A buddy and I flew out to CA to move my sister and her husband back to Nebraska from Huntington Beach in the mid-80's after my BIL wrapped up his Oral Surgery residency at UCLA Harbor Med Center. The house they were living in had been set aside for one lucky intern for many, many years by a former program graduate who wanted to make sure at least one lucky person had reasonable housing accommodations during their residency out there.
As we were prepping to move their stuff out, the word came down to "don't bother cleaning and take whatever you want". We weren't sure what that meant until we were about 1/2 way through loading the moving truck on departure day. We noticed more and more construction workers & equipment gathering as we loaded the final pieces into the truck. As we pulled out of the driveway, they started up the bulldozers and mowed it to the ground. I guess they decided a 4-plex was the "highest and best use" of that land.
That's my one & only Huntington Beach memory.
One weird Huntington Beach related side story (since it's a shitposting thread): my sister and BIL used to watch "Wheel of Fortune" at night. My mom would watch it in NE (two hours earlier), then phone my sister with the puzzle answers prior to my BIL getting home. Since there was almost always a "bet" on who could solve the puzzles (we're a very competitive family), my sister managed to bilk my BIL out of a lot of "you do the laundry for a week" or 'we're eating out for dinner vs. cooking at home" wagers during their time there.
This came to a screeching halt when my sister had her first child and my Mom flew out to CA to help with the new baby:
BIL - "You're not going to believe how good your daughter is at "Wheel of Fortune". We really need to get her onto the game as a contestant while we're out here. She'd clean up!"
Mom (looking at my sister): 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "OMG - he FELL FOR IT? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