I'm in my 60's and grew up in Highland Park. I'm an Anglo and lived on Ave 55, went to Monte Vista and Luther Burbank Jr. High. We went to the Highland, shopped at Boys Market, Ivers, and Kress. In the Summer we had the plunge and park both wonderful. There were gangs, the Avenues and the Undertakers but they didn't bother little kids. Beautiful craftsman homes, the video featured the "haunted house" at the top of 59. I wish I could live there again, it was so wonderful. Alas, time goes on.
wow..memories.. I remember my mom walking me and my brothers to garvanza elementary school and when we were old enough me and my big brother would walk to Burbank middle school..back in the 90's...I miss those good times..then we had to move to Georgia when I turned 13yrs old in 2001. now it is almost 2017 been in GA 16yrs and everyday I dream of going back one day to L.A. HLP. good memories of my childhood with my parents and brothers and of course friends .....
Moved to Highland Park in 1953. Quiet, wonderful place to live. Saw "the Blob" at the Highland for a dime. Used to sell papers at Van de Kamp's Bakery across the street from Farmer Dick's Market at York and Figueroa after school and buy milk or bread after with my revenue, returning home to Garrison Drive. "Sworn In" to the scouts in the basement of the Highland LAPD station. Stole Coke (and other bottles) from the back of Farmer Dick's and returned them to the liquor store up from BofA for deposit, with my gang of toughs...(maybe I'm responsible for what happened to Highland Park in the 80's onward?) Carved my initials on a tree a with those of Kathy Jenkins when I was 11. Won a major tournament in carroms at school and a ribbon for my athletic prowess. Kissed Kathy Okubo (spelling?) What a great place and time. Thanks for posting this.
Lived there from 1954-1961, and so appreciated these pics! Now in my 70's it's fun to go back to early childhood memories. We lived on Crestwood Way, and I attended Annandale Elementary. Thank you for posting!
I love how so many old buildings still stand. The city has not filled the streets with mini-skyscrapers. I remember shopping at Ivers with my mom, I loved that store.
Just came back from visiting my friend there again this weekend, loved it. We had just gotten lunch @ Pinks Hotdogs and headed over to Highland Park for the Veteran's Day Parade. Was pretty cool, had some stunning lowriders (which thankfully is something hipsters have not caught onto and ruined), the LAPD motorcycle squad was there doing some pretty fast and fancy routines, had some vets, and other cool things on the parade route. Cafe de Leche is always good for a refreshing ice cold tea.
I remember walking with my dad to York video when I was a kid in the 80's. I lived on Stratford Rd. Walking to Burbank jr high in the early 90's. Those were the days.. HLP for ever! I think I'm gonna go get a Troy burger now.
Yeah, we all went to Yorkdale (we were literally up the street from it) , Burbank and Franklin, but at different times. From youngest to oldest, and i'm guessing on some of the spellings (strange names!), it was Soraya, Lilliana, Alba, Araceli, Fabiola? Some might even still live there with their mom and dad.
Papapoo Do Soraya sounds familiar. I went to Buchanan st. school elementary. Do you know Rita Garcia? She came from yorkdale. I'm 34 going on 35 by the way.
No. I'm 45. I'm an old man! Ha! I lived up the hill from Yorkdale from like '73 to '87 then moved to Eagle Rock for a while. I know that Dan's Liquor is still on York and 57 (saw it in a Reverie video) and i've definitely had my share of Troy burgers too! Good memories...
Muchas gracias por este video.hermoso.aqui nacieron mis hijos. Y CRECIERON Y aveces hera dificil porque avia muchas pandillas..y hera trizte porque morian muchos jovenes..mucho dolor para los padres..pero los hijos. Eran felices..con el cuidado y amor del hogar.. de eso ase 47.años...y nos movimos.un poquito lejos.solo unas cuadras..asi la York.yo como madre.me siento feliz.de vivir Aqui. Y mis hijos.estan ya con sus familias.y si recuerdan los lindos momentos.de cuando eran niños. Y oy ya ay mas trnkilidad..vivirndo.los lindos recuerdos.Dios los bendiga.❤
Great video! Like JiminLHC I grew up in Highland Park in the 50's and 60's. at least 10 different addresses (Mom was always looking for a better rental) Went to Toland Way Elementary, Monte Vista Elementary, Garvanza Elementary, Luther Burbank Jr. High, then onto Franklin High School. I was in freshman typing class when JFK's assassination was announced on the PA. Growing up there was good, spent a lot of time at the theater, the park and pool. and riding my bike all over the place. Kissed my first girl near Poppy Peak. My first love's name was Dixie, she married some other guy :{. Mom moved us to Covina just as I became a teenager (15) I have fond memories, but can only remember a few names of the people I knew there. I still consider it my "Hometown". Peace and love to those who live there now.
