Oh to have lived one hundred years ago and to have seen what Los Angeles looked like. Heaven. Clean air. Lots of citrus and blooming flowers year round. Glorious climate. Thanks for a walk through the wayback machine. "This House" never dissapoints.
We see grand Victorian home like this today and think they’re eternal. This video shows just how fragile even the most ambitious projects and greatest wealths really are.
Hi Ken, as a native Angelino whose done too much research on the Downtown / Bunker Hill area, I can tell you that by the 40s and 50s, many of the prosperous families that didn't have descendants who wanted the properties had to pass them on to housekeepers or caretakers. The mansions were turned into apartments so that people could afford to live in them. Most of them fell into disrepair by the 60s and 70s and had unfortunately become slums. By the mid 60s, local officials got obsessed with modernizing the area to "clean it up" and build more high rise buildings, demolishing mansions that people could not afford to move to places like Heritage Square to save them. I'm so grateful that the homes on Carroll Ave were left alone! There are some historical neighborhoods and random homes around L.A. that can still be appreciated, but it still breaks my heart what they did to Bunker Hill 😭
Yes, it is a shame that so many incredible homes were just demolished. Some forward thinkers were smart enough to salvage details from some of those homes like crown moldings, fireplace mantels, doors and stairrails, hardware like doorknobs, and handles for cabinets. Grew up at the beach near LAX and when LAX bought out all the homes at the end of the runways off Vista Del Mar Lane there were some very old mansions, some did get moved only a few blocks away and others further away. But most were destroyed. A few remained empty and just shells of a house when I was a kid and you could walk inside a couple of them. I now live downtown in the Westlake District only blocks from Bunker Hill and a mile from Echo Park. 40 years ago as a teenager my girlfriend and I stayed the night at a bed and breakfast, one of the very first ones on Carroll or Lake I don't remember which. It wasn't a gingerbread Victorian but a more simple Victorian. It was very nice. I work in film and TV production as an electrician on locations for shooting and I get to work in and on some of the most amazing old mansions and new ones as well, but places in the old neighborhoodslike West Adams , Hancock Park both outside of and inside of the gates, mansions in Pasadena, and Beverly Hills, Los Feliz, I attended a party at Pickfair Manor I've been at parties at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, I've worked inside and outside of Greystone Manor also known as Doheney Mansion, I've worked in and outside of the F.L. Wright Jr home he built on Franklin Ave the Sowell House which looks like an Aztec castle and was the home of the doctor who is believed to be the Black Dahlia murderer. I've worked in and around the other Doheney Mansion downtown on the Mount Saint Mary's University grounds. There are more but I don't recall the names. I've also worked in historical apartment buildings and hotels like the Biltmore and others downtown a Cathedral built in 1920 in Compton that looks like the Taj Mahal with a mausoleum and Cemetery the original cathedral was built in late 1800s there are tombs and crypts from the 1870s and '80s interned there. Have worked in the Wiltern Theater a few times. I am very fortunate to have walked through and done work on these incredible, famous and historical places in L.A.
Yes, I lived in a mansion in the 70s in another state. It was like a rooming house where we all had a bedroom and kitchen but shared bathrooms in the hallways. Really nice house in its day but in dire need of repairs.
I grew up in Los Angeles. As a child I witnessed the demolition of many of the Victorian, Queen Anne, and the Richardsonian mansions which lined Wilshire Boulevard. It was a sad sight to see. The detailed work and the intricate ornamentation were so beautiful. Riding in my grandmother’s car looking out the back seat window allowed me to use my imagination! Each structure was stunning! But every time we drove towards downtown or from downtown to Santa Monica many of the beauties were demolished or in the process of being torn down. It was heartbreaking to see! 😢Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
I grew up in Los Angeles and witnessed untold destruction of the bucolic San Fernando Valley. In 1959, my best friend Randi's grandmother's childhood home, built in 1890 on the corner of Cortine Place and Magnolia Ave., was torn down and an ugly stucco apartment building took its place, still there today. The Ventura Freeway took our house on Sarah St., via Eminent Domain, in 1956. I don't remember the grand mansions of Wilshire Blvd., but I have a dim, early 1950's memory of the old Hollywood Hotel, as we drove past it on Hollywood Blvd. I was in a Bunker Hill mansion for a piano recital, in about 1964, just prior to it being torn down. That entire area had fallen on hard times, with former mansions becoming seedy rooming houses. The 1947 movie, "Criss Cross," was filmed on location on Bunker Hill and you can get a good look at the area when the decline had firmly taken hold, but the area was still vibrant.
My mother grew up in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s. My grandfather worked for Standard oil as an engineer on those oil well pumps that used to be everywhere. Their house disappeared under Dodger Stadium in the 1950s. California has a nasty habit of tearing out the old to build the new. My own house, thankfully, was spared and sits in a beautiful neighborhood full of other 1920s Spanish Colonials. I feel blessed.
@@kays749 I understand you wanting to keep it private and respect it. The greater LA area means, basically half of Southern California. That includes, Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Orange County, San Bernardino County and Riverside County. They are all heavily populated areas as well. For the people that are not familiar with Southern California
Does anyone remember Jack Nicholson's line from the 1930's period film, China Town? "Los Angeles is a small town." My, how things change. The usual order of "progress": build, bulldoze, repeat.
Los Angeles' unofficial motto is "Out with the old and in with the new" I use to live in LA and got tired of the traffic and crime. There's a city nearby that still has preserved mansions, Pasadena, I highly recommend visiting the Huntington Library.
I love the little bit of "humanization" for the Crocker mansion (2:10) provided by the woman (Margaret?) waving at the camera from the upper balcony. So much more affecting than simple brick, stone and timber. Nice. ♥
IT SICKENS ME EVERY TIME I SEE VIDEOS OF THESE MANSIONS BEING DESTROYED. OTHER COUNTRIES HONOR THEIR PAST AND KEEP HISTORY IN THEIR HEARTS. THEY HAVE BUILDINGS HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD. NOT IN THE USA. ITS SAD AND DISGUSTING THAT OUR HISTORY IS NOT KEPT.
Watch "Sunset Boulevard" and you'll see a great lost mansion of Los Angeles -- the William O. Jenkins House (also called the Getty Mansion) which served as Norma Desmond's abode.
