I always appreciate your willingness to pronounce names and places right! Those names have cultural significance and they deserve the respect of people at least attempting to pronounce them properly.
@@eminemfan50098 it's sometimes funny, but overall it looks disrespectful and quite frankly lazy AF! Especially when they don't even try... like Bailey [dark history] fuks shit up quite often but she at least tries not to. But I think she only speaks English- so that can make it hard to know the sounds of letters and vowels in foreign languages make...
@@danysanerd2383 Not sure about that. She seems to have grown up there. Speaking as someone who also grew up there, you get a lot of exposure to Spanish and Spanish pronunciation.
I live in Venice and what's going on with the architecture here is breaking my damn heart. Interesting old properties being stripped down to the bare bones or completely torn down and then turned into hideous shoe boxes and prices hiked up at least two to three times what they're worth to price out the people that have always lived there..... Should be a crime. I'm at the point where I don't even hate that my place is built in the 70s because at least it has *some* appeal compared to the even worse stuff that's being thrown out. The canals are so depressing now to see some of the beautiful older homes bookended my these glass, metal, and veneer coated monstrosities. But maybe as time wears on and those ugly things get torn down and replaced with whatever the new thing is to replace them with, and their rarity increases as a result, future generations will lament their loss like I lament the loss of the pre-60s things.....
had a California history class about how Hollywood specifically was built as a sort of paradise for people who were tired of the industrialism and work focus in the east. it's so interesting to see that reflected here!
I've seen Lucy the elephant in person dozens of times and I knew it was old but I had no idea it was the oldest building of its kind in the US. That's so interesting.
Fascinating! I know there is a “Witch House” and other architectural oddities linked to the film industry in LA, but the history of these places and the city itself is so interesting. I live in San Francisco but despite the rivalry love the oddity of LA and Long Beach. I really appreciated the context and the whole story!
My boyfriend grew up in redondo…most of the sites are gone, the era has moved on. There uses to be so much! There was a chapel culture too, cute interesting novelty chapels where you could have elvis impersonators officiate your ceremony…very vegas. The hollywood machine said, more modernity, big and new and shiny! Great vid. Fascinating and well done
Mx Rowe, no matter the subject matter, no matter how little interest I think I have in a subject (prior to watching one of your videos, of course), watching your videos inspires in me a desire to explore further into subjects I didn’t know I was interested in. Thank you for sharing your research and storytelling talents! You truly inspire me to learn more. Blessed be.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley & lived pretty close to a lot of the resturaunts you mentioned :) there used to be a camera store shaped like a camera right next to Idle Hour I went into a lot as a child before it went under (it's a resturaunt now and you wouldn't recognize the shape unless it was pointed out to you) I really appreciate how well researched and compassionate this video is and it really struck a chord with me as it encompasses so many of my own feelings and also teaches about LA history which not enough people know about!! its so important ! anyway thank you for making this video!! we need more things shaped like things for the community as a whole :^)
What the heck this channel is so underrated? I just got recommended a video and the quality and editing is just *chefs kiss* and they're so interesting and informative! RUclips pls fix your algorithm
This channel is one of the best rabbit holes I've gone down. I really appreciate the work and research you've put into these very informative and interesting videos.
I’m convinced you can make literally any topic interesting! I saw the title and tbh I had no interest in the topic but I’ve seen almost all of your other videos already so I said what the hell and sure enough, interesting and enjoyable. You’re a gem!
Here in my little town in AZ we still have one of these boat restaurants hanging around. It's been used as a Church donation and AID center for as long as I've lived here (12 years). Kinda wish I had had a chance to see it as a theme restaurant.
This video was genuinely so interesting, I can’t believe it hasn’t been seen more!! So fascinating to learn about LA’s history and how it was built from the displacement of local peoples. New subscriber here :-)
I also wish Kaz had made a separate video about the Tongva tribe. They bring it up a lot in a video that’s not really about them. I get why Kaz did it the first time toward the beginning of the video, but bringing them up 2 more times when they have very little to do with the subject matter is digressing and off-topic.
