Reshaping L.A. | Lost LA | Season 1, Episode 3 | KCET

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2016
  • It is often said that Los Angeles has buried much of its history. It has suppressed inconvenient reports, recast the plight of Mission Indians as a Spanish Romance, written entire cultures and communities out of its official historical narratives. But some of lost L.A. literally lies buried beneath our feet, hidden long ago when the city, finding the shape and character of its land wanting, opted to mold it to its needs. In this episode, "Lost LA" examines how the modern metropolis has reshaped its own topography. The program explores downtown L.A.'s lost hills and tunnels, as well as the vanished canals of Venice Beach.
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Комментарии • 439

  • @Guccithreat
    @Guccithreat 4 года назад +60

    Broke my heart when he said “you wave at the people in the other cart when you pass by... nobody there today.” *stares*

    • @enriquecastellon6524
      @enriquecastellon6524 3 года назад +1

      That’s everywhere. Every generation less friendly.

    • @hond4h34d
      @hond4h34d 3 года назад +5

      absolutely, seeing him re-tell memories of a bygone era at Pershing Square was heartbreaking as well.

    • @xomo7944
      @xomo7944 3 года назад +3

      :((((( how different everything must be for him

  • @Enr227
    @Enr227 3 года назад +39

    “Bulldozed in the name of progress”-six of the saddest words

    • @LOGICAL1
      @LOGICAL1 2 года назад +2

      You can spin it many ways. Mud flood.

    • @tomfields3682
      @tomfields3682 10 месяцев назад

      It's the American way!

    • @ronaldvrooman9695
      @ronaldvrooman9695 9 месяцев назад +3

      Sadly, a lot of the post-World War II development in downtown L.A. was driven by the automobile. Sure, there was a need for public buildings (the courthouses, the County Hall of Administration, and the Music Center), but look at all the land that was taken for parking lots. The trolley lines that still existed in the 1940's and 50's could've been upgraded with new equipment, and entire blocks of old buildings would've been saved. There might not have been the need to build the 110 Freeway south of the 101. Then, the remaining buildings on Bunker Hill could've been seismically retrofitted and renovated as needed. We didn't need to lose nearly all of those historic buildings.

  • @seekwrage
    @seekwrage 4 года назад +121

    I'm the person who put all the blue tape on those walls to show an exit path. This is so cool to see😀

    • @stephenbirks6458
      @stephenbirks6458 3 года назад +4

      Well done APOC 310 Sir !

    • @elsizzle2000
      @elsizzle2000 3 года назад +2

      Why?

    • @seekwrage
      @seekwrage 3 года назад +6

      elsizzle2000 I was doing a structural review of the tunnel and permit required an marked exit path.

    • @elsizzle2000
      @elsizzle2000 3 года назад +5

      @@seekwrage thank you for telling me. I'm always curious about many things. Any ghosts or spooky vibes down there?

    • @seekwrage
      @seekwrage 3 года назад +6

      elsizzle2000 no I haven’t experienced anything yet. I’ve been down there more than a dozen times throughout the old offices, restrooms and msc areas.

  • @marksommers6764
    @marksommers6764 5 лет назад +85

    All of my Grandparents lived in LA ...My folks met on a Red Car #33 . We found that car at the lovely Perris Trolly Museum !

  • @mokuu3313
    @mokuu3313 4 года назад +30

    It is actually sad to see a beautiful city erased and replaced by a stark environment in contrast

  • @melissaknott1730
    @melissaknott1730 2 года назад +5

    My Papa was born in LA in 1906. Thanks for sharing so many memories

  • @ryanpoggioli8602
    @ryanpoggioli8602 4 года назад +18

    The Bunker Hill segment is very poignant. Imagine growing up in a neighborhood that has been completely obliterated in the name of "progress." All those vestiges of your childhood and early life totally erased from the Earth. Really haunting and sad!

    • @JoshBruin77
      @JoshBruin77 Год назад +1

      This is what happened to my home Denver. Its terribly sad.

  • @Rockit442
    @Rockit442 6 лет назад +62

    Man... this doc could really use Huell's touch!
    Hi! I'm Huell Howser and this is,
    Reshaping L.A., Part of California’s Gold.

    • @J_J_P_
      @J_J_P_ 5 лет назад +7

      I miss Huell. Loved his shows!

    • @encinobalboa
      @encinobalboa 4 года назад +3

      Huell was the gold standard, pun intended, of California History. We would get properly shot documentary which means no stupid screen tinting and no extraneous mood shots. And we would for sure not get millennial politics.

    • @ganginfr4923
      @ganginfr4923 4 года назад +1

      @@encinobalboa oh shut up. It's not millennial politics, it's people finally having a heart for the city and its history. It's just that it's easier for you to disregard this as some youngins stupid diatribe because you don't want to acknowledge problems in the city.

