LA1980 is built around an observation. Sunset Junction Street Fair, July 20, 2007. Heat was shimmering off the asphalt in the early twilight. The lines were packed tight, funneling towards the chain-link turnstiles. Once in, next to every other gay guy, tattooed hipster dudes, yoga-mommies, Echo Park bohos, blowsy all-day drinkers, long-in-the-tooth rockers, and bored LAPD cops; were young women who’d come through the worm-hole in time from 1978. Willowy, long hair parted in the middle, and open-faced. Their eyes had never seen an iPod.
This book shows where they came from.