Lancaster, California
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2020
- Lancaster, California
Lancaster, is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 156,633, and in 2018 the population was estimated at 159,053, making Lancaster the 32nd largest city in California. Lancaster is part of a twin city complex with its southern neighbor Palmdale, and together they are the principal cities within the Antelope Valley region.
Lancaster is located approximately 70 miles (110 km) north (via I-5 and SR 14) of downtown Los Angeles, and is near the Kern County line. It is separated from the Los Angeles Basin by the San Gabriel Mountains to the south, and from Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley by the Tehachapi Mountains to the north. The population of Lancaster has grown from 37,000 at the time of its incorporation in 1977 to over 159,000 as of 2018.
The area where Lancaster is now located, known as the Antelope Valley, was originally home to the Paiute Indians. Lancaster's origins as a settlement start with the Southern Pacific Railroad, which is believed to first use the name Lancaster, where a station house, locomotive watering facilities and section gang housing were built when the railroad laid track through the town's future location. In 1876 the Southern Pacific completed the line through the Antelope Valley,[10] linking San Francisco and Los Angeles. The origin of Lancaster's name is unclear, attributed variously to the surname of a railroad station clerk, the moniker given by railroad officials, or the former Pennsylvania home (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) of unknown settlers. Train service brought passengers through the water-stop-turned-community, which, with the help of promotional literature, attracted new settlers. The person credited with formally developing the town is Moses Langley Wicks, who in 1884 bought property from the railroad for $2.50 per acre, mapped out a town with streets and lots, and by September was advertising 160-acre tracts of land for $6 an acre. The following year, the Lancaster News started publication, making it the first weekly newspaper in the Antelope Valley. By 1890, Lancaster was bustling and booming, and thanks to adequate rainfall, farmers planted and sold thousands of acres of wheat and barley.
A sign designating the military zone of Lancaster, 1942 The town was devastated by the decade-long drought that began in 1894, killing businesses and driving cattle north, though fortunes improved somewhat in 1898 following the nearby discoveries of gold and borax, the latter to become a widespread industrial chemical and household cleaner. Thanks to the five-year construction of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct starting in 1908, Lancaster became a boom town by housing aqueduct workers. The 1912 completion of Antelope Valley Union High School allowed students from the growing region to study locally instead of moving to distant cities, and the school boasted the state's first dormitory system to accommodate students from outlying districts. The community began a steady growth spurt in the 1930s, starting with construction of Muroc Air Force Base, site of frequent flight tests, including the "breaking" of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager in a Bell X-1A in 1947. From the 1980s through the end of the program, Edwards Air Force Base, by then renamed, hosted a limited number of landings of the Space Shuttle. The development of Air Force Plant 42 in 1958, augmented in the 1960s by construction of Lockheed Aircraft's Plant 10, created tens of thousands of jobs. High-wage employment hit its peak in the 1970s during the Lockheed L-1011 commercial wide body jetliner project, for which all assembly and some engineering and parts production were performed. 250 L-1011 aircraft were assembled and flown from this plant and airfield. Lancaster was an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County until 1977, when it was incorporated as a city, with Arnold Rodio serving as its first mayor.
Lancaster State Prison opened in 1993 and before that Los Angeles County hosted no prisons but accounted for forty percent of California's state-prison inmates.[11] "Most of Lancaster's civic leaders and residents" opposed the building of the prison, and four inmates escaped from LAC in its first year of operation. Nevertheless, by 2000 a proposal to increase the proportion of maximum-security inmates received little criticism.
In 2005, Hyundai Motor Co. announced the grand opening of a 4,300-acre, $60 million "Proving Ground," a state-of-the-art testing facility for cars and sports utility vehicles in nearby California City.
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I lived in Lancaster for 34-years. I retired in 2010 and the door didn't hit me in the butt. This town was a hell hole when I left, I bet its 10-times worse now. If you love your family don't move there.
It's terrible
Lancaster is where you live if you want to work in Los Angeles but want to maintain a grasp on reality. Only place in LA county not filled with sheep done people with no sense
Lancaster is great if you want a humble life outside of the big city and during winter they have insanely snowy mountains and valleys very good for a life
I think I like the idea of the Mojave desert. Much more beautiful than the suburbs of nearby Fresno / Bakersfield, but the heat is kind of intimidating even in early Spring so don't even want to think about what it is like getting through summer, I live in the foothills and can't keep my place cool. But the desert has a certain magic don't get me wrong. The only other thing I wanted to add was a comment a friend of mine said who is from the East Coast. Now mind you it rains all year on the East Coast, but he worked in Hesperia for a bit and guess he still jogs, people still jog? and said there were no parks in Hesperia, which is probably true but overall it seems like Hesperia has so much potential if they don't get too carried away with parks and trying to turn the Mojave Desert into an oasis where there wasn't one. But other than that the desert seems like a good place in the winter for me. Lancaster is probably even better.
