LOS ANGELES: OLDEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS, A true Old World compilation, Antiquitech, Aqueduct, Tunnels
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2021
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Today we will take a deep dive (so very deep) into Los Angeles. I was rewatching some of my previous work, and one of my earliest videos (after I began taking this channel seriously) was about Old World California.
However, while entertaining, that video lacked the certain narration and greater direction I like to present in my work.
So, today, we will take a second look at California - more specifically at Tinseltown, The home of Hollywood, The city of Angels, Los Angeles, California.
I’ve scoured the interwebs to find the oldest and most unique photographs of Los Angeles. I focused on locating images of L.A. before WW2, with an extreme focus on images before the year 1900. And oh boy! I’ve collected some very telling photographs.
We will discuss the brief “current narrative” history of Los Angeles, from Native American (and possibly Polynesian?!) occupation in the earliest described times, to the more modern city we see today. For the first portion of the video I will focus on the facts as they are told in the narrative, but the freestyle portion of the video will mainly be off the cuff. I will leave timestamps below for you to browse at your pleasure.
These are some of the most amazing images of any Old World City I have discussed yet. Looking through the architecture, and comparing it to the narrative given, we can find many buildings (and other municipal structures) which appear to predate the narrative structure we have been given.
Today we will break down these images in the best way possible. Please share any thoughts and ideas about Old World Los Angeles in the comments below!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ang...
www.discoverlosangeles.com/th...
www.lacity.org/residents/hist...
Time stamps:
Intro - 0:01
Native American (Chumash and Tongva) occupation of Los Angeles Region - 1:50
Possibly Ancient Polynesian Arrival to LA - 2:51
Spain lays claim to Los Angeles, a convoluted history - 3:59
New Spain achieves independence, Los Angeles and Alta California - 5:32
Petroleum is Struck, A Population Boom - 6:51
The Hollywood Narrative - 7:50
Los Angeles continues to grow - 8:37
The Earliest Old World Buildings of LA - 9:50
Old World Freestyle Begins (No Written Narrative) Just General Discussion, Beginning with Early Tunnels built through Mounds - 11:08 
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I am 45 and was born in Santa Monica. I lived and surfed there till I was 23yrs old. I loved all the breaks in my area, not to mention many to the south and north. The best thing I ever did was move to Hawaii at 23 for 20yrs. I came back in 2017, not by choice and I was shocked as to what my hometown turned into. Just to warn you or anyone else that visits here. The homeless population has exploded especially since the scamdemic. There are people living in tents everywhere like the Venice boardwalk which used to be a street artist sanctuary and just a fun place to kick it. You have the rich trust fund kids who are children of Hollywood parents or just from old money that are mentally, spiritually wicked. It's a city of fallen angels in my opinion.
@Patrick Palacio Agree 1000% so sad now.
Thanks to Big Tech.
The whole world is changing dude. It's not just LA.
The entire American Empire is falling. All these big city problems are making their way into suburbs.
@@dloren6183 it’s not just big city problems either. the cabal runs rampant throughout and even on Indian reservations and then spreads from there. It’s satanic.
Yep! Third gen L.A. here. Everyone here is “liberal” in the sense of being freedom loving, creative, tolerant, loving to party and enjoy life. But somehow, “liberal” became about something totally different... now we are fighting for our lives here in more ways than just our health...
I am Hawaiian and lived in LA teens-adulthood, graduated Mt.St. Marys Chalon campus in Brentwood watched them build the new Getty center while I was in college, lived in Malibu, Brentwood, SM, BH,Newport Beach, Laguna, SD, Palm Desert, then Santa Barbara..and then the San Juan Islands in WA. I LOVE LA and always felt a deep connection almost like distant memory of home, and familiarity, in the city no matter where I was... downtown in the flower market at 2am, Pasadena, inner city, OC, driving the 10W back and forth to PS 500x...405 to SD, 710, 101,[unlike Seattle where none of the streets make sense and the treeline and hills make it impossible to see the ocean so I can never align myself with the coast] I am never lost in LACo. I never once felt unsafe...even during the height of car jackings and gang turf war. I know every freeway between Bakersfield and SD like an internal Thomas Guide map! I love the melting pot of every nationality and ethnicity. The food is amazing..where else in the world can you find every single kind of food/dish made fresh by the people of that culture? The culture of LA is unmatched anywhere else in the world. I never loved NYC or Paris like so many do. Even at the worst times...during the riots , Northridge quake, wildfires ...the city always rebounds and survives itself. LA is so ALIVE. I am so fascinated by Hawaiian connection dating back to 6000 BC? Chumash and Hawaiian connection? Crazy. Ive always felt there must be a link. Mahalo nui loa for this historical lesson on LA!
@juliekailihiwa8150 I'n not so sure the Hawaiians got to LA but there is evidence Tahitians made it to the americas around 13000 - 16000 BCE And they are the ones who populated the Hawaiian islands around 600ad I think. I'm an Angelino and l love LA too.
Ok...fair to say "Polynesians" made it to the west coast & Baja Mexico?@@surfernorm6360
MAHALO ANGELINO 4 LIFE !🤙🏾🤎💯
My Mother was born in east L.A. in 1920 and the memories she had of that time are dear to me. She lived through the prosperity of the 20's and the struggles of the 30's and was lucky that her father was a contractor who made it through by building one or two houses a year. She graduated from Garfield High School in '38 and told me how beautiful it all was before my time, which was the smoggiest era of the 50's. I grew up in Duarte in a house built in '52 on what was an orange grove. There was one heritage orange tree on our lot (50 plus years old) that continued to produce giant navel oranges my whole early life. Needless to say, 210 freeway happened, property values changed, the house I grew up in, (along with the 1890's 'grove house), were torn down to make a commercial property, (Nissan dealership!), which continues the narrative. I get sick to my stomach seeing the incredible changes to the LA that I grew up in. This video makes me realize that there are still some places of architectural beauty hidden amongst the crass architecture of the 50's and 60's. (And 70's, 80's, 90's etc...) My best memories are of the older buildings in downtown LA that my Father took me to that were impressively ornate and captured the opulence of the 20's.
I like that 1890ish to 1930's era of building myself: natural materials, built to better deal with no air condtioning and had an eye on leaks failing to the outside as best as can be done - no synthetics to cover over flaky mechanical features. If some day I can build my own house, I would borrow a few things: 10 or 12 foot ceilings, and not follow the modern craze of being an airtight box - changeout of air at some minimal rate is a must to deal with daily things of cooking, cleaning, bathing... all of which add moisture into a space that needs to dissipate and evacuate. What are modern pinheads doing? Installing complex air changeout and dehumidification sytems that fail the moment here is no electricity. I do admittedly like my A/C, and to that end likely build a 5' crawl space above top floor so mechanicals all exist inside the conditioned space and that leaves plumbing vents as about the only penetration to seal up.
How not to build something? Go study the NYT building: glass galore, with all the thermal bridging money can buy - they have 40 tons of air conditioning per floor [if I remember correctly]. At 52 stories, that is over 2,000 tons of A/C ringing up a massive electric bill - likely six figures every month. By comparison, a reasonably built two thousand square foot house [in LA] does fine with 3 to 4 1/2 tons [depending on how close to the ocean it is]. Eaves help [as the bungalow style found in parts of LA] because even partial shade reduces heat load. Of note, and I think massively understated in this vid? UCLA's brilliant planning. The site was smartly chosen along the foothills, as it garners a slight accelleration of any breezes headed inland from the Santa monica area. All the old buildings are fullly capable of use with no air conditioning.