The “Sunset Blvd.” house (also used in “Rebel Without a Cause,”) was where Crenshaw dead ended into Wiltshire Blvd. I was a teenager living across the street on Lorraine Blvd. when they filmed “Rebel.” The catering setup was on the old tennis court, which faced Lorraine. Lots of fun for a kid to watch the filming. I remember the scene with Dean and Wood in the swimming pool. The pool had been built for the movie, Sunset Boulevard.” It really was as the scene portrayed - empty and full of leaves. We used to sneak around the property as kids, but never inside. The house was open to sell pieces like the famous staircase, wall tapestries, before demolition. It was demolished to build what was then the Tidewater Oil Building.
When you mentioned homes on Bunker Hill I was hoping you would show a picture of the one my cousin painted. Sadly it wasn’t there. My cousin went there just before they tore down the last few remaining houses still standing. He ended up painting two versions of one home. The first one he gave to his mother (my aunt). My mother kept a newspaper clipping of my cousin winning some type of award for it. I have no idea what happened to that clip. When my mother saw it she wanted one. So, my cousin painted one for her, and now it belongs to me. This one is visually different in the colors. My cousin made it a little bit brighter for my mother, but I am not certain why he made that choice. I think both paintings are equally lovely. The first one was done in circa 1958. The second was hanging on my mother’s wall in circa 1961. My mother’s is now in my home. I enjoyed your video. Thank you.
I was born in LA many years ago. At the time, my parents lived in an apartment on Bunker Hill. Although they later moved out to the San Fernando Valley, I remember going downtown and taking Angel’s Flight many times. Central Market was at the base of the little railroad and sold wonderful products. 😺
"Weather," it's the almost perfect year-round weather that made LA grow, the entertainment industry left NY for LA for the lack of harsh winters -- year round filming. Walteria, a small sub-section of Torrance CA, is said to have some of the best weather in the country. Our local paper is called "The Daily Breeze." Los Angeles grew due to the great weather, BUT today she needs a lot of TLC, mostly in the downtown and metro area.
There's a GREAT LONGING in my spirit for what Los Angeles USE TO BE! I LOVE LA! But what I think I love is "WHAT IT USE TO BE," not what it now is. Thanks for the emotional walk down Nostalgic Lane. Oh, how I wish it still were....😢
It always amazes me the different attitudes towards architecture here in Britain and in the USA. Here we try to preserve our ancient buildings and put laws in place so that they can’t be demolished or mistreated. It’s extraordinary to us that demolishing significant architectural structures is allowed.
There now seems more of a move toward preservation in parts of the US. In California there are communites outside of L.A. city that do encourage preservation. I live in a modest 1913 vernacular home. The city demolished similar homes across the street to put in a shopping center, a convenience for the neighborhood that makes it very walkable. The city has so far discouraged demolishing the remaining homes in favor of rehabilitation or renovation. Some of L.A. City's historic buildings or mansions became flop houses or deteriorated to a point where they could not be refurbished. When residents in an legacy neighborhood no longer keep up their old houses they risk becoming a target for developers.
I respectfully disagree. Born with both British and American citizenship I have lived on three continents and although this video pinpoints how progress changed the residential old money areas in Los Angeles, world-wide, massive tracts of lands in major metropolitan cities have always been at risk of development. We can celebrate the past but also admire civic considerations for the future. Case in point, countless American nouveau riche mansions we're built with interior and exterior materials from estates in England leveled after World War II when this type of rural living was simply not sustainable.
@@user-mv9tt4st9kvery true. The old Victorians on Bunker Hill and around Pico-Union became slums, and they were only worth the land they stood on. The new money became finance and real estate, which can be seen in all the shiny hi-rises on Bunker Hill. Sad, but that's what the developers call "progress." We still have the West Adams district, bungalow heaven in Pasadena, and a few other areas in places like Hollywood near Paramount Studios, Elysian Park, and Mountain Street in Glendale (where there are many 1920's era homes).
I live in the San Fernando Vally in California. I couldn’t agree with you more. I have always found in angering to see so many things torn down, and usually they end up putting something lousy in the space which makes the area look worse. Makes me happy that the UK honors it’s past.
Los Angeles has a lot of older neighborhoods that feature wonderful architecture and the occasional mansion. I lived in Pasadena not far from the designated "Bungalow Heaven" neighborhoods. I commuted to Los Angeles city, Los Angeles' Mid Wilshire, and later the West Side (Century City) for work. A drive along Sixth Street between Western to San Vicente will reveal neighborhoods full of large homes with a few modest mansions tucked among them--it is worth the drive to explore. 😉
Pictured at 0:13 is the Higgins mansion. It was moved in sections, west from its original site just outside of Bunker Hill, to the Hancock Park neighborhood. It's still there on Lucerne and Wilshire and was restored a few years ago.
My Old Friend Lee Chase had one of the oldest houses on that street. By on the corner of 6th. It was the House that belong to the org Designer. Rite behind the the Mayor's home. Less passed at 98 and sweet Anne. Passed at 95. Kids sold the home for only $3.6 Million! Now redone and selling for $6.6 Million. Anne was a Decendt of Mary Lincoln. Unfortunately many homes will be going to Demolition do to New young City council members. 😢😅😮
Can u do a story of the homes by the County hospital east of the 5 n North if the 10? I was trying to buy a Vintage Home for $80.000. Still needed work and bring it up to code. Was another $50.000. 😮 but it fell under Historical codes. So the city was supose to wave that ! NOT! When Karen Bass came in. 😮. They want to tear everything down ! Ugh
LA's track record in the area of historic preservation is unfortunately very poor. "Tear down" seems to be one of the most common terms used in southern California's real estate market.
I,d like that book.Love all the old bungalows in California.Lot of old mansions and victorian's etc here in San Antonio.and many Texas towns Lots of ancient buildings in Europe.They haven't torn everything down.Rekatives in Garmisch have lived in the same house for over 300 years. Shame about these houses
Hi Ken, The Bradbury Mansion fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1929. Angels flight was built in 1901, so it had nothing to do with the mansion's demise.
They have burned down because of primitive wiring or heating sources. And as you were saying property values went up as well. Sad thing is were mostly made of redwood. And some of the old construction methods they used were really not designed to survive. If we could have them now they could of been saved by upgrading to modern methods. Great channel as always
Born with both British and American citizenship I am often not even aware of the proper pronunciation of words until someone points it out! You are correct!!
If you want a quick look at the historic mansions referenced here, just watch some of the old silent comedies of Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Cops etc. especially the chase scenes...These historic homes were everywhere. Moreover, we're not done destroying these houses. It's still on-going. Pickfair, the Harold Lloyd estate etc. The list continues to grow...
