Homegrown Video's Lakeside Days

Back in the day, about a million years ago, when amateur porn was still really and truly amateur homemade porn, not the slickly produced money hungry machinations of today's super savvy freaks d'erotique looking for the big breaks and willing to suffer a prolapsed asshole, herpes, or worse getting there, the original Homegrown Video owner operated in a place called Lakeside California. East of San Diego, far enough from the ocean's breezes and sandy beaches walked by uber-hotties on parade in skimpy bathing suits framing well toned tanned bodies greased with lotions that smell of lust and coconuts, Lakeside was in those days like a ghost town. It was a hellish place that the living left in 1955 for places less menacingly hot, with no barbed twiggy tumbleweeds rolling through the main street chased by coyotes looking for mama's babies to eat. The only denizens that remained were those that death hadn't relieved from the duties of the living, the bell-jarheaded vets that were too tough for WWII to kill and too happily miserable left well outside of mankind's wicked follies, the drunks that couldn't work their way into a lucky break that would afford them an easy street escape, the single liquor store owner waiting for the last customer to come in and drop a scabby liver and a buck for a bottle of Thunderbird on the counter, and few honest to God on a dead indian's moccasins true cowboys that were busy trading cattle in for ostriches and waiting for the rodeo to come back every year after dustier than the last dust bowled year.

And in that place that only a tarantula could love, there was a little shop on the dirty street through the center of the dirty town where folks could send in their dirty little homemade sex videos called Homegrown Video.

When we first took over we went out there and we talked to the original owner, Greg, and he told us the grand tall tales of the heydey of amateur porn, when people that truly loved sex were making the videos for the folks that loved to jerk off and were sick of the crap Porn Valley USA had become known for shitting out on an unsuspecting public. He told us how the swinger known as "Deina" worked for Homegrown and how she used to bring customers that walked in the front door back into the back room and how she would suck them off while the row upon row of duplicators were churning out copies of Homegrown smut.

Ahh... the good ol'days of amateur porn... where have they gone?

Well, we might've moved the company out of Lakeside, but we didn't move the amateur out of Homegrown I am proud to say!