Hopefully you realize the climate change narrative is bs. GOD created a perfect world for us providing us everything we could ever need. Sick men who want to be GOD are injecting us with poison to destroy our connection to heaven. The photos of old buildings are much older than claimed. The photos of restoration to buildings that survived a catastrophe are what you are looking at.
Your education has been total bs. Folks with horse and buggy did not build these buildings. Founders are people who found.
We are at zero hour for America. Knock off the racism crap, the black white nonsense. They will end your freedom. My typing this will probably end my freedom. Our government is being run by people who see us as dirt. They want you dead, they want you to kill your babies. Planned parenthood has kept the black population at 11% forever. Reject welfare and have your men raise your children. As a white woman who had paid the system forever working three jobs to be told to get medical help to save my baby, my husband had to move out of our home. Wtf. The system is anti family. If we allow them to destroy our freedom, we only have ourselves to blame.
There are millions of us, and a handful of them. We matter, they don’t.
My mother was born at Santa Marta’s hospital which at the time was on the corner of Brooklyn/Humphreys. They named Brooklyn Cesar Chavez Avenue as I’m sure you know. They lived on Alpine Street in china town until they moved to Los Alamitos when my mom was 3 years old. She was born in 1947. I have a special place in my heart for East Los Angeles. I became a deputy sheriff in 1990 and worked at ELA sheriff station from 1998-2003. I then left the sheriff’s department for the county fire department and was station at Fire station 3 on the corner of Whittier/Eastern from 2005-2016. I loved the people of ELA. It was such a proud and close knit community. It’s funny that you mentioned Garfield high school. In 2007 there was a big fire that started in the conference room. It caused so much damage. But they got a new conference room. Sadly it got too busy for me there and I transferred to station 110 in Marina del Rey. I live in Santa Monica just 5 blocks south of the pier. My wife and I walk along the pier with our little dogs on a regular basis. It’s such a wonderful city to live in except for the homeless that cause so much destruction. Unfortunately somewhere along the line we’ve lost our way. If you live in SoCal you understand what I mean. Our mayors, county supervisors and law makers feel it’s more important to cater to the people who take and destroy our community than to put in place laws that protect our hard working tax payers. I don’t really understand when, or how it got so bad, but it’s shameful to see what is going on here in Los Angeles. I really enjoyed this video. It would have been so wonderful to live back in the early 1900-1950 when people were treated based on their merit.
I know exactly what you are talking about. I lived in a tiny town in the San Joachin Valley but my grandparents lived in Downtown LA! I loved to come visit them. They lived on Alvarado across from McArthur Park with the boats in the lake and it was so nice and I just loved it. My grandma would take me on the Red Car to go downtown to Macy's and we always had lunch at Clifton's Cafeteria-I loved that place because she let me have whatever I wanted=my choice! in '57,, we came to Disneyland for the first time-it was surrounded by orange groves. The next day, we went to Knott's and from Disney to Knott's, it was nothing but orange groves, you really were out in the country then. Great memories of smoggy old LA!
Similarly my grandparents moved to the area and eventually to Monterey Park. And I think some of my family went to that HS too.
My uncles right out of that HS joined the army to fight and survive through WW2 in Europe.
It's really neat driving around downtown LA. The architecture, how most of the buildings still standing are made from bricks.
The old boxing gym/auditorium, etc.
You can see LA was the center for California from many miles around. People would drive to the city to go to Sears, etc., because they didn't have large local stores like Malls, Wallmarts', etc.
When you drive around various areas around LA you find all these sort of hidden areas that you knew were great back in the day.
Although truth be told, that was the former glory. A lot of the areas are run down full of homeless, etc.
But you can at least picture how it looked back then..
I’ve been living in Los Angeles for 23 years and watching this video made me realize how historic and beautiful LA is . Thank you so much for creating this video.
Native, Spain, Mexico, and USA history
Was. The people living there now have destroyed it.
Not anymore, it's being intentionally destroyed by the globalists.
I’m from L.A. and a huge History addict and buff. And I just can’t believe how the city use to be. It’s just a shame that a lot of the historic buildings and the whole landscape of the architectural majesty of the city is no longer here and was erased from the city of Los Angeles. Such a shame…..
Me too. However, lots of those huge victorian stone and brick buildings had to be torn down after the 33 earth quake.
I miss The house of blues
Same,,, don’t get me started on the buildings that have been torn down it gets me sick.. I live in highland park and there’s a group of investors that come from Glendale anyways they are finding ways to knock down old craftsmanship homes and build ugly stucco apartments
A guy I know bought Clifton’s a while back .Anyone remember it as it was ?.
Can’t wait to go back to LA.I have only good memories of my trips up and down HWY 101.I used to come over every year.
@@wilfredwilde9559 it’s funny u say that. It’s still there. They remolded it. But it’s been there since like 1921 or so. Good to see it’s survived. All the years.
I was born in L.A. in 1945 and grew up in the Hollywood Hills. Everything you show looks familiar, but I would love to see some particular places, like Grouman's Chinese Theater. I don't do much time measuring my little feet against the movie stars who left their mark (lol) in Hollywood. I'd like to see some of the canyons, I lived up in Laurel Canyon on LL surely Pass,then a dirt road that ended at a fire trail that lead through the woods and ended at Mulholland Drive. When I was about 12 the beautiful woods, home to every sort of wild animal, including Mountain Lions, were razed and yet another cookie cutter mini suburb built. My mother was so upset by the plans she chained herself to a tree and refused to jet the Earth moving machinery into the woods, but she lost that fight. While the road was still packed dirt I would walk probably a quarter mile to Wonderland Grammar School on Lookout. It was a hulking three story building with a nice big dirt playground full of oak and eucalyptus trees and a vegetable garden to one side. We ate outside mostly, at wooden picnic tables or in the classrooms if it was raining. Everyone played together, there was no age discrimination among the kids. Needless to say we all knew each other. At the end of K-6 I was bussed down to Bancroft Junior High, then Hollywood High. Dad was a commercial artist working for awhile at Universal in the 50s. Mom was also an artist (as I am too) and worked out her frustrations with housewifery by decoration every square inch of the kitchen with Toll painting designs. She also brought back seashells and cemented them around the bathtub.my dad made most of our mid century furniture. Our coffee table was an enormous tree stump carved into coffee table shape. Our house started out as a very small one bedroom with a white picket fence a wraparound porch and a tiny once stone car garage in the side yard. But they changed everything about the sweet little house, and it became as modern as 1950 would allow. They paid $5,000 for it in 1947. Today on Google Earth it's footprint is entirely different and it's two stories. The last sale price was 1M plus. We didn't get that when we sold it in 1960 and my mom and I moved to NYC. We lived in the Village and I went off to the High School of Art and Design. Mom fell in love with a Broadway actor and stage manager and later married him when I left home. If you have any specific questions about Los Angeles in the 50s DM me. (I loved riding the electric streetcars downtown and visiting the TarPits!)
I remember the bussing
What exciting memories. Thank you for sharing them
Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Thanks for sharing that. I am an independent graphic artist, and artist, and I can relate what it would be like working for a large studio. I cannot imagine what it would be like to get a paycheck doing something you enjoy, but lately I am finding ways to do that as I have retired.