Good report, Ken. I always appreciate your backstories. Did you ever find much on the modern log homes? Could you check on some of the historic homes, mansions and missions in San Antonio, TX? My wife and I love the idea of your St. Louis tour -- still a special place in our hearts before returning to my native home of Texas. My mom's family was from St. Louis. I remember finding my great grandmother's home in St. Charles.
Thank you for meticulously explaining the history of Los Angeles. I still find it fascinating the amount of growth over the years that Los Angeles still keep reinventing itself.
I am always fascinated by the humble beginnings of these urban areas. Thank you for showing the early drawings of Los Angeles when it was a village by the river.
Downtown Los Angeles was so unique at the turn of the century, it would be hard to believe it was an American city. The business district was one of a kind. Hope you can do a story on those old buldings. Venice has been done, Pasadena also.
In every major world city I've ever lived I've chosen pre-war residential buildings, but I understand progress. London, New York City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, even Singapore, there is beauty in the expression of architecture, but we need to understand massive metropolitan growth. I work in tourism marketing and it is one segment that definitely celebrates the historic beginnings of cities, but also the gleaming architecture of the future.
I grew up in the Bunker Hill area between the late 1950s until 1973 when we were all evicted. By then the mansions were abandoned and we as kids found them very scary as we thought they were haunted. City officials were merciless as hundreds if not thousands were evicted from their homes through the use of eminent domain. We were scattered all over Los Angeles to start new lives that were not necessarily any better. The area continues to be gentrified with more people being evicted.
LA started off modest but eventually became what it is now, dirt, crowds and high crimes. There's about 4 million people that live here. It takes all day to get anywhere. And we can only look forward to even more people cramming into this city.
Yep, more people and no place to put them. It is getting to be all apartment buildings. Talk about being unattractive! There’s a place in the southern part of The Vally that now is many square miles of nothing but apartments and shopping centers. Not one square foot looks attractive. I’m old enough to have seen it before and watch “the future” happen much to my disappointment. Seems to me you don’t destroy things just to bring in more people. (John Denver had a song saying something about that same last phrase of mine.)
I was living in L.A. in the late 60'swhen they tore down Bunker Hill. We used to sneak in there on weekends and "liberate" wonderful woodwork and leaded glass windows, carpets and fittings galore.
What a spectacular home! My gods, what great artists and visionaries they were back then. where I live there are several historic neighborhoods and the last few decades if house is on land that needs redevelopment or falls in disrepair it is actually moved to new lot from its foundation. Usually the local private college that is known for its fine arts buys them and becomes homes for professors. I love walking these neighborhoods in such awe of even the most minute details made these so eloquent. I never get bored and always find something new on a timeless beauty to appreciate.
Thanks, Ken, for featuring California homes in your series. All four of my grandparents left home (Wisconsin, Ohio, NY, and England) in the mid-1920s and moved to Los Angeles. I have a photo my grandmother took of a 'storybook' style real estate office for the new housing development where her older sister had just bought a house. Nothing like a mansion, but amazing to see the half-finished Spanish and Mock-Tudor style homes with the empty grid of lots behind them. As mentioned below, old Hollywood movies (even the silent ones) must have captured many of these homes. I have an old postcard (sent by my grandfather to his sister in England, and returned to me by my cousins 70+ years later) showing a Richardson style main Courthouse in Los Angeles. I asked my Dad about it, and he said due to decades of earthquakes it was no longer safe. He remembered when it was torn down around the late 1940s. I grew up seeing the one immortalized in both Perry Mason and Dragnet; both shows ran in syndication on TV when I was a kid.
What stood out to me was the Margaret Crocker mansion. I want that mansion on a cliff overlooking the ocean, with a beautiful rhododendron and rose garden, with an orange orchard, and an arboretum.
Any info on mansions of San Fernando Valley? In the 80's there were two in Pacoima. The last was demolished by the end if the 2010's. There were more mid-valley 🤔 Not sure about the Woodland Hills area
Not only sad to lose these beautiful Homes but the absolutely beautiful landscaping they had and some were just so stunning and to think it was all demolished for High rise buildings and paved streets 😢
While it was impossible for L.A. to remain a small city, it is a shame how many glorious mansions disappeared. The city is just one of many where the past has been replaced by the future. Think of Tokyo! Burned down on a regular basis, then bombed into oblivion during WWII, and now replaced by a megalopolis that boggles the mind.
LA grew exponentially and the mansions got in the way. Take a look around Angeles Crest, though. There's a gaggle of beautiful old homes hiding away there.
1. Please understand that homes have a finite life span, no matter how well constructed. 2. The land uses change over time. I remember the dairy on La Cienega and also going to competing dairies in the San Fernando Valley to buy milk in glass bottles in bulk and return the empties. 3. My home was a bean field in 1949. Then, a tract house appeared. Two doors down from me is a new home (same small lot size) that went on sale this year for $6,230,000. The other new house on the corner just had a reduced monthly rental rate of $18,000! My first full time job paid top dollar of $18,000 a year!
Stockton Ca, a city with a population that has a tenth of Los Angeles and about 28 percent of its land total, managed to maintain more victorian homes in its Magnolia historic district known as midtown and turn of the century residences than Los Angeles.
A huge Victorian that seen better days behind our LA home was torn down and replaced with a dingbat apt in the 50's. On the workmen's day off me and a few friends took hatchets and wrecked the inside. One kid found one of those huge old-timey floor radios and built a soapbox racer with it. What him and me did with it is another story. That kid was always building things.
The truth is sad and dark. Old money gets spent Mansions fall into ill repair. People died. Family moved on. Unsavory move in. History is lost and forgotten like Grandpa.
Los Angeles is a victim of horrible city planning and zoning. I was researching a home in West Adams that was listed on a street that I could no longer find. After reading newspapers during the early 1900's I found they let a factory go up amongst a residential neighborhood without any zoning issues. Driving through neighborhoods, many have no charm as they are a mish mash of different types of uses and just ugly. In addition you have the mansions that were built that did not have the best construction or no longer meet earthquake codes. Many homes were built quickly to look good but not to stand the test of time.
