Ok, I was born here, but grew up mostly in Highland and moved back maybe 5 or 6 years ago, so my fond memories of Yucaipa are very minimal. I do remember Bible Land, it was actually about a block from the processing plant that my family own to clean their eggs. It's shame he had to close; I heard he was tired of kids chopping Jesus' head off
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MrBen is right though, that chicken ranch (It's Sunny Cal if I remember right) is gone now. Well, not gone, but it is sold. They are actually trying to get my family to temporarily put chickens on it and use it for free. They don't want to loose their randfathered rights if the deal goes through.
Also, as MrBen said, the hills around crafton are being smoothed out. The gold course was redone, and that track home community went in all around it. I remember there was a waiting list to get in those homes, and they were going for like $500k. Now I have heard there are several class action law suits against the constructor and the homes have trouble selling for $250k.
On top of that, above Bryant is ALL getting developed. One of my families biggest ranches is up there and there are approximately 1,000 homes going up all around it. Something like 400 on the block above us, and 300 each on two of our sides. It's pretty much been accepted that the ranch will be gone in less than 5 years.
We are looking into alternate means of ranching, like free range or organic, but I fear that with the market it will not last. That's why I am going back to school, just like everyone in my family: we are all getting ready to jump ship.
But besides all that, Yucaipa hasn't become a dump, it's just not the rural town that made it great when I was younger. Now you have 50% of the vehicles being raised trucks, more off road recreational vehicles than you count, and no one cares about anyone anymore. I guess it couldn't be stopped, but dang does it suck.