every store is CLOSED in HOLLYWOOD
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2024
- Hollywood is a district within the city of Los Angeles, whose name is synonymous with the American film industry it used to be vibrant, full of shops, restaurants and theaters, and now it’s reduced to just a few souvenir shops , in this video. I’m walking Hollywood Boulevard so we can all see what it looks like in 2024.
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Well Leo I know you have to finance these videos yourself including travel expenses so thank you.
@SlingbladeJim that is true, but it’s worth putting this reality out there , even if it takes me a long time, as soon as I can afford to go to a different city I’ll be on my way there, thank you for your support
Thank You Leo,as they say "go woke,go broke".
Hollywood is a district within LA and really doesn’t have much to do with the industry as most studios are in Culver City or West LA and most agencies are in Beverly Hills. It has some really nice neighborhoods and it would be nice if it cleaned up. I would love to have another place to go walk around and enjoy. I’m about 5 miles from Hollywood.
There ar a few really pretty neighborhoods there. Tree-ladened and homey.
Unexpected against ideas or memories of "Hollywood Blvd.*
@@LeoMetalTravelerI’m letting the ads play out to give you a little profit
Prioritize criminals and drug users over law abiding and hard working citizens, this is what you get.
make home prices $5986875,959,000 and nothing happens.
"Stars here, stores gone." Last wake-up call for the woke.
Decriminalize prostitution and watch all of those empty storefronts fill with Thailand-like hooker bars overnight.
it had nothing to do with drugs or criminals because hollywood has always had that even when it was at its most prosperous times . the terrible economy and higher costs to travel to visit hollywod , high rent , the internet and then the covid shutdowns changed the way people do business which caused alot of retail and restaurants to close and only the retail businesses that had alot of available cash capital survived .
@@marleonetti7 hey cupcake, with a comment such as yours you'll find some oceanfront land for sale in Nebraska that has your name on it...
its fitting that hollywood is dying since hollywood is dying, no one cares about new movies any longer.
I turned my TVs into monitors. Hollywood died in the late 90s. Same for the music industry. Haven't been to a movie theater since the 90s. Haven't bought a CD or DVD since the early 2000s..
Leo does a better job with his camera than any producer in that town.
@@jimmyday9536 for sure i love this channel been watching since he started in SF
@@CeeTee-12345 yup, jerks pretending to be acting. for the real McCoy, the 40s,50s,&60s are where you'll see stories and real talent in film.
@@suppylarue220 no it’s not it is somebody who works in the industry. It’s Tech that has ruined movies. Then people that have opinions about social media or what they like on social media influences media. I work in production and movies are completely different due to tech and cgi and now AI
We visited Hollywood before Floyd/covid. It was alive and bustling.Sad to see the state it’s in now.Thanks Biden, Pelosi, Newsom, job well done.
Genau das wollte man mit "Corona" erreichen. Hat nicht ganz funktioniert nun versucht man es mit dem 3.Weltkrieg. Es lebe die Deutsch Russische Freundschaft. Viele Grüße aus Leipzig ( DDR ) ❤❤❤
That’s fast to have become this way.
Terrible.
Even before the summer 2020 riots and COVID, LA was already showing signs of decay. There were tent cities all over downtown
It will be interesting to find out who buys this real estate. They are destroying the value so it can be bought for pennies.
Since Governator....
There is something poetic / melancholic to this. The remains of an era that is dying. Thanks for sharing!
All good things comes to an end
The very things that Hollywood sells to the world are dying. The movie and music industry is dying. When Taylor Swift is the best thing going in music and Barbie is the biggest movie, you know the entertainment industry is circling the drain.
OMG, you're 100% right. I couldn't agree with you more. The entertainment world was once so brilliant, now its utterly crap.
Y’all sound like old folks yelling at clouds. ( And I am 65, lol) A lot of the new stuff is incredible. A lot of it is crap. Just as always.
@@TheGeostoyes there is so many awesome new movies really well done too
Ok. Name 5 good modern movies.
I'm 38, new Hollywood sucks more than ever. You got garbage in between but good was the rule. Now garbage is the rule with good stuff in between. Keep dreaming.
don't cry for them....this is what they voted for...
Exactly. I'm happy for them. They'd rather have this than Trump. I think it needs 20 thousand more migrants to make it better..
Sad thing is they still don’t get it , still won’t care . Still listening to the old narrative and lies , oblivious to the truth
This is pathogen behavior. And pathogens don't stay in one spot.
Now go and repost this comment on every tour of : west virginia, rural georgia, mississippi, alabama, mississippi, oklahoma, arkansas
@@audenharper3014 what was there recently that is now suddenly shut down ? Lots of peoples fleeing those states to California? They running to Chicago? Please explain
Los Angeles needs get rid of corrupt politicians...