    • @encinobalboa
      @encinobalboa 4 года назад +1

      @@ganginfr4923 Great debate tactic, "oh shut up"! Socialism is your only prospect. Sad, very sad.

    • @eliasmd2003able
      @eliasmd2003able 4 года назад

      Love that guy

  • @MrScottmoad
    @MrScottmoad 7 лет назад +242

    I lived in Los Angeles for 29 years it seemed money was the driving force behind everything. History just got thrown in the garbage.

    • @keithscottii1130
      @keithscottii1130 7 лет назад +10

      money is the driving force everywhere... except for portland

    • @Khayyam-vg9fw
      @Khayyam-vg9fw 6 лет назад +19

      No, money is a means to an end that has become worshipped in a sick society as an end in itself. Greed and the cultural decline that accompany it are the results.

    • @stevenbrower7748
      @stevenbrower7748 6 лет назад +3

      Yes, best to leave up rat-filled tenements, Yup.. uh huh

    • @rkevic
      @rkevic 5 лет назад +1

      i look at those burning houses like a testament, we don't see burning houses for eminent/public domain. There is something missing in this documentary besides ever changing landscapes.

    • @dondressel4802
      @dondressel4802 4 года назад +2

      Khayyam1048 yes the Roman Empire is a testimony to that narrative

  • @xomo7944
    @xomo7944 3 года назад +9

    Imagine how stunning it would be to see all those beautiful historic houses on Bunker Hill, instead of these sky-scraping business buildings

  • @frankhernandez4069
    @frankhernandez4069 7 лет назад +76

    AWESOME I LOVE HISTORY!! ESPECIALLY MY CITY OF LOS ANGELES!!!

  • @ubroberts5541
    @ubroberts5541 4 года назад +5

    I grew up in Los Angeles in the 60’s and 70’s. This film is sad and depressing.

  • @annakavalec835
    @annakavalec835 3 года назад +9

    I remember one night, driving downtown with my grandparents, to watch one of the great old houses on Bunker Hill burn. So very sad. The LA I grew up in is not the same.

    • @Catbooks
      @Catbooks Год назад +2

      I wonder if the house you saw burn was The Castle.

  • @markemyshibukawa9254
    @markemyshibukawa9254 6 лет назад +48

    I used to ride on Angel's Flight every time my dad used to take me to the Central Market. It was the highlight of my day! 💕 😁👍

    • @hungbulldaddy
      @hungbulldaddy 6 лет назад +4

      Mark & Emy Shibukawa us too, and Pershing square at Christmas time was like what I thought New York city was as a child. Oh and Hollywood at Christmas time !

    • @albertalbert5612
      @albertalbert5612 5 лет назад +1

      Loved the old central market. ..now it's infested with hipsters .
      Doesn't have the same feel....same with Cliftons

    • @rcwilcots
      @rcwilcots 4 года назад +1

      I loved the Central Market! In the fall time my mom and my sisters used to go purchase the candied fruit for her fruitcakes.. Mom makes a mean fruitcake.. Now I have to go to Farmers Market to purchase the fruit.

    • @edreinert8863
      @edreinert8863 4 года назад +1

      I used to do the same with my mom as a kid. Great memories of Angels Flight and the Grand Central Market .

    • @TheSWolfe
      @TheSWolfe 3 года назад +2

      @@albertalbert5612 Yes and Yes, exactly what Albert Albert said. Kinda knew I'd prob never call L.A. home again when we came dn to visit fam/friends & discovered we'd been gentrified out of Highland Park, Grand Central Mkt & Clifton's Cafeteria! At least Carnitas Michoacan was still itself.

  • @Skarlett00
    @Skarlett00 4 года назад +12

    19:00 his love for our city is remarkable, thank you for helping keep the memories and history alive.

  • @borjadaniel88
    @borjadaniel88 2 года назад +3

    "The absence is a presence..." love that.

  • @kathleenamatangelo3713
    @kathleenamatangelo3713 5 лет назад +15

    I lived there when LA was starting the change. I remember when City Hall could be seen, the tallest building...the then when it was hidden. Angels flight in the 50s was fun! I remember a nighttime party when one could reserve the streetcar for the evening. So sad to see all the classics gone.

  • @karencourtney-smith3587
    @karencourtney-smith3587 2 года назад +9

    I grew up in L.A. and it has changed so much in the 20 years since I moved away. I wish I could have seen it when my Mom & Dad first arrived there from Idaho and Texas.

  • @victorcano8762
    @victorcano8762 6 лет назад +21

    I love history and watching this hurts ... that castle was one beautiful home every home in that time.. was beautiful it's so sad...

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 4 года назад +2

      There are thousands still around just like it. Huge monstrosities with lots of tiny rooms.