It's gone because people take themselves too fucking seriously now. Everyone wants to be oh so unique and special but the reality is that we put ourselves in these neatly defined boxes. We want to be different but not TOO different. Quite simply, there are too many sticks in the mud with sticks up their asses walking around.
So many of those buildings were so fun and cool, and I never even knew they existed to begin with!!! and I love your editing style, the transitions are really fun owo
This is a great video! I've always been really into this sort of campy architecture but I never thought to wonder why it vanished. I hope your channel blows up soon! It seems like a lot of us are getting recommended your videos :D
There's a few of these in my state, Pennsylvania, mostly shut down but they survive as ruins. I remember my dad driving out of his way on a road trip to show us a closed coffee place shaped like a coffee cup.
There’s plenty of places like this in Branson Missouri still haha. I am so glad I found your channel. I was looking everywhere for an entertaining history type channel that went into the niche interesting things I always wanted to know more about❤ thank you for putting all the time and effort this channel takes and posting it
So old LA used to look like a random Minecraft server shared with friends with its random builds/architecture/colors/styles that doesn't match each other but still fits, space between builds, and a rail system connecting everything?
This video was great! Of course it's impossible to list or talk about them all, but I have to mention one of my favorites programmic structures--The Burger That Ate LA. Unique because it came into being in the 70s/80s--it was a burger place on Melrose that depicted a giant burger taking a bite out of city hall. Now it's a Starbucks and the burger is gone but the city hall part of the façade is still visible.
im not from the usa so my first encounter with novelty architecture was in rocko's modern life which i watched as a wee bebe. absolutely delighted to see those silly buildings actually exist/existed!!
I also wish Kaz had made a separate video about the Tongva tribe. They bring it up a lot in a video that’s not really about them. I get why Kaz did it the first time toward the beginning of the video, but bringing them up 2 more times when they have very little to do with the subject matter is digressing and off-topic.
Being retired…am indulging myself by watching one of your wonderful videos every day….. on the 10 year life expectancy difference; Still are cities in the USA with 10 years difference in life expectancy. At least, according to Google. I remember as a youngster that Pittsburgh had a particularly low life expectancy; and I know sadly many reservations still have a horribly low life expectancy. I given the level of pollution as rivers, catching on fire, etc. I would not be surprised if the difference between a big city, and Los Angeles, or any Rural area was much greater than 10 years back then.
I know I’m like two years late, but this just got recommended to me, and this was such an interesting video! Makes me sad to see how many of these kitschy buildings no longer exist. But the windmill building you showed is still there! It’s a Denny’s now. We used to go there after high school dances, so seeing it’s original form brought so many wonderful memories back. I hope one day there’ll be a mass revival of this kind of style.
There is a book called California Crazy & Beyond by Jim Heimann that talks in more detail about all these type of buildings. It can be found on amazon. Also one building you forgot to mention maybe because it is not in L.A. is Dinny the Dinosaur in Cabazon along with the T-Rex building in the same lot. Dinny is a gift shop on the inside for the creationist museum. Both buildings have been in several films and commercials over the years.
My mother and I went to LA in 2016, and spent a couple days admiring the Art Deco architecture in downtown. The Biltmore Hotel made an amazing home base. I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention those, but it was still fascinating.
18:00 mins in - *father slaps son in the mouth "listen kido in the house we respect the suburban sprawl, we live and breathe by the mighty will of GM!" i know we can't hear what he said but it's what he said.
Yes! I go to LA for vacations. I have never got into the history of the city itself. Beside Olvera Street. As much as i wanted to go to another city to check out, i want to check out these historical places in LA about LA. Thank you. Great video!!
Growing up, I wanted to live in California so badly. Especially LA. Filled with the images of fantasy from movies and novels from Francisca Lia Block. Then I grew up and learned that most things I wanted to see were no longer there, natural land being destined for destruction and the old magic is almost entirely lost.