Lived in Hollywood and Koreatown over 15 years. We LOVE lancaster, say what you want but there's great food and great down to earth people in the AV. Not to mention huge new build homes! Once you get the city life out of your system, its a good adjustment
New homes means rise in prices in apartments smh
@@paulcruz3734 Renters better start saving more. The New build trend is not slowing down
Aye bro I've only lived in east LA inglewood n glendale what races u see out there alot? It's black n Mexicans or mainly white people
And it's definitely safer than LA right?
@@user-rb4cf5dy4p its Mainly White, Black and Hispanic. With the westside of Palmdale & Lancaster being more white for sure.
I moved out of Lancaster 10 years ago I miss my hometown
Drove a water truck building the freeway in 1972....good money.
Before you move to Lancaster or Palmdale do your research. Yes, housing may be "cheap", but consider the law enforcement and the public schools. I have been here 17 yrs. and it has been deeply regretted.
I lived there for 10 years, thought the SF valley & Hollywood would be better , moved out here for about 5 years & am dying to go home to the Antelope valley ASAP
Same bro same
@@kaleendavis8427 looks cleaner than no Hollywood
In what area did you live, cause i just moved here and this shit beats south central l.a anytime day with all them homeless dirty as street with potholes etc
Just moved here from LA… I’m loving all the evening winds, open space and the people are friendly
I personally prefer staying out here then most city’s due to the fact that the population is lower then most. Housing recently went up and I’m currently considering leaving.
Do it so many better places then that tweaker hell hole 🔥🕳🔥
Also you'd be amazed at what cost of living is out of state especially back east but economics may hold you there whether jobs n family. Back in Pennsylvania we went from 2000 in AV a month for a tiny three bedroom to 1700 a month in PA for a 7 bedroom two story with a movie theater area n a garage that was the size of our house in CA could legit fit two semis n a RV in it no problem. This was years ago prices in PA haven't gone up much but CA it's constant inflation as well to contend with.
The Antelope Valley is somewhat better than living in the San Fernando Valley, less traffic, less crowds but it's still nasty. Brown, dry, dusty. It never rains and the homeless population is moving in. I left California 2½ years and I'm never going back.
I love it in la
My beautiful state! I am from the
(CORA & HUICHOL) Native American Tribe from Lancaster.👍🏾
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Much love and respect!! I also live in lancaster ✌
Huichol tribe is originally from Jalisco Mexico descendants of the Aztecs and Coras are from western Colorado.
Lmao! Why did you delete my comments and then use the information I gave on these tribes? And you even deleted your own edited comment where you stated Yaqui and Huichol, what's up with that?
@@allwomn1 WTF did I Edit??? Coras come from Colorado, Yaquis from Arizona and there’s lots in California and Nevada. Huicholes ares from Mexico but some reside in Lancaster and la habrá.
If you ever get the chance to come to Lancaster, go ahead and skip it.
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Fair enough it does suck living here
I used to live in Lancaster. Wonderful people out there
Nice video, but I thought I would see busier streets like Ave J and Ave K (10th St West) and Lancaster Blvd, the musical road, the fairgrounds and Jethawks Stadium. I moved to the Bay Area a few years back and when I go home, I drive by a lot of those streets because things are always changing. Not much changes in residential areas.
I grew up there until i was 24...got in to drugs and went to jail several times! Ive moved away 15 years ago and haven't looked back. Dont miss it at all! I do miss some great friends though.
In Lancaster California
I love Lancaster. I get there by taking Angeles Crest Highway to Angeles Forest Highway to Pearblossom Highway to Sierra Highway. I NEVER take any freeways to get to Lancaster. Lancaster has been voted one of the best cities in the US in which to retire. I love it's bright blue skies, it's dry air and it's breeziness. Lancaster is also a city of broad vistas and wide open spaces.
Lancaster is a desert 😭 I would rather retire in Bora Bora 😔
@@xabeerx2344 yeah you never know what temperature it's gonna be
I hope you’re safe. To 🙏
Great video. I ❤️ Lancaster 😁
Rule Number one in driving in the AV: The posted speed limit is merely a suggestion on the freeway (To abibde may help in avoiding a traffic ticket but will earn you much hate by the local drivers). Hugs!
A beautiful bedroom community far enough away from hectic Los Angeles.