Not an Angelino but I wonder what would be if Wilshire Boulevard was instead a tree-lined divided street with a broad, shaded neutral ground with a central promenade and called an Avenue or a Paseo? Those beautiful mansions might still be there today! And don't get me started about Bunker Hill! 😭😭😭
Suprised you didn't include the West Adams historical district, just down the I 10 freeway....many mansions still exsist and have been, for the most part restored
I lived in San Jose and Sunnyvale and Santa Clara and in Santa Theresa for some years and there are some beautiful old Victorian homes throught the area especially Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, Los Gatos, and Saratoga.
In certain early Bunker Hill photos, one can see a mansion right at the top of Angels Flight. 7:00 Probably had already been there 10 or 15 years before the little railway appeared. However, by the 1920's it's gone, making way for even more multi room hotels. I always wondered who's that was ? That house at the very bottom 7:00 ain't no slouch either. Also gone in few more decades from this. ps After watching this again the house in question belongs to Margaret Crocker 2:19.
My thought is: how can you keep your voice so light as you narrate the destruction and devastation of such architectural beauty and its replacement by crude, ugly skyscrapers? 😢
I'll tell you what happened; deindustrialization, the rise of Mediocrity and submediocrity and the worsening of people's attitudes and behavior. And it just gets worse in certain regions of the country.
Oh my goodness! Incredible but true. How foolish it was to tear down those master pieces of architecture! It is devastating to see that done and for what? 8 would say it was Greed with a capital g!
There actually is a lot of history of the indigenous people, tribes and villages of California. You can find the documents and videos online and on RUclips. There have been excavations that are still ongoing and turning out artifacts as recent as 10 or 20 years ago right here in the Playa Vista area of L.A. near the beach between Westchester and Marina Del Rey. The Tongva people lived here for tens of thousands of years, some even lived on Santa Catalina Island and the Channel Islands. There were tribes all over the L.A. basin and out in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys and all over every part of California. They lived here when there were still Grizzly Bears and wolves in Los Angeles
You know any indigenous people who built or lived in Victorian mansions? This video has a theme and it is not about how the white man stole the Indians land.
@@trailrider7046 ---- some people just have to be a victim or create one, when people are having public conversations about any subject. Some Troll was trying to tell me I was wrong about how Native American tribes were not living peaceful with other tribes and that they were colonizing other tribe's lands because the hunting and or farming was better, the slaying of all the men and boys and enslaving the women, thousands of years before White men showed up. Same all around the world. And this person said I didn't know what I was talking about and I was wrong. Hahahaha
@@13_13k Sounds similar to all the people protesting against Isreal but who couldn't intelligently verbalize why apart from 'they took the Palestinian people's land and the people in Gaza are suffering.'
@@trailrider7046 --- well, that's the Left's tactic and m.o. . They bring up a subject that could be anything, "no more oil", or "Vote for Kamala because what she stands for" ... then you ask them if they know that the world would cease to exist as we know it in the worst possible ways without oil? As they are wearing nylon jackets and fake rubber and fake leather hiking boots, and their cell phone and their backpack and the vehicle they used to get from home to their rally , (electric or gasoline) are all products made from oil and or biproducts of oil. Ask them what are the policies Kamala has endorsed and have they helped anyone? What's the Democrat party pushing this election that will help the country ? What have they taljed about at the conventions? Oh, how super orange Trump is and how evil he will be and save democracy as their votes for Joe were thrown away and Kamala pushed in his place with no votes. Because that's democratic. That's when they suddenly have to go abd don't want to talk about it right now, or "you're crazy, you don't know anything, I'm leaving" There you have it.
Well all these California's & people fleeing here! Plus others fleeing big city's our iconic homes are disappearing along with farm land fresh fruit & vegetables meat air! Our mountains being trashed by million dollar mansions some even more expensive sliding down mountains not even being moved into before it happens! Thier modern high rise apartment's which are not only fire hazards but also structurally unsafe(death traps) traffic jams as roads here not built for all the traffic! It sucks here we liked where we live! Stay where you are you've ruined your cities stop ruining not only our town's but also our mountains!
New York City also had its share of mansions…. Not a 100% sure of accuracy but I think they were somewhere in Midtown and others were on fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park… A lot were torn down in place for expensive apartment buildings .. I think this took place in the 1920s.
Oh to have lived one hundred years ago and to have seen what Los Angeles looked like. Heaven. Clean air. Lots of citrus and blooming flowers year round. Glorious climate. Thanks for a walk through the wayback machine. "This House" never dissapoints.
Thankfully we have pictures.
My uncle told me that the air was sooty due to people burning their rubbish.
We see grand Victorian home like this today and think they’re eternal. This video shows just how fragile even the most ambitious projects and greatest wealths really are.
Hi Ken, as a native Angelino whose done too much research on the Downtown / Bunker Hill area, I can tell you that by the 40s and 50s, many of the prosperous families that didn't have descendants who wanted the properties had to pass them on to housekeepers or caretakers. The mansions were turned into apartments so that people could afford to live in them. Most of them fell into disrepair by the 60s and 70s and had unfortunately become slums. By the mid 60s, local officials got obsessed with modernizing the area to "clean it up" and build more high rise buildings, demolishing mansions that people could not afford to move to places like Heritage Square to save them. I'm so grateful that the homes on Carroll Ave were left alone! There are some historical neighborhoods and random homes around L.A. that can still be appreciated, but it still breaks my heart what they did to Bunker Hill 😭
Thanks for the info.
Thank you. This is the kind of detail I was hoping for in the video, instead of ‘they tore them down and built high rises’
Yes, it is a shame that so many incredible homes were just demolished. Some forward thinkers were smart enough to salvage details from some of those homes like crown moldings, fireplace mantels, doors and stairrails, hardware like doorknobs, and handles for cabinets.
Grew up at the beach near LAX and when LAX bought out all the homes at the end of the runways off Vista Del Mar Lane there were some very old mansions, some did get moved only a few blocks away and others further away. But most were destroyed. A few remained empty and just shells of a house when I was a kid and you could walk inside a couple of them.
I now live downtown in the Westlake District only blocks from Bunker Hill and a mile from Echo Park. 40 years ago as a teenager my girlfriend and I stayed the night at a bed and breakfast, one of the very first ones on Carroll or Lake I don't remember which. It wasn't a gingerbread Victorian but a more simple Victorian. It was very nice.
