yeah: and the Angels play there.  

Larry Davis's sigline: Fat Wank Suturist ~monkeyball

by LAXile on Jun 5, 2007 9:13 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

What a dillhole.
"If I'm an 8 or a 5 on a scale of 1-10, what is Eric Chavez?"-Drunk guy. "A 15" his seat neighbor.

by mlleaimee on Jun 5, 2007 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The Reason That Anaheim Sucks.....

Is because the place has been run by anti-urban planning, John Birch society, right-wing wackos for the past 60 years. My grandmother lived and died there and I used to go all the time and hear all these seniors scream bloody murder about the government and socialized medicine for poor people and then in almost the same breath they would scream bloody murder about cuts to medicare. When you are looking at folks like this as your town elders, it never portends good things as these are the people that vote and helped turn Anaheim, and most of Orange County into the cultural wasteland that it is. It's too bad, because the place was actually founded by German and Polish proto-hippies in the 19th Century looking for a good climate for their free-love utopia. Instead it was overrun by people from the Midwest and South in the 1940's and became a bastion of right wing mentality.

by may7 on Jun 5, 2007 10:30 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Don't know about the free love

but it was a German immigrant-based group that started  the city.

The idea was that every family would be a farming family, self-sufficient in food (bring a cow and some chickens) and sell their surplus to create cash.  Land was carefully mapped out in large parcels (but no 160 acres farms, more like 10 acres?)

...and still, everyone in Anaheim grows their own food, don't they...

..don't they????

Rename Fremont, CA, to Philadelphia, CA, and avoid the unnecessary headscratching!

by One won lost won on Jun 5, 2007 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

didn't anaheim produce gwen stefani???

no doubt blew and she is even worse.  yodalahee yodalahee yodalahee who?  that's what you sample for a rap tune?  lame.  uber stupid dumb.  

"The only way I'm going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint." - Reggie Jackson

by burnone on Jun 5, 2007 10:54 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

The Ducks could do better

Shame on you Anaheim.

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by Hit4TheCycle on Jun 5, 2007 11:17 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

This is fun! We should have a DAD:

Daily Anaheim Dump.  FUN!

Larry Davis's sigline: Fat Wank Suturist ~monkeyball

by LAXile on Jun 5, 2007 1:45 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

At least

Seattle is a fun, beautiful city,
Dallas has warm people and good food,
and we all know Oakland has hard-working people who are the best fans in the world...

but what does that sinkhole, Anaheim have?

Think about it this way:

If the United States was a person, the "happy spot" would be Disneyland. What's directly next to the "happiest parts on earth"?

Anaheim is Brown Town.

We're all adults here and I calls 'em like I sees 'em.

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 5, 2007 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Anaheim is the brown town...

but the best fans are St. Louis fans.  We can learn a lot from them.

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."- former A's pitcher Satchel Paige

by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Jun 5, 2007 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I still say we're the best fan group

Don't sell yourself short, homey.

And yes, the train from brown town always gets flushed in the end.

BEAT ANALHEIM!

Green Hulk Fists

by oaklandSMASH on Jun 5, 2007 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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