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After 40 Years, the Homeboys Are Still Cruisin' With Dick "Huggy Boy" Hugg

Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 11 November 1994

AT LAST SUMMER'S Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, one of the most popular attractions wasn't a thrill ride, exhibit, installation or culinary offering. A large number of people from primary school ages to retirees–many of them Hispanic–flocked to a table near the livestock pavilion to meet Dick "Huggy Boy" Hugg.

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