i use to live on ave. 43 & 55...shit was crazy. My house was always blocked off due to murder scenes. highland park (east los) will always be my home, but im glad i got out of ther.
Wow, I left after high school in '73.. it was time to go. But when I look at the town,now it is so sad, wheres Sees candies, Ivers, the record shop. I think I would be afraid to go there now being so white and all. I have not seen LA in over 49 years
Nice video. I lived on Umbria St between Aldama St. and Raphael St. (Up the hill from Ave 54) So many familiar pictures. The Shop (at 3:52) looks like Figueroa at Ave 50. Used to be Angelus Chevrolet. I believe the brick building in the 'before' picture is the Savoy Apts.
I rented a room in HP for vacation end of last year, my first visit to the US :) I switched places actually, for variety, first Eagle Rock, then Culver City then HP. I felt instantly at home and like I had finally arrived in the real America. It's a no-pretense place and I felt very welcomed plus other than Venice Beach none of the many folks who talked to me wanted to sell me their CD :P
Good little slideshow. Even though I grew up in the Mt. Washington neighborhood next door, I have great memories of going to "downtown" HP. Dad was a fireman at station 12 on Figueroa. I went to Franklin for the first two years of HS. Went to the public pool, the library, the Highland Park theater for Saturday afternoon kids matinee where you got in for 35 cents and six Pepsi bottle caps. Haven't seen the neighborhood since the late 70's and apparently it's much better since then.
Ha, I dated a girl a short time up on Mt W. her father was also a fire fighter don't remember his station in LA. In the early 60 worked at Tommy's Brake shop next to #12 FD station back when P. Kennedy was shot an killed in Tex. Moved out in 73 an have not looked back other the Google moms old home the turned in to a 20 unit apartment complex in the 60's at some point after mom sold the place after dad passed on. I sure don't know what happen to time as of the date I'm 75 now living in another shit hole for the last 35 yrs in San Jose, Ca same gang shit here an illegals that Trump can't get out..
Great montage of photos. Lived at 52nd and York in the early to middle 50's. It was very quiet then, I miss the electric cars, standing in the street waiting to get on.
Every neighborhood changes, just look at this video. In the early 60's it was still pretty nice place but on it's way downhill. There will be a point when it bottoms out and climbs back up, just like Silverlake area.
I used to live there in the early 2000's. I remember it being less than spectacular and not a very memorable place. I was just a toddler, but I remember how drab it always looked. The only place I liked was school, Richard Riordan Elementary, which had been opened the year I moved so I only completed kindergarten there.
This is Lori Bach. This is great footage/work and has been extremely helpful in my research project! Highland Park is a "1-energy" city and is one of competition and modernization. Out with the "mom and pop", horse, buggy and "rails" and in with the cars, planes and "El rail" system - just like Chicago and Detroit. From multiple scenes Highland Park has been transmuted, over many years, from locomotive to commuter rail.
I love this I will always love highland park and wear blinders to anyone who says its ghetto or run down. So much history here. M proud of my little town
I just hope Grunge Rockers comes around here someday.. We need alot of Grungers in Highland park. Even Hipsters.. Plus they need a comic book store!!!. ._.
I lived near there in the 60s and early 70s sadly most parts are not that pretty anymore. It's run down, full of gang members and Fig looks very ghetto now. Very sad in the 60s it was still very clean and kept up
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80s, 90s and early 2000s Highland park was a dangerous place to be. I live in East LA and knew not to go to HP back in them days. Now it's all different, you have white people walking their dogs 24/7, hipsters everywhere and a really good vibe throughout the city.
Highland Park is a city which is not only in Michigan, but also in Illinois, outside of Chicago, and in California, outside of LA. All 3 Highlands in these 3 states are bad neighborhoods.