Oh man, great video, info, footage, and editing. Didn't expect to spend my past half hour this way. LA is special, and ...uniquely LA. I'm smitten with the PeeWee Cabazon dinosaurs outside of Palm Springs, and the remaining Brady Bunch mid-century ranch-style architecture, smattered about.
Interesting! I lived in LA for 4 years, and I'm always trying to put my finger on what makes the culture there so different. To know its heritage and history puts my modern LA experience into perspective.
I grew up in South Pasadena. The city founded by the Cawston Ostrich Ranch. I remember the Derby, Tail of the Pup, and many MANY Tiki bars and restaurants. I miss those days when L.A. was a quirky collection of Googie and Dingbat cafe's and apartments. By the end of the 80s, I'd had enough and left for the Southwest where myself and my memories of 60s and 70s L.A. are fading. It's a pity. I'd love a juice drink at a giant orange or a hotdog vended from a giant hotdog! But "progress" moves along like an unstoppable escalator we can't seem to find a way off of. Thanks for the memories.
I must say that novelty architecture seems so fun! Sadly I don't think there is (or was) any in my country :C I would love to visit US, just for that novelty architecture ;___;
There's a district of buildings like this in Portland, along Sandy Blvd. Many of them are gone but a few of those novelty buildings survive. There's one that looks like a jug, one that has an Arabesque thing going, a Mission revival movie palace, and even a Catholic sculpture garden at the very end of it. There's probably others but those are the ones that come immediately to mind.
oh! 😍 I was so excited when they started to renovate Idle Hour -- this was a really fascinating video! I'm glad to have learned about its place in local history.
Loved this look down memory lane. West LA had their own culture and iconic landmarks.Of course 77 Sunset Strip was immortalized in the TV series starring Ed "Kookie" Burns. Near there the Hanna Barberra cartoon studios had large rotating Bullmoose and across the street a large Las Vegas billboard had a large showgirl slowly spinning on the top. It was in the front yard of The Body Shop, no not the fragrance store. It was a strip club. Thursday night was drag night. When I first arrived I saw a snack stand called Snak-O-Rama and for some reason thought they served snake meat. Thanks for all your hard work.
The entire way through this I was thinking it’s like the traffic cones in cars, I did not realise that was based on an actual place but I appreciate that I understood the assignment
Great video, was fascinated by them when i saw them on the historyofla IG. I think its time to bring mimic and programmatic architecture back to L A tbh.
...There are actually more themed restaurants than this, just with no performers. Garlic Rose, Lawrys, Yamashiro, 71Above; all of these flirt with being "themed" heavier than you'll find in most other cities in the world. Good vid.
Thanks for sharing. Having been here for 5 generations (of which I'm the last, even my kids have left), I didn't know a lot of this. I worked at Disney Animation for a stint, as a temp, in the early 2000's.
Maybe the Wigwam motel should B rechristened the Tongva motel, B operated by some Tongva, & have a bit of history added to each room, so people can learn without thinking they're learning.
literally pumped my fist in the air and whooped when you mentioned randy's donuts! in LA county and there's one near my house, just a few blocks away from that one really old mcdonalds actually. its a weird history, the LA area. great video!
Idle hour is great and I really hope they can find a place for Tail of the Dog. Feels like there was more of a move towards interesting signage ala Circus Liquor in Burbank, and there’s a museum dedicated to preserving neon in Glendale since that is also a huge part of post-war Los Angeles.
This is beyond late but Lucy terrified me as a child. My grandma took me there because she used to go as a kid (we live in Texas and we're visiting her mom). But it was huge and kinda freaky looking to 5 year old me and then they made us sit through a documentary about it which to an undiagnosed ADHD kid was torture 😭 looking back I appreciate it but as a kid I loathed Lucy
Well that was a great viedo! grew up in LaLa land and remember some of these buildings even thought many were closed. I remember the Ships sign was that a defunct restaurant?
