Gutter punks ask for handouts on the streets of Los Angeles in The Decline of Western Civilization Part III. StudiosGutter punks ask for handouts on the streets of Los Angeles in The Decline of Western Civilization Part III. For all ideas, a place; for all persons, a spaceThe Decline of Western Civilization (1981)The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998)For rent and streaming on multiple platforms. The 1981 Decline of Western Civilization will play the Dairy Arts Center’s Friday Night Weird, 8 p.m. on April 25. For John and Molly Chester, the answer to their imbalanced life was a 200-acre farm north of Los Angeles.