Not a lot on HP but does cover parts of it. Saw the Park Theater payed 09/010 when first started going an the Highlander was like .012 when first going to it. Alter moves at Friday or Sat night went across the street to the Pizza place can't remember the name any more but boy did the Pizza sure smell good and you could see the throwing the pizza doe spinning in the window all the time. WENT to the Franklin theater just a few times before it closed a block down from the Highlander I seam to remember it was .05 at that time it became a Moving Van storage Co. De wetts? right across for the little miniature 9 hole Golf Course an arcades we put in dummy nickels when we ran out of real coins. It was a great little city going to the 5&10,25 stores an eattinig lunch with mom an getting a root beer float like a dime other little places it was a nickel soda fountains. Hell I was about 4 yr old then as , I was no in school yet.
Highland park is one of the most unique places in Southern California. It's to bad illegal immigration destroyed it as well as it being an unincorporated part of Los Angles instead of being their own city. I happy to see it turning around a bit
I was just there yesterday, first time ever... it is very much a Latino neighborhood, and I think a mix of people is good, but saw some hipsters look me up and down as if I was trash. I was clearly not a hipster, and yes I am Latino, and no I do not look nor behave/speak/dress like a ganster for god sakes...it was uncomfortable. So I glared back and they looked away. Happened at The York (great place though), Cafe Leche however was fine as it had no assholes there.
I remember the shootings and police raids with the constant helicopters and police chasing the avenues around 57. that was all in the 90s and early 2000s now its a hipster place with white people all over the place
+John nox In the 40's 50's 60's and 70's it was mostly white people in the 80's 90's it went shit and now its looking a little brighter again new restaurants and shops people out have a good time less gangs
+blueshirt06 - I don't like the gangs but at the same time I don't like the family displacement even though the area is a rent control location those Jew owners found a way to raise the rents on the whole community. I was raised in highland park and lived there my whole life and I loved my home town but now at 23 I can't afford to live there anymore and my friends and there families were replaced with hipsters.
Its a cycle 35 years ago the average white working/middle class family was replaced by poor/working class Mexican/Latino's in Highland Park how do you think the white people felt who never been robed before or had their car broken into or house broken into we weren't used to that I remember when Highland park was a safe place so its hard for me to feel that sorry
+blueshirt06 - your white and your going to stand by what you believe no matter what I say. not all Chicanos are bad people I've defended many white friends of mine whom have now joined the marine corps. look let's just agree that displacing families and communities is a bad thing and wrong. look I would feel bad if Harlem was genterfied and if the white people in Beverly hills was replaced. it just shouldn't happen to anyone. I wouldn't wish this on my enemies.
Its not about defending my own and because I'm white I don't think Latino's are bad if Highland park was mostly Asians 80%to100% we wouldn't be having this conversation but we can't ignore that a lot of those working class latino's brought in most of the gang violence in Highland park I also came from working class but its a fact when it became mostly Latino Highland park went to shit maybe the good hard working Latino's should work a little harder if they want to stay in Highland park I know I do I'm not rich but I bust my ASS!
ITS A NEAT OLD CITY TOO BAD ITS ALL GHETTO NOW, MY GREAT GRANDMA LIVED THERE SINCE 1919 UNTIL 88 BY THEN THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKED LIKE CRAP EXCEPT FOR HER WHITE PERFECTLY MANICURED AND PAINTED CALIFORNIA BUNGALOW HOUSE.
I used to live in Highland Park in the early 70's. Used to work at Iver's Dept Store
as a window dresser. Now living in Baltimore, I miss old LA.
I'm in my 60's and grew up in Highland Park. I'm an Anglo and lived on Ave 55, went to Monte Vista and Luther Burbank Jr. High. We went to the Highland, shopped at Boys Market, Ivers, and Kress. In the Summer we had the plunge and park both wonderful. There were gangs, the Avenues and the Undertakers but they didn't bother little kids. Beautiful craftsman homes, the video featured the "haunted house" at the top of 59. I wish I could live there again, it was so wonderful. Alas, time goes on.