Hi Jared! I was born,grew up and live here in Los Angeles. You did a great job in this video. But there’s a couple of things you should know. A lot of the things are still here for instance the Santa Monica pier still has its old roller coaster and carousel. The tunnels are still there and some of us still honk when we go through. The City Hall looks the same and much of those buildings around it still exist. It was only a few years ago that the city had a scavenger hunt of the old theaters. Of downtown some of them have been restored, others have become markets! but quite a few simply remain in all their old world splendor. The history of the water issues in Los Angeles stems from the fact that the first damn that was built broke and the flood that ensued ravaged many communities North of Los Angeles in Ventura county and many many lives were lost. I saw the aqueduct that was built subsequently was built actually fairly quickly and different parts were built at the same time for instance a lot of the pictures you showed were the aqueduct portion that is currently viewable from the 5 freeway that is overground and made out of steel cylinders that were simply welded together as you can see the tubes were pre-fabricated so they just left put down and welded so it didn’t need a team of so many people. Its the parts that were laid underground required the forms to be laid which were wood forms with their metal rods around them and then the cement poured as they moved along portion by portion which of course would require more workers in those areas you actually have very few pictures of that portion of the aqueduct. I the other thing I wanted to point out that you began this video insinuating that Los Angeles was flat and that places were built on mounds the natural Los Angeles area is anything but flat in fact it’s almost completely rolling Hills and mountain ranges. Which is why it has so many tunnels most of those rolling hills were simply tunneled through especially in downtown LA. You really should come and visit and I hope you are well and will be able to do so soon. Also the pictures you have of what you called the fishbowl are actually pictures of the Hollywood bowl which of course is still in use to this day.
You should have done the narration, as you are more knowledgeable about this images!
That's correct and quite interesting indeed. Another detail he mentions is the LA Memorial Coliseum. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on Dec 21, 1921 but actually completed on May 1, 1923. First event took place in July of 1923.
Totally forgot about honking in the 10W tunnel from Santa Monica!! Great memory!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. it's important that we collaborate and share our knowledge. My grandparents moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s. I remember my grandmother pointing out areas that were fields (near View Park and Baldwin Hills). A adobe structured building still exists on Don Felipe.
This is a delightful channel. Thank you for the photos. This one makes me cry. My great great? Grandma came to Los Angeles in 1870 from Northern France. Many came with her, escaping the Prussian/France war. G Grandpa was with Doheny when he discovered oil and was an investor, and is buried in a historical little cemetery. Grandpa was chief electrical supervisor of Hoover Dam and Southern California. From Malibu to Long Beach to Pasadena, my family footprints are all over. Sadly, I may be half-moving away. Greatness, beauty and fame always brings disrespectful invaders.....
I want my wholesome city back. Tears.
Just ask the original inhabitants of this continent they'll tell you about invaders of greatness..lol
@@gentrynewsom2080Hey, Are you related to Gavin Newsom? Fame becomes poisonous. Anything beautiful will be targeted. (I am not implying that Newsome is beautiful, he is the targeter, not the targetee. New words.)
@@MissBabalu102 I don't know him personally but he looks similar to some family.
@@MissBabalu102 No I'm not directly related to Gavin.
@@gentrynewsom2080 cual habitantes los kuntakite 😂😂
I WAS IN THE COLISEUM ON THE 4TH OF JULY IN 1953,FOR THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY.THE LITES WERE OUT AND THEY ASKED EVERYONE TO LIGHT A MATCH.THE EFFECT WAS AMAZING.THERE WASNT AN EMPTY SEAT IN THE PLACE,ALSO THEY HAD 3 F-85 SABRE JETS DIVE INTO THE STADIUM AND ALMOST LAND AND THEN SWOOP UP OUT OF THE PLACE,ILL NEVER FORGET THE EXPERIENCE
China could do 10000 times better
I love the coliseum. I saw my very first concert there and fell in love.
@@FreezinLeo27 Then maybe you should marry China, u love it so much.
Thank you
@@FreezinLeo27
Stupid troll
As a tile setter in the 70s , I was sent up to Bel Air to a home that belonged to a retired engineer. He showed MO a panoramic b/w photo of the teens or twenties. Him and his brother each had 200 mules and they were cutting lots into the hillsides of Bel Air. No roads, no trees. That was the earliest pic I had seen at that time.
Related to the Hartungs on Gilmour Street
in Van Nuys?
I'm on the east coast....and find that fascinating.
Wish I could have seen that picture too...
God bless! 🙏❤️🙏
I've lived in Los Angeles and Orange county for 68 years. Seeing those pictures of downtown really brought back a lot of memories....taking the bus downtown from East Los Angeles and spending the day shopping and having lunch. Thanks so much. California is truly a magical place. Keep up the good work
*_I learned more here than I did in my math class… Watching these old historical videos always make me feel like I went back in time._*
Fun fact: The ancient Hawaiians invented surf boards making them out of their native Koa wood and California Redwood. How did the Hawaiian kahunas aquire redwood you ask? In Northern California redwood logs would fall into rivers where they would be carried out to sea. The prevailing ocean/wind currents would carry these drift logs across the Pacific and wash up on Hawaiian beaches specifically the island of Kauai. The reverse of these currents could have taken Hawaiian sea going canoes across the pacific to the southern California coast by chance where the two cultures might have made prehistoric contact. The Chumash peoples around the Santa Barbara coast (including the Channel Islands) show evidence of this possible contact. Sewn plank canoes, circular shell and bone fish hooks, etc. and similar vocabulary words. After WW2 when Americans started taking up surfing as a recreation, especially at Santa Cruz, California redwood was the preferred surfboard material before later synthetic materials of today.
That is fascinating! Thank you! Interesting too, is that the Hopi Elders put their oral tradition on cassette tapes & they said that they came from Lemuria/Mu, were attacked by Atlantis & sank slower & that the Hawaiian islands are the remnants of Lemuria! It took them hundreds of years to make it to N. America by way of the south. (I believe these cassettes are now in the northern university of AZ.)
@@cynthiaennis3107
If what you relate here is correct concerning the taped statements of the Hopi Elders, then that is certainly fascinating, but the skeptical part of me has to wonder how much of their cultural "memory" is historically accurate, and how much of it may have been tainted/influenced by certain occult/NewAge philosophies that started circulating and becoming popular in the mid to late 19th century (e.g., the books of Madam Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society).
I read that the Polynesians may have come to Peru not because of an ocean current to take them there, but the opposite. They would go as far as they could AGAINST the current knowing they could always get back home.
And what do you tell the Peruvians that claim they invented Surfing and the Polynesians copy them when they started exchanging goods across the oceans. As of today Peruvians still use these sort of cayacs made out of Totora. They call them Caballitos, or Horseys.
Remember the trip of the Kontiki? That proved that navigation between Peru and the Polynesias or vice versa was possible.
So, In my opinion it's seem highly unlikely enough trees would fall and float to Hawaii. I mean, what are the odds it lands in HI, like .000005
The first member of my family born in L.A. was born in what now is El Monte in 1851. My dad was born inL.A. in 1913. His dad was a carpenter at Universal Studios. I have photos of him at the Frankenstein set mugging it up with the rest of the crew. Wish I could share the photos I have. The family at the beach. I found your video very informative. Thanks, ron hagg
Wow Jared ! As a native angelino you did an amazing job showing us mostly all the viewers 1st time pictures of this great city in the old days ! That was an interesting montage of old holly weird and L.A .I hope you get a chance to visit soon this magical city of lost angels ! You are amazing Jarid. Please keep up your great work!❤
My parents were born and grew up in the area. I lived there for three years as a child. I remember some of the sights. I have fond memories of live orchestral music in the park. It would have been neat to have shared this video with my parents. They died years ago. Born 1927 & 1928.