Corrupt people elect corrupt politicians so good luck with that.
👍👍👍🥺🥺🥺indeed absolutely!
Let them enjoy their votes
Not just Hollywood, everywhere
Not only Hollywood but all over the world!
Breaks my heart.... As a kid my family lived about an hours drive from Hollywood. A couple times a year we would spend the day walking these same streets, seeing the glamour of tinsel town. Often seeing a celebrity entering a business office, or a high class store. A day on the street was a dream, now, its a nightmare.
Same here.
What's a highclass store 🤣? One where you have to pay even more on garbage with a name on it? 🤣
It was all planned
@@PainInTheS You pay exstra for ilution 😂 made in Kina
Considering almost every movie is a remake of something that was perfectly fine before, and now the public knows about the secret inner world of the industry, Hollywood's days are numbered.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
And their movies are all their Plans against humanity... close close close Hollywood SINNERS movies! Close!
Honestly I disagree, all they have to do is put out a few actual good movies and everyone will forget.
@@Briman2052 Some people want to watch the world burn or something...
Say that shii then homie!💯
Looks like the Hollywood Walk of Fame is gonna turn into the next Skid Row.
Thank Ronald reagan for closing all the mental Hospitals when he was governor
@@westwardHo- LOL! Right on queue. This is the familiar, programmed response of the left... blame the mess that California is in on Reagan. There may be some truth to it, but decades have passed by since his presidency, and there has been ample time for Democrats running these states to figure their sh* out. So, no... I don't accept that it can just all be blamed on Reagan and that this exonerates Democrats, the left, progressives, etc. I'm not anti-progressive, in principle, but the left needs to own the monumental f-uo that they've turned the states and cities that they govern into.
A very,very sad day if it does.
Hollywood walk of shame 🧌
They'll be auctioning a few of those 'stars' for loose change.
Celebrities should have stayed out of politics, and kept their choice of relationships to themselves but great actors and great movies do not exist anymore
AI will be a nail in the coffin for the movie industry
87
they jumped the shark and no going back
ALL Actors ever were TRANSGENDER deciever- EGI
Yet they still give out Oscar's every year! For what? Alot of crap,that's what?
We visited in 2014, did the tourist thing and went to Hollywood Boulevard, saw all the characters outside the Dolby theatre, there were people everywhere and I don't remember seeing empty retail spaces. I am truly amazed this is the same place. Thank you, Leo.
The most shocking part of your walk is how few people are on the street. That area used to be very congested.
German in Venice just did a Friday night video also on Hollywood Blvd and it was a ghost town! He couldn't believe it.
Crime, drugs, ordering online, etc.... all contribute to this mess.
But the streets and sidewalks are very neat and clean.
Just think of all the jobs that were lost.
@@mikeifyouplease There’s a maintenance fee for each Hollywood stars. That’s why the streets are kept clean.
Huh. If you listen to politicians from these areas, they claim things are going great! You bring the reality, Thank you, and please keep telling it like it is.
Pelosi, et al made California a real mess! Notice what profession her daughters took: selling illegal drugs!
It’s what the people want and voted for.
The politicians are still collecting their paychecks and thinking that they are doing a great job at the same time.
@@db-rc5frnot all Californians voted for this. The voting is rigged so it didn’t count those of us who voted conservative
The biggest one every state should watch out for is Gavin Newsom we call him Gavin gruesome as he destroys California and wants to be the President to destroy every state I mean after all he is related to Nancy Pelosi.
I was part of that comedy theatre for years and I feel like crying. It used to be so vibrant and now it’s a ghost town. Very depressing. 💔
I used to live in DTLA too but it became such a shithole and the rent became too high I left. This is what happens when you vote for liberals.
I used to live in Hollywood - left in 2019 - all those blocks you walked, I knew them well (I shopped at that Trader Joes). Crazy how many businesses are gone! Thanks for the video.
Thanks for sharing!
This video is a prime example of why I don’t watch mainstream news anymore. I only watch RUclips reports for real news. You just earned a new subscribers!
Me also do the same!
News media lie because they depend on businesses advertising. Closed business means no news media.
Yup Leo is LEGIT.....all over big cities.
The mainstream news is on Yt.
MSM is nothing but leftard/woke fake news.
I worked as a FF/ Paramedic in Hollywood for twenty years. I left Calif in 2018 . This breaks my heart. Politics killed California.
Isn't CA a one party state? Where does "politics" come in?
I think it's just plain looting going on. It's the same story in any part of the 3rd World. Striving for power is not about ideas, solutions and serving the public - it's just a get-rich-quick scheme for you and yours.
Leftist politics
No voters did
Yes it started in California with Reagan now it's ending in California..
