bradley nowell

long beach CA, poorest area, 1984 junior year

in a street of hispanics there was bradley. Bradley was the only white kid, LBC never was nice to those who were different.

bradley wandered aimlessly most of his life, finding his crowd. he hung with the gangsters, thugs, cholos, hessians, asians, even the usos, til he landed in the hippies.

he was longboarding the neighborhood one day with his only other white friends eric and bud down to the beach. there was a mexican girl and her brother surfing, listening to Bob Marley and The Wailers, she was gorgeous and bradley was smitten

after he introduced himself you two became inseparable.

today was spent speeding down PCH in bradley’s truck, driving down to baja for fun