I work in film and TV production as an electrician on locations for shooting and I get to work in and on some of the most amazing old mansions and new ones as well, but places in the old neighborhoodslike West Adams , Hancock Park both outside of and inside of the gates, mansions in Pasadena, and Beverly Hills, Los Feliz, I attended a party at Pickfair Manor I've been at parties at the Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, I've worked inside and outside of Greystone Manor also known as Doheney Mansion, I've worked in and outside of the F.L. Wright Jr home he built on Franklin Ave the Sowell House which looks like an Aztec castle and was the home of the doctor who is believed to be the Black Dahlia murderer. I've worked in and around the other Doheney Mansion downtown on the Mount Saint Mary's University grounds. There are more but I don't recall the names. I've also worked in historical apartment buildings and hotels like the Biltmore and others downtown a Cathedral built in 1920 in Compton that looks like the Taj Mahal with a mausoleum and Cemetery the original cathedral was built in late 1800s there are tombs and crypts from the 1870s and '80s interned there.
Have worked in the Wiltern Theater a few times.
I am very fortunate to have walked through and done work on these incredible, famous and historical places in L.A.
Yes, I lived in a mansion in the 70s in another state. It was like a rooming house where we all had a bedroom and kitchen but shared bathrooms in the hallways. Really nice house in its day but in dire need of repairs.
I grew up in Los Angeles. As a child I witnessed the demolition of many of the Victorian, Queen Anne, and the Richardsonian mansions which lined Wilshire Boulevard. It was a sad sight to see. The detailed work and the intricate ornamentation were so beautiful. Riding in my grandmother’s car looking out the back seat window allowed me to use my imagination! Each structure was stunning! But every time we drove towards downtown or from downtown to Santa Monica many of the beauties were demolished or in the process of being torn down. It was heartbreaking to see! 😢Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
I grew up in Los Angeles and witnessed untold destruction of the bucolic San Fernando Valley. In 1959, my best friend Randi's grandmother's childhood home, built in 1890 on the corner of Cortine Place and Magnolia Ave., was torn down and an ugly stucco apartment building took its place, still there today. The Ventura Freeway took our house on Sarah St., via Eminent Domain, in 1956. I don't remember the grand mansions of Wilshire Blvd., but I have a dim, early 1950's memory of the old Hollywood Hotel, as we drove past it on Hollywood Blvd. I was in a Bunker Hill mansion for a piano recital, in about 1964, just prior to it being torn down. That entire area had fallen on hard times, with former mansions becoming seedy rooming houses. The 1947 movie, "Criss Cross," was filmed on location on Bunker Hill and you can get a good look at the area when the decline had firmly taken hold, but the area was still vibrant.
My mother grew up in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s. My grandfather worked for Standard oil as an engineer on those oil well pumps that used to be everywhere. Their house disappeared under Dodger Stadium in the 1950s. California has a nasty habit of tearing out the old to build the new. My own house, thankfully, was spared and sits in a beautiful neighborhood full of other 1920s Spanish Colonials. I feel blessed.
You are blessed.
Where is your house? (what area)
@@real_hello_kitty Let's just say it's the greater LA area.
@@kays749 I understand you wanting to keep it private and respect it. The greater LA area means, basically half of Southern California. That includes, Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Orange County, San Bernardino County and Riverside County. They are all heavily populated areas as well. For the people that are not familiar with Southern California
@@aiver.a Yes.
So much character in those old homes. Id choose one of those over one of the new ones in a heartbeat.
Oh, yes! Same here! No matter how architecturally designed!
Does anyone remember Jack Nicholson's line from the 1930's period film, China Town?
"Los Angeles is a small town."
My, how things change.
The usual order of "progress": build, bulldoze, repeat.
Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown.
@@NinjaRunningWild 👌
There is a pocket of beautiful Victorian homes in Los Angeles on Carroll Avenue. Worth a look if you're near LA.
My grandfather used to own the house at 1320 Carroll Avenue. They sold it in the 70’s for less than $100k!
Los Angeles' unofficial motto is "Out with the old and in with the new"
I use to live in LA and got tired of the traffic and crime. There's a city nearby that still has preserved mansions, Pasadena, I highly recommend visiting the Huntington Library.
They should refine that to: "Out with the old treasure, in with the new garbage."
(Miami suffers from the same motto)
I agree with you, the Huntington is great.
Love that library. I think Wingate still exists. Lived near it as a kid. Knew the owners in the kate 70s El cerrito circle.
I love the little bit of "humanization" for the Crocker mansion (2:10) provided by the woman (Margaret?) waving at the camera from the upper balcony. So much more affecting than simple brick, stone and timber. Nice. ♥
Yes, so nice! 💗💗💗
IT SICKENS ME EVERY TIME I SEE VIDEOS OF THESE MANSIONS BEING DESTROYED. OTHER COUNTRIES HONOR THEIR PAST AND KEEP HISTORY IN THEIR HEARTS. THEY HAVE BUILDINGS HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD. NOT IN THE USA. ITS SAD AND DISGUSTING THAT OUR HISTORY IS NOT KEPT.
I agree with every capitalized you posted. Just plain sad😢
The USA is not a "country" it's a business😢
Quite a few were wiped out by earthquake and fire, too. I agree that it's so sad.
Watch "Sunset Boulevard" and you'll see a great lost mansion of Los Angeles -- the William O. Jenkins House (also called the Getty Mansion) which served as Norma Desmond's abode.
Thanks. I didn’t know this.
The “Sunset Blvd.” house (also used in “Rebel Without a Cause,”) was where Crenshaw dead ended into Wiltshire Blvd. I was a teenager living across the street on Lorraine Blvd. when they filmed “Rebel.” The catering setup was on the old tennis court, which faced Lorraine. Lots of fun for a kid to watch the filming. I remember the scene with Dean and Wood in the swimming pool. The pool had been built for the movie, Sunset Boulevard.” It really was as the scene portrayed - empty and full of leaves. We used to sneak around the property as kids, but never inside. The house was open to sell pieces like the famous staircase, wall tapestries, before demolition. It was demolished to build what was then the Tidewater Oil Building.
@@ericthorson3246 Wow! What a cool experience that was, thanks for sharing!
When you mentioned homes on Bunker Hill I was hoping you would show a picture of the one my cousin painted. Sadly it wasn’t there. My cousin went there just before they tore down the last few remaining houses still standing. He ended up painting two versions of one home. The first one he gave to his mother (my aunt). My mother kept a newspaper clipping of my cousin winning some type of award for it. I have no idea what happened to that clip. When my mother saw it she wanted one. So, my cousin painted one for her, and now it belongs to me. This one is visually different in the colors. My cousin made it a little bit brighter for my mother, but I am not certain why he made that choice. I think both paintings are equally lovely. The first one was done in circa 1958. The second was hanging on my mother’s wall in circa 1961. My mother’s is now in my home. I enjoyed your video. Thank you.