@@Russeljfinchyes republican and keeping encumbants also professional politicians too..
The era of Hollywood cinema is coming to an end.
AMERICA...... is coming to an end jojo!
@@mayhemmike1789 Run before too late !
I was born in 1959, and the BEST movies are from the 40s, 50s, and 60s🤗📺
What are ur favorite cool movies from the 40-50-60s that you would recommend watching
I was born in the mid '50's and I believe the best movies were from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, with a few in the '00 to '15 range.
What are a couple of your favorites?
What are your favorites
@@travelcrunch Everything starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Susan Hayward, and Barbara Stanwyck🤗
I never in my lifetime thought I would see Hollywood like this
Cmon now Hollywood was always sketchy. Hollywood and Vine had alot of crime and not the best to be at least since the 80's
@@tima4929 yes it always had crime but I’m talking about it being ghost town. The homeless population did this. They were surviving through business with the crime still.
@@KitaKitaKita419 Honestly, my fam and I live in LA near Hollywood and we all unanimously agree, COVID did this. The shutdowns. Before that, downtown was seeing a revival and Hollywood was as packed as ever. It has recovered a lot, but not quite yet what it was. Maybe a year or two and it'll be back.
@@Briman2052 I hope so lord knows I don’t want the whole United States to look like a slum. At least keep our tourist sites
I graduated from Hollywood High, this is so sad to see.
My wife and I went to LA in 2022 having never been. We stopped by Hollywood and parked in the garage near the Dolby theater. The first thing we saw coming out on the street were homeless people sleeping by the Dolby entrance. It smelled strongly of garbage and urine. We walked around for about an hour and left flabbergasted and disgusted at how awful the place was. Will never return.
Part of the grand plan!
You should had known in advance what to expect, when you visit cities or states run by democrats
The $20 min. wage is running all the Restaurants out now.
That area was so awesome and vibrant till about 2017 or 18 when you started to see serious signs of decline but was still acceptable enough to walk around and stores were still open. Then each year got worse and worse from there until it became embarrassing.
" Will never return " 🤣😭
The best part of Hollywood seems to be the memories.
The California National Parks, the Hollywood TV and Film Industry and the historic California music culture have always been so dear to me. This breaks my heart to see this happening in the city of Adam 12 and Dragnet.
For some years, the Hollywood area has been declining. Normal people don't want to deal with mentally ill,drugs addicts,and homeless in Hollywood. Welcome to la la land California.
Newsom's Nirvana.
Agree
I mean, I’ve lived in LA for three decades and honestly, it’s always been a shithole. It isn’t much worse now than it was in the early 90’s
@@MrVarsityphysicsGlendale in the 90’s was the shit.
I went there in 2017 and was underwhelmed. Not much to do or see and alot of it smells of pee.
The land of lies and nightmares is finally coming to an end. Too much of our lives lost to hollywood.
Amen to that … soo much lost time invested..
Don’t forget the plastic
👍
And the alleged heinous things by sick people
Bravo!
The fact that the stars are on the ground being walked on is wild 😂
Thank you Leo for covering this on-the-ground footage. Msm and media would never cover this like you do.
I've heard that in Hollywood there is no longer _the walk of fame_ but _the walk of shame_
definitely walk of shame, famous people abused since childhood to perform and manipulate the public or just used to represent something we like before they destroy their character to ruin society.
Has the gender research studied Oscar yet? The street is non-repressive.
Excellent comment
Cool story, bro; all of a sudden, you Nietzsche! LOL LOL
I was just there. It's definitely thriving...
“The more I get to know people the more I like my dog” Mark Twain
Wtf?
I concur.
I prefer cats and dogs, if I can have one or two I am good.
@@ceroandonedogs never complain, and love you reguardless, why not?
Nothing is more loyal than your dog.
I was almost living on the streets of Los Angeles when the writer’s strike happened last year. I watched some of my writer friend/neighbors lose jobs and it was one of the more terrifying moments of my life. Everything changed so quickly. It breaks my heart to see a city I loved and lived in for so long like this.
You people are monsters
Hollywood =
Pea
Doughs
Good riddence
As a resident of Los Angeles, I am not surprised, and i stopped going to Hollywood years ago. I'd rather drive 30 minutes to go to another city to eat and shop. It's criminal what politicians have done to many cities.
Democrat politicians.
I saw a UN or fema map on b1tchut3 (don't remember which it was a few years ago) it showed California as empty, I didn't really believe it but I'm starting to wonder now.
While places like Hollywood and some parts of dtla are dying , places like culver City, Inglewood, mid city and west adams are growing
What did politicians do?
@@ghostmellissaYour joking right? The media has really blinded people
Good to see what Hollywood really looks like. You don't have the national media show any of this. Why is no one else covering this drastic change?
