Great video! 30 years! What a time capsule! I found the end uncanny when the guy argued that we should start to change the language to "undocumented aliens" and the lady predicted that South Central would soon be majority-Latino. Also, I heard the word "underprivileged" a few times, which I had assumed was a modern PC-word. A few predictions/wishes that didn't pan out: Councilman Mike Hernandez was arguing that one of the problems in this community was the lack of police presence and response. Well, his wish has come true, especially since the "defund the police" movement of 2020s. You can literally get away with murder (again) in Westlake nowadays. My car was broken into the other week. No one cares. Graffiti everywhere. Tents galore. Trash cans tossed over. Human feces and urine all over. Crackheads walking the streets screaming next to buildings filled with families and children. Also, another of Hernandez's complaints was INS arresting folks in the area. They've obviously stopped that practice a long time ago. but I'm not sure if that has helped or harmed the residents here. I've lived off and on in Westlake since 2000 (at the tail end of the "Training Day" era AKA Rampart Scandal) and it's surreal how much things have NOT changed since this video was made. I'd argue that it's generally safer than it was in the 90s and 2000s, and there are a few more green spaces, yet this area looks the same as it was in the 1993 movie "Falling Down" and all the other 80s/90s movies filmed here. The only major differences between this 1992 video and 2022 are the hair styles and fashion. The stories are all the same. The problems are the same. The excuses are basically all the same. 30 years! All the kids in this video are now parents or grandparents. Do they still live here? Is the cycle just repeating? And do we really need change? Maybe this neighborhood serves its purpose as a first stop for Central American and other immigrants on their US journey. There's really nowhere else affordable in LA today (along the Red Line and major bus routes). If we improve (aka pump investment money aka gentrify) this neighborhood, would it do more more harm than good? I argue that this neighborhood needs to exist as is because there's no other options for affordable living in this town since everyone is being priced out of nearby Koreatown and Downtown. I hope someone in the future reads this comment and tells me what I got right or wrong.
during the super eruption of the rodney king riot caldera aka the TOBA of riots at 3500km3 its one of the largest caldera's out there covers all of la county and partly in to long beach short to say if this erupted at a VEI 8 AGAIN California would be finished
I do acknowledge that we are the second largest Latino group in California and many of those areas in Los Angeles are or were predominately Salvadoran. As a people, we are very inclusive and with growing demographics of other Central American communities in LA, in a colloquial manner we refer to a few areas as Little Central America but everyone knows, Salvadorans paved the way for other Latinos and experienced many challenges when settling in these areas. You’re from Los Angeles? I will record more videos touching on this topic. Thank you for your comment.
Key word “in el salvador.” Here in America I notice many realize we have more in common than anything. Its like the term latino. That isnt used in latin america like its used here in america.
Yeah but this is LA not El Salvador. Pico Union IS Little Central America because there are a lot of Catrachos, and Guatemaltecos too. Oh and some sprinkled in Mexicans like myself.
@@chicanoinparadise No sabes de lo qué estoy hablando, simplemente estoy dando a demostrar qué los salvadoreños somos salvadoreños, algunos no nos identificamos y no nos importa los demás países centroaméricanos. Cómo salvadoreño no me gustaría qué me digan "centroaméricano" porque no me identifico con la otra región, mucha gente es así, tú no me entendiste.
Thanks for sharing Carnal. Brought back memories.
Great video! 30 years! What a time capsule! I found the end uncanny when the guy argued that we should start to change the language to "undocumented aliens" and the lady predicted that South Central would soon be majority-Latino. Also, I heard the word "underprivileged" a few times, which I had assumed was a modern PC-word. A few predictions/wishes that didn't pan out: Councilman Mike Hernandez was arguing that one of the problems in this community was the lack of police presence and response. Well, his wish has come true, especially since the "defund the police" movement of 2020s. You can literally get away with murder (again) in Westlake nowadays. My car was broken into the other week. No one cares. Graffiti everywhere. Tents galore. Trash cans tossed over. Human feces and urine all over. Crackheads walking the streets screaming next to buildings filled with families and children. Also, another of Hernandez's complaints was INS arresting folks in the area. They've obviously stopped that practice a long time ago. but I'm not sure if that has helped or harmed the residents here. I've lived off and on in Westlake since 2000 (at the tail end of the "Training Day" era AKA Rampart Scandal) and it's surreal how much things have NOT changed since this video was made. I'd argue that it's generally safer than it was in the 90s and 2000s, and there are a few more green spaces, yet this area looks the same as it was in the 1993 movie "Falling Down" and all the other 80s/90s movies filmed here. The only major differences between this 1992 video and 2022 are the hair styles and fashion. The stories are all the same. The problems are the same. The excuses are basically all the same. 30 years! All the kids in this video are now parents or grandparents. Do they still live here? Is the cycle just repeating? And do we really need change? Maybe this neighborhood serves its purpose as a first stop for Central American and other immigrants on their US journey. There's really nowhere else affordable in LA today (along the Red Line and major bus routes). If we improve (aka pump investment money aka gentrify) this neighborhood, would it do more more harm than good? I argue that this neighborhood needs to exist as is because there's no other options for affordable living in this town since everyone is being priced out of nearby Koreatown and Downtown. I hope someone in the future reads this comment and tells me what I got right or wrong.
Pico Union BEST since the early 1960s NOMAZ !!
during the super eruption of the rodney king riot caldera aka the TOBA of riots at 3500km3 its one of the largest caldera's out there covers all of la county and partly in to long beach short to say if this erupted at a VEI 8 AGAIN California would be finished
Little Central América? Dude in El Salvador we don't care about the rest of central america, what is salvadoran is salvadoran.
I do acknowledge that we are the second largest Latino group in California and many of those areas in Los Angeles are or were predominately Salvadoran. As a people, we are very inclusive and with growing demographics of other Central American communities in LA, in a colloquial manner we refer to a few areas as Little Central America but everyone knows, Salvadorans paved the way for other Latinos and experienced many challenges when settling in these areas. You’re from Los Angeles? I will record more videos touching on this topic. Thank you for your comment.
Key word “in el salvador.” Here in America I notice many realize we have more in common than anything. Its like the term latino. That isnt used in latin america like its used here in america.
Yeah but this is LA not El Salvador. Pico Union IS Little Central America because there are a lot of Catrachos, and Guatemaltecos too. Oh and some sprinkled in Mexicans like myself.
@@chicanoinparadise No sabes de lo qué estoy hablando, simplemente estoy dando a demostrar qué los salvadoreños somos salvadoreños, algunos no nos identificamos y no nos importa los demás países centroaméricanos.
Cómo salvadoreño no me gustaría qué me digan "centroaméricano" porque no me identifico con la otra región, mucha gente es así, tú no me entendiste.
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