  • @michaelburgess9707
    @michaelburgess9707 3 года назад +5

    The Castle from Bunker Hill was beautiful. I loved LA, but it didn't love me back. Should've stayed a little bit longer, it was the best time of my life. Lived the summer of 1981 at the top of that old apt bldg down from Sidewalk Cafe. Thanks from this lonely old man for giving me a smile.

  • @TheStrainers
    @TheStrainers 4 года назад +12

    My Grandfather worked for the Director of Rehabilitation in Los Angeles in the 50's 60's and 70's. Bunker Hill all the way to Temple turned into a massive slum. Demographics. They had to tear down some of the most beautiful homes in the country even into the 90's.. I help build the first 5 new Red Line subway stations 30 yrs ago. I still have family living in the same home in Boyle Heights since the 1934. It's far from the LA I grew up. My grandmother is 100 yrs old now still living. Lots of fond memories on Broadway shopping with her and mom. I moved to East Hollywood then Echo Park. It's all far from the LA I grew up in... all of it.

  • @doctorskull8197
    @doctorskull8197 4 года назад +7

    I love LA. I love hopping on my motorcycle or car and driving around all over the city! I love the sights and sounds. The shopping, restaurants and bars! It’s a freakin’ blast! I can’t understand why people wouldn’t love it. Boring, dull squares!

  • @diabolivirtusen-tavares-ea4645
    @diabolivirtusen-tavares-ea4645 4 года назад +44

    The young guy with the backpack brought absolutely ZERO to the story.
    The castle was def set ablaze by developers....bastards

    • @daniellegarcia8299
      @daniellegarcia8299 4 года назад +5

      TraRob-EastSide exactly what I was thinking! I was like... ok so what’s the point besides that you’re an explorer who takes pictures? I was confused after his scenes played.

    • @slvrbaq
      @slvrbaq 4 года назад +8

      "Like... looking for new shots I guess", "Because, Like, there's just like weird people in the metro like, so I put my headphones on, like, then I take my headphones off, Like.. So I don't miss my stop, like"

    • @lorenheard2561
      @lorenheard2561 4 года назад +9

      That young guy with the backpack and camera is hope for the future,he's interested in the past,not just stuck on his cell phone!

    • @larrypurnell3573
      @larrypurnell3573 4 года назад

      @@slvrbaq HAHA! I skipped him everytime i saw his interview. He was annoying.🤦

    • @larrypurnell3573
      @larrypurnell3573 4 года назад

      @Phil Graves WELL SAID BRO!👍🏽

  • @TalesfromtheRails
    @TalesfromtheRails 3 года назад +7

    You should come to the Southern California railroad museum.
    Our Barn one is dedicated to Los Angeles railroad history

  • @AmericanCoverArtist
    @AmericanCoverArtist 4 года назад +19

    The auto industry alongside the oil and the tire industry supplanted the most efficient train system in it's time. Here in Los Angeles we haven't recovered instead of putting in trains we put in toll roads. Just so everyone can continue to be screwed

    • @senilejoe7932
      @senilejoe7932 6 месяцев назад

      Nobody wants to ride a train. We all want to drive to our job get a bite to eat and drive home that’s why they went out of business.

    • @AmericanCoverArtist
      @AmericanCoverArtist 6 месяцев назад

      @@senilejoe7932 my wife and I drive over to the metro station to go to downtown LA. We are a modern city.

  • @selowhgts6133
    @selowhgts6133 3 года назад +6

    The car companies basically privatized national transportation for themselves. They, along with the oil and tire companies, got rid of all the public transportation in the major cities so cars and buses would rule.

  • @martentrudeau6948
    @martentrudeau6948 3 года назад +7

    Very sad what they did to old LA, they destroyed it's old neighborhoods, they didn't develop the existing and very excellent rail transit system, but instead they destroyed it, and they promoted urban sprawl and paved over of Southern California with freeways. What a tragedy!

    • @ronaldvrooman9695
      @ronaldvrooman9695 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, you're absolutely right. The Pacific Electric Railroad, which was privately owned, could've been taken over by the MTA/County of Los Angeles. (The P.E. was on the brink of bankruptcy at the time.) Many of the tracks and rights-of-way still existed well into the 1950's; our public officials just needed to invest in new trolley cars and upgrade the electrical system as needed. Most of the P.E.'s cars were old and pretty beaten up, so those had to be replaced.

  • @markemyshibukawa9254
    @markemyshibukawa9254 6 лет назад +12

    One of my best friends lived in Bunker Hill Towers. It had a beautiful view of Downtown LA.