I was born in LA many years ago. At the time, my parents lived in an apartment on Bunker Hill. Although they later moved out to the San Fernando Valley, I remember going downtown and taking Angel’s Flight many times. Central Market was at the base of the little railroad and sold wonderful products. 😺
I wish we still had the trollies! 😢
"Weather," it's the almost perfect year-round weather that made LA grow, the entertainment industry left NY for LA for the lack of harsh winters -- year round filming.
Walteria, a small sub-section of Torrance CA, is said to have some of the best weather in the country. Our local paper is called "The Daily Breeze." Los Angeles grew due to the great weather, BUT today she needs a lot of TLC, mostly in the downtown and metro area.
There's a GREAT LONGING in my spirit for what Los Angeles USE TO BE!
I LOVE LA! But what I think I love is "WHAT IT USE TO BE," not what it now is.
Thanks for the emotional walk down Nostalgic Lane.
Oh, how I wish it still were....😢
It always amazes me the different attitudes towards architecture here in Britain and in the USA. Here we try to preserve our ancient buildings and put laws in place so that they can’t be demolished or mistreated. It’s extraordinary to us that demolishing significant architectural structures is allowed.
There now seems more of a move toward preservation in parts of the US. In California there are communites outside of L.A. city that do encourage preservation. I live in a modest 1913 vernacular home. The city demolished similar homes across the street to put in a shopping center, a convenience for the neighborhood that makes it very walkable. The city has so far discouraged demolishing the remaining homes in favor of rehabilitation or renovation. Some of L.A. City's historic buildings or mansions became flop houses or deteriorated to a point where they could not be refurbished. When residents in an legacy neighborhood no longer keep up their old houses they risk becoming a target for developers.
@@user-mv9tt4st9k I’m so happy to hear that! We no longer have the skills and craftsmanship to recreate these wonderful buildings.
I respectfully disagree. Born with both British and American citizenship I have lived on three continents and although this video pinpoints how progress changed the residential old money areas in Los Angeles, world-wide, massive tracts of lands in major metropolitan cities have always been at risk of development. We can celebrate the past but also admire civic considerations for the future.
Case in point, countless American nouveau riche mansions we're built with interior and exterior materials from estates in England leveled after World War II when this type of rural living was simply not sustainable.
@@user-mv9tt4st9kvery true. The old Victorians on Bunker Hill and around Pico-Union became slums, and they were only worth the land they stood on. The new money became finance and real estate, which can be seen in all the shiny hi-rises on Bunker Hill. Sad, but that's what the developers call "progress." We still have the West Adams district, bungalow heaven in Pasadena, and a few other areas in places like Hollywood near Paramount Studios, Elysian Park, and Mountain Street in Glendale (where there are many 1920's era homes).
I live in the San Fernando Vally in California. I couldn’t agree with you more. I have always found in angering to see so many things torn down, and usually they end up putting something lousy in the space which makes the area look worse. Makes me happy that the UK honors it’s past.
Los Angeles has a lot of older neighborhoods that feature wonderful architecture and the occasional mansion. I lived in Pasadena not far from the designated "Bungalow Heaven" neighborhoods. I commuted to Los Angeles city, Los Angeles' Mid Wilshire, and later the West Side (Century City) for work. A drive along Sixth Street between Western to San Vicente will reveal neighborhoods full of large homes with a few modest mansions tucked among them--it is worth the drive to explore. 😉
The neighborhood bordered by Melrose and Wilshire between Gower and Highland is still full of beautiful old homes as well.
You're talking about Hancock Park
How far our architecture has fallen. Just boxes nowadays. What a sad reflection
Nice summary of Los Angeles' history. Pasadena's craftsmen houses are well preserved at least.
Pictured at 0:13 is the Higgins mansion. It was moved in sections, west from its original site just outside of Bunker Hill, to the Hancock Park neighborhood. It's still there on Lucerne and Wilshire and was restored a few years ago.
My Old Friend Lee Chase had one of the oldest houses on that street. By on the corner of 6th. It was the House that belong to the org Designer. Rite behind the the Mayor's home. Less passed at 98 and sweet Anne. Passed at 95. Kids sold the home for only $3.6 Million! Now redone and selling for $6.6 Million. Anne was a Decendt of Mary Lincoln. Unfortunately many homes will be going to Demolition do to New young City council members. 😢😅😮
Can u do a story of the homes by the County hospital east of the 5 n North if the 10? I was trying to buy a Vintage Home for $80.000. Still needed work and bring it up to code. Was another $50.000. 😮 but it fell under Historical codes. So the city was supose to wave that ! NOT! When Karen Bass came in. 😮. They want to tear everything down ! Ugh
@@James-ik8yz I know that house well. I used to drive by it every day to work. Thank you for the history!
LA's track record in the area of historic preservation is unfortunately very poor. "Tear down" seems to be one of the most common terms used in southern California's real estate market.
I agree with you. I feel it all looks the worse for the bulldozing of so many things.
SUGGESTION: A BOOK ABOUT THE VINTAGE MANSIONS OF LOS ANGLES.
I,d like that book.Love all the old bungalows in California.Lot of old mansions and victorian's etc here in San Antonio.and many Texas towns Lots of ancient buildings in Europe.They haven't torn everything down.Rekatives in Garmisch have lived in the same house for over 300 years. Shame about these houses
Hi Ken, The Bradbury Mansion fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1929. Angels flight was built in 1901, so it had nothing to do with the mansion's demise.
They have burned down because of primitive wiring or heating sources. And as you were saying property values went up as well. Sad thing is were mostly made of redwood. And some of the old construction methods they used were really not designed to survive. If we could have them now they could of been saved by upgrading to modern methods. Great channel as always
Hi Ken! I'm still in awe of your research skills & European pronunciations ❤
Born with both British and American citizenship I am often not even aware of the proper pronunciation of words until someone points it out! You are correct!!
As the population grew sprawling estates couldn't be maintained as the property values increased.
There should be large pictures with historical descriptions lining the streets of all the glorious old mansions.
Thank you Ken 🙏☺️
If you want a quick look at the historic mansions referenced here, just watch some of the old silent comedies of Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Cops etc. especially the chase scenes...These historic homes were everywhere. Moreover, we're not done destroying these houses. It's still on-going. Pickfair, the Harold Lloyd estate etc. The list continues to grow...
buildings were so decorative in the past. today they are generic monstrosities, like a cracker with out salt....plain.
