Originally Posted by
SloButWide
Left 36 years ago to go to college. Intended on returning, but life got in the way. Browsing Google Earth, it's amazing how much has changed. Buddies and I used to cruise Austin Parkway before it opened - great to have it all to ourselves. I wouldn't have bike commuted back then - we lived on the Northside up in the foothills.
My in-laws moved here in 1963 and they tell me all the stories about how Fillmore was a dirt road and so on and so forth. For me personally my first summer here 25 years ago I rode with the bike club of Powers Boulevard and it was one lane each Direction in a couple of sections. Now it's three lanes each Direction and not bike-friendly at all. My father-in-law was stationed at Ent Force Base which closed and became the Olympic Training Center where both my wife and my daughter have worked.