Here I came upon your video and thought ooh cool novelty architecture but what it left me with was that @ 17:59 the slap to that young boy, wth!!! I hope he grew up ok and not let it affect his life. Still love the overall feel of the video so much information, Thx a bunch!!!
If you love the LA series, you might enjoy this video link P.S I’m loving the quirky LA history… As a LA resident here, LA history in itself is harder to research … it’s there if you really look for it, but it’s not easily accessible Cities like NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco have a more accessible research base I’ve done many history papers (food history, city planning, public transportation, etc.) so many times, but the subject in your LA architecture series is something I’ve never come across… So, thank you for making this LA history series through a different lens… If you want another LA architecture analysis, this one is through the video game lens… Subjects like Wilshire Blvd, Post-World War II track housing, White flight ruclips.net/video/7CgOfqwjGx8/видео.html
Ok: not from LA, but Florida, and… while most of our architecture was mainly normal, we had some interesting stuff. There were strangely a lot of restaurants with a lot of car parts inside? Like bars with trucks above them with moving wheels and ceilings covered with tires. There were also a few restaurants where you could watch pirate plays while you ate, or places like the Rainforest Cafe with animatronics and such.
I lived next to the brown derby plaza for almost a decade and never knew the restaurant it was named after was shaped like a derby and partially still there. It's mostly known for the popular Boiling Crab with seafood by the pound and big bibs. They should put a giant crab on what's left of the derby and call it Duby Crab plaza. Lol. I'll see myself out now.
Kaz: This Video is about what happened to LA's Weird Novelty Architecture Also Kaz: *explains the whole History of LA* But enough of the jokes, once again a very well researched and narrated video, thank you very much 😀
I always appreciate your willingness to pronounce names and places right! Those names have cultural significance and they deserve the respect of people at least attempting to pronounce them properly.
Meh, ita funnier when people purposely butcher shit they don't know 🤣
@@eminemfan50098 it's sometimes funny, but overall it looks disrespectful and quite frankly lazy AF! Especially when they don't even try... like Bailey [dark history] fuks shit up quite often but she at least tries not to. But I think she only speaks English- so that can make it hard to know the sounds of letters and vowels in foreign languages make...
@@danysanerd2383 Not sure about that. She seems to have grown up there. Speaking as someone who also grew up there, you get a lot of exposure to Spanish and Spanish pronunciation.
@@eminemfan50098 This is called privilege.
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i just stumbled on your channel and am in the process of binging everything :''DD your videos are so good omg,,
Me too. I find the range of subjects really interesting, and the presentation very engaging.
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Me too. I also have a slight crush developing but that is neither here nor there.
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Yeppers, same!
I live in Venice and what's going on with the architecture here is breaking my damn heart. Interesting old properties being stripped down to the bare bones or completely torn down and then turned into hideous shoe boxes and prices hiked up at least two to three times what they're worth to price out the people that have always lived there..... Should be a crime. I'm at the point where I don't even hate that my place is built in the 70s because at least it has *some* appeal compared to the even worse stuff that's being thrown out. The canals are so depressing now to see some of the beautiful older homes bookended my these glass, metal, and veneer coated monstrosities. But maybe as time wears on and those ugly things get torn down and replaced with whatever the new thing is to replace them with, and their rarity increases as a result, future generations will lament their loss like I lament the loss of the pre-60s things.....
had a California history class about how Hollywood specifically was built as a sort of paradise for people who were tired of the industrialism and work focus in the east. it's so interesting to see that reflected here!
I've seen Lucy the elephant in person dozens of times and I knew it was old but I had no idea it was the oldest building of its kind in the US. That's so interesting.
Also I love seeing my part of the country mentioned in a video
Fascinating! I know there is a “Witch House” and other architectural oddities linked to the film industry in LA, but the history of these places and the city itself is so interesting. I live in San Francisco but despite the rivalry love the oddity of LA and Long Beach. I really appreciated the context and the whole story!
