The "Old Money" Family That Built Beverly Hills: The Doheny Dynasty
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- One step into the city of Beverly Hills - a city built by the "old money" family known as the Doheny dyasty - is where the essence of luxury is not just lived but breathed - and is often said to cast a spell of opulence that blankets the land.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
1:27 Chapter 1: The Dominating Dohenys
6:30 Chapter 2: Immigrants To Innovators
10:18 Chapter 3: Going Global
14:51 Chapter 4: Doheny Descendants
18:50 Chapter 5: The Legacy of the Doheny Family
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The Doheny family's journey from humble beginnings to becoming an emblem of "old money" in Beverly Hills is a compelling tale of ambition, architecture, and philanthropy.
Edward L. Doheny, who struck black gold in Los Angeles in 1892, transformed not only his own fate but also the landscape of Southern California.
His wealth, rivaled only by the likes of John D. Rockefeller at the time, enabled the Dohenys to commission architectural marvels such as the Greystone Mansion.
Designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann, this opulent estate symbolized the zenith of luxury and ambition, embodying the family's desire to cement their legacy within American society.
Edward's story began with modest roots, as the son of an Irish immigrant family.
His early years were marked by resilience and ambition, setting the stage for his monumental oil discovery that propelled Los Angeles into an industrial powerhouse.
This transformation was not just a testament to Edward's vision but also to the foundational values of perseverance that propelled the Dohenys from mere immigrants to pivotal innovators in the American narrative.
The narrative takes a global turn as Edward extends his ventures into Mexico, significantly impacting the oil industry in the early twentieth century.
However, his legacy was not without controversy, most notably his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal, highlighting the complex nature of his influence that extended beyond the realms of business to shape political and social spheres as well.
The focus then shifts to the Doheny descendants, who, influenced by the family's wealth and philanthropic ethos, made substantial contributions to Los Angeles's cultural and educational landscape.
Through land donations and financial support, they played a crucial role in the development of academic and medical research facilities, underscoring their commitment to enriching the community that facilitated their ascent.
The enduring legacy of the Doheny family is perhaps best encapsulated by the iconic Greystone Mansion.
Now a cultural venue and public park, it serves as a testament to the family's historical significance and lasting impact on Beverly Hills and Los Angeles.
The Doheny name, immortalized through streets and buildings, remains a vivid reminder of their contribution to the city's development and the quintessential American tale of success and philanthropy.
COMMENT: Are you a native of Los Angeles - or have you visited the Greystone estate during a visit to the city of Angels?
Lived there twice!
It’s so offensive how you pronounce Doheney 😂
@@kieranciccone7548 it is offensive that you cannot properly spell it. 😂. He is saying it right. That’s how we say it in Los Angeles. 🎉. Btw. LA sucks.
Yes, it is a beautiful mansion
I am very keen on touring it if that is a thing! Ideas?
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and actually lived at 1400 No Doheny Drive as a child. I had never known anything about the Doheny family until watching this documentary. I’m so glad I took the time to watch. Very informative.
Thanks! Glad to hear you enjoyed it! Very nice to hear it was interesting to LA folks
Figures. It's often the people closest to history who know the least about it.
Total lies
@@oldmoneyluxury I grew up in the ghetto under segregation L.A.-style; on Exposition Blvd. close to the Coliseum, where my Nisei Gangster farther used to take me to see the L.A. Dodgers before they moved to Chavez Ravine after the O'Malley family evicted the Mexicans that lived there.
I learned to surf at Doheny beach in Dana Point. I studied at Doheny library while attending USC and was a neighbor of a Doheny descendant in Newport Beach, Andrew Doheny, who is a great surfer! A fascinating family history and a great American success story!
Great content as usual. The storied beginnings of Beverly Hills would not be complete without mentioning Max Whittier. He too was heavily invested in oil in the early 1900's, but more importantly, he owned the Rodeo Land and Water Company. That land eventually became what is now known as Beverly Hills. A family home is stilled maintained on Whittier Drive in the city. Max Whittier also began a family office which has sprouted into one of the largest privately held family trust companies on the west coast, Whittier Trust.
