The joke is that westerns were pretty much a dead genre, and with the dying of the western both on TV and cinematically, the movie ranches that dotted southern California at the time, like the Spahn Ranch were basically going out of business. Spahn made most of his living renting horses to day trippers by the time Charlie Manson showed up on his step. 1967 was the year Hollywood film making began to change, 1969 was the year that the door slammed shut on the golden age of Hollywood when Hello Dolly nearly sank 20th Century Fox and Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch and Z were big hits. Midnight Cowboy won best picture it would still be given a hard R rating today.

The official story says that Charlie Manson got out of jail and started taking in lonely and abandoned young women eventually settling at Spahn Ranch outside LA where he concocted an apocalyptic vision of an impending race war that at the end would make him the ruler of the world. The real story probably contains that but also a lot more and it's a rabbit hole well worth diving into if you care to. There are alternative theories and evidence to support them.

I do miss rushing to the store Sunday morning to make 32 Pro-Lines before 1PM but I can't even remember the last time I watched a football game.

Or a HOCKEY game, judging by many of your slants on things.

(although, credit where credit is due....at least 4 or 5 of your last 6 blogs have been decent reads and a little on point. I see an improvement over the outlandish drival so often prevalent. Keep up ther upward trend!!!)