    • @brianw9129
      @brianw9129 3 года назад +1

      I lived at Bunker Hill Towers for eight years, and loved it. For a sense of what Bunker Hill was like in the '40s, read "Dreams from Bunker Hill," by John Fante. Easy, enjoyable read

  • @SDongil
    @SDongil 4 года назад +6

    I'm the same age as Gordon who lived on Bunker Hill in the Castle. My parents moved from Indianapolis in 1948 to Van Nuys, bought a stucco house near Roscoe and Sepulveda. Unlike Gordon's house, that house is still there; the whole neighborhood is still there and recognizable. Funny what gets kept and what doesn't.

  • @hungbulldaddy
    @hungbulldaddy 6 лет назад +34

    10:43 my mom lived on Bunker Hill back then too, and she's still alive today. I road The Original Angel's Flight many times until it was closed in 69 as a child. I'm nostalgic, I see no positive progress destroying the past for the for the future.

    • @cameltoeinspector6015
      @cameltoeinspector6015 5 лет назад +3

      NEW THINGS HAVE NO CHARACTER NO CHARM

    • @kevinloving3141
      @kevinloving3141 4 года назад +1

      True but at least there's new push to bring street cars, but too late for the grand old homes.

    •  4 года назад

      in the name of progress. what they call progress today is criminal.

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 4 года назад +2

      Lets see the mission that was demolished to build those houses in the 1880's.

  • @stephenbirks6458
    @stephenbirks6458 3 года назад +4

    Saw an episode of Perry Mason last week - It was the last tester episode in glorious colour - That featured Angel Flight ! - it was amazing to watch ! - Nice to see it still working !
    Thanks for sharing SB - British Isles

  • @beerborn
    @beerborn 7 лет назад +12

    I rode the original Angels Flight back in 1968 only once before it closed down. Can't even recognize it any more by driving through the tunnel where it once stood.

  • @cassidybb10
    @cassidybb10 4 года назад +5

    I'm from Akron Ohio. I love local history and how cities used to be and how they are now. This production is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

  • @datboidego
    @datboidego 4 года назад +17

    Time changes everything, when I’m old I guarantee you that stuff we have today will be forgotten or changed in a major way.

  • @fitnessrealm4590
    @fitnessrealm4590 4 года назад +8

    I'm proud and honored to have grown up in Venice, unfortunately gentrification pushed us out in the 90's! my memories of the canals were different, in the 70's and 80's the canal were a very dangerous place lots of drugs and gangs, it looked nothing like it does now! Venice was a great place and I still go back at least once a month because I miss it. I now live in Long Beach and it kind of reminds me of the old Venice, but it not the same! Real Venice forever!

  • @michellecalling
    @michellecalling 5 лет назад +25

    I sure hope that they properly archive those old photos. It would be ashamed if they were to become lost.

    • @marksommers6764
      @marksommers6764 5 лет назад +3

      michellecalling.
      At my age i would volunteer to digitize those photos for a year or so !

    • @OhioDave1345
      @OhioDave1345 4 года назад +1

      Those pictures were not meant to be looked at....pretty silly statement.

  • @gilval808
    @gilval808 6 лет назад +84

    All those old House's and buildings gone all for tall skyscrapers . They should have kept these historic homes and buildings relocate them in another part of the city. I wish we still have those old red cars . Are air quality would be cleaner . We wouldn't have to take a bus . Trolleys don't break down like a bus and car do. The city should be ashamed of it self.

    • @hungbulldaddy
      @hungbulldaddy 6 лет назад +7

      Gilbert Valadez some they actually did preserve and relocate to Highland Park called Heritage Park.. Now go see them.

    • @christinash2235
      @christinash2235 6 лет назад +8

      They've been preserved in certain pockets - they're in Westwood Village, downtown Hollywood, the Historic Core (the parts which haven't been gutted), and in really odd places you wouldn't guess...I remember taking a picture of a house that looked like a complete slum one night, but the architecture suggested that it had been built between 1910-1930. There's history in Los Angeles in the strangest little places. Oh! And Santa Monica.....Santa Monica collectively fought to preserve the mid-century suburban architecture of the residential neighborhoods in the 70s and 80s....there is also mid-century residential architecture in Playa Del Rey and Venice. I constantly gravitated to those places for years. I was even fascinated by the shitty motels on Century Blvd for a short period of time ,overlooking the crack dealers around to spend a couple of nights at the Airport Motel....that big Travelodge on the corner there on Century was built by an old Hollywood actor and his wife in the 1940s and you can tell if you actually stay inside one of the rooms. There are some cool places left in L.A. I think people should fight for every bit of it.

    • @josemoreno3334
      @josemoreno3334 5 лет назад

      Yes, How very true.

    • @simonegad
      @simonegad 5 лет назад +1

      i so agree with you about everything. came here in 1951 with my parents from europe. my mom and i would take the red car from downtown to venice for my lessons at meglen studios. i miss all these historic homes and buildings. i make art about them which i exhibit in museums and galleries.