They NEVER tell where they got the money to start an oil company. Buy the rigs. The land. They ALWAYS skip those parts.
I was thinking about that too…it’s not complete without it.. it just says he’s an immigrant from Ireland ..
They stole it
He partnered with Canfield who put in $400 and he hit paydirt on a 6 x 4 mine in LA that started producing 40 barrels a day. Then it funds itself until the next level.
My family's contribution to local history was my father being one of the founders of "El Mercado de Los Angeles"; not as glamorous as the monuments to the Doheny bloodline but a significant institution nonetheless.
Greystone Manor was donated to the city of Los Angeles, they do give tours and rent it out as a venue.. for parties and events
I'm a native Angeleno. I've visited Greystone and Doheny Mansion. I also happen to live on top of the former Los Angeles Oil Field in the Vista Hermosa area (aka Temple/Beaudry). The site of Doheny's first oil strike is in my neighborhood.
Let’s not forget the greatest Doheny cultural legacy -
All over manhattan and down Doheny Way
Everybody’s gone surfin’
Surfin’ USA
The Beach Boys
Good catch!
"He passed me at Doheny then I started to swerve
But I pulled her out and there I was
At Dead Man's Curve" --
Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"
Thank you for sharing this inspiring story of a humble early American immigrant who
when given , freedom and opportunity , contributed to the creation of the personal wealth and the wealth of an emerging world power and contributed to the well fair of the community of the LosAngles and beyond .
Kaufman designed many other houses in Los Angeles . Unfortunately Beverly Hills isn't a historic preservation zone so most of the beautiful old houses in Beverly Hills, Bel Air , Holmby Hills have been torn down and replaced with ghastly Persian palaces.
I had a run in with an officious archivist while doing research at the Doheny mansion when the American Film Institute was housed there. She thought I was a "Japanese Gardener" of the sort that broke the case wide open for Jake Gittes in "Chinatown." My father used to take us to Doheny Beach down in Orange County. There were no signs that said "White Only," but that was the way it was even during the 1960s. My Nisei Gangster father took me to meet Micky Cohen when I was a boy. He lived in BH at the time, but was nowhere near the mobster that Fast Eddie Doheny had become. L.A. was smogville during the 1950s and for that we have the oilmen to thank. Raymond Chandler got right. So did Robert Towne.
I remember a line in the Beach Boys song "Surfing U.S.A." talking about "Doheney" as a spot for surfing in the 1960's.
Bechtel family also a big construction family of America their four generations also doing
Fabulous video thanks fir sharing
Wonderfully insightful video. Thanks much
There is also a historic Doheny House in Capistrano Beach that sits on the bluff that is still standing. It overlooks the Pacific Ocean. I believe it was owned by the son.
How do they calculate these 'in today's money'. Seems far too low.
thank you for these documentaries. I have been looking for these type of historic reels.
Glad you like them!
I went to the AFI Conservatory at Greystone. Lovely doc and informative and well-paced.
I attended Doheny Blues Fest several times. It was held at Doheny beach & was much fun. Thanks for the history lesson.
Very cool!
Born and raised in Anaheim, I wasn't aware of the Dohenys until fairly recently. In school I only knew of the Tea Pot Dome scandal in passing. I did like that you used There Will Be Blood scenes to make a point. I know it's inspired by the Dohenys, and its a great movie. They also filmed some scenes at Greystone.
I did grow part of my life in Los Angeles, and never really knew about such wonderful history. I’m very sorry about that, now I will love Los Angeles more than ever 😊🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for the documentary excellent history
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very enjoyable, and interesting facts. The Bronx, New York
The house did not come close to many buildings built supposedly in 19th century from the images shown here.
The brokest people I know always be posting at The Beverly Hills Hotel
I feel like there's always a bit of envy in these narrations.
Visited the Greystone, it’s stunning.
Theres a Doheny Street in West Hollywood
Doheny Road is the eastern boundary between West Hollywood and Beverly Hills Hills.