Why is this video capped at 240 resolution, heavily compressed at that?
wow..memories.. I remember my mom walking me and my brothers to garvanza elementary school and when we were old enough me and my big brother would walk to Burbank middle school..back in the 90's...I miss those good times..then we had to move to Georgia when I turned 13yrs old in 2001. now it is almost 2017 been in GA 16yrs and everyday I dream of going back one day to L.A. HLP. good memories of my childhood with my parents and brothers and of course friends .....
Jessica Trejo It's changed pretty drastically you might not remember it. Hipsters took it over but luckily the Highland Theatre is still around
Henry Robles and the elote man across the street:D
It's really cool how at 3.57 that Car Wash sign has survived unchanged for like 60 years.
Moved to Highland Park in 1953. Quiet, wonderful place to live. Saw "the Blob" at the Highland for a dime. Used to sell papers at Van de Kamp's Bakery across the street from Farmer Dick's Market at York and Figueroa after school and buy milk or bread after with my revenue, returning home to Garrison Drive. "Sworn In" to the scouts in the basement of the Highland LAPD station. Stole Coke (and other bottles) from the back of Farmer Dick's and returned them to the liquor store up from BofA for deposit, with my gang of toughs...(maybe I'm responsible for what happened to Highland Park in the 80's onward?) Carved my initials on a tree a with those of Kathy Jenkins when I was 11. Won a major tournament in carroms at school and a ribbon for my athletic prowess. Kissed Kathy Okubo (spelling?) What a great place and time. Thanks for posting this.
See's Candies: Forgot about the Freebies when my Mom bought Holiday candy.
Lived there from 1954-1961, and so appreciated these pics! Now in my 70's it's fun to go back to early childhood memories. We lived on Crestwood Way, and I attended Annandale Elementary. Thank you for posting!
Wow thats so kool Debbie. I lived there from 94-2003 !! Im in my mid 30's !! Thanks for sharing Deb !!
I love how so many old buildings still stand. The city has not filled the streets with mini-skyscrapers. I remember shopping at Ivers with my mom, I loved that store.
Thank you for sharing. Great ability to go back to the same places and see the changes.
Just came back from visiting my friend there again this weekend,
loved it. We had just gotten lunch @ Pinks Hotdogs and headed over to Highland Park for the Veteran's Day Parade.
Was pretty cool, had some stunning lowriders (which thankfully is something hipsters have not caught onto and ruined), the LAPD motorcycle squad was there doing some pretty fast and fancy routines, had some vets, and other cool things on the parade route.
Cafe de Leche is always good for a refreshing ice cold tea.
On what streets is Cafe de Leche?
@@ralphquintero3350 Ave 50 & York
It would have been nice if they'd saved more of the good architecture. A+ for the cool music.
The music is CRAP!
I'm an HP native too. Very cool pics!
AWESOME!!! Thanks for the history tour of Highland Park. Its my hometown. ;0)
I remember walking with my dad to York video when I was a kid in the 80's. I lived on Stratford Rd. Walking to Burbank jr high in the early 90's. Those were the days.. HLP for ever! I think I'm gonna go get a Troy burger now.
Stratford and 57! Do you know the Lopez girls?
Papapoo Do I'm not sure. I knew a few Lopez's. What were their names? Did they go to Burbank or Franklin?
Yeah, we all went to Yorkdale (we were literally up the street from it) , Burbank and Franklin, but at different times. From youngest to oldest, and i'm guessing on some of the spellings (strange names!), it was Soraya, Lilliana, Alba, Araceli, Fabiola? Some might even still live there with their mom and dad.
Papapoo Do Soraya sounds familiar. I went to Buchanan st. school elementary. Do you know Rita Garcia? She came from yorkdale. I'm 34 going on 35 by the way.
No. I'm 45. I'm an old man! Ha! I lived up the hill from Yorkdale from like '73 to '87 then moved to Eagle Rock for a while. I know that Dan's Liquor is still on York and 57 (saw it in a Reverie video) and i've definitely had my share of Troy burgers too! Good memories...
