Chatsworth

He was just there trying to sell a radio.

Meanwhile, 30 miles northwest, up in the hills above Chatsworth, there was a collapsing old movie ranch where about two dozen young people were living in the state of near total dependence on one man.

A man who had spent more than half of his life locked up, who read at about a seventh grade level, and who had completely failed at the only thing he'd ever actually wanted to be, a rock star.

But there was one thing he was really, really good at.

Manson was not happy about it.

People around him at the time said he made threats.

And in August of 1968, he moved the group out to Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, an old Western movie set turned horse rental operation run by the owner, George Spahn, who was in his 80s and nearly blind.

In return for letting them stay there, the family did chores and looked after the place, and Manson offered up some of his female family members to keep him company.

They are 5 and 0.

Sierra Canyon, Chatsworth, 4 and 0.

St. John Bosco, number one of Bellflower, 4 and 1.

And we take you now to Montclair.

They do a great job.

Millennium pro wrestling in Chatsworth, California.

They do a show Friday night, 7.30 p.m.

Myself and Robert Clark Chan will be there.

And then this also I found out.

Uh, here in Los Angeles, up in Chatsworth, which is, uh, up in the valley there, there was a crazy Metro accident.

A bus got slammed into by a drunk driver just going absolutely, like, what? 70 miles an hour or some crazy nonsense like that.

Like, an insane speed, not even hitting the brakes, and just colliding into this Metro bus and, uh, a person was ejected from it and died.

We did see a huge plume of black smoke in the area and, um-

They're on their phones

... uh, once again, this is in Chatsworth.

Silence.

He was just there trying to sell a radio.

Meanwhile, 30 miles northwest, up in the hills above Chatsworth, there was a collapsing old movie ranch where about two dozen young people were living in the state of near total dependence on one man.

A man who had spent more than half of his life locked up, who read at about a seventh-grade level, and who had completely failed at the only thing he'd ever actually wanted to be: a rock star.

But there was one thing he was really, really good at: finding people who are vulnerable, figuring out what they wanted, and then convincing them that he was the only person that could give it to them.

Manson was not happy about it.

People around him at the time said he made threats.

And in August of 1968, he moved the group out to Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth, an old Western movie set turned horse rental operation run by the owner George Spahn, who was in his 80s and nearly blind.

In return for letting them stay there, the family did chores and looked after the place, and Manson offered up some of his female family members to keep him company.