    • @kevinloving3141
      @kevinloving3141 4 года назад +2

      Like with Houston had street cars but street cars are coming back. Could say the street cars should have never left, but better late than never

  • @markrothenberg9867
    @markrothenberg9867 5 лет назад +8

    Thank you for documenting and sharing history

  • @leonardothefabulous3490
    @leonardothefabulous3490 7 месяцев назад +2

    Really glad found this channel.

  • @charlespennington9924
    @charlespennington9924 5 лет назад +6

    So sad and So Awesome at the same time, I too came from a small community on South Eastern Lake Erie just north of Toledo Ohio where I was born, but grew up in a once upon a time place much like Venice, Luna Pier Michigan, Once known as Lakewood Village ( where I grew up) in the early 1900's till the 1964( City of Luna Pier incorporated,) It was a Summer Retreat for the hard working wealthy business people of their day. It had five Lagoons and a Harbor with a Yacht Club known as the Lakewood Club on 14th Street,( I lived on 12th St.) Many good memories flood my minds eye thinking about it. Off of the I-75 Highway North to Detroit in Monroe County off the Shores of Lake Erie exit Luna Pier Road to the Lake was a Pier that stretched out into the Lake of which it bares it's Name in the 1920's was a Summer Attraction for the whole family my Dad shared stories of when he was a boy growing in Monroe his family would go there for summer fun and later in his 20's would play drums for a Big Band Group on the Pier. He had many stories of a once thriving community, but again as time went buy and business's would move out the fun came to a halt. In 1950 the Old Pier was vandalized and burned down the stilts that once carried it's weight and glory!
    In the 1960's it became a thriving urban City with its public Lighting and new Sewer Plant Utilities and Flood Control Channels( the five lagoons and old harbor). The Noreaster Storms off the Lake would flood the City for days( 1974, 1977 & 78 of what I remember).
    After High School I moved to Los Angeles to work for family and this is where I have called home for the past 38 years and raised a family of my own (Burbank) and now working for the City of LA.
    I have loved the City of Angels from day one and haven't ever wanted to go anywhere else.
    But retirement is fast approaching now and the times are still changing and I will so have to say good bye (to be closer to Kids and grandkids) and not by choice, it will be hard to leave but I have other places and other family to visit and see, but Los Angeles will always be forever be my HOME!.

  • @FredHerrman
    @FredHerrman 7 лет назад +9

    Thank you for showing information and visuals about Bunker Hill. I knew little about it.

  • @tonylee4522
    @tonylee4522 5 лет назад +6

    @ 13:40 He Really Cares About Those Houses God Bless You Sir

  • @marym.9845
    @marym.9845 4 года назад +3

    Please show us more about ancient LA!

  • @ShmuelWeintraub
    @ShmuelWeintraub 4 года назад +13

    I just love these series... thank you so much KCET for bringing them to us! Absolutely fascinating to learn about the past of this city.

  • @twstf8905
    @twstf8905 3 года назад +3

    He kept so many unique little personal artifacts from his past, and keeps them locked up in a glass cabinet in his home.
    But clearly he's not going to live forever. What's going to happen to it all when he's gone?
    Will his children and grandchildren inherit it?
    And, what happens when they're all gone?
    How long will that stuff stay preserved in a special little protected collection somewhere?
    Unless it's eventually donated to a historical trust or museum, it's more than likely destined for a landfill. Sadly. Where almost all of the rest of the artifacts from those particular contexts ended up.
    It's heartbreaking, the passage of time and the value we place on seemingly unremarkable objects, beloved only by the ones with distinct prior connections of their own with the artifacts.
    As time marches steadily and relentlessly forward, the past is being systematically erased from existence and concepts such as nostalgia are reserved for the select few who had personal experiences of their own with it.
    But, once those people are gone, that tie is severed irrevocably forever.
    Fortunately we have the technology to preserve a majority of what once was in the form of digital photographs and video footage.
    RUclips itself, I imagine, will eventually become a repository in its own right for recording for posterity.
    I suppose that's a small but significant silver lining after all. 👍

  • @timfronimos459
    @timfronimos459 2 года назад +2

    One episode, I am hooked. What a beautiful film.

  • @far574
    @far574 4 года назад +2

    Lost LA is my favorite program.

  • @patsprings4296
    @patsprings4296 4 года назад +13

    It is so sad to see how badly LA has devolved over the past 20 years. Such a rapid and decisive decline.

  • @RADIUMGLASS
    @RADIUMGLASS 5 лет назад +29

    $100,000 bought you a nice mansion back in the day.

    • @jjcooks7401
      @jjcooks7401 4 года назад +4

      RADIUM CLOCK In San Diego, in the 1800s, the entire Rancho Agua Hedionda was sold for $4,000. Nowadays, the city of Carlsbad, CA occupies that space and a single home will cost you 1 million dollars.