Muchas gracias por este video.hermoso.aqui nacieron mis hijos. Y CRECIERON Y aveces hera dificil porque avia muchas pandillas..y hera trizte porque morian muchos jovenes..mucho dolor para los padres..pero los hijos. Eran felices..con el cuidado y amor del hogar.. de eso ase 47.años...y nos movimos.un poquito lejos.solo unas cuadras..asi la York.yo como madre.me siento feliz.de vivir Aqui. Y mis hijos.estan ya con sus familias.y si recuerdan los lindos momentos.de cuando eran niños. Y oy ya ay mas trnkilidad..vivirndo.los lindos recuerdos.Dios los bendiga.❤
Great video! Like JiminLHC I grew up in Highland Park in the 50's and 60's. at least 10 different addresses (Mom was always looking for a better rental) Went to Toland Way Elementary, Monte Vista Elementary, Garvanza Elementary, Luther Burbank Jr. High, then onto Franklin High School. I was in freshman typing class when JFK's assassination was announced on the PA. Growing up there was good, spent a lot of time at the theater, the park and pool. and riding my bike all over the place. Kissed my first girl near Poppy Peak. My first love's name was Dixie, she married some other guy :{. Mom moved us to Covina just as I became a teenager (15) I have fond memories, but can only remember a few names of the people I knew there. I still consider it my "Hometown". Peace and love to those who live there now.
Robert Mergaert Do you have any memories of the soda fountain/pharmacy across the street from Monte Vista Elementary?
Love Love Love this!!!!!!!
Love Highland Park!
Great piece. Who composed/played the fantastic musical score?
i use to live on ave. 43 & 55...shit was crazy. My house was always blocked off due to murder scenes. highland park (east los) will always be my home, but im glad i got out of ther.
Where did that image of Iver's come from? I'd love to see at some high resolution pictures of North Figueroa Street!
Looks like a completely different place now. Wow!!
Wow, I left after high school in '73.. it was time to go. But when I look at the town,now it is so sad, wheres Sees candies, Ivers, the record shop. I think I would be afraid to go there now being so white and all. I have not seen LA in over 49 years
Nice video. I lived on Umbria St between Aldama St. and Raphael St. (Up the hill from Ave 54) So many familiar pictures. The Shop (at 3:52) looks like Figueroa at Ave 50. Used to be Angelus Chevrolet. I believe the brick building in the 'before' picture is the Savoy Apts.
crazy..just found my way to this vid and I lived on Umbria (tiny street!) from 2013-2018. Fav place I ever lived
I love this! thank you!
Lived there since 1976.
I rented a room in HP for vacation end of last year, my first visit to the US :) I switched places actually, for variety, first Eagle Rock, then Culver City then HP. I felt instantly at home and like I had finally arrived in the real America. It's a no-pretense place and I felt very welcomed plus other than Venice Beach none of the many folks who talked to me wanted to sell me their CD :P
I love this!
This is wonderful! I was an HP transplant when I met my husband and really miss it. We lived right down from Franklin HS until a May 2013,
I went to Franklin! I lived off of Avenue 51 and Townsend going towards Eagle Rock
Joana Licciardi Moved there in 69 Ave 55 across the freeway.
I lived on meridian st and Figueroa.. Right by burbank
Keep up the good videos!
I like the pictures with the street cars. So sad when they stopped running.
Man I remember most everything from the “after” my grandma used to live on Elred st
Good little slideshow. Even though I grew up in the Mt. Washington neighborhood next door, I have great memories of going to "downtown" HP. Dad was a fireman at station 12 on Figueroa. I went to Franklin for the first two years of HS. Went to the public pool, the library, the Highland Park theater for Saturday afternoon kids matinee where you got in for 35 cents and six Pepsi bottle caps. Haven't seen the neighborhood since the late 70's and apparently it's much better since then.
Ha, I dated a girl a short time up on Mt W. her father was also a fire fighter don't remember his station in LA. In the early 60 worked at Tommy's Brake shop next to #12 FD station back when P. Kennedy was shot an killed in Tex. Moved out in 73 an have not looked back other the Google moms old home the turned in to a 20 unit apartment complex in the 60's at some point after mom sold the place after dad passed on. I sure don't know what happen to time as of the date I'm 75 now living in another shit hole for the last 35 yrs in San Jose, Ca same gang shit here an illegals that Trump can't get out..
Great montage of photos. Lived at 52nd and York in the early to middle 50's. It was very quiet then, I miss the electric cars, standing in the street waiting to get on.
Nice I lived on ave 50 and Buchanon
i was born and raised in Highland Parksince 1961 on ave 52 and range view . i saw all the changes.
Ave. 57 and Monte Vista...home.