The media is just propaganda now. They only run a narrative for one party.
Hollywood blvd, its always been a shithole. Legit Angelino born and raised, it was a shit hole when I was born, it was a shit hole when my parents arrived to the US, and it will remain a cesspool til the end of time.
Because there are more pressing issues in the world than what Hollywood really looks like.
They won’t show you the Great Reset.
Well, Disney owns one news agency. Do you think they would allow negative reports? This is why monopolizing industries is bad.
Cheers Leo, you've got the guts to show the rot no one wants to acknowledge
The last shop sums it up so perfectly
"This was a comedy club. It's no longer funny." "This was a newsstand. It no longer stands." HAHAHAHAHA!
😁😁😁
Haha
Hilarious!!
That was funny, "It's no longer funny"
Truth is always funny.
I left after over 60 years of living there. I arrived in Hollywood in 1961 and California was paradise. It stayed that way for a few decades. Then it rapidly deteriorated until I felt I was living in a third world country. In 2022 I moved to Florida. I am heartbroken. I loved California and it used to be so beautiful. We need good leaders who feel the same way about California.
The same thing will happen in Florida.
@@screenname1 So far it is beautiful, no graffiti, homeless or trash all over the streets. Perhaps California is an example of what can happen if you follow their policies.
@@screenname1I hear it already has. 😐
@@screenname1 Won't happen in Florida, they have a smart governor.
@@whitetrashmillionare4858 maga 🤡
Good 👍
I'm glad 😊
May their be change for the better
Hey Leo my Brother!! Thank you for the work you are doing. I’m sharing your videos with everyone and posting the link on other yt videos.
Born n raised So Cal, living in Seattle now;
This is so important dude, God Bless u and yours!!!
So which shithole is worse, LA or Seattle??
It’s amazing to think how all those “stars” believed that having their names put into the sidewalk was a form of legacy.. Now it’s the irony of collapsing civilization. Those were better times.
The nobody's walk of shame thank God hollywood is not really civilization, unless you've been Braindrained by celebrity mentality and still trying to keep up with the Kardashians & their botox ghetto booty
Only idiots will put their names and signature on tiles where everyone steps on it, no class at all.
Hollywood never been holy, it's just bunch of mediocre never been living around the world all alone since childhood not a complete multiracial not fluent multilingual.
Maybe instead of focusing on a rich minority they could have focused on the whole community of people
Then maybe it wouldn’t resemble a bomb site
@@benhartart9487 That would be a liberal value. Are you saying the Hollywood elites are not liberals?
I like the irony of celebrities thinking they're better than everyone else, yet people are walking over their names every day.
Now with the bums taking over the area, they are doing other things on the sidewalks to degrade them.
Those who put themselves 1st will be the last ✝️🕯️🛐
💩 on a ⭐
Soo true🤣😭😭😭😭
@@freespirit21newyork
Yesss, Amen🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for sharing,I had know idea!
Thank you for showing what is really going on Leo. Earned a subscriber!
Thanks for the sub! welcome aboard!
Gavin Newsom California
Garcetti... the pretty boy Mayor.. and the successor Karen bASS.. ... that is doing NOTHING..
TRUMP/TULSI 2024!!
Donald Trump ain't fixing SHIT. All he wants is to turn America into a Christofaschist dictatorship.
Wow those neighborhoods around Hollywood Blvd look sketchy AF now.. even in the daytime! Can’t imagine at night.. & where are all the tourists? Looks pretty deserted on a beautiful day? .. got to be like 75% less tourists there , than 15-20 years ago…
and nothing shits up buildings more than graffiti tagging them all up … seems like everywhere there! Too bad.. good ole days gone…
Like way, waaay back in 2010 😭
Gavifornia😂😅
I was born in Inglewood, but raised in Hollywood, California and I got out of that concrete jungle when I was 24 in 1987 and moved to Sonoma County for the next thirty years, until we retired in Belize, Central America six years ago. We couldn’t afford to retire in the United States. The same thing is happening in the Bay Area right now, because of the rampant crime. Please stay safe and healthy…🌞🌴🌺🐬⛵️
Smart move. Sounds like a beautiful place to retire.
@@bunnihanni it’s very beautiful here in Belize, and if you’re not necessarily a beach person you can go to the rainforests in the mountains where the river’s, and caves are. It’s a bit cooler there than where we currently live which is right on the beach in Placencia. They have a retirement program here for U.S. citizens over the age of 45. We started with International Living Magazine as part of our research. It has a wealth of information about countries around the world that people relocate to. Have a great weekend.
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@@jahgirl8647 Jealous... Sounds wonderful, enjoy...
