Author Archives: jamesgenocide

All good things come to an end and our little set up at The Cathay stopped working. Things went down, bad things went down. For instance, The Clash had played at The Hollywood Palladium and it was Sold Out. John of Circle One came over to The Cathay and started mustering some people to rush […]

Some friends of mine, Lurch and John D. were working at Orange Julius in the Topanga Plaza Mall in the Valley. One day, the owners of Orange Julius hired Jay Bentley of Bad Religion to work there. So myself and a lot of friends who hung out at the mall got to hang out with […]

The Lads were started in 1980 by a bunch of Hollywood Punk Rockers. In the picture above you can see what the very beginning of the Lads looked like. And to answer the big question,yes the gang hung around the band Bad Religion and vise-versa. They were our band. Being a little kid at the […]

At The Cathay there was always something going on once we took over. Word got around that we were running things over at The Cathay and before we knew it all sorts of characters started to hang around. The Club was kinda antsy about the cops and about certain people coming around. One night Lurch […]

(Image: Olympic Auditorium 1970’s) I don’t know what show was going on at The Olympic Auditorium that night in 1984 but I can tell you about The Battle Royal that went on in the parking lot and back alleys around the Olympic Auditorium that night between The Lads and The Suicidals. I remember standing near […]

There were a lot of drugs at The Cathay De Grande and I know because I sold them and used em. I used to sell speed out of a bag in front of the club until the Pigs figured out what was up and shook me down. The owner of the club, Mike and the […]

(Image: Arnel, Spanky, Flaco, Lurch and Genocide Circa 1980’s) From the day that I first got my Lads Arm Band, people started to change all around me. People I knew and people I didn’t know would stear clear of me if they hadn’t already. Once I was truly ensconsed “in the life” many people I knew […]

(Image: Poinsettia Park 1982) Meetings were originally held at Poinsettia Park but they moved to Pan Pacific Park for reasons I will NOT explain here. Pan Pacific Park Pan Pacific Park was awesome!… It’s big, and with it’s many entry and exit points, it was very easy to roll in by foot, skateboard or bike. […]