Army Rangers SMOKED Some Hilltop Tacoma Crips in 1989. Memory lane

MikeDamone

https://youtu.be/Z4iQxpwYhAg

Don’t make me take this to the tug.

Baseman

https://youtu.be/HxgJ8AnobGE

Dan Rather coverage. Starts at 7 min mark

1to392831weretaken

Zero dead or injured justifies "SMOKED" clickbait?

BleachedAnusDawg

This somehow popped up in my YouTube feed a couple weeks ago and I watched it. Fabled lore among the Tacoma folks I know.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

I know a guy who claims he was there.

RaceBannon

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

I know a guy who claims he was there.

Harv?

YellowSnow

MikeDamone said:

https://youtu.be/Z4iQxpwYhAg

Don’t make me take this to the tug.

Did you want it in the Tug ?

I don’t understand what’s happening.

1to392831weretaken

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

I know a guy who claims he was there.

RaceBannon said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

I know a guy who claims he was there.

Harv?

J?

DerekJohnson

I remember coming out of the Legends Club at 1am in early 1990 after seeing Mother Love Bone, and hearing gunfire nearby. That's my hilltop memory.

huskyhooligan

Worked with a guy who lived on M street, who noted the M stood for Murder. Next few months a dead body was found in the alley behind his place and a cousin was murdered. It's changed a lot but still some interesting happenings up there, but it seems mostly homeless related.

Baseman

DerekJohnson said:

I remember coming out of the Legends Club at 1am in early 1990 after seeing Mother Love Bone, and hearing gunfire nearby. That's my hilltop memory.

MLB! Andy Wood's sister in law, Vicki was my chemo nurse at SCCA. CSB

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

huskyhooligan said:

Worked with a guy who lived on M street, who noted the M stood for Murder. Next few months a dead body was found in the alley behind his place and a cousin was murdered. It's changed a lot but still some interesting happenings up there, but it seems mostly homeless related.

I briefly dated a girl who lived there back around 2009. I didn’t realize the neighborhood was Hilltop until she told me. Total gentrification.

DerekJohnson

Found the setlist from that night. Andy died about 4-6 weeks later.

https://setlist.fm/setlist/mother-love-bone/1990/legends-club-tacoma-wa-2bfde076.html

coronabruin

1to392831weretaken said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

I know a guy who claims he was there.

RaceBannon said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

I know a guy who claims he was there.

Harv?

J?

PurpleJ I am 6'5" 260 lbs. Former Army Ranger and college basketball player. You really don't want any in real life. You are little more than a cowardly pussy.

PurpleThrobber

huskyhooligan said:

Worked with a guy who lived on M street, who noted the M stood for Murder. Next few months a dead body was found in the alley behind his place and a cousin was murdered. It's changed a lot but still some interesting happenings up there, but it seems mostly homeless related.

First child was born at St. Joe's Hospital on Hilltop. Drove through there frequently on the way to lamaze class. Summer time, heard a pop pop pop and thought we were gonna die in a shootout. Turned out to be firecrackers (thanks, @Swaye ) Scared the living shit out of me.

The late 80's/early 90's in T-Town were tuff.

TurdBomber

Lived just outside the Hilltop near Wright Park in 91 & 92. As I was moving in a bunch of DEA agents were searching all the garbage cans in the alley. Second night I was there, somebody did a "two-to-the-hat" on a young kid in the McDonald's parking lot. Kid died. Thieves got away with all of $5. Tacoma was a fucking mess back then. Way, way better today.

#GentrificationWorks

DerekJohnson

TurdBomber said:

Lived just outside the Hilltop near Wright Park in 91 & 92. As I was moving in a bunch of DEA agents were searching all the garbage cans in the alley. Second night I was there, somebody did a "two-to-the-hat" on a young kid in the McDonald's parking lot. Kid died. Thieves got away with all of $5. Tacoma was a fucking mess back then. Way, way better today.

#GentrificationWorks

@PurpleJ! True???

RaceBannon

Live within earshot of gunshots at Henderson and Rainier in the 90s and then pop off

DerekJohnson

RaceBannon said:

Live within earshot of gunshots at Henderson and Rainier in the 90s and then pop off

Have a tear gas canister explode within ten feet of you during a riot in Quebec City and then have the newspaper lie about you in a front page story two days later and then pop off

TurdBomber

RaceBannon said:

Live within earshot of gunshots at Henderson and Rainier in the 90s and then pop off

So you were pourer then than now?

DerekJohnson

TurdBomber said:

RaceBannon said:

Live within earshot of gunshots at Henderson and Rainier in the 90s and then pop off

So you were pourer then than now?

I visited his home. It was a nice house.