I used to be a tour guide in Los Angeles and you are correct L.A.
architecture does have an old world feel to it. I call it the city of now that is always in a state of flux, change and very contemporary. Your narrative and footage captured the persona of L.A. quite succinctly for someone who has never been here, bravo great job I thouroughly enjoyed it !
Those dots in the sky are incoming airships... lined up like incoming jets to a modern airport.
One of the reasons for building the Empire State building.. was the western terminal for transatlantic airship crossings.
There are images of passengers loading and off loading at the top.
Hindenburg made 63 transatlantic crossings safely.. and there was a identical airship that kept flying. US Navy Akron airship etc
All of the large buildings were built before we settled there.
Part of the proof is that they are impossible to build with the tools and transport available at the time: and almost impossible today.
The contrast between the buildings and the means of building them can be seen in every photo,
@@G-ra-ha-m that makes a lot of sense
it's also important to note that a single Corinthian column takes weeks.. WEEKS to carve.. just the top alone.
@@G-ra-ha-m Tartaria
Jarid Boosters, I hope someday a game developer will recreate what Southern California use to look like back in the 30,s and 40,s in a high-resolution VR format so we can actually experience what it was like back then with all the Citrus and Walnut Orchards, and farms. Imagine being able to visit any city or town back then or being able to walk among the Citrus and Walnut Groves in areas like Covina or West Covina back then.
LA Noir game has a lot of these details, from old Los Angeles. It was developed in large part using old photographs.
im from west covina!🎉❤
How many of you watching this video, caught the alien black ball probe over old downtown Los Angeles and the Los Angles Times Building? That was really awesome. I love all of the architecture of the buildings in L.A., at time. So many of the buildings have clock towers on them.
Thanks for noticing it.
A great dedication to our local history. Thanks for your hard work for us to enjoy. 😊
Hi Jarid. Thanks so much for the video. Born in LA in 1954. I remember most of the places you showed. Angel's Flight, Hollywood Bowl, the electric cars, orange groves in San Fernando & San Gabriel valleys, Orange County (south of Los Angeles) was all strawberry fields and a noxious pig farm. Your puzzlement on building massive projects is probably expected. But the DID build with very limited machinery. I know the Pasadena Rose Bowl was excavated with horse & wagon. Only very early steam shovels showed up to move the dirt faster. Hal Roach, director of the Our Gang comedies, got his start in Hollywood after hauling construction supplies for the Los Angeles Aqueduct being built in Lancaster. The Treaty of Cahuenga, also called the "Capitulation of Cahuenga," ended the fighting of the Mexican-American War in Alta California in 1847.
Such a shame that Le Grande Station was demolished due to damage from the 1930s Long Beach earthquake. Such a grand and beautiful building.
As a side note, I'm a descendant of the original settlers of Los Angeles (Los Pobladores). I'm part of the Moreno / Verdugo family line. My family built a home in Glendale, CA (suburb of Los Angeles) that dates back to the mid-1820s (Catalina Verdugo Adobe). The families were spread far and wide, because many of them owned huge 'ranchos' (ranches).
LA is shit now. Don't waste your time. Go get safe in the South now.
@@jasonwhite7226 You're joking, right? Southern states rank very high in crime rates.
Verdugo gang from SB?
It would be so interesting to learn more of the history of your family. I get little bits and pieces here and there, but it really must have so much drama and emotion. Have you read Victor Villasenor? Great books about Mexican heritage in Mexico and Mexican California; his family's true stories--or, based on, in some parts, but basically, history. Fantastic, beautiful, epic, love-fueled drama of the people and the land. The two titles I read are Rain of Gold and 13 Senses. Highly recommend, and, if there is a writer or historian in the family, I hope they do as Villasenor did for his family and Mexican heritage. I don't know why these books weren't made into huge Hollywood movies. Yet.
@jason white. It's a video on historical Los Angeles not a tourist promotional video. Most of us are aware of the decline of not just LA but most major cities in the USA. Be it homelessness and/or crime etc.. Nonetheless we can't argue that the architecture is amazing and its history fascinating. There are still many parts of LA that are beautiful.
I saw this post, and my heart, feelings and memories simply lit up.
Man, what memories that border on dreams.
I must keep this short !
My great-grandmother came out to Los Angeles Missouri-Arkansas border ~ 1900. Scandle
back home.
Very old part of L.A. She purchased an old Victorian home built sometime in the 1890's.
Around 5 floors including a basement as large as any, along with the gabled upper most part of the house.
I grew up with my maternal grandparents.
Each Sunday or other my grandfather took me out to visit his mother. His sister and brother also lived there.
A time when 'Rooms to let' was common. It was downright creepy;. The Lodger 😬
The 'house' ? was so large with property and a-joining structures renting rooms was inevitable.
Now, - I would always wander off, - exploring the Escher-like staircases and myriad of causeways. Rooms everywhere, most having no occupant.
I was scared. To this day
~ 60 years later I have dreams/nightmares about getting lost.
I never did learn the secrets folded within. I never did learn the full extent of that place. It sat atop a hill surrounded by streets that challenged foot or wheel.
And that basement 😬,
my God, I know there was at least one serial killer down there. I could write a book on that basement alone !
WOW what memories.
It's was swallowed long ago by development.
Boy, this post really got me breathing hard.
Someone needs a channel, - a channel of how old Victorian London came to L.A. ~
130 years ago. And liked to old East London to frighten a curious kid out of any anxious hold on sanity.
It still scares me.
Thanks ? for posting.
I imagine there's layers of evil stuff everywhere, but now we have eyes to see it. I sensed alot of predators in LA, and I left there for good to go to college in Davis. Turns out it was there too, but not as obviously.
My Great Grandfather owned the Rose Bowl property and lived on Rosemont and Seco St. in a home that was raised twice and built up. I have all the newspaper clippings my Grandma saved. Thank you for this!
16:15 The old world craftsmanship is astounding. How far we have fallen.
ruclips.net/video/FEKKIHwPzhk/видео.html. This is the oldest photo of blacks in America
Exactly!
Original photos compared to today seems so unbelievable.
The change is shocking
I'm stoked to hear so many places still exist near where I live in Long Beach CA. Just a few weeks ago I was driving in Pasadena and saw the capital building and recognized it instantly as being old world Tartarian built most likely. I didn't know LA still has so many old world buildings I can go see in person. This is mind blowing for me to have recently found out about this old world that completely contradicts the official narrative of our history. Thank you!
What elements of the building jumped out at you? Can you recommend any resources to learn more, say ones similar to JL.
My father, born and reared in L.A., once commented on the changes that had taken place. He said that the home in which he had been born and grown up in -- gone; both the grammar school and high school he attended -- gone; the chapel he was married in -- gone; the hospital where I, his oldest child. had been born -- gone; even the company he worked at 'till retirement -- gone! Dad himself is no longer with us, gone at age 100.
Lola Neal left reading your story all the good things in life seem to be gone your father sounded like a good man God bless you
I can identify. I am 75 and many places I once knew no longer exist.
Wow he lived a long life watching the transitions of LA. ❤
I hope he passed on many fascinating stories
My dad was born at Temple Hospital in LA, and now it’s gone😢 My mom was born at General Hospital in LA. I grew up in Montebello, so LA was always in the skyline.
Most of the "horses" shown are actually mules. Your work is interesting and much appreciated! Thank you!
