Talk:Lancaster, California

message: Let it be known that on November 25, 2003 the new monster server passed through Lancaster, California on its way to Wikipedia computer HQ.
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History Section coming soon.... --Anon 06:49, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
Those messages are a bit difficult to decipher.
hopiakuta 16:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old comments

message: It looks like the business bureau has written this description of Lancaster for Wikipedia. There needs to be mention of a few of the social ills Lancaster has. Which are many. There is a lot of gang activity. There is a lot of drug use. It may say on paper that a majority own their own homes, but a lot of these homes are rented out. People buy the homes cheap and then rent them which does nothing for neighborhood cohesion let alone appearance. There is a lot of dumping. Lancaster is low-rent; it feels that way and looks that way. Get real. - signed by anon IP
Indeed, "Car Wreck" Parris, the "big frog in a little pond" lawyer and mayor, has had his minions policing Wackypedia, weeding out all the bad stuff that is true.  Lancaster is listed as one of the 100 most dangerous cities in the US, and its principle industry right now is welfare.  The place is a sewer by anyones' standards except for the ghetto trash that are moving in here every month in a flotilla of U-Hauls.  All these latest "fluff" edits MUST be regressed back to the real truth.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Desertbob (talk • contribs) 05:29, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Lancaster and its neighbor Palmdale are victims of its own success as a "cheap" housing tract and the economic downturns it suffered seems to be stronger felt than in L.A. or the coast/beach cities. Many real estate property prices are low because it has "no scenery" (facing north is flatland and desolate), and the reputation of Lancaster-Palmdale as a hotbed of biker gangs, far-rightists, Neo-Nazi skinheads, meth labs in homesteads, antisocial types, paroled sex offenders and mentally ill patients on halfway house supervision. Lancaster has lots of rural outskirts: trailer parks, boarded up homes, decrepit apartment "duplexes" and a sense of isolation seems to attract an "underclass" element fleeing rising home prices in L.A. in the last quarter a century, and same goes to Palmdale, the city known for "gang wars" and "bored out kids" by parents driving 60 miles to work in slave-wage "to be laidoff" jobs. To be honest, I don't hate Lancaster, Palmdale or the general High Desert area, there's a need to improve living standards, create more good-paying jobs (not just NASA or US Armed forces) and to take civic pride in making the Antelope Valley "their home" not a "welfare project" or an abandoned middle-class suburban community it has become in a short 30 years time. + 71.102.3.86 (talk) 01:06, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

text: You should get out more...it really isn't that much of a hell hole...and QH is actually quite nice (except during flood season!) Akradecki 14:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What? Why? I don't think he'd wanna get freaking SHOT. How can you say that when it's a cesspool of gang activity?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.199.76 (talk) 23:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Quartz Hill used to be a great place to live when it had groves, fields, ranches, cleaner air, a sense of openness, a sense of community and wasn't viewed as a "downscale" place to relocate street gangsters. My how it has changed since 1988-89 in the first decade of the real estate "boom" when homes costed on average $150,000 (cheap) before it inflated 3 times the price and only came crashing down since the real estate bubble burst in 2006-07. Quartz Hill is where I heard stories of white and black, Latino and Asian, Jewish and Christian, and conservative and liberal neighbors are accusing each other for the decline of community, which is like a repeat of what taken place in South-central L.A. with Compton, Inglewood, Lynwood and Willowbrook in the 1960's/70's all over. Youth gangs moved up to Quartz Hill in 1990-95, since the poverty-stricken families received (bad) home loans and the impact of L.A. riots of 1992 drove out large numbers of blacks, followed by Mexican immigration arrived as housing construction workers and finally the reactionary rural white stereotypes complained loudly on Quartz Hill is now "ghetto". I find it tragic and ironic on what taken place in Lancaster/ Palmdale when suburban "escapees" in the 80s were followed by the things they feared. + 71.102.3.86 (talk) 01:15, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Lancaster

message: Is this really believable, considering ACS estimates 22% of the population living in poverty in 2006?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.170.110 (talk) 20:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Time would tell Lancaster and Palmdale will become a much impoverished majority community the same way the original suburbs south and east of L.A. went through in the mid 20th century. First it was northern Long Beach and El Monte, then Norwalk and Inglewood facing L.A. city limits, following Orange County's largest older post-war suburbs like central Anaheim and Santa Ana, and recently Fontana and Moreno Valley in the Inland Empire, with Oxnard and Santa Paula in Ventura county...became poorer, more urban blighted and foreclosed homes turned to rentals for welfare receipent families. The fastest growing cities in Southern California are now the eastern Coachella Valley, Victorville/Apple Valley, the Santa Maria area away from the ocean and the serious poverty-stricken Kern County and Imperial Valley facing the border. The trend for "great place to live" to morph into that of poverty and unemployment with broken families and racial strife. Don't get me started on San Diego, anyone living within 5 miles of the beach north of National City and south of Carlsbad must be living well, and some locals praise the construction of a border fence at the port of entry in San Ysidro as the best way to keep out "Mexicans". Now drive up 30 miles north to Escondido, San Marcos and Vista, and you're gonna be surprised the pre-Depression and post-WWII-era neighborhoods had become. + 71.102.3.86 (talk) 01:30, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Income info

