Things to do in Compton, California

In My Humble Opinion
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Our trip to Compton was today. We stopped at the Happy Sweet Bakery, which has really good sandwiches for $4-$5 each, plus fresh-baked pastries, cupcakes and cakes. The blended coffees are fabulous. If you’re in the neighborhood I recommend it.

The place was fairly crowded at lunchtime, and counter service was tough to find. The girls ate inside while three of us decided to picnic on the grass outside the bakery.

Apparently picnicking outside in Compton is not something regularly done by tourists, because one of the Compton District Attorney staff stopped to ask, in not so many words, whether we knew what we were doing. We chatted for a while about gentrification and when he was reasonably sure we were not crazy, he left.

Total time spent in Compton: about 90 minutes.

Len

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should’ve gone to Bludso’s BBQ. best bbq in Southern California

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[wholly tangential]
If anyone has even a mild appreciation for the Towers, then whenever you’re on the east coast close to Baltimore, you must visit the American Visionary Art Museum. It has a large permanent collection and a substantial amount of space for temporary, themed exhibits (e.g., war and peace, addiction). It is spectacular.

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Closed Mondays. It was my first choice.

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He’s living in Diamond Bar, CA now. It’s a upper middle class neighborhood in eastern Los Angeles County. Not much to do there as it’s mostly residential, but a lot of ethnic restaurants from Vietnamese to Indian.

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The Watts Towers are in Watts.