Totally enjoyed your adventures through my city. Yes, as I near 80, so much of your video brought back memories. I remember climbing aboard the street car on Vermont, and venturing down to see the Dodgers play in the Coliseum--1959. Then I remember running the hurdles in the coliseum--city finals. The aqueduct of running water as you begin the long trip to Bakersfield was relived, thanks to your photos. Being religious, Dad would always take us to Easter Sunrise near Griffith Park. He would drive the ten miles to the old Methodist Church on Hope and 8th. Thanks for the memories.
Our city has changed so much over the years ... Marineland, the aviation history and so much metamorphosis
I grew up in West LA. It was fun in the 60's. So much ferment! Music, hippies, flower children (me), colorful clothing...just a brief blip of wonderfulness there.
*Rolland 80 < you are a G of L.A.
@@theccpisaparasite8813 amen..
Yea.. #Marineland < up in Palos Verdes right?..
*did they have #Shamu the killer whale?
*I do remember they did have some ORCAS up there.
@@pash9956 yea..
parts of 80's and 90's were ok too..
i was born in LA and i am sick of tired of it, but this video made me fall in love again. California is beautiful and LA will always be in my heart
Native Angeleno, born in 1955, Culver City. Truly enjoyed your video. Most of these buildings were gone for quite some time by my birth, but I do recall seeing the trams of Angel's Flight and riding on the electric street cars when I was a little twinker. I feel very fortunate to have grown up in the L.A. area, and I hope that someday your dream will come true and you will get to visit. Currently I live in San Diego as L.A. has gone to hell in a handbasket IMHO over the last 40 years. It may not mean anything to you, but I can recall driving for hours through orange groves to get to Disneyland... Hope to see more of your work on other cities, I've liked and subscribed, thanks for all your efforts.
Jarid, I was on olvera street last month. At 13:10. It's VERY interesting to find the Avila adobe house, built in 1818, is purported to be the oldest structure in downtown l.a. , along with the church, 3 blocks away.. but when you turn around and look across the street from the Avila house, it's the red brick buildings to the right side of the photo, which are all like 8 feet or so lower in elevation, all mudflooders! In fact, many if the shops are located in the lower levels, about 4 feet below street level. What lies they have us believing is phenomenal!!! CHEERS. !!! Love to all the truth seekers!!!!!!!!!!
That sounds interesting to say the least. I’d love to see some photographs if you’re ever out that way again especially of the Old Avila Adobe and the adjacent mud flood buildings. Always nice to see what these buildings look like up close in modern times.
I could always include them in a future video but I’ll have to check those out, for sure. Thanks for sharing this info with us!
@@-oiiio-3993 Just believe the mainstream narrative right?
Thanks a lot, until today I had never heard of mud flood conspiracy theories. It’s not the dumbest theory I’ve heard of but it’s pretty close!
@@-oiiio-3993 I bet you believe we landed on the moon as well? Seriously, wake up! Everything you know is a lie, the hidden is the truth.
Back in 1979 it was called a tourist trap, fresh as a daisy it was back then.
I was born in Los Angeles in 1948 my heart is still there. Thank you,great job.
Jarod: This video is a true time machine!
It’s amazing that the cars buildings and stadiums are still in good shape!
(With renovation) There were Hispanic and American Indians already there when we got there!! Of course wars and the Army ran them out!! The Spanish influence can still be seen on all US coast. Diggings show there were people here 2000 years BC!!😮
I’m sure they wondered why the terrain was so wavy and rough. They found out later about earthquakes and mudslides!!☹️
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. Born in the Cedars of Lebanon hospital, which is now the world's center for the Church of Scientology. I just loved seeing these images. My mother also grew up in Los Angeles, and my grandfather's original factory at 2,000 N. Main Street still stands to this day. Thanks again!
Thanks. I had wondered what that building used to be.
My thoughts as to the large crowds at early infrastructure events: People did not have radio or TV back in the early 20th century. Wanting to socialize and looking for things to do, they attended the few public events available. Also, getting water here was a huge advancement. I was very surprised to hear you say (toward the end of this video) that you've never been to Los Angeles. Very, very few of these buildings remain, the one notable exception being the L.A. Coliseum. As a L.A. resident since 1973, your photos made me very surprised at how many elegant buildings there were prior to my time here. Nearly all have been knocked down in favor of far less interesting buildings. Anyway, your curiosity about a place you've never visited shows your deep intellect. Thanks!
Los Angeles stole the water from the Owens Valley, in Northern California, and NorCal is still sore about it today. I drive past the California Aqueduct when going down/up I-5 and it is massive, indeed..
Very good work on the carnival looking stuff!are past looks like fun but little is known.neat rails for travel. Good photos. 👍
Mulholland promised the local residents he would make it a tourist destination (Owens Lake)
It was the 4th largest lake in California.. when they gave him power to develop the lake to bring in tourism... he stole it.
Shipped the lake to his failed dam (Mulholland Dam) and killed 100,000 people, also created the worst manmade disaster in USA.
Since history admits to deception and destruction of the land.. Bureau of Land Management restore the lake and execute justice?
@@edfauteux1426 I happen to know some of the cowboys that sabotaged that project...
at least the surviving children. Noland's own most of Lone Pine, and very nice folks.
Put on a free rodeo and BBQ for busloads of tourists.
Their parents were promised boat ramps, and Ferris wheels.. Mulholland stole their pristine lake instead.
I was born and raised in LA and really loved your presentation. I went to UCLA and love the old pictures of the campus. There used to be a lot more old buildings and neighborhoods but as the population grew particularly after WWII it became more of a land of opportunity and a headlong rush into the future. The past became something old that just got in the way so some of the heart a soul of the older LA disappeared. People began to wake up and realize that they were throwing away some of the most valuable parts of LA's history. Now there is much more awareness of the importance of protecting and caring for our history. I'm glad you're doing what you're doing! One area of interest you might enjoy looking into is the Venice Canals and the whole Venice beach area. I used to live in Charlie Chaplin's old beach house at 4019 Speedway in Venice. The building was of course destroyed so a few plastic condos could replace it. If you want to see the real house it's in the opening scene of the movie "Marlowe" with James Garner who plays Philip Marlowe the famous Raymond Chandler detective. He's driving north on Speedway and hangs a left turn into our driveway. The movie guys stuck a bunch of cheesy psychedelic posters in our windows to make the place look like a hippy crash pad but except for that the house which we affectionately called "Fat White" looks the same as it probably did when it was built around 1920. To quote Randy Newman, "I Love LA."👍🏼
My mother was born in LA in 1929. She talked about the orange groves and how they got bulldozed for houses and later while she was working for one of the big aerospace companies, a coworker was buying up houses that had been moved because they were making way for the freeways. She said there were long rows of the newly moved houses up on wooden blocks and smart investors were buying them and moving them to other areas of LA to make them into rental. Her coworker retired rich she said.
And it was still going on in the 1970s. The freeway system building went on for at least a generation. They bought those houses for a song. And if anyone refused to sell they just condemned their house and forced them out.
I grew up near the Hollywood Bowl in the early sixties, the photograph you presented as the fish bowl was an early photo of the Hollywood Bowl, I remember Easter Sunrise Service always being a very big event there and the photo of 50,000 people gathered for the service you presented was also an early photo of the Bowl. You're right about the Coliseum being one of the most substantial structures of L.A. and your content does comprise some of the most interesting history of the area.
Your narration was excellent and am hoping to see more, there is so much more and the Masonic roots of Los Angeles seems to be never ending.