    • @bikerdude6119
      @bikerdude6119 3 года назад

      @1Jvelocity99 shoes were only a can and 2 pennies

  • @chuckthebull
    @chuckthebull 4 года назад +19

    I lived in a 100 year old industrial warehouse turned into my living working loft. for 18 years me and my girlfriend created all kinds of art and machines and instruments for film TV and concerts.
    The building had 60 foot beams in the ceilings and walls, lumber no long available in those lengths as those trees as well are long gone, But long story short Trammel Crow Company bought the property rudely and unceremonious told us to get the hell out with little time to scramble for a new situation. This of course ruins several other peoples businesses while their stuffed suits came in and said this is so cool now get out and proceeded to bulldoze the entire block to make way for expensive hideous condos for thousands a month rent for millennial wankers. All while claiming they provide "housing" striping the real life out of the entire downtown. Greed kills art once again. but alas all anyone really cares about is maximizing profits and money. The mindset of a cancer.

    • @KingSlimjeezy
      @KingSlimjeezy 4 года назад +3

      Well bro, LA is cancer. So I don’t know what you expected lol

    • @jrnymn14
      @jrnymn14 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, your nothing new,you had your space for a time, now the “wankers” have their time. History is what we remember, then forget, 100 years from now, who cares ?

    • @chuckthebull
      @chuckthebull 3 года назад +1

      @@KingSlimjeezy I have seen more greedy weasel boy s(um bags here than anywhere else I have been and I have been all over the world and in almost every state in the USA... it seems California attracts them like flys... they will sell their own grandma to a glue factory to get rich.

    • @chuckthebull
      @chuckthebull 3 года назад +2

      @@jrnymn14 so basically you are one of them.

    • @jrnymn14
      @jrnymn14 3 года назад +3

      Lived in topanga in the 80s, then Venice Beach in early 90s, change was a constantly evolving thing, was happy for the time I had, I don’t recognize it now, but I’m sure there were old guys who didn’t recognize it in my time

  • @kplante7881
    @kplante7881 6 лет назад +4

    Great stuff... thanks for sharing!

  • @lukepeita7026
    @lukepeita7026 3 года назад +2

    These guys are bringing great memories back to life thanks guys 👍😀

  • @raphaelnoz8321
    @raphaelnoz8321 4 года назад +8

    It’s amazing the amount of hatred that an historical video brings out in people. Reading the comments feels like sitting in a bar full of the losing and the lost.

    • @Nunofurdambiznez
      @Nunofurdambiznez 4 года назад

      Or, you could just watch the video and not READ the comments... that's one way to get around feeling lost and a loser.

  • @gregd5013
    @gregd5013 4 года назад +1

    One of the best weekend amateur videos I have seen. You should try to get this on some kind of syndication.

  • @76frankm
    @76frankm 3 года назад +1

    Music soundtrack was perfectly Los Angeles!! Great job!

  • @BradThePitts
    @BradThePitts 3 года назад +2

    The homes in the Venice canals have changed over the years - most significantly in the past 15 years or so. Many of the small plots now have multi-level, modern luxury homes. I'm surprised that it wasn't mentioned that the gentleman in the video is living in one of the only remaining original bungalows.

    • @suzbone
      @suzbone 2 года назад

      I definitely got the impression from things the residents said that there are precious few that remain.

  • @sommelierofstench
    @sommelierofstench 8 лет назад +6

    20:50 that beat fire

    • @jordanlong22
      @jordanlong22 8 лет назад +2

      It is! That's Matt Glass from HCT.Media right there. He made all the music for this segment.

  • @stephenbirks6458
    @stephenbirks6458 3 года назад +1

    My Boozing buddy went to LA for a few weeks holiday - He brought some Photographs back of various areas - But after looking at venice beach ! - I feel in love with those homes around Venice Canals -Ha ! - My best mate flew half way around the world ! - And stayed in LA with his workmates brother ! - Who turned out to be my wifes cousin ? - Who's living there - But we didnt know until seeing him on my pals photographs ? Thats fate for you !
    Thanks for sharing this viideo ! SB - British Isles

  • @ScottAJacob
    @ScottAJacob Год назад

    As an historic preservationist from the Midwest, it has been only within the last ten years that I had heard about and then learned about Bunker Hill and it’s fight to survive. Your segment on the neighborhood was superbly written and edited and completely heart wrenching. One could tangibly feel the lament of it’s loss as your storyteller recalled his living memories of the place. I’d say if ever there was a better made presentation to support the need for preserving history, I don’t know what it would be. Thank you for sharing the lesson.

  • @MareMeyer
    @MareMeyer 4 года назад +2

    I miss living in Venice. Beautiful place to live.