What is this recording? Classic early 70's soundtrack!!
Me too. :-) Right near Oxy. This is cool.
My City 🔥
That's crazy I live there now
Every neighborhood changes, just look at this video. In the early 60's it was still pretty nice place but on it's way downhill. There will be a point when it bottoms out and climbs back up, just like Silverlake area.
wow, i grew up there, graduated 1973 then left.. I need to see it.. anyone know about paople there today??
I used to live there in the early 2000's. I remember it being less than spectacular and not a very memorable place. I was just a toddler, but I remember how drab it always looked. The only place I liked was school, Richard Riordan Elementary, which had been opened the year I moved so I only completed kindergarten there.
Well this video is for true Highland Parkers that appreciate growing up here and knowing its history. Obviously your not one of them so kick rocks !!
Woah, that hill grew fast between 1:00 and 1:05 !!
Woah
I miss it
This is Lori Bach. This is great footage/work and has been extremely helpful in my research project! Highland Park is a "1-energy" city and is one of competition and modernization. Out with the "mom and pop", horse, buggy and "rails" and in with the cars, planes and "El rail" system - just like Chicago and Detroit. From multiple scenes Highland Park has been transmuted, over many years, from locomotive to commuter rail.
I love this I will always love highland park and wear blinders to anyone who says its ghetto or run down. So much history here. M proud of my little town
Good Ol Highland Park. The very first subdivision of Los Angeles. If that's not kool then i don't know what is !!!
I gew up here.This neighborhood is great.check it out.
😍😍😍
I lived in avenue 51 on the hill right before you get to eagle rock
I used to live there
I thought this was Highland Park Michigan near Detroit, then at 1:33 I saw Palm trees. Hey wait a minute.
I was Born on Ave. 36.. Lived on Ave. 56 and 57.. Yikes then Moved to La Puente SA..
I just hope Grunge Rockers comes around here someday.. We need alot of Grungers in Highland park. Even Hipsters.. Plus they need a comic book store!!!. ._.
I guess your wish came true, Highland Park is being ressurected, the main street Figueroa and York are thriving again, thanks to the hipster scene.
Omg
How about now 2022.
I libe in highland park
I lived near there in the 60s and early 70s sadly most parts are not that pretty anymore. It's run down, full of gang members and Fig looks very ghetto now. Very sad in the 60s it was still very clean and kept up
Um did you know a creepy school bus used to be there??
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Its pretty nice i guess, but there has been a lot of gang violence going on very recently
80s, 90s and early 2000s Highland park was a dangerous place to be. I live in East LA and knew not to go to HP back in them days. Now it's all different, you have white people walking their dogs 24/7, hipsters everywhere and a really good vibe throughout the city.
My friend that's called gentrification
They don't give us good vibes makes us feel unwelcome in our own. Place
Highland Park is a city which is not only in Michigan, but also in Illinois, outside of Chicago, and in California, outside of LA. All 3 Highlands in these 3 states are bad neighborhoods.
GREAT VIDEO
Thank god, HP is becoming nice again. Gentrification is a savior.
+Therichie213 I live in Stratford Rd
I go to Garbanza elementry school but it has a new name oh and it is hounted.
back then looked nice and the present too much violence
I got here from creepy messages
I like the "then" better.
my house :D
Angular angolu a holy
Mother Mary
Katerra
I don't think so ... this is not accurate it looks good but not 100%
Not a lot on HP but does cover parts of it. Saw the Park Theater payed 09/010 when first started going an the Highlander was like .012 when first going to it. Alter moves at Friday or Sat night went across the street to the Pizza place can't remember the name any more but boy did the Pizza sure smell good and you could see the throwing the pizza doe spinning in the window all the time. WENT to the Franklin theater just a few times before it closed a block down from the Highlander I seam to remember it was .05 at that time it became a Moving Van storage Co. De wetts? right across for the little miniature 9 hole Golf Course an arcades we put in dummy nickels when we ran out of real coins. It was a great little city going to the 5&10,25 stores an eattinig lunch with mom an getting a root beer float like a dime other little places it was a nickel soda fountains. Hell I was about 4 yr old then as , I was no in school yet.
And I've just moved to this beautiful 😍 place.
THEY moved in to town and the place went to shambles.