I was literally just talking to my friend about novelty buildings in LA and then this popped up lol. I love the amount of detail you went into this :)
Ever wonder if yt is listening 👀
Idle Hour still exists and is EXTREMELY popular. I tried to go last night, but it is booked solid for days.
My boyfriend grew up in redondo…most of the sites are gone, the era has moved on. There uses to be so much! There was a chapel culture too, cute interesting novelty chapels where you could have elvis impersonators officiate your ceremony…very vegas. The hollywood machine said, more modernity, big and new and shiny! Great vid. Fascinating and well done
Your delivery of 'famous clown Michael Eisner' was inspiring
Mx Rowe, no matter the subject matter, no matter how little interest I think I have in a subject (prior to watching one of your videos, of course), watching your videos inspires in me a desire to explore further into subjects I didn’t know I was interested in. Thank you for sharing your research and storytelling talents! You truly inspire me to learn more. Blessed be.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley & lived pretty close to a lot of the resturaunts you mentioned :) there used to be a camera store shaped like a camera right next to Idle Hour I went into a lot as a child before it went under (it's a resturaunt now and you wouldn't recognize the shape unless it was pointed out to you) I really appreciate how well researched and compassionate this video is and it really struck a chord with me as it encompasses so many of my own feelings and also teaches about LA history which not enough people know about!! its so important ! anyway thank you for making this video!! we need more things shaped like things for the community as a whole :^)
What the heck this channel is so underrated? I just got recommended a video and the quality and editing is just *chefs kiss* and they're so interesting and informative! RUclips pls fix your algorithm
I just got recommended it too so hopefully lots more people will find this gem of a channel.
This channel is one of the best rabbit holes I've gone down. I really appreciate the work and research you've put into these very informative and interesting videos.
Malt liquor, grand opera and hussies...sounds perfectly wholesome to me. Sign me up.
legs, don't forget the gams.
I’m convinced you can make literally any topic interesting! I saw the title and tbh I had no interest in the topic but I’ve seen almost all of your other videos already so I said what the hell and sure enough, interesting and enjoyable. You’re a gem!
Here in my little town in AZ we still have one of these boat restaurants hanging around. It's been used as a Church donation and AID center for as long as I've lived here (12 years). Kinda wish I had had a chance to see it as a theme restaurant.
This video was genuinely so interesting, I can’t believe it hasn’t been seen more!! So fascinating to learn about LA’s history and how it was built from the displacement of local peoples. New subscriber here :-)
Agreed, how does this have less than 1k views?
I also wish Kaz had made a separate video about the Tongva tribe. They bring it up a lot in a video that’s not really about them. I get why Kaz did it the first time toward the beginning of the video, but bringing them up 2 more times when they have very little to do with the subject matter is digressing and off-topic.
No just LA but all of the U.S.
It's gone because people take themselves too fucking seriously now. Everyone wants to be oh so unique and special but the reality is that we put ourselves in these neatly defined boxes. We want to be different but not TOO different. Quite simply, there are too many sticks in the mud with sticks up their asses walking around.
i have an infected pinky toe
That’s nice Tyler.
Tyler I'm sorry
This is one of the best films on historical anthropology I’ve watched in my life.
So many of those buildings were so fun and cool, and I never even knew they existed to begin with!!! and I love your editing style, the transitions are really fun owo
This is a great video! I've always been really into this sort of campy architecture but I never thought to wonder why it vanished.
I hope your channel blows up soon! It seems like a lot of us are getting recommended your videos :D
There's a few of these in my state, Pennsylvania, mostly shut down but they survive as ruins. I remember my dad driving out of his way on a road trip to show us a closed coffee place shaped like a coffee cup.
There’s plenty of places like this in Branson Missouri still haha. I am so glad I found your channel. I was looking everywhere for an entertaining history type channel that went into the niche interesting things I always wanted to know more about❤ thank you for putting all the time and effort this channel takes and posting it
this was so informative and interesting. Showing this to my art students. Thank you for putting in the time to create such an excellent resource.
Teachers are truly earth angels :) so grateful for all the wonderful art teachers I've had over the years. Thank you for all you do!
