I started this topic to get a little more info or stories together about this tagging crew. This crew goes way back and i think has affected the scene in LA, not just this crew but alot of crews that where around in LA, i chose this one just as an example.
i think this crew started out in the mid 80s, ive heard it stand for out for action, actually thats all i think i remember hearing it as. what trips me out though is how deep this crew was especially like from 90-95, at different areas of LA county. and now theyre practically gone, at least in LA county, but i know they have had reincarnations in different cities and states as well.
i guess whats interesting about this crew to me is how it started out and ended up getting deep and then eventually contributing to a bunch of barrios in LA and other crews that came off it. i know when i was in junior high in the san fernando valley, back in 92-3, OFA was like the main crew in all the 818, they had practically every school, as far as taggers, and before that i lived in the northeast LA area and they where just as deep down there, i think at that time they where the deepest crew in LA, together with STK, what trips me out is how back then there was less crews but deeper ones, now its hella small crews and like 15 fools claiming 19 different crews, lol.
either way i know alot of fools from OFA either individually joined barrios, or came in as entire kliks of barrios, and alot of times got split up between enemy neighborhoods, which is ironic. in the greater LA area, which back then was all 213, they where forced in to become a klik from 18st, i wanna say it was the tiny jokers klik, either way 18 had so many kliks back then its hard to say, then i know that alot joined es clover and lincoln heights, and even alot joined burlington locos, which i think is what put bls back on the map cuz they had kinda died out there for a while.
i think a few joined avenues too, it was one of those deals where they had some heads living so deep in aves hood and aves was so strong at that time that it was an offer they couldnt refuse to join aves. aside from that i have seen at least two different full on barrios that came off of OFA, i dont know if they get along or are the same thing but i think it stands for different things when they became barrio. i think the one in west LA is called OxFord Avenue, which worked out pretty conveniently for them. then theres a compton varrio OFA that i have no idea what it stands for.
in the 818 them fools where deep. it was one of those deals that most fools at one point or another claimed OFA, and later went on to make different crews or join gangs or both, but if you ask them fools what they where doing when they where 12 or 13 and youll find out they where from ofa, then most fools ended up joining crews wich in the long run hated OFA, i Know alot of those fools from OFA joined all the various pacas, and some san fer, some fools where first OFA, then a crew called NFS which was tied with a gang called creators, which i see now and maybe back then too was in lancaster, either way alot these fools in the 818 somehow ended up in Night Outs, which in the long run ended up joining blythe street, one of NFS main enemies,,lol, yeah seeing those fools claiming blythe is a trip after remembering all the rumbles and fights those fools had,
either way this is just my two cents on OFA, the truth is by the time i started banging they where almost unheard of in the valley, im talking like 94-5, but then they where still known in the 213, towards the late 90s they disapeared too, so i never really met too many fools and kids my age didnt remember anymore but i think theres probably alot to the OFA story, and other crews that where around, alright everyone later