God bless you and your family! Having the balls to stop everything and get away from this hell whole called California 👏👏👏👏👏
I’m loosing sleep every day thinking about how to let go of my attachment to a house 😣😖😫😩🥺! I live in San Francisco capital city of the 💩💩💩💩💩
17:06 "Post No Bills" has nothing to do with not paying, they are talking about *_not posting handbills,_* which are like fliers, paper announcements of various kinds. They don't want people taping paper announcements to their walls.
🤔I watched many of your other videos, about the san fran area, never had a reason to say anything, because everything is self explanatory on your channel, but I must say'''' Thanks for just doing what you do, because it let's anyone have a glimpse into what is going on in America, so Thanks Man''''.🤗
Where criminals and drug users have more rights than the honest citizens is just incredible!!!
Now we can add immigrants to the list of people with more rights
Used to live right down the street from The Walk of Fame. Absolutely a disgusting neighborhood to live in. Homeless everywhere, shanty towns on every block, people smoking crack and shooting heroin in broad daylight, I caught a homeless couple having sex on top of my neighbor's car, and the sidewalks are covered in piss. The only time the city would ever bother cleaning up a bit is when The Oscars are around the corner. It was like living in Gotham City.
I've visual there and thought the leaders of LA are absolutely crazy from not capitalizing on what they've got there. They get tourists from all over the world. Look at how Nashville does it. That should be prime real estate.
Fr. Yet you got all these people from different countries wanting to tour the area. The place is a dump. Why would you want to waste your money there. It feels sketch too like you’re gonna get pickpocketed or mugged all the time.
Sex on Top of a Car? Seems a bit uncomfortable idk
Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. If you put a dent in the automobile, the owners will generally get upset and antagonist towards you.
Same theeng, every theeng ees closed.😅
Thanks for making this, great video!
BudLight truck drives by, right on cue, at the boarded-up block🤣🤣🤣
As a Angeleno, this saddens me, use to be a thriving area with tourists and entertainment, but with the high rent, homelessness corruption, crime, it’s soulless like a ghost town.
Yes
Blame to Governor Gavin Newsome.
It's really sad
Ghost town you say?....
ruclips.net/video/jqZ8428GSrI/видео.htmlsi=vP8-Cah-7wPq_4sU
This breaks my heart. I grew up in Hollywood in the 70's and it was vibrant, friendly and so cool! After school we walked to Hollywood Blvd to have Arby's and hang out. I cannot believe what this country has turned to!
You lived in the peak time. Just look at China, India, and the Middle East. That’s what this side of the planet has to look forward to. Overpopulation, and societal degradation, as well as environmental, and societal collapse.
Only idiots will put their name and signature on sidewalks everyone steps on it, no class at all.
Hollywood never been holy, it's just bunch of mediocre never been living around the world all alone since childhood not a complete multiracial not fluent multilingual.
Correction: what the "blue states" have turned into. Red states don't have these problems
@@crystalbluebutterfly 🏆
JUNK 👀👀
Thank yòu for reporting the news that is actual.
Thank you so very much...!!!
I lived in Hollywood from the 70's through the 80's and it doesn't even look like Hollywood anymore. Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it, And thanks for sharing
Yeh looks like a welfare centre now
@@user-mc1yd9bp5xda money's in Burbank.
If you’re in the business of selling boards I would say you’re in good shape.
Yes, a completely different place.
Those storefront could be filled no problem. The problem is the Retail Space down. There is so freaking expensive. They rather leave it empty and dilapidated than to lower the rent, which is crazy.
I hate it when they do this, there should be a penalty for people leaving housing/retail space unfilled. I don’t care that you “own” it, it’s part of a community, it’s part of a city, people like this are literally blighting cities because they’re sitting on spaces. We have spaces like this in my small city that have been empty for 15+ years, it’s so obnoxious. I’d much rather have a stupid dirty hipster coffee shop than an empty dusty store front. I say after 10 years of a storefront or housing being empty they have to start paying increasing fines for literally lowering the economic value of the city. We don’t abide unkempt lawns, this isn’t really that different. Unkempt lawns attract vermin and pests, dead spaces attract crime.
At this point in time, only massive regulation cuts, tax reductions at all income levels, and a tough on crime approach could reverse this decay.
Yeah because those places are bought by the owners of the world and they would rather see it rot than let people use it cheaper, thats not how they get all the power and money
It’s because it’s the 5th largest economy in the world and deeply inflated
Thank you for doing the work that you do!!! This is very eye-opening 🤯😱
It's the economy. No one is spending as much as before due to inflation and bad job market. These stores were non essential
What a coincidence, a Bud Light Truck!
Did the trans community kill your grandma?
Exactly…
Very suitable for this video.