I wish some of this architecture came back, it's so whimsical and aesthetically appealing.
So old LA used to look like a random Minecraft server shared with friends with its random builds/architecture/colors/styles that doesn't match each other but still fits, space between builds, and a rail system connecting everything?
This video was great! Of course it's impossible to list or talk about them all, but I have to mention one of my favorites programmic structures--The Burger That Ate LA. Unique because it came into being in the 70s/80s--it was a burger place on Melrose that depicted a giant burger taking a bite out of city hall. Now it's a Starbucks and the burger is gone but the city hall part of the façade is still visible.
im not from the usa so my first encounter with novelty architecture was in rocko's modern life which i watched as a wee bebe. absolutely delighted to see those silly buildings actually exist/existed!!
I really wished she'd mention that LA (California) was actually part of Mexico before the US "bought " it.
I also wish Kaz had made a separate video about the Tongva tribe. They bring it up a lot in a video that’s not really about them. I get why Kaz did it the first time toward the beginning of the video, but bringing them up 2 more times when they have very little to do with the subject matter is digressing and off-topic.
Loved the use of liminality in this = such a lovely underused word
Being retired…am indulging myself by watching one of your wonderful videos every day….. on the 10 year life expectancy difference;
Still are cities in the USA with 10 years difference in life expectancy. At least, according to Google. I remember as a youngster that Pittsburgh had a particularly low life expectancy; and I know sadly many reservations still have a horribly low life expectancy. I given the level of pollution as rivers, catching on fire, etc. I would not be surprised if the difference between a big city, and Los Angeles, or any Rural area was much greater than 10 years back then.
I love the way you teach me about things I didn’t even know existed! Thank you Kaz!
This video was better than the architectural history lectures I attended back in college.
Great video! Love the old clips and news reel footage! Thanks so much for your great work!
Awesomely done, pivoting from indigenous geography to today. Really excellent. I do love 70s LA too: confession 🍊☀️🌊
I know I’m like two years late, but this just got recommended to me, and this was such an interesting video! Makes me sad to see how many of these kitschy buildings no longer exist. But the windmill building you showed is still there! It’s a Denny’s now. We used to go there after high school dances, so seeing it’s original form brought so many wonderful memories back. I hope one day there’ll be a mass revival of this kind of style.
There is a book called California Crazy & Beyond by Jim Heimann that talks in more detail about all these type of buildings. It can be found on amazon. Also one building you forgot to mention maybe because it is not in L.A. is Dinny the Dinosaur in Cabazon along with the T-Rex building in the same lot. Dinny is a gift shop on the inside for the creationist museum. Both buildings have been in several films and commercials over the years.
Found your channel through the Victorian medicine vid and have been marathoning your channel! Absolutely love your channel!
My mother and I went to LA in 2016, and spent a couple days admiring the Art Deco architecture in downtown. The Biltmore Hotel made an amazing home base. I'm a bit surprised that you didn't mention those, but it was still fascinating.
No mention of the Rocketeer? Kidding, that’s just where my mind goes whenever I see the bulldog cafe. Loved the video!
The coffee pot cafe made me cry
Really appreciate you talking about the Tongva. Native peoples almost never get meaningful recognition
18:00 mins in - *father slaps son in the mouth "listen kido in the house we respect the suburban sprawl, we live and breathe by the mighty will of GM!" i know we can't hear what he said but it's what he said.
You came up on my suggested videos... don't know who you are, but this is good quality video! Great job!
Yes!
I go to LA for vacations. I have never got into the history of the city itself. Beside Olvera Street. As much as i wanted to go to another city to check out, i want to check out these historical places in LA about LA.
Thank you. Great video!!
Growing up, I wanted to live in California so badly. Especially LA. Filled with the images of fantasy from movies and novels from Francisca Lia Block. Then I grew up and learned that most things I wanted to see were no longer there, natural land being destined for destruction and the old magic is almost entirely lost.