Yes, the Easter Sunrise Service was ushered by Hollywood High School student volunteers for decades which was why graduation for H.H.S. was able to be held at the bowl.
Our church used to do Easter services at the Bowl; around 2007-2012? They were a highlight of the year; yes, comments above are true...
Demonic Masonic FASHO
I live in DTLA.
Thehbuildings make mo sense.
If you ever go inside Los Angeles Theater, it will blow your mind with it's decor. Most of the remain theaters in Downtown, inside it is PURE ART.
Great video! Im an Angeleno native. Love the architecture of the buildings in downtown Los Angeles. I was amazed with the old photo of the Santa Fe Railroad depot where my grandfather worked as a railroad welder in the 40’s. My mom remembers shopping downtown L.A. with my grandma. I read a book about Mullholland and his vision for bringing water to Los Angeles. There were hundreds of workers who worked on the water projects, and they lived in temporary camps, with supply stores and mess halls. I hope you can visit Los Angeles sometime.
Crazy, the material/concrete came from Irwindale.
The huge holes still exist.
Google Earth "Irwindale ".
Outstanding historical information Jarid! I was born and raised in Los Angeles (Lincoln Hospital on Soto St.) I am now going to be 67 yrs. old this coming September. I remember taking the street cars with my Grandmother, taking the Bus downtown with my Mother, nothing but great memories growing up in LA. I soon will be retiring from the Railroad and know what impact it had in growing LA. I have always tried to seek information on the early years of LA, and here it is! Once again, Thank You!
Really like your video, I was born and raised in LA in the 60s and have always been very history minded about the city. It is one of the most interesting places to search out history aside of the massive amount of history you find on the east coast where the country started. One of the pictures you had in the video was of City Hall which has the Art Deco designs that would be very popular in the 50s although our City Hall was built in the 20s. I spent a lot of time in the Tower of City Hall because I was in the Los Angeles City Marching band as a trumpet player. The band morphed into the Los Angeles City Jazz Lab Band because we had so many amazing musicians from Locke High School, Washington High, Los Angeles High School. I was in Jr High at the time. But back to the picture of City Hall, in the photo there is another tall building just across the street from City Hall. Its the 2nd or 3rd "original" City Hall made out of stones as oppose to concrete. It is now a large park to sit or eat in and is bordered by the criminal courts building where all the big trials are held like the Charles Manson trial. Bunker Hill is a great historic area also and the houses in Los Angeles made from the mid 1800s to the 1940s are the most amazing. Craftsmen style, Victorian, Queen Anne and so on.
Jarid, What an awesome video you have created. I love seeing old photos of days gone by and these were amazing. I don't think I have ever seen any of these before. Its so unfortunate that almost all were unidentified. I've spent a lot of time in CA, living in Northern CA for about 10 years and traveling frequently to Southern Cal for work often. It is an amazing place. I'll look forward to seeing more of your work.
Thank you for this. It’s amazing to see his L.A. looked back in those times. Awsome!
What a labor of love this is and is greatly appreciated by those of us who call at home and I was a travel around the world every year to visit our ever-changing landscape. Thank you! 🤍
Thank you for this sharing. My grandparents married in Los Angeles in 1904. It's interesting to see the City as they would have. My grandfather and his brother worked at the LA Times.
Back in that day, there would be work camps & cooking stations, woman folk & kids running around the camp, a short distance from the aqueducts. The workers aren't getting in there Pick Ups & hitting the freeway to get home. They're living & moving along with the completion of the pipe, so when people use the opportune argument, then they don't understand life & that time. Great Video!!
The aqueduct construction photos...no way dude! I'm from L.A. and I've seen miles and miles of the aqueduct. It was certainly not slapped together real quick.
Tartarian civilization.... California was an island prior to it. And there were no native indians. They are immigrants from South America, they used cenoti to travel across to northern americas and settled down after the last great reset aka deluge.
@@meggtokyodelicious Because, you'll believe anything.
The first aqueduct took thousands of laborers and 5 years to complete. They would be spread out over the 200+ miles of the route....not just all of them working at one confined place. Not everything is a conspiracy if one considers all the facts.
And the Mulholland Dam was constructed with poured concrete. Not massive blocks of cut masonry. So, forget about any mystery as to how massive construction blocks were 'moved' into position, because they weren't.
All this nonsense about a global mud flood and revising history on the basis that people were too stupid to do construction, 100 or 200 years ago, is being perpetuated by people who themselves are stupid.
People back then had less technology then we do now. But that's not the same as having no technology.
I was born in Los Angeles in 1964 and lived in a house that was built in the late 1800s in Highland Park on Ave 57 next to the railroad tracks intill I was 11 and that house is still standing to this day and I am now 59. I loved growing up in Los Angeles in that time. And I thank you for your time and effort in making this video of Los Angeles ❤
Born raised in Lincoln heights. Living in a vintage home
I love these photos! I 100% believe there is more to the old buildings than we know. A few other YT creators have also pointed out the underground tunnels, old buildings that go undergorund, lots of mud and questions about who actually made them
Of course they were here when the "settlers" arrived. Left over from Great Tataria and the mud flood. Magnificent stone monuments that could not be built today, but apparently built by these same people using horse and buggy technology.
It is laughable that people will believe anything that the "official" Historical narrative tells them.
The Easter gathering in 1922 was at the site of the yet to be completed Hollywood Bowl. The Los Angeles Philharmonic played.
Excellent ! Sharing this with my father who was born in downtown LA in 1932 . . . really put a smile on his face. He lived downtown until he enlisted for the Korean War . . . thank you for all the work and wonderful narration !
Crazy connection, my Dad and uncles served in the local army national guard/U.S. Army Korea Police Action. They are from the Azusa Area.
Alvarez, Hirota Luna and Chavira.
My great grandfather was an engineer in LA and worked on the LA aqueduct in the early 1900s. I have many of his old photos from his personal collection of the project showing him and his coworkers out in the field working on the project. I’m not sure who you think built the aqueduct but I have authentic photos from our family collection showing him and his work. Thanks for sharing these photos.
You should really digitize/scan all of these photos and post your own RUclips video or Online blog with them! There is so much history that will never be seen or known unless you do!
I'm doing that now with all of my father's amazing photos from the Korean War.
I’d love it if you’d add captions or narration to identify each photo’s major buildings and their addresses, especially the ones that no longer exist. Thanks !
That's pretty cool that you've never even been to Los Angeles but you put together all these cool old photos of it. Well done, I hope it doesn't disappoint you when you get there. It's a very impressive city.
I believe the coliseum was a reservoir in the Old world. I saw an Old World map of Baltimore, MD in 1834, and there is a reservoir that looks like a the Coliseum in Rome. There is a long canal running from the reservoir to the Inner Harbor. The reservoir and canal is no longer there. Only a very small part of the canal is left near the Harbor. Maybe all of the Old Stadium were reservoirs?
My hometown
@@Kelz_X B-more in the house!!!
It was the time of the great builders. Architecture and engineering developments are striking in their grandeur for that era. Almost everything was done by hand, mullahs, shovels and people were strong in faith in God, not like now. Thank you, I watched this video to the end and it was very interesting. Greetings from Russia, St. Petersburg is also a very beautiful city, with stunning architecture of the tsarist era. ❤❤❤❤❤
Loved your video and know all the work that went into searching out the historical photographs. I am a second generation Los Angeles native. It was so nice seeing the real beauty of LA versus the crowded city it has become. I
Very cool Michael. Thank you for being here. I love hearing the stories of those whose families first arrived to these areas, LA in particular. It has a special spot in my heart.