Coincidentally, I was reading your comment when I heard the chugging of the truck!
Lol
When you prioritize criminals and drug users over law abiding productive citizens. This is the result
The criminals are the coos
I'm pretty sure there's something stronger, more nefarious and much more competent than a couple druggies and burglars here and there. This smells like decades of corruption
Prioritizing movie stars & lifestyles of the rich and almost famous is just as bad.
Nothing but the TRUTH!!! 🤔👍🏽
BLM did this.
My sister lived in Hollywood and I made a number of trips to visit her in the timeframe of 1965 to 1972, then moved there after finishing school in 1973. Hollywood Blvd. as a very vibrant and somewhat upscale place. I became a real estate appraiser and appraised thousands of places in Los Angeles County. Hollywood will always have its history and nice architecture. It would come back if the homeless were removed and parking wasn't such a problem. I feel sorry for the homeless but more sorry for the people who have invested in property there and have had to watch the place turn to crap while the cops have their hands tied. There can be no comeback for a place that is full of dangerous characters. It is time to give them the boot.
Seriously.... the problems didn't come from the homeless. It's the government.
@@MollyHJohns How did this come from the government?
The problem is crazy rent. Homeless following, if people can't afford to rent than they are homeless. Pretty simple.
I wouldn't feel too sorry for the people have investment property there as you put it. I'm one of those oddballs that actually over the last 3 to 4 years has been looking to buy a house in Hollywood. 90046 90068 and the completely unaffordable 90069. I can tell you from first-hand experience that as awful as things may or may not be as portrayed in this video, property values have gone up close to 20 to 30% per year since 2021 alone so Laurel Canyon for example a $1 million back in 2021 is now 1.6 million, for the exact same house, with the environs getting worse.. the real estate market there does not make any sense, but for those that have invested and still own there it appears there is no end to the home appreciation rocketship that they've been on for forever now.
Thank you Leo for your great work.
This is an awesome documentary.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was last in Hollywood in 1995, I’m totally shocked. Here in London, we too are suffering retail devastation. In the UK, more and more people are working from home and shopping on line.
London is no longer London. England will soon be a majority Muslim country.
I lived there in 1983 and 84.
This was the most heartbreaking of all Leo’s videos.
World is changing. Nothing gonna stop this. Still it's interesting what future holds. We most adapt or perish.
Same is whole world. Online shopping destroying old "street" shopping. But in Hollywood also old film industry losing vs internet huge streaming companies. So there are 2 factors why is so bad there. Now nobody waiting like mad and go Cinema looking new Hollywood film. Now people open laptop and watch favorite tv series online from streaming company like netflix or others. Also dont go Hollywood buy some film gadget when can buy it online.
@@alicjapszenicka5047i agree. I am from Germany and we have the same problems.
Imagine having your star on the "Walk of Fame" and have all the stores CLOSED. What a joke. Thanks, again METAL LEO.
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Nah, even worst is having your Walk of Fame Star and millions step on our name every day AND homeless addicts relieve themselves on it...and sleep on it
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I was thinking the VERY SAME thing !
Youre so awesome thank you , for your reporting. I would never know anything . That guy walking by you, at the hot dog stand said shut the hell up . .I wouldn't last there I'd get in trouble 😂
It’s like… the people who used to be beside us, feeding us, entertaining us, just packed up and left
2 weeks to flatten the curve
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3 generations destroy a nation
More like 3 freaking years
I worked on Hollywood Blvd in the 80s and it was seedy then, but there were hardly any closed shops. This is incredible.
Spot on. I’ve watched in the past (1979 to 1981 or so) these old exploitation films where the serial killer is driving up and down Hollywood. And there’s that “womp womp wooommmp” depressing music in the background…
But you notice all the storefronts are occupied. It’s a lot of liquor stores, convenience stores, adult bookstores, but occupied. This feels different…
Wow you must of had a blast in the 80's. The music was way better too 😮
@@michaelfreydberg4619 Yep, at this point even a Pussycat Adult theater would be an improvement! 😅
Omg all the new buildings too!!!
What you vote is what you get. Greetings from 🇩🇪. Same game here.
Das stimmt leider. Aber das passiert hier auch schon schrittweise seit über 20 Jahren. Fahre mal durch Orte im Oberharz und du weißt, was ich meine.
I wonder when I watch these videos where the people are walking to, when everything is closed. 😂
They pretty much look at The Chinese Theater, the Mall next door to get a snap shot of the Hollywood sign, take a picture of the Dolby theater, buy a Hollywood T-Shirt and thats it.