Ok, but are we going to ignore how good her spanish is?
From an native spanish speaker: 10/10 would recommend.
Just a heads up, they go by ‘they’ rather than ‘she’
I can still hear a little bit of an accent, but they do a lot better than a lot of other white people, and at least they tried, I appreciate that👏🏽
Oh man, great video, info, footage, and editing. Didn't expect to spend my past half hour this way. LA is special, and ...uniquely LA. I'm smitten with the PeeWee Cabazon dinosaurs outside of Palm Springs, and the remaining Brady Bunch mid-century ranch-style architecture, smattered about.
Interesting! I lived in LA for 4 years, and I'm always trying to put my finger on what makes the culture there so different. To know its heritage and history puts my modern LA experience into perspective.
Great video, thank you! I never knew about these buildings!
Can't believe they demolished the Hoot Hoot owl, what a shame.
17:57 - why your dad (or maybe grandpa these days) is an asshole.
Only a minute in and already totally (or Toedally) loving this. Great stuff, Kaz - instant subscribe & like from me!
I grew up in South Pasadena. The city founded by the Cawston Ostrich Ranch. I remember the Derby, Tail of the Pup, and many MANY Tiki bars and restaurants. I miss those days when L.A. was a quirky collection of Googie and Dingbat cafe's and apartments. By the end of the 80s, I'd had enough and left for the Southwest where myself and my memories of 60s and 70s L.A. are fading. It's a pity. I'd love a juice drink at a giant orange or a hotdog vended from a giant hotdog! But "progress" moves along like an unstoppable escalator we can't seem to find a way off of. Thanks for the memories.
Wonderful! Thank you for this LA and Cali Love!
I must say that novelty architecture seems so fun! Sadly I don't think there is (or was) any in my country :C I would love to visit US, just for that novelty architecture ;___;
I love these!!! Bring these tf back!!
There's a district of buildings like this in Portland, along Sandy Blvd. Many of them are gone but a few of those novelty buildings survive. There's one that looks like a jug, one that has an Arabesque thing going, a Mission revival movie palace, and even a Catholic sculpture garden at the very end of it. There's probably others but those are the ones that come immediately to mind.
Excellent! Exhaustive! Comprehensive! Entertaining!
I enjoyed this. Very well presented and edited. Subscribed.
Awesome video. I love learning more about this city!
"Sanitarium Belt Paradise" is going to be the name of my indie pop album.
Also could be a good name for a punk band
I’m just went to the idle hour recently! Didn’t know that about the history until this video!
oh! 😍 I was so excited when they started to renovate Idle Hour -- this was a really fascinating video! I'm glad to have learned about its place in local history.
Subscribed and i want to watch more later.
Great video!
You are wonderful.. this is great!!
Loved this look down memory lane. West LA had their own culture and iconic landmarks.Of course 77 Sunset Strip was immortalized in the TV series starring Ed "Kookie" Burns. Near there the Hanna Barberra cartoon studios had large rotating Bullmoose and across the street a large Las Vegas billboard had a large showgirl slowly spinning on the top. It was in the front yard of The Body Shop, no not the fragrance store. It was a strip club. Thursday night was drag night. When I first arrived I saw a snack stand called Snak-O-Rama and for some reason thought they served snake meat.
Thanks for all your hard work.
The entire way through this I was thinking it’s like the traffic cones in cars, I did not realise that was based on an actual place but I appreciate that I understood the assignment
I grew up next to donut hole a giant donut you drive into to get donuts lol awesome to drive into as a kid!
First time watcher. Shitty is litty!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Such fascinating info, and your angle on everything is so interesting. Dope vid!
Great video, was fascinated by them when i saw them on the historyofla IG. I think its time to bring mimic and programmatic architecture back to L A tbh.
...There are actually more themed restaurants than this, just with no performers. Garlic Rose, Lawrys, Yamashiro, 71Above; all of these flirt with being "themed" heavier than you'll find in most other cities in the world. Good vid.
was also thinking about Clifton's!