That's what you think this place is horrible I've loved here for 8 yrs of my life , the homeless is a serious problem and the city does nothing to clean up the streets which are infested w drugs hookers etc , I suggest palmdale
But. All people that lived in LA are moving to lancaster just think about it
@@jameslahee9874 come live out here for a little then , I guarantee you you would change your mind so quick lol youd forget you even came out here
The antelope valley is shit and is more hectic then Los Angeles!!
@@deadface4979 the whole antelope valley is shit💩💩💩 I suggest malibu
That moron at the 00:46 mark, get used to it. They are all over the place here. They aren't happy enough with the lesser traffic and want to go 20-30mph over the speed limit. Then you have the geniuses that do not use their turn signals.
I've never even been to California but my dad was born in Lancaster. I've always been curious about what the city was like.
It's terrible
Your dad would not like lancaster now. It is crime and gang infested
I was born and raised in lancaster. Much nicer in the 1960s and early 1970s. I would never go back.
@@chicostinko2932it's not that bad except when I saw baddie hitchhiker's💀
@@Railfanner109 It really is terrible
@@chicostinko2932 to you it’s bad but to me it’s not. I have my own opinion
I live here green up here and still livening here
Just bought a house here. Hi neighbors!!!
why anyone would drive around and video tape this town in silence with no music is beyond me. Northern LA County is a dead town with nothing to do or see. i just dont get it.
500.000 houses in Palmdale not cheap squeeze me
Only one way in and out of palmdale/Lancaster and thats highway 14 one of the worst highways in socal with accidents almost every single day and lots of idiots tailgating and driving over 90mph not the safest highway to drive with a family.
Not as bad as driving down town LA.
There are a couple of other ways out of the Antelope Valley. Sierra Hwy is one of them.
You're dumb
@@sethk1698 totally true
@@agapecommunitychurch-lanca5367 true also
I use to live there
Lancaster was ok pre-2000's, it was bad then...it has gone way down hill since with everyone moving from LA.
I lived in Lancaster for 23 years and moved away in 1982. Nice video, but I saw no familiar landmarks.
Lived there 74-79. Saw nothing familiar.
LANCASTER, CALIFORNIA
Cali cool
Thank God you're not in New York City because it's chaos there right now it's the epicenter of the u.s. . Also have a question is LA the epicenter of California?
Yes, LA is the epicenter of california because all of fans and artists and all of that.
Los Angeles is vile
@@bigjuan2854 what kind of fucking language are you speaking?
You passed by my house
and my dope spot 😂
OMG I live in Lancaster and I seen that freeway omg!
@Frafra Zoomer no there's others wdym
Like I didn't know that hurt u so bad just because I seen that freeway like wtf
The Antelope Valley is where you live when you’ve given up on life. I did twenty years there.
Tell me about it! I did 28 years. Now I live in NY. Much better here 1000😏
It all depends on how busy or lazy you are!
@@beautifuldisaster8850 New York??? Where the rudest people in the whole USA live and where those two idiots Cuomo and De Blasio are??? No! Thank you!!!
Yep! Lots of money to make here. I don't play games, which is why I left Cali. I've been more successful living in NY for 7 years than I've ever been my whole life. And I live in Glen Cove NY. Not the hood city of NY. I drive a $225,000 Mercedes, I got married again in a real meaningful marraige, no Cali headaches, I own my home here, I'm happy. AV? No Thank you. Ghetto Antelope Can Stay In Hell wit all those fake gangstas that got ran out of The Hood Projects down below In LA😏
Elvisfan2k yup Tht is facts
We All call it landscater
Heh I know where that is because I have gone all over Lancaster
I might move there I'm homeless respectful though no smoke drink drugs I know I'm boring oh well
Been there a couple years ago to visit my wife's family and it's boring desert town with nothing to do, and no one should ever consider raising a family there.
Lancaster, Ca.Meth capital of LA county.
It has gotten pretty bad 😬
Yes so
@Big Al, why'd you delete the (hitting the pipe) comment? Sounds shady to me lol
@@allwomn1 RUclips took it off 😓😅
I think LA Is the capital city of LA County. Its what the county is named after
Listen chum.. When someone is entering the on ramp on a fwy, YOU have to move out of the way. You dont make the driver getting on the fwy slow or stop. You cant make up your own driving rules. Not sure how you even got a lic in the first place. Its the law. Clown!
Thank you for advising 🌹🌹
Stream Selena Gomez!
Don't seem any diff than where I'm at nothing to do too many cars trucks dump tractor trailers boring
Boring video. You should really be doing commentary & you're not driving thru anything but residential tree lined streets. There is much much much more to Lancaster
Not anymore
That is exactly what I wrote before I found your comment! Thank you!