This is a truly wonderful video. I am 75 years old and born in Santa Monica. Still, this video showed me many buildings and sites that I was totally unaware of. Thank you for posting this. I am now a subscriber!
This is a wonderful presentation. I have lived in Hollywood for 45 years and I never am done learning something new about this city. I loved your photos and narrative of the 1800's and your deep history of this area going back to first peoples. One thing that struck me about your description of the Santa Monica hotel with the roller coaster is that "fun" for its own sake is shown, it goes along with the theater phenomenon. I think that -- fun -- may be what sums up Los Angeles. Now we are living under the great global fascist terror that is raging (and thankfully being destroyed) everywhere. So L.A. is not such a happy place at present. And Hollywood, its crown jewel has been turned into a beggars and homeless camp. This will pass. Your video gives me joy and hope, and I thank you so much for making it and sharing it with us. ❣
I love Cali. Very knowledgeable video.
San Francisco had its own version of Beach Hotel/bath/amusement complex ....the Cliff House /Sutro Baths ......and I think these were somewhat styled after European/Mediterranean/Italian coastline Hotels
Hollywood has allways been a disease, ever since its creation.
I have b&w pictures I took after high school of the Pacific Ocean Park (POP), I remember they found a real mummy there when they tore it down, great memories of going to the beach and waiting for the damn sun to come out, LA and all of Cali have gone to liberal shit.
I love LA and SO Cal I couldn't possibly tell you how much I appreciate your hard work. This is just really really cool I was born here at Qween of Angeles hospital in LA. In 65 I've lived in several other states including Colorado but I always yearned to be back home. There's so much more beauty I'm still yet to discover and I've been here since 1965
I also was born at Queen of Angels
Hospital, in 1949, I've never seen it since it was demolished after a major earthquake.
It was good time to grow up in L.A.
Going downtown at Christmas was the most memorable.
I can tell your pictures are authentic...some utube channels are stating their movies of cities are real but you can tell its just a movie stage. Your story is awesome and so interesting! Great job!!!!👍
That was AMAZING thank you so much!!!! I am from LA and I promise you, I have not seen about 99% of those buildings, they must have been completely razed.
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen in my life, it was so interesting, thank you so much! I’m forwarding to my 90 yr old former trucker uncle in North Carolina- he spent the majority of his adult life in LA, he is going to love it!
Thank you thank you thank you so much!!!!
ruclips.net/video/FEKKIHwPzhk/видео.html. He forgot one
I just turned 70 and have lived in the Los Angeles areas all my life. I've traveled all over the U.S. but wouldn't live anywhere else. We have our problems but what big city doesn't and I'll take earthquakes over tornadoes any day. Loved the old photographs, many I hadn't seen before. Would have liked to have seen old photos of a few of my favorites: 1) the LA Central Library opened in 1926, 2) the Pacific Electric railways or "Red Cars" which began service to the San Fernando Valley in 1911, 3) the San Fernando Mission which was established in 1797, 4) the canals of Venice built in 1905 , yes there are canals in LA, 5) Griffith Park which was established in 1896 and its observatory which opened in 1935.
FYI the Red Car still operates in the Inland Empire Railroad museum in Perris, California.
A great experience.
Jarid, this is the most thorough and deeply researched video I've seen on early L.A. I was born and raised in the L.A. area and I have never seen many of these photos. Thank you, I enjoyed it so much and forwarded this to family and friends.
Thank you for helping me feel proud (once again) for the city I grew up in.
Amazing photos! I love to imagine what it was like in those days.I have great memories of living in the area when I was a kid in the early 50's. So much has changed!
The spirit of Huell Howser lives on.
Jarid, the photos of the old Victorian mansions look like they are from Bunker Hill, in the downtown area. By the 1950s, the last remaining Victorians were demolished or moved to Heritage Park. Bunker Hill was scraped flat, roads straightened, and high rise buildings constructed. If you ever get down to Long Beach (2nd largest city in the L.A. basin), go to Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos to get a feel of rancho life in the late 1800s.
Hey man I just want to say I love your attitude towards life and I’ve been binging you with my wife for like 72 hours. I started watching Jon Levi but eventually had to stop because his attitude would bring me down, I love the guy a lot but one’s demeanor really makes a difference. So I appreciate you
Thanks Jarid, for sharing these wonderful photos! Much appreciated, I just love to sit and watch your videos over and over again! And one day you will get to LA! 😊
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is a wealth of historical photographs.
I love old photographs.
I love the idea that the photographs represent a narrative that doesn’t often fit. In the case of LA, it’s quite a large region, but I was thoroughly intrigued by what I found. Those Spaniards built quite the amazing city. Or maybe it was the Chumash. Maybe it was a culture even before them. Either way - I also love old photographs Eric. Hopefully you enjoyed the video my friend
@@FRESHboosters I enjoyed them for sure! Being how I’m from Los Angles made them all more the better. All of the locations were so nice back in the day (I’m only 50 years old) but a lot of the city has became some pretty rough conditions like violent gangs, drug addiction, lots of crime and homelessness. Unfortunately what used to be a very beautiful city has fallen into somewhat ruins. I suggest if you do come and visit..
Armed protection is recommended. Los Angeles is rapidly turning into What San Francisco has become. Of course not all of LA is bad, Los Angeles county is huge but these days it’s not very safe place to live or visit. Totally dig your work Jarid thank you
Born and raised in So Cal, thanks for this romantic tour of L.A. , what really struck me was the ornateness(?) of the architecture
"The Lonesone Gods" by Louie L'Amour is a full length novel that mentions the Early Los Angeles days often referring to the wealthy Mexican families to a small bookstore downtown to shipping as well as early uses for La Brea tar pits. It's not all about it but it does have some interesting authentic history. Good read. Nothing like the real life Larry McMurtry but very good.
On the left Angels Flight Moving people up and down the hill. On the right the stairs are the location where Laurel and Hardy push that piano all the way up and all the way back down. At the time they were going to tear down Angels flight and across the street was the Bradberry building. Our dad took us On the last day to ride Angels flight and walk through the Bradberry building because they were going to Tear it down. He said they’ll never rebuild the Angels flight they never do what they say. The Bradberry building to this day is one of the most exquisite buildings on the planet. Somehow it was saved. Age 71
Thank you, from San Diego.
Planet.....its a plane
@ Kim Styles I grew up in LA (age 70) but left in 2004, Angel's Flight was still in operation and I believe they had done some repairs to it in the late 80's, am I mistaken, is it gone now?
The Laurel & Hardy Staircase is still there , howeverit is in Echo Park . I was just their on a delivery 2 nights ago. The street is Descanso St. one block off of Sunset Blvd through Vendome St. technically it might be Silverlake but the spot has been named “The Music Box Stairs”. Descanso @ Vendome 1 block off of Sunset .
Angels Flight was rebuilt and moved over a block. It is still near the Bradbury building and across from Grand Central Market
Thank you for your video. I LOVE old photos of Southern California!
I do believe it’s highly unlikely that there was any intent to deceive with these early construction photos. Many of the photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were less interested in accurate documentation of a place or event and more interested in getting a good looking picture.
The sole point of reference for the early photographers on what made a good picture were PAINTINGS. Most of the 19th C photos of the famous Native American chiefs were highly staged by the photographer.