NPCs literally .... Lost souls aimlessly wandering filling the voids
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Something is definitely gonna happen.... Beverly hills stores are also closed. I don't know but I'm feeling like Cali will turn into that movie escape from l.a. 😖🤦💀
Blessed to be Australian, we care about our country. 🦘
Your leaders don’t care about you
🎉wow too patriotic scary
Your country is a Chinese colony
The BudLight-truck matches the szene!
I visited Hollywood in the early 90s. I attended some tapings of TV shows and walked around the area near Sunset and Gower. I'm pretty sure I watched a movie in that Pacific Theater. I remember being impressed with having walked over Jimi Hendrix's sidewalk star. It was in front of a used bookstore. This is just sad. I wouldn't want to visit again.
Remember Hollywood Blvd back in the 80’s had all those rock/metal t-shirt shops? Even in the early 90’s they were still there. All gone.
Wtf
Must have ran out of black T-shirts
Even better in the 70’s lots of happy people lots of action n music.
@@bigfoot-id8bv same situation in vancouvers gastown, not many of the original stores left, any store that sold eclectic or oddball items is long gone, whatever is left is generic tourist rubbish and they were slow, soon it could be called ghost town.
Wow!!! What a GD shame.... Loved those rock shops😥
It’s really bad if the PEP BOYS is closed. That place has been there for at least 30 years.
More than 50 yrs. It was around when I was a kid.
The dollar store is closing next, rock bottom almost hit.
@@Maverick80Eight -How long at the Hollywood location? I’ve only been in LA since the mid 80s.
@@chrisjenkins9978 Not sure. We lived near Sunset & Vine since mid 60's. Only difference the Pep Boys had big statue figures of Manny, Moe, & Jack.
Thank you for your work.
Thanks for listening
When it was called Kodak Theatre in 2010, that was the last time I step foot on Hollywood Blvd. It was somewhat booming with families and tourists but when you cross the road south and walk maybe 200 meters, it starts to get shady. You are better on having a few drinks and lunch down Melrose Avenue. Not sure what it's like these days, maybe check it out?
For Leeeeaaassse.
This doesn't just happen naturally. The mayor and the governor make this kind of thing happen by prioritizing everything but the well being of the people and the economy. There was a Great Depression 90 years ago, people had no money and just enough food to survive, and yet there are no images of things looking as bad in any of the major cities as they are today.
I was born and raised in the L.A. area and Hollywood was a dirty, disgusting, dangerous place 30 years ago. There’s nothing shocking in *this* video, but the one about Los Angeles is absolutely horrifying! Skid Row used to be confined to one area, and it was safe to walk around the jewelry district, flower district, textile district, and Santee Alley. People would walk up and down Broadway to shop. (We referred to it as the “Mexican Promenade”, an homage to the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The Promenade was cool until all the independent shops & boutiques were forced out by big businesses.)
I wouldn’t walk down Broadway in the daytime now. All the shops are gone anyway! The businesses close to DTLA are now closed, boarded up, and tagged. Homeless and other sketchy looking people are wandering around. Broadway north of 6th after dark is a great place to go if you’re looking to get stabbed. The trash is unreal! It looks like someone emptied a ton of dumpsters into empty lots.
I was a 19 yr old girl who lived alone in the city. I drove around very late at night so I could learn to navigate without traffic. I wanted to know how to get places without taking freeways, too. This was before smartphones or Google Maps. (You could pull over and use a real map, if you wanted to advertise that you were lost.) There were places where the cops wouldn’t go, and you needed to avoid drug dealers or gang members, not homeless.
I learned to mind my own business while keeping my eyes open and acting like I knew what I doing. Driving through South LA at night, taking Normandie or Vermont from the city to the South Bay, you’d feel eyes on you. Dealers were selling drugs and women were selling themselves. It was obvious, too; they’d be in the middle of the damn street. If I was at a red light and someone started to approach my car, I’d hit the gas. It’s not like there was a cop around to give me a ticket.
I admit, I got into a few bad situations where I could’ve been killed. I’ve had a gun and a knife pulled on me, and ppl who were bigger/stronger physically attack me. I’ve never been gravely wounded, though, because I’m never totally unarmed; I’ve used my head to read the situation, reason with ppl and/or talk my way out of tight spots. The problem is that you can’t reason with someone in a full-blown, drug induced psychosis.