Where is that cave looking thing at ?
Palm trees?!!! In Detroit????!!!! Learn something new every day.
irmdog ...not Detroit!...Highland Park, CALIFORNIA....lol
This isn't Highland Park, Michigan.
Crazy white kid shoots up school nothing new.
1993 Extraño las pupusas de la AV 50 y Figueroa antes del pinché MCDONALD'S
2:03 . . . ugh.
BORN IN HEGHLAND PARK..
oops 39
Highland park is one of the most unique places in Southern California. It's to bad illegal immigration destroyed it as well as it being an unincorporated part of Los Angles instead of being their own city. I happy to see it turning around a bit
what the raza is getting kicked out of their city
+megaturdmaker don't worry will fuck a lot of white women before we leave and leave them knocked up
+Claudio Monreal lol, i know i am! jajaja
hmmmm, megaturdmaker is the moniker the doctor must've given you when he seen your kids
NO you idiot !!! $ Money $ to the community is a plus dumb A__ !!!
I GREW UP THERE, WENT TO BURBANK AND FRANKLIN, LEFT IN 1976. I HEAR IT DOES NOT LOOK THE SAME
SHHHHH dude shut up!!
i remember chopping a mayate in half with a
20 gage
Francisco Gonzalez now yall asses getting deported.
so guess more safer now
ron sanchez because no one lives there...
Ryan VanDenBerg I do
safe from what? I grew up & was raised In NELA GP HP Eagle Rock very safe.
I was just there yesterday, first time ever...
it is very much a Latino neighborhood, and I think a mix of people is good,
but saw some hipsters look me up and down as if I was trash.
I was clearly not a hipster, and yes I am Latino, and no I do not look nor behave/speak/dress like a ganster for god sakes...it was uncomfortable.
So I glared back and they looked away.
Happened at The York (great place though),
Cafe Leche however was fine as it had no assholes there.
I remember the shootings and police raids with the constant helicopters and police chasing the avenues around 57. that was all in the 90s and early 2000s now its a hipster place with white people all over the place
+John nox In the 40's 50's 60's and 70's it was mostly white people in the 80's 90's it went shit and now its looking a little brighter again new restaurants and shops people out have a good time less gangs
+blueshirt06 - I don't like the gangs but at the same time I don't like the family displacement even though the area is a rent control location those Jew owners found a way to raise the rents on the whole community. I was raised in highland park and lived there my whole life and I loved my home town but now at 23 I can't afford to live there anymore and my friends and there families were replaced with hipsters.
Its a cycle 35 years ago the average white working/middle class family was replaced by poor/working class Mexican/Latino's in Highland Park how do you think the white people felt who never been robed before or had their car broken into or house broken into we weren't used to that I remember when Highland park was a safe place so its hard for me to feel that sorry
+blueshirt06 - your white and your going to stand by what you believe no matter what I say. not all Chicanos are bad people I've defended many white friends of mine whom have now joined the marine corps. look let's just agree that displacing families and communities is a bad thing and wrong. look I would feel bad if Harlem was genterfied and if the white people in Beverly hills was replaced. it just shouldn't happen to anyone. I wouldn't wish this on my enemies.
Its not about defending my own and because I'm white I don't think Latino's are bad if Highland park was mostly Asians 80%to100% we wouldn't be having this conversation but we can't ignore that a lot of those working class latino's brought in most of the gang violence in Highland park I also came from working class but its a fact when it became mostly Latino Highland park went to shit maybe the good hard working Latino's should work a little harder if they want to stay in Highland park I know I do I'm not rich but I bust my ASS!
Meh it's my home
So dramatic, your music...
PaRK LIFE OR NO LIFE!! U CaN MOVE TO HIGHLaNDPaRK BUT YOULL NEVER BE FROM THE PaRK!!👿
The music is CRAP!
Back when highland park was white and how history repeats itself its gonna be white again!
Jeremy Gates tf nigga
ITS A NEAT OLD CITY TOO BAD ITS ALL GHETTO NOW, MY GREAT GRANDMA LIVED THERE SINCE 1919 UNTIL 88 BY THEN THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKED LIKE CRAP EXCEPT FOR HER WHITE PERFECTLY MANICURED AND PAINTED CALIFORNIA BUNGALOW HOUSE.