Comments on: Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Angeles Abbey, Compton, CA, 1955 http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:05:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Bob Russell http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-248143 Bob Russell Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:11:54 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-248143 Hi Priscilla I don't know how you would post the pictures to the Abbey web site. So if it's not to much trouble for you I opened a Hotmail email account. This is my email address: bruss1913@hotmail.com Thank You, Bob Hi Priscilla

I don’t know how you would post the pictures to the Abbey web site.

So if it’s not to much trouble for you I opened a Hotmail email account.

This is my email address: bruss1913@hotmail.com

Thank You,
Bob

]]> By: Priscilla http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-248136 Priscilla Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:44:38 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-248136 well I can't copy...don't know how to post here.can someone tell how?.. well I can’t copy…don’t know how to post here.can someone tell how?..

]]> By: Bob Russell http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-248129 Bob Russell Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:28:08 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-248129 Hi Priscilla When I was last there for my Mom' interment I was told that Angeles Abbey was in receivership and had been taken over by a new owner. I could see some improvements but not much! It really hurts me that something like that could happen and the Abbey fall in such disrepair. I considered moving my family but found it difficult because it was their wishes to be there. Could you try and post your pictures. I have a problem posting my email address for all to see. I hope you can understand. Thank You Hi Priscilla When I was last there for my Mom’ interment I was told that Angeles Abbey was in receivership and had been taken over by a new owner. I could see some improvements but not much!
It really hurts me that something like that could happen and the Abbey fall in such disrepair. I considered moving my family but found it difficult because it was their wishes to be there. Could you try and post your pictures. I have a problem posting my email address for all to see. I hope you can understand.

Thank You

]]> By: Priscilla http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-248051 Priscilla Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:02:34 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-248051 Bob...Last summer I was in Compton with my sis just looking around and I took some shots of the Abbey...run down..windows broken a mess inside...by looking thru windows...I'll try to post ..if not maybe I could send to you via email? Bob…Last summer I was in Compton with my sis just looking around and I took some shots of the Abbey…run down..windows broken a mess inside…by looking thru windows…I’ll try to post ..if not maybe I could send to you via email?

]]> By: Bob Russell http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-248045 Bob Russell Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:56:03 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-248045 Do you have a recent photo? All my family is there. We were shocked when we were there five years ago. It was terrible. Have they made any progress in cleaning it up? Do you have a recent photo? All my family is there. We were shocked when we were there five years ago. It was terrible. Have they made any progress in cleaning it up?

]]> By: Priscilla http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-247760 Priscilla Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:48:37 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-247760 Got it..Do you know a Pam Grimm?...I think she went to Dominquez around that time also...Things really started to change right after we left Compton...the whole town has been demolished for one big parking lot ...plaza after plaza... Got it..Do you know a Pam Grimm?…I think she went to Dominquez around that time also…Things really started to change right after we left Compton…the whole town has been demolished for one big parking lot …plaza after plaza…

]]> By: Donna woodbury http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-247759 Donna woodbury Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:32:17 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-247759 that was supposed to say that my folks came to Compton in Jan 1928 that was supposed to say that my folks came to Compton in Jan 1928

]]> By: Donna woodbury http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-247758 Donna woodbury Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:30:22 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-247758 You are right. It was an absolutely wonderful place to grow up. I graduated from Dominguez in 1964. My Compton in Jan 1928. Dad owned a flower shop on Long Beach Blvd. just south of Compton Blvd. Then he bought the property next to the Abbey in 1949. there were no fences around it at that time. they put up some fences in the 60's. But by then, we had stopped playing there. Most all my aunts, uncles on both sides of the family came to Compton to get away from the Idaho weather. We loved that town. It was extremely hard to leave. You are right. It was an absolutely wonderful place to grow up. I graduated from Dominguez in 1964. My Compton in Jan 1928. Dad owned a flower shop on Long Beach Blvd. just south of Compton Blvd. Then he bought the property next to the Abbey in 1949. there were no fences around it at that time. they put up some fences in the 60′s. But by then, we had stopped playing there. Most all my aunts, uncles on both sides of the family came to Compton to get away from the Idaho weather. We loved that town. It was extremely hard to leave.

]]> By: Priscilla http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-247756 Priscilla Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:06:12 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-247756 Hi Donna….I was born and raised in compton and lived near downtown…what a wonderful childhood I had..a town we will never know again…we left in 1969 my senior year at Dominquez HS…I loved the Abbey and its European flare…it was so mystical and because of my love of Art it was that more special….I visited it a few months back and it is so sad to see how much repair it needs…I am so happy I have the memories of it as it stood magestically back when…:0) Hi Donna….I was born and raised in compton and lived near downtown…what a wonderful childhood I had..a town we will never know again…we left in 1969 my senior year at Dominquez HS…I loved the Abbey and its European flare…it was so mystical and because of my love of Art it was that more special….I visited it a few months back and it is so sad to see how much repair it needs…I am so happy I have the memories of it as it stood magestically back when…:0)

]]> By: Donna woodbury http://www.losanjealous.com/2008/04/19/charles-phoenixs-slide-of-the-week-angeles-abbey-compton-ca-1955/comment-page-1/#comment-247753 Donna woodbury Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:40:54 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=5337#comment-247753 I have to tell you, I lived next door to the Abbey. My dad owned the florist shop that now (I believe) belongs to a foot doctor. I lived next door from the age of 3 until 17 when we moved to Lakewood. Both sets of my grandparents, my parents, and an aunt and uncle are all intered there in the F building. The Abbey was our playground. We loved the grounds. It was so beautiful in the 50's and 60's. We left in 1963, but dad kept the flower shop until the late 70's. When he sold the building to the doctor. When we buried my parents the building was vandalized, filthy, and horribly depressing. When we buried dad in 1991, mom said that we were not to ever visit there once she was gone. Some of my siblings have been back, but I have not. My brothers tell us not to go. It is so sad that the cemetaries in California often go into disrepair, and are often vandalized. Cemetaries in Compton have not fared well at all. I am broken hearted that the Abbey is in the condition it is in. If you only could have seen it way back when. We delivered flowers to it daily, took family photos there and loved the grounds. I have to tell you, I lived next door to the Abbey. My dad owned the florist shop that now (I believe) belongs to a foot doctor. I lived next door from the age of 3 until 17 when we moved to Lakewood. Both sets of my grandparents, my parents, and an aunt and uncle are all intered there in the F building. The Abbey was our playground. We loved the grounds. It was so beautiful in the 50′s and 60′s. We left in 1963, but dad kept the flower shop until the late 70′s.
When he sold the building to the doctor. When we buried my parents the building was vandalized, filthy, and horribly depressing. When we buried dad in 1991, mom said that we were not to ever visit there once she was gone. Some of my siblings have been back, but I have not. My brothers tell us not to go. It is so sad that the cemetaries in California often go into disrepair, and are often vandalized. Cemetaries in Compton have not fared well at all. I am broken hearted that the Abbey is in the condition it is in. If you only could have seen it way back when. We delivered flowers to it daily, took family photos there and loved the grounds.

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