Good report, Ken. I always appreciate your backstories. Did you ever find much on the modern log homes? Could you check on some of the historic homes, mansions and missions in San Antonio, TX? My wife and I love the idea of your St. Louis tour -- still a special place in our hearts before returning to my native home of Texas. My mom's family was from St. Louis. I remember finding my great grandmother's home in St. Charles.
Awesomeness, I Love the History. Thank you Brother🙏
Thank you for meticulously explaining the history of Los Angeles. I still find it fascinating the amount of growth over the years that Los Angeles still keep reinventing itself.
I am always fascinated by the humble beginnings of these urban areas. Thank you for showing the early drawings of Los Angeles when it was a village by the river.
Downtown Los Angeles was so unique at the turn of the century, it would be hard to believe it was an American city. The business district was one of a kind. Hope you can do a story on those old buldings. Venice has been done, Pasadena also.
The Los Angeles Conservancy is a local nonprofit with a mission to preserve some of our architectural heritage.
In every major world city I've ever lived I've chosen pre-war residential buildings, but I understand progress. London, New York City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, even Singapore, there is beauty in the expression of architecture, but we need to understand massive metropolitan growth.
I work in tourism marketing and it is one segment that definitely celebrates the historic beginnings of cities, but also the gleaming architecture of the future.
I grew up in the Bunker Hill area between the late 1950s until 1973 when we were all evicted. By then the mansions were abandoned and we as kids found them very scary as we thought they were haunted. City officials were merciless as hundreds if not thousands were evicted from their homes through the use of eminent domain. We were scattered all over Los Angeles to start new lives that were not necessarily any better. The area continues to be gentrified with more people being evicted.
I’m surprised no mention of Heritage Square Museum where so many mansions were saved
LA started off modest but eventually became what it is now, dirt, crowds and high crimes. There's about 4 million people that live here. It takes all day to get anywhere. And we can only look forward to even more people cramming into this city.
Yep, more people and no place to put them. It is getting to be all apartment buildings. Talk about being unattractive! There’s a place in the southern part of The Vally that now is many square miles of nothing but apartments and shopping centers. Not one square foot looks attractive. I’m old enough to have seen it before and watch “the future” happen much to my disappointment. Seems to me you don’t destroy things just to bring in more people. (John Denver had a song saying something about that same last phrase of mine.)
@@jayneneewing2369 I agree.
All foreigners, whom we don't have an obligation to allow to flood us.
I was living in L.A. in the late 60'swhen they tore down Bunker Hill. We used to sneak in there on weekends and "liberate" wonderful woodwork and leaded glass windows, carpets and fittings galore.
What a spectacular home! My gods, what great artists and visionaries they were back then. where I live there are several historic neighborhoods and the last few decades if house is on land that needs redevelopment or falls in disrepair it is actually moved to new lot from its foundation. Usually the local private college that is known for its fine arts buys them and becomes homes for professors. I love walking these neighborhoods in such awe of even the most minute details made these so eloquent. I never get bored and always find something new on a timeless beauty to appreciate.
This was absolutely fascinating. Love the old history of LA.
Thanks, Ken, for featuring California homes in your series. All four of my grandparents left home (Wisconsin, Ohio, NY, and England) in the mid-1920s and moved to Los Angeles. I have a photo my grandmother took of a 'storybook' style real estate office for the new housing development where her older sister had just bought a house. Nothing like a mansion, but amazing to see the half-finished Spanish and Mock-Tudor style homes with the empty grid of lots behind them. As mentioned below, old Hollywood movies (even the silent ones) must have captured many of these homes. I have an old postcard (sent by my grandfather to his sister in England, and returned to me by my cousins 70+ years later) showing a Richardson style main Courthouse in Los Angeles. I asked my Dad about it, and he said due to decades of earthquakes it was no longer safe. He remembered when it was torn down around the late 1940s. I grew up seeing the one immortalized in both Perry Mason and Dragnet; both shows ran in syndication on TV when I was a kid.
What stood out to me was the Margaret Crocker mansion. I want that mansion on a cliff overlooking the ocean, with a beautiful rhododendron and rose garden, with an orange orchard, and an arboretum.
Any info on mansions of San Fernando Valley? In the 80's there were two in Pacoima. The last was demolished by the end if the 2010's. There were more mid-valley 🤔 Not sure about the Woodland Hills area
Not only sad to lose these beautiful Homes but the absolutely beautiful landscaping they had and some were just so stunning and to think it was all demolished for High rise buildings and paved streets 😢
While it was impossible for L.A. to remain a small city, it is a shame how many glorious mansions disappeared. The city is just one of many where the past has been replaced by the future. Think of Tokyo! Burned down on a regular basis, then bombed into oblivion during WWII, and now replaced by a megalopolis that boggles the mind.
Not to mention Godzilla!
Great video. Love any history and architecture of LA
Thank you! I’ve always been interested in LA area history 🙏
LA grew exponentially and the mansions got in the way. Take a look around Angeles Crest, though. There's a gaggle of beautiful old homes hiding away there.
1. Please understand that homes have a finite life span, no matter how well constructed.
2. The land uses change over time. I remember the dairy on La Cienega and also going to competing dairies in the San Fernando Valley to buy milk in glass bottles in bulk and return the empties.
3. My home was a bean field in 1949. Then, a tract house appeared. Two doors down from me is a new home (same small lot size) that went on sale this year for $6,230,000. The other new house on the corner just had a reduced monthly rental rate of $18,000! My first full time job paid top dollar of $18,000 a year!
Thanks Ken. This was interesting.
The dark mansion at the end was a dorm for students at Mount saint Mary's Doheny campus
Stockton Ca, a city with a population that has a tenth of Los Angeles and about 28 percent of its land total, managed to maintain more victorian homes in its Magnolia historic district known as midtown and turn of the century residences than Los Angeles.
A huge Victorian that seen better days behind our LA home was torn down and replaced with a dingbat apt in the 50's. On the workmen's day off me and a few friends took hatchets and wrecked the inside. One kid found one of those huge old-timey floor radios and built a soapbox racer with it. What him and me did with it is another story. That kid was always building things.
You were a regular Eddie Haskell.
