Never Say Neverland
The gates opened frequently, letting in a landscaping truck, letting out a storage truck, and allowing the guards — who were playing Jackson tunes from a stereo — to hand out bottled water to the crowd. But this was a hearty lot.
"I once waited 19-and-a-half hours in line for a ticket to see Michael Jackson in concert in Las Vegas," said Julia Sullivan, 62, of Arroyo Grande. "I just loved the way he danced. I still have my VHS tapes of 'Thriller.' I watch them all the time."
There was an exceptionally fit young woman in a bikini. An Indiana dog breeder with four leashed poodles. A couple of brooding teens in red pleather Jacko jackets. And then there was Aja Diaz of Oxnard, there for her 16th birthday. She was disappointed to discover she wouldn't be able to see Jackson's corpse.
"It kind of sucks," she explained. "That's, like, all I can say." And it truly was.
"Big, big, huge fan" Paul Barron of Bellflower was at the infamous 1984 Pepsi commercial shoot when Jackson's hair caught fire. And he visited the singer's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame after hearing of his death last week.
"Time stopped," said Barron, 56. He brought his teenage granddaughter Tiffany to Neverland to pay further respect.
"All the good ones," lamented Tiffany, "are passing away."
Farrah Fawcett and Karl Malden?
"Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes."
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