Whether or not ppl become homeless because were they were mentally ill or on drugs is moot. Once someone loses their job and their home, they’re in a state of shock, fear and trauma that generally leads to homelessness. The few who managed to escape homelessness and integrate back into society have repeatedly expressed how rampant drug addiction is among the homeless. It’s easier to use drugs and escape from the horror than fight your way back into a society where the odds are always stacked against you. Drug use takes a toll on your mental and physical health, so the longer you are homeless, the less likely you are to escape.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but I’m dismayed by how many comments are so misguided. Everyone is arguing that it’s the Democrats’ fault, it’s the Republicans’ fault, it’s because of COVID, it’s the lack of housing, it’s because of immigration, blame China, blame the governor, blame teachers, blame Millennials, preach about the economy, defund the police, defund the IRS, blame Hunter Biden, blame the pizza guy, repent because the apocalypse is near…
There is no single cause for what’s happening, just as there’s no single solution. The descent into homelessness is a process. The decay of a community is a process. Everyone is part of the problem but no one wants to devote a significant amount of their time and effort to understand the problem in order to work toward the solution process. We’re all guilty.
Millenneals are to blame
Great surplus, get my wool caps there, that's one from Falling Down!
This is disturbing and we still sending billions overseas!
So what is that supposed to mean? Give free money to people who don't want to work and take drugs all day? Give free money to forgive high student loans for an arts degree in a university? Money is given overseas to build alliances so we don't have enemies at our gates that we have to fight. You know what's disturbing?, people who support Bl@ck lies Matter, the Woke, the Progressive left, Newsom and the local government.
You guys pay for free healthcare in Israel, something you yourselves will never get! Good for you! 😂
Democrats are deliberately destroying the country for a Globalist agenda. They pretend China is the enemy but in fact they want them to lead the Globalist government. Watch Joes old rants in support of China as well as Klaus Schwab.
Because the military industry complex is the main us economy.
In all fairness, this is a local state issue. Not really up to federal government to fix what states decided to neglect. Money sent overseas comes from a federal budget.
Imagine being a tourist in L.A and just seeing a guy screaming out "CLOSED NOW" "FOR LEASE" "BOARDED UP" "CLOOOOOOOOOOOSED"
You read my mind…😂😂😂
I used to live in that area. There was always something on Hollywood Blvd. I have purchased many CDs from Amoeba music. So glad they are still open.
Amoeba Music IS an awesome store! I'm glad it's still there....for now.
I grew up there.... last week I took a relative there ( haven't been there for years) i felt like a hand was around my throat.... everything is blacked out dead feeling could not wait to get out of there... Hard to explain the feeling.
Thanks For sharing
Know what you’re saying. Was in SF last summer for the first time in a while and it just had a dead feeling. Couldn’t wait to leave and I used to love it there
@@kylegross1081Tony Hall said it used to be a magical place.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hall_(supervisor)
I am sorry for your loss. Not seen on television...
Even in its better days Hollywood gave off bad vibes, sleazy and with an oppressing atmosphere. Despite all the hype and cheap veneer of glamor, couldn't wait to get out of there. An overwhelmingly evil place.
This was the most heartbreaking of all your videos.
Wilcox, Argyle, Vine, Capitol Records, Caheunga, I know exactly where you were.
I lived nearby in 1983-84 when I was 18 years old.
I had so much fun, the place was so alive!
Now look at it, just heartbreaking.
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It was still thriving in the 90's and 2000's.
I'm glad the Army store is still open. I used to go down there all the time. When I was in the Air Force back in 80s? I'm glad it's still survive. D, thanks for covering that shot.
GREAT JOB NEWSOM
Post no bills means do not post advertisements in this space.
The Bud Light truck was the best irony in the video …go woke go broke 😢
Good observation.
I knew I'd find this dumb comment here at some point
Good One LOL
Republicans are the biggest snowflakes these days.
The irony was not lost on me! 👍😅
Thanks Gavin!
Been in LA in 2018, first time visit. Seeing these video's from Leo makes me never want to visit again. Glad I've seen it in a good state. And thank you Leo for all your videos!! 👍🏻🤘🏻
I grew up in Moreno Valley and we literally went to Hollywood every weekend. This was back in the late 90’s to mid 2000’s I can’t believe it looks like this as it was always busy with shops and people before
Moreno Valley?? That’s quite the commute 😅
@@AppleJackksonwe know what he was up to
That was my time too! It used to be crackin every single weekend!
My condolences that you grew up in Moreno valley
I went to Hollywood all the time in the 90's and early-mid 2000's and... it was just like in the video LOL. Maybe there were more shops open, but it was a dump, it smelled, there were prostitutes and drugs out in the open.
The stores that sell cans of spray paint must be open 24 hours.
Yeah but do taggers pay for spray or steal them?
@@charrua59sometimes I buy sometimes I steal it just depends on the store
@@charrua59just because someone is a vandal doesn’t mean they’re a low life thief. try to be a little more respectful on here. 🤨
@@jessihawkins9116 of course i don't want too talk bad about does little angels 😇. Anyways back in the 80s, taggers l knew told me they usually stole the cans.
@@charrua59Oh snap!
Thank you METAL LEO for this great video about Los Angeles. Los Angeles nowadays in the year 2024.