  • @thewagonadreambylewis
    @thewagonadreambylewis 3 года назад +1

    Really enjoyed this. Thank you!!!

  • @SnipzSmooth
    @SnipzSmooth 6 лет назад +15

    Very interesting, also for someone from Germany

    • @hungbulldaddy
      @hungbulldaddy 6 лет назад

      SnipzSmooth every place has its buried history my friend.

    • @panzer5033
      @panzer5033 4 года назад +1

      The land originally belonged to Native Americans. It was colonized by the Spanish. Mexico won their independence from Spain and took control of California from Spain. Mexico then sold California and the southwest to the US after the Mexican American war. The US paid Mexico for California in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. If anyone has a land claim, it's the native tribes not Mexico.

    • @fdm91730
      @fdm91730 4 года назад

      So is Berlin

  • @adamfrbs9259
    @adamfrbs9259 4 года назад +1

    They tore down the huge sandhill by my house we used to sled at in the winter and put a highway in. Now you can't really access the "beer cave" from the early 1900's beer storage. Pretty neat...kids on that street now have no idea it's there.

  • @samsen3965
    @samsen3965 2 года назад

    So much we don't know but see on daily basis, just to pass it & call it another day gone.

  • @butchmcqueen5625
    @butchmcqueen5625 4 года назад +5

    The GM street car conspiracy definitely had something to do with it

    • @foxbodyblues6709
      @foxbodyblues6709 3 года назад

      The butthurt urban planners who regret not having the power over how people live their lives makes me smile...

  • @ronm3245
    @ronm3245 12 дней назад

    The photo at 10:18 shows, circa 1965, some final mopping up of Bunker Hill. You can see on the left how the grading has been done for the Dodger Stadium parking lot off in the distance.

  • @larrypurnell3573
    @larrypurnell3573 4 года назад +3

    Is it me or the one guy that was reminiscing about Angels Flight Trolley looked sad? 😪🤔

  • @cesfab7602
    @cesfab7602 5 лет назад +2

    Is there an episode 2 online?

  • @rrivas69
    @rrivas69 4 года назад +1

    I love this show.

  • @freedom4dollars
    @freedom4dollars 2 месяца назад

    A fun time capsule film that features some of those old steep hills, especially Bunker Hill, is the late-period noir Kiss Me Deadly. The film, which really is a trip even today, makes very atmospheric use of the old stairs and funiculars.

  • @josemoreno3334
    @josemoreno3334 5 лет назад +4

    My family lived in Bunker Hill area in the late 50s. I was born there in 1957. We moved from there in 1960 to Boyle Heights. My mother, Now 94, Still remembers Angels Flight. Yes, It was a slum.

  • @crazyoldhippieguy
    @crazyoldhippieguy 6 лет назад +1

    Can l ask if there,s an Cal Propesale to dig up the streets due to globel warming?

  • @JungleYT
    @JungleYT 3 года назад +1

    The houses on trailers - 10:18 Wow! Angel's Flight - 10:21 , 10:27

  • @stalked5627
    @stalked5627 6 лет назад +31

    4th generation Angelino, travelled the country / world and I wouldn't live anywhere else.

    • @J_J_P_
      @J_J_P_ 5 лет назад +12

      I dreamed of California as a kid while growing up in Cleveland. It wasn't easy to get here. Life gets in the way...jobs, etc. Been coming to California for 15 yrs. Lived in the redwoods of West Sonoma County for 6 yrs and now live down the street from the beach in Newport Beach. Dream fulfilled.

    • @boofert.washington2499
      @boofert.washington2499 5 лет назад +3

      You just don't know any better, traveler or not.

    • @mjt2231
      @mjt2231 4 года назад +3

      nico napo I'd give anything to live in L.A. but I'm stuck in Texas.

    • @alexpeace4167
      @alexpeace4167 4 года назад +5

      LA my beautiful City welcoming the world. 😍

    • @randygravel2057
      @randygravel2057 4 года назад

      Really? Where the hell did you go?

  • @sylviaeli322
    @sylviaeli322 5 лет назад

    Is there an episode before this?

  • @thebluedan
    @thebluedan 4 года назад +3

    Marion Steam shovel! That’s some history

    • @robertchilders8698
      @robertchilders8698 6 месяцев назад

      Màry Ann and the steam shovel?? Was my favorite book when I was very young!

  • @jaymorgenthal9479
    @jaymorgenthal9479 3 года назад +1

    The Films The Indestructible Man and 1950 version on M have extensive footage shot on Angels flight and Bunker Hill

  • @thenoid5131
    @thenoid5131 4 года назад +2

    I lived by 7th and Witmer was a child back in the mid 70s I got a glimpse of some of the older homes being just removed after being vacant and abandoned for years I would say and I also got to see some buildings go up too I can tell you that some of those older houses were very well crafted unlike today’s homes of just flat surfaces no character or dedication put into them at all

    • @joekidd777
      @joekidd777 4 года назад

      I also remember some of those homes in the early to mid seventies. I remember as a child back then,telling my brother that the houses looked like haunted houses.

