User talk:Harold Dean

I have just recently ran across this Wikipedia article and as a former resident of the Antelope Valley from 1980 to 1991, it is with distress that I again find all of the attention devoted to Palmdale!! I lived for eleven years in a beautiful little community called Quartz Hill. During this period of time as we frantically tried to incorporate and was repeatedly turned down by the biased supervisors of LA County because we didn't have sufficient tax base to provide the services of a community while at the same time they were working underhanded deals to hand over the area south of us that had commonly been identified as being part of Quartz Hill to the large developers to build the RAncho Vista subdivision. Had they allowed us to incorporate this would have been sufficient taxbase since it was at my last visit in 2003 larger than Quartz Hill. I needed to get this off my chest as during my time there, I saw our beautiful little city get handed a raw deal by LA County on numerous occasions like the new prison and the public housing which theythen filled with residents from down in Los Angeles to allow them to be close their relatives incarcerated in the new prison and not allowing any low income resident of Quartz Hill to even apply for this subsidized housing. When I first moved there my daughters could ride their horses down 50th street West without fear or harassment. By the time I left in 91, you needed a tank to drive down 50th West. Also before the influx from down below, we had a community bank, a grocery store and other anemities. After being robbed three times in as many consecutive months, the bank closed and shortly thereafter, the grocery store closed. I have traveled the length and breadth of the Mojave desert and I really loved living in the Antelope VAlley but I must make it clear, I lived in Quartz Hill and shopped and done my other business in Lancaster. I only traveled through Palmdale to get to the Swap Meet or over to the San Bernandino area on 138. I also remember the concept fo the Antelope Valley freeway and the reluctance of the powers that be to make it three lanes in each direction, stating that the population of the Antelope Valley and the high desert would not warrant that type of vehicular travel for another hundred years. I remember when Sierra Highway and Boquet CAnyon were the major routes to the valley. I even remember when the highway was US6 before it was shortened when it ran all of the way to Santa Monica. Harold Dean