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The truth is sad and dark. Old money gets spent Mansions fall into ill repair. People died. Family moved on. Unsavory move in. History is lost and forgotten like Grandpa.
There are several neighborhoods near downtown with old mansions. Lots have been turned into apartments.
You wouldn't want to live in those areas now.
What ever happened to those beautiful architecture beautiful homes they were really nice looking and pleasant to live.😢
Beautiful houses!
Los Angeles is a victim of horrible city planning and zoning. I was researching a home in West Adams that was listed on a street that I could no longer find. After reading newspapers during the early 1900's I found they let a factory go up amongst a residential neighborhood without any zoning issues. Driving through neighborhoods, many have no charm as they are a mish mash of different types of uses and just ugly. In addition you have the mansions that were built that did not have the best construction or no longer meet earthquake codes. Many homes were built quickly to look good but not to stand the test of time.
The house in the thumbnail looks a lot like the exterior of the house in Charmed, which is in LA.
Not an Angelino but I wonder what would be if Wilshire Boulevard was instead a tree-lined divided street with a broad, shaded neutral ground with a central promenade and called an Avenue or a Paseo? Those beautiful mansions might still be there today!
And don't get me started about Bunker Hill! 😭😭😭
Suprised you didn't include the West Adams historical district, just down the I 10 freeway....many mansions still exsist and have been, for the most part restored
I used to live in San Jose near the Winchester house.
I lived in San Jose and Sunnyvale and Santa Clara and in Santa Theresa for some years and there are some beautiful old Victorian homes throught the area especially Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, Los Gatos, and Saratoga.
In certain early Bunker Hill photos, one can see a mansion right at the top of Angels Flight. 7:00 Probably had already been there 10 or 15 years before the little railway appeared. However, by the 1920's it's gone, making way for even more multi room hotels. I always wondered who's that was ? That house at the very bottom 7:00 ain't no slouch either. Also gone in few more decades from this. ps After watching this again the house in question belongs to Margaret Crocker 2:19.
There are many on Third west to Fairfax.
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My thought is: how can you keep your voice so light as you narrate the destruction and devastation of such architectural beauty and its replacement by crude, ugly skyscrapers? 😢
Come to riverside ca there are plenty of them
I wish I lived back then
I'll tell you what happened; deindustrialization, the rise of Mediocrity and submediocrity and the worsening of people's attitudes and behavior. And it just gets worse in certain regions of the country.
Great video tour of Los Angeles. My favorite is the De Longpre house - so distinctive. I really wish that one had survived!
I just wish they wouldn't tear down all these mansions
Once the best of the best, now the worst of the worst.
Oh my goodness! Incredible but true. How foolish it was to tear down those master pieces of architecture! It is devastating to see that done and for what? 8 would say it was Greed with a capital g!
Quite a few left Angelini Heights
I agree.
did they have sewer system in place?
What happened to Marion Davis Beach House?
A lot were razed in The name of development some can be found off The pasadena fwy off of ave 43 in los angeles
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Not a mention of the Natives of the land we know as California. As if there were no indigenous people on the land before the spanish showed up.
There actually is a lot of history of the indigenous people, tribes and villages of California. You can find the documents and videos online and on RUclips.
There have been excavations that are still ongoing and turning out artifacts as recent as 10 or 20 years ago right here in the Playa Vista area of L.A. near the beach between Westchester and Marina Del Rey. The Tongva people lived here for tens of thousands of years, some even lived on Santa Catalina Island and the Channel Islands. There were tribes all over the L.A. basin and out in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys and all over every part of California.
They lived here when there were still Grizzly Bears and wolves in Los Angeles
You know any indigenous people who built or lived in Victorian mansions?
This video has a theme and it is not about how the white man stole the Indians land.
@@trailrider7046 ---- some people just have to be a victim or create one, when people are having public conversations about any subject.
Some Troll was trying to tell me I was wrong about how Native American tribes were not living peaceful with other tribes and that they were colonizing other tribe's lands because the hunting and or farming was better, the slaying of all the men and boys and enslaving the women, thousands of years before White men showed up. Same all around the world. And this person said I didn't know what I was talking about and I was wrong. Hahahaha
@@13_13k Sounds similar to all the people protesting against Isreal but who couldn't intelligently verbalize why apart from 'they took the Palestinian people's land and the people in Gaza are suffering.'
@@trailrider7046 --- well, that's the Left's tactic and m.o. . They bring up a subject that could be anything, "no more oil", or "Vote for Kamala because what she stands for" ... then you ask them if they know that the world would cease to exist as we know it in the worst possible ways without oil? As they are wearing nylon jackets and fake rubber and fake leather hiking boots, and their cell phone and their backpack and the vehicle they used to get from home to their rally , (electric or gasoline) are all products made from oil and or biproducts of oil.
Ask them what are the policies Kamala has endorsed and have they helped anyone? What's the Democrat party pushing this election that will help the country ? What have they taljed about at the conventions? Oh, how super orange Trump is and how evil he will be and save democracy as their votes for Joe were thrown away and Kamala pushed in his place with no votes. Because that's democratic.
That's when they suddenly have to go abd don't want to talk about it right now, or "you're crazy, you don't know anything, I'm leaving"
There you have it.
Well all these California's & people fleeing here! Plus others fleeing big city's our iconic homes are disappearing along with farm land fresh fruit & vegetables meat air! Our mountains being trashed by million dollar mansions some even more expensive sliding down mountains not even being moved into before it happens! Thier modern high rise apartment's which are not only fire hazards but also structurally unsafe(death traps) traffic jams as roads here not built for all the traffic! It sucks here we liked where we live! Stay where you are you've ruined your cities stop ruining not only our town's but also our mountains!
I was born in the wrong century...
you don't see those beautiful homes because Los Angeles has no sense of its own history. money talks and history walks.
New York City also had its share of mansions…. Not a 100% sure of accuracy but I think they were somewhere in Midtown and others were on fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park… A lot were torn down in place for expensive apartment buildings .. I think this took place in the 1920s.
We have covered so many mansions in Manhattan: ruclips.net/p/PL5qQ4DHDutfvHPoJVr7yKnA-NUexZi5AV
TOO HIGH TAXES AND HORRIFIC GOVERMENT
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Effing AI voice!!
I miss the 1800s ~1940s ,anything built after that time era ..sucks!!!👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
MSM history, LOL.
Who cares cali blows
It’s a shame that Los Angeles has torn down its history. So much is gone, even the Googie dinners from the 50s are disappearing.