message: Hope this is the place to add this.
Can some one add info about:
Civic Commercial: "Grooves"
In September of 2008, we carved grooves into a quarter mile stretch of asphalt on the outskirts of Lancaster, CA. The goal was to create an experience that embodied the connection Civic drivers feel with the road. Did it work? How’d we do it? What was the song? Watch and learn.
Not sure where to put it?  Recreation?
http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-sedan/videos.aspx  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.110.83.179 (talk) 01:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This information is already in the article.  It is the last paragraph under Recreation and culture. Alanraywiki (talk) 02:52, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Civic commercial

message: In 1930 I believe it was the US Army that began flight testing and bombing pracitce. The US Air Force did not come into existance until after WWII.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.125.102.2 (talk) 20:05, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In 2010, the area composed of Lancaster, Palmdale, Victorville and Barstow (the so-called High Desert of California) leads the state in real estate price declines and mass housing foreclosures. The population growth was attributed not only to long-distance freeway commuters in the Los Angeles basin, it came from construction workers arriving from Mexico, one reason for a high percentage of Latinos in the Antelope-Victor valleys when the demand was high in the early 1990s and mid 2000s. 71.102.12.55 (talk) 08:51, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

text: The map page reads "Middleton", but I cannot say for sure there was a city of Middleton or not, the pink shaded area should be Lancaster and the green shaded area should be Antelope Village. 68.190.254.86 (talk) 20:44, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Isn't Lancaster is considered to be part of the Inland Empire?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.175.10.152 (talk) 01:10, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, it's the High Desert region. Inland Empire covers the San Bernardino county part of the Mojave desert, and includes Riverside county. I heard of other terms like Desert Empire for the Imperial area, Golden empire for the San Joaquin valley and Mountain empire for San Diego county. There's even a Coastal Kingdom for the Central coast of california from Monterey Bay or Santa Cruz down to santa Barbara or Ventura county. Regionalisms for Southern California and that Lancaster and Palmdale are High Desert are well known to locals and anyone familiar of the subject. 68.190.254.86 (talk) 20:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inland Empire 

message: The article contradicts itself....in the section entitled economy, it cites 70% home ownership, but the US Census info cites owner occupied homes at 60%.  Also think lots of this article sounds like an advert...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.225.61 (talk) 15:51, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Economy

message: An editor added a paragraph about a prison in Lancaster.  One of the sources, by Denis Wolcott, could not be confirmed, so I only added information by the source that could be confirmed.  As well, this prison has its own article; it does not need a category of it's own on this article, or such a lengthy entry. Magnolia677 (talk) 05:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Kindly focus discussion on the content under dispute, not on the editors involved nor any unrelated issues with the article.—Stepheng3 (talk) 09:27, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  California State Prison, Los Angeles County (LAC) 

message: The above editor did not add a thing but deleted much that has good references and has long been sourced in the article about the prison. We are dealing with an editor who history shows a lengthy history of reverting IP editors with very little reasoning given. Frequent reverting of articles which an editor has little knowledge or interest often leads to sloppy edits as above. The article edit is an obvious attempt to minimize the prison from the history of the city. It was not even mentioned in the article about the city of Lancaster which is quite surprising to not find a state prison mentioned. The history section also is labeled as written like a tourist brochure and the editor Magnolia has done nothing to improve the article and has actually helped maintain the tourist brochure style. 172.56.31.136 (talk) 06:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Kindly focus discussion on the content under dispute, not on the editors involved nor any unrelated issues with the article.—Stepheng3 (talk) 09:27, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Lancaster State prison

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message: Because the Los Angeles Aqueduct is a city owned utility, Lancaster cannot be a beneficiary of an improved water supply coming from the aqueduct. Water passing through LAA1 and LAA2 benefits only the city of Los Angeles. However, Lancaster may have benefited from the State California Aqueduct.
"The construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, starting in 1908, brought growth to the local economy by housing the aqueduct workers and introducing a steady stream of water"
Dcoffida (talk) 01:41, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  LA Aqueduct Water 

message: You forgot to post 93535 as a zip code on east side 2603:8001:1B00:4879:851:DFFB:3A2B:EE26 (talk) 08:34, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zip code 

message: Genuinely cannot seem to find it anywhere on the current Lancaster site or on archived versions, can anyone find an official reference to it anywhrre 2603:8001:2200:C200:7CED:96DB:E354:20E9 (talk) 06:15, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the flag real