The photographer wasn’t trying to deceive anyone about the aqueduct’s construction. He just wanted to get a good looking picture. He likely figured he could get a better and simpler composition with a half dozen laborers than he could with a thousand.
At the start of your project you showed Wilmington, I knew this was going to be one of the best historical pieces I have ever seen. I've read most of 500 years of Chicano history and used to a have a I'm sorry I don't know what to call it. A large page magazine about San Pedro, CA. history Etc. Your work is amazing, you say your Spanish words correctly most importantly I truly enjoyed this labor of love.
Well done Sir! The whole "nuestra la reiña..etc..by the small portion of the river!
Your site is a breath of fresh air! Thank you for your dedicated efforts! Please let us fund your trip to LA!!
Thanks Brother , I am 67 and there is one thing i am sure of we have been lied to about nearly every thing . The question is Why ??
Why?
Please be more specific.
Jarid, that was amazing! I was born and raised in Southern California and went to school at USC. You reconnected me with the love of Los Angeles that I enjoyed growing up. We’re sharing this with our friends and family to appreciate as well.
I agree with you and now I’m going to plan a trip back to Los Angeles after this video
Thanks Jarid, I've never seen so many old and interesting pictures of Los Angeles before.
Excellent video and commentary ... thank you! Seeing the early photos of UCLA were extremely revealing to me, all of the photos were great to see.
I lived in LA from 1965 to 2005. I enjoyed living there so much, being able to go to the beach, theaters, my employment in the film and TV industry, going to college there, it was a great time, even though I can admit to myself having lived thru all of the awkward moments we all experience in life in our young adulthood in this period.
The point I really wanted to make is that even from my earliest days living in Los Angeles I felt an incredibly strong interest and wonder about the nostalgia of Los Angles, in other words, I would always wonder when would have been the best period of time to have lived in Los Angeles.
There were the older buildings and areas that by my time there did not represent LA's most livable and desirable places to be, and the growth during my time there was phenomenal, but with the growth came traffic congestion, large areas of the city you really would not want to spend a lot of time in, even new suburbs that really were no better a place to live than a suburb in any other large US metro area.
So the wonder and day dreaming about what LA's Golden Age might have been has always stayed in my imagination. And these photos ranging from the late 1880s thru 1920s seem to show a really wonderful period of time to have lived in LA.
you are a great addition to the community and its great seeing your subscriber count keep getting higher and higher!
As a Hollywood set medic, I get to go to many interesting places including private movie ranches closed off to the public. Such as melody ranch, golden oak ranch, big sky ranch etc. I'm always keeping an eye out for old architecture and remnants of the past. great video.
I'm a Gaffer and own a grip & lighting company, so I've been to all of these amazing locations as well. In California we have the Beach, Desert, and Mountains all in close proximity, so it makes for all types of interesting landscapes, history, and architecture.
This has been one of the best historical videos of Los Angeles. Thank you so much
Thank for sharing this photographic collage of the development of early LA. I agree, there definitely seems to be something happening during this period that doesn't add up. But history is like that, a composite narrative that is stitched together from a random selection of images and commentaries that doesn't tell the complete story. I grew up in the environs of greater LA, at a time when it was still seeking architectural solutions that would not only satisfy its changing demographic needs, but express it in a way that still evidenced a reverence for LA's glorious architectural past. As an architect myself, it is that process of the integration of the "built" environment between the esthetic and essential that drives creativity, and your photographic essay describes that perfectly.
Thankyou
Born and raised on LA. Thanks for these images. I watch Chinatown at least five times a year for the same reason I enjoyed this video. The early Los Angeles that my parents grew up in (1930’s-50’s). The buildings and homes were off the hook cool. Inspiring to say it on a word.
What are you talking about? Many of the old homes and buildings are still around and the first town in Los Angeles was Olvera Street, China Town came way, way, wayyyy after.
@@fanatik9590 the movie “Chinatown” I was referring to. Set in 1940’s LA etc. My family didn’t get to LA until the 20’s. My apologies for any incoherence in my commenting. Example; I was born in LA and not on top of it. All the best!
Thank you so much, man. Incredible photos.
The beautiful architecture... if they could see how it is today they would be horrified.
Thank you very much for making and sharing this remarkable, historical video of L.A. I lived in L.A. from 1976 until recently retiring. I actually moved out of California to another state.
I certainly appreciate what you have compiled in your wonderful video and enjoyed it immensely. It really does take me back to when I first came to California. Fantastic! So, thanks again for your willingness to bring this out for people to view. I will definitely keep this in my archives.
Leo
Well done. Just a little history lesson to bring some clarification to a question you had regarding your presentation. In regards to your photo of Easter Sunday 1922 with 50k people in attendance, was actually at the as yet unopened Hollywood Bowl Amphitheater on April 16th, 1922, in attendance for Easter Mass at which the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played for worshipers at the Easter Sunday Service. The Hollywood Bowl Amphitheater opened just 3 months later on July 11, 1922.
I love how beautifully ornate these buildings were! We have some beautiful homes here of all styles where I live in Springfield, Massachusetts! Many Victorian homes, some Spanish style, others more Luke Tudor style or Dutch! I also love the old ornate lampposts! Beautiful! I was surely born in the wrong era. 😊
I truly love your presentations and since you were introduced to me I have been non stop watching you and others who are presenting us with a new view on what we have been told. I love all the old photos thank you so very much. I wish we had some like this on Australia but there is so little for us to see.
I really enjoyed your presentation. Your narration was quite informative and the photographs were so interesting. I was really impressed. Thank you so much. I hope to see more of your work.
"Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner. Sometimes I feel like my only friend. Is the city I live in the city of angels? Lonely as I am together we cry... I drive on the streets cause she's my companion. I walk through her hills cause she knows who I am"
"It's hard to believe there's nobody out there. It's hard to believe that I'm all alone.
Atleast I have her love, the city she loves me. Lonely as I am, together we cry"
I'm in LA for 2 years and have looked for the best architecture every day. There are a lot of incredible churches everywhere, also I like the great mausoleum building in Glendale. I believe the old city hall in downtown is an old world building for sure. So is the old county hospital. Pasadena has incredible architecture, starting with the "suicide bridge" and the building behind it, the Pasadena town hall has a huge arc at the entrance door. Almost every building in the city center of Pasadena is old world. In downtown there are a lot of old world buildings with very high ceilings. K-town has hundreds of huge red brick buildings. These huge red brick buildings are everywhere, esp near the main streets. I always drive by some in Glendale. The architecture by the beaches is not as good as in the city. Venice has some nice buildings, but the real beauties are more in land.
South Central and West Adams have beautiful homes. Wish they werent so damn pricey I wouldnt have had to leave home for Idaho.
Angelino Heights - The Second Oldest Neighborhood in Los Angeles is VERY NICE!
@@fanatik9590 thanks!
@@fanatik9590 I'm there all the time. The buildings are quite small in that area. The best one I saw is right by echo park. The red brick buildings there are the same ones that are all over ktown
If you ever have a chance, try to go inside the Los Angeles theater, it is a masterpiece. Well, if you can, try to go inside all Downtown old theaters, PURE ART DECORATION.
Im from LA and there is so much history here people dont see. I live in the city of commerce and across from me is the citadel outlets , the building was built back in the 20's and was the home to US Rubber that Uniroyal Tires. Its an old persian style structure with artistic carvings on th wall and building, beautiful building, luckily we still have old world buildings we can still appreciate, awsome pics .
Grew up in and around Los Angeles and my mother was also born there. Thanks so much!