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 Год назад

    👍👏😊 Thanks for showing

  • @1980lizbethcamacho
    @1980lizbethcamacho 4 года назад

    Good documentary I love Los Angeles I hate to see the historic stuff go they're so beautiful why tear them down😢😔😞

  • @anthonyciccariello8089
    @anthonyciccariello8089 4 года назад +1

    That was neat.

  • @supremepartydude
    @supremepartydude 4 года назад +13

    In 1997 while doing work for AIG I got a personal tour of the fabulous Ambassador Hotel. The idiots bulldozed it in the 2000s very sad loss for LA

    • @whathell6t
      @whathell6t 4 года назад +4

      Tony B. online Actually, the Coconut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel is the only structure they haven’t torn down for the repurposing. The Coconut Grove still stands as the renovated Broadway style theater of Robert F. Kennedy Community School.

    • @suzbone
      @suzbone 2 года назад

      @@whathell6t that's great to know!

  • @lzferlima
    @lzferlima 4 года назад +2

    I love America's history, are lifes loaded of feelings. It's very sad what happened. People without memories and respect has no life.

  • @justotorres8970
    @justotorres8970 4 года назад +5

    Much of the states west of the Mississippi sold rail ways to Big Automobile companies. Auto companies did away with much of the rail ways forcing people to purchase cars.

    • @foxbodyblues6709
      @foxbodyblues6709 3 года назад

      Thank god we aren’t all jammed into urban towers like the planners all wanted!!!

  • @jimchik
    @jimchik 4 года назад

    Is there any mention of the accuracy of the history portrayed in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"?

  • @seeDiersoilcrossrowds
    @seeDiersoilcrossrowds 3 года назад

    *VENICE~ Any place with the word NICE in it, has to be a great place to live!!!*

  • @bleh3039
    @bleh3039 4 года назад +1

    Can you guys do something on the South Central farmers please?

  • @louietheplumber3609
    @louietheplumber3609 4 года назад +3

    I love LA though I don't live there anymore it got way to crowded for me

    • @joedirte716
      @joedirte716 2 года назад

      Hope you don't vote democRAT

  • @davidwesley2525
    @davidwesley2525 Год назад +1

    Fun Fact in the early 20th century , Los Angeles had the Longest streetcar system in the World at over 1000 miles.
    😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

  • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
    @LucasFernandez-fk8se 4 года назад +2

    Venice needs wider roads. In GTA 5 the Vespucci canals (Venice) have a very convenient 2 way street surrounded by the canal waters but in real life LA it is a crappy 1 way street which is so inconvenient and nonsensical. It makes you drive around the block longer to get to your house which is so impractical

  • @MissterX
    @MissterX 2 года назад

    Those empty underground stations and tunnels that connect would be a good resource to build out semi-long term housing for the homelessness issue LA is currently having.

  • @chrisstephens5310
    @chrisstephens5310 Год назад

    it so very very sad the old Los Angeles is gone with the wind.........

  • @chastityduarte1770
    @chastityduarte1770 Год назад

    do you know this show that is on tv its a Christmas show and I wanna know if it's old or not.

  • @selowhgts6133
    @selowhgts6133 3 года назад

    17:58 Is that the Dorothy Chandler pavilion in back of those houses? Isn't that where they held the Oscars for many decades?

  • @danchisholm1
    @danchisholm1 2 года назад

    the piece on venice unfortunately had very little info. not sure why I had to watch that couple for most of the segment.
    would have been nice to learned more about the canals.

  • @nedudki
    @nedudki 4 года назад +2

    Politicians, lobbyist stopped (and destroyed) public transportation in LA.
    Sherman, Torrance all would be disappointed...

  • @neverknowit11
    @neverknowit11 2 года назад +2

    So many beautiful, priceless buildings destroyed or leveled. Los Angeles should have kept to the plans of old Los Angeles. Keeping the old homes would have saved affordable housing and decrease homelessness. Los Angeles lost the grander which attracted most of the Tourists who flocked here. We lost a plethora of small businesses along the Santa Monica Air-Line and within Santa Monica.

  • @chastityduarte1770
    @chastityduarte1770 Год назад

    what year was this video made.

  • @spudwas
    @spudwas 2 года назад

    A lot of Padding shots really slows down the film of Venice by Matt (Glass?).

  • @zelphx
    @zelphx 4 года назад

    What's up with the guy driving the buggy, in black-face, at 12:11?