This is a real easy answer. They are wanna be 'mods' imitating the scooter groups of mods that used to cruise the border of Orange around Chapman and also Villa park. Before parents bought Bmw's for their spoiled brats there was the scooters. When we used to go to the midnight movies at the Brea mall back in '82 ,'83 etc. Big groups of them would cruise in. All wore flack jackets and were as pale as anyone I had ever seen. This was at a time when getting a tan was #1 and people didn't see the sun as a deadly enemy , so the "mods" were an anomoly. Then nobody thought showing their ass crack or touching themselves in the crotch area or saying "its all good" or hating them selves for being white was way to go. Instead everyone divided up by the music styles they listened to...NOT racial lines. There were Rockers, punkers, ...mods...., new wave Devo types surf punks from Scumington Beach who would try to grab a long hair and give him a free hair cut ,and unexplainably, people who lived to throw toast at Rocky Horror picture shows...{ it wasn't as "cool" yet to be Bi ,gay, or goth or new romantic as it in fashion today....soooo toast was thrown in the theatre. Since the original cultures that settled the So. Cal area are becoming less significant to the current population living/moving here today, then all things retro are in so people can feel a part of some thing that WAS real. Sad that kids have to re-live a movement that now has only an oldie but goody 'Who' band of 65 yr. olds to represent their origins, but thats why people are getting in to indie rock, imo,... Elvis types at the Harbour House etc. The show must go on.
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