Idle Hour still exists, and it's as popular as it ever was.
OMG so glad i saw this ive never heard of any of these
Thanks for sharing. Having been here for 5 generations (of which I'm the last, even my kids have left), I didn't know a lot of this. I worked at Disney Animation for a stint, as a temp, in the early 2000's.
Maybe the Wigwam motel should B rechristened the Tongva motel, B operated by some Tongva, & have a bit of history added to each room, so people can learn without thinking they're learning.
literally pumped my fist in the air and whooped when you mentioned randy's donuts! in LA county and there's one near my house, just a few blocks away from that one really old mcdonalds actually. its a weird history, the LA area. great video!
Super interesting content! Great job!
Interesting. think that idle hour cafe still stands it’s some type of bar now. Seen that big barrel in the valley
You forgot to mention Big Oil's role in the demise of the street car.
I just found your channel and THANK G-D!!
And as a Native as well of a locomotive engineer. Thank you.
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Idle hour is great and I really hope they can find a place for Tail of the Dog. Feels like there was more of a move towards interesting signage ala Circus Liquor in Burbank, and there’s a museum dedicated to preserving neon in Glendale since that is also a huge part of post-war Los Angeles.
This is beyond late but Lucy terrified me as a child. My grandma took me there because she used to go as a kid (we live in Texas and we're visiting her mom). But it was huge and kinda freaky looking to 5 year old me and then they made us sit through a documentary about it which to an undiagnosed ADHD kid was torture 😭 looking back I appreciate it but as a kid I loathed Lucy
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fantastic work!
This was so interesting! I had never seen or heard of any of these.
Oh, to buy ice cream out of a giant owl with glowing eyes!
This video does not have anywhere close to the views it deserves!!
Well that was a great viedo! grew up in LaLa land and remember some of these buildings even thought many were closed. I remember the Ships sign was that a defunct restaurant?
Very talented and eclectic 👍
Thanks for getting me into American history … I was totally bummed on it when I realized how much bs we got in school
Finally RUclips recommending something 👍 good.
Here I came upon your video and thought ooh cool novelty architecture but what it left me with was that @ 17:59 the slap to that young boy, wth!!! I hope he grew up ok and not let it affect his life. Still love the overall feel of the video so much information, Thx a bunch!!!
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I’m loving the quirky LA history…
As a LA resident here, LA history in itself is harder to research … it’s there if you really look for it, but it’s not easily accessible
Cities like NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco have a more accessible research base
I’ve done many history papers (food history, city planning, public transportation, etc.) so many times, but the subject in your LA architecture series is something I’ve never come across…
So, thank you for making this LA history series through a different lens…
If you want another LA architecture analysis, this one is through the video game lens… Subjects like Wilshire Blvd, Post-World War II track housing, White flight
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Ok: not from LA, but Florida, and… while most of our architecture was mainly normal, we had some interesting stuff. There were strangely a lot of restaurants with a lot of car parts inside? Like bars with trucks above them with moving wheels and ceilings covered with tires. There were also a few restaurants where you could watch pirate plays while you ate, or places like the Rainforest Cafe with animatronics and such.
what is an animatronic?
I lived next to the brown derby plaza for almost a decade and never knew the restaurant it was named after was shaped like a derby and partially still there. It's mostly known for the popular Boiling Crab with seafood by the pound and big bibs. They should put a giant crab on what's left of the derby and call it Duby Crab plaza. Lol. I'll see myself out now.
The way I would eat so much ice cream out of an owl. This needs to come back.
I just LOVE this channel!!!
There’s a tamale building here in East LA. Also I’ve been binging your videos. Keep up the great work!
I remember first seeing The Brown Derby in some Looney Tunes short as a kid, thinking it was just a gag the cartoon had made up.
Kaz: This Video is about what happened to LA's Weird Novelty Architecture
Also Kaz: *explains the whole History of LA*
But enough of the jokes, once again a very well researched and narrated video, thank you very much 😀
fascinating and illuminating