Very nice 👍ยอดเยี่ยมมากค่ะ🙏🙂🥳🎉🎈💐👏🎉🥳🙏
Fabulous city❤
Lived there twice, there’s a reason they call it LaLa land…
There is, or at least used to be, a working production site right behind Beverly Hills High School. A number of years ago a big stink was raised about the, well, big stink, as some called it, caused by the extraction of crude in close proximity to the school.
What most people don't appreciate is that SoCAl was involved with oil production all over the place, long before it became known for the movie industry, and then defense and space. Contemporary pictures of Signal Hill show it looking like a huge porcupine basically, a hump densely covered with derricks for quills. That 'old money' was concentrated in Pasadena and San Marino, the movie star 'nouveau riches' were banished to the Hills of Beverly.
There is still oil being extracted in Los Angeles County, but it is becoming more and more discreet. Nobody wants to advertise a 'dirty' industry and spoil the touristy imagine of the region. That's the reason the derricks on the drill islands in the harbor have cladding on them that makes them look like apartment buildings. People are always inquiring about what it would take to buy one and live there..
Amazing! I wish the top billionaires would be inspired by something like this And engage in philanthropy
The hush hush part of the gilded age in the politicians that made it possible now in 2024 we have the gilded age revisited thank God for the internet
Bespoke automotive artistry. What a description.
I live in LA and I'd walked the grounds and peaked in windows for many years, but one day I saw a sign advertising an upcoming Design Showcase. So, after years of being a lookey-loo I bought a ticket and had a wonderful time going thru all the rooms. I was surprised to see that the bedroom Bette Davis had been filmed in for DEAD RINGER was exactly as I'd seen on screen...even down to the closet where Bette's maid would retrieve her jewelry from the safe (if ya know the scene, ya know the scene). GREYSTONE and STAHL HOUSE (Case Study House #22) have been marked off my Bucket List, so now I just need to tour the CHEMOSPHERE (which I saw being built as a young child) and I will be ecstatic🤭
Doheny estate Greystone is haunted 👻
As young boy i became friends with the greatgrand children of ned Doherty i have been a guest in graystone in 1954 and 1956 before the nevens moved from the home on Doherty drive my best always philo
The magnitude of wealth can lead to an unknown path down the road 🧐🤔.
The was donated to the city of beverly hills in the late fifty around 59 through early sixty-four my best Philo
2:55 Ned Jr's Native American ancestry shows in that pic.
Architect Gordon Kaufman also designed two homes used in the Godfather trilogy. The Beverly Hills mansion William Randolph Hearst died at (Horse head scene) and the stone Lake Tahoe house used in Godfather II.
Nice catch! We’re big Godfather fans here!
I was raised in LA ( San Fernando Valley) and did not know the history of that name
Don't forget about Chavez Revine aka (Dodgers Stadium)
Why not mention the Doheny library donated to USC.
Air perfumed by affluence, which made me laugh. Knowing that they have a 💩 map there and the city is run down.😅
Actually I was going to make a comment about when I lived in Los Angeles for about 9 years you hated stopping at any intersection next to the sewer cuz it always stunk you always had to have your windows up when you went by the sewer I've never seen a city so filthy and that was in 2000
Los Angeles does have some rough spots but you’re thinking of San Francisco.
I didn't know La Brea (a main blvd that runs through the tar pits) means "The Tar".
Love the history video; sad how none of the Mexican people got anything after taking most of the oil from their land.
Rape and pillage = wealthy old money families!
Mexico learned how to pump oil, Doheny taught Mexico how to drill and pump oil. The Mexican government made it a monopoly. PEMEX
Doheny didn’t take most of the oil.
He taught Mexico how to drill!!
13:50 is incorrect Ned did not take his own life. Hugh shot Ned then Hugh committed suicide in the hallway outside of the Guest Room that Hugh used.
Some said that they were lovers.
That’s what I was thinking
❤😮 yeah yeah and yeah😊
This video explains very little.
The 1880's census has him as a "painter". The next minute he's in LA sinking an oil well after having seen Brea on a wagon. So where did he get the funds needed? Did he sell a few of his canvases? There are too many jumps in Doheny's history to make any sense! Though Lady Luck can play her part I stand by my conviction that no-one gets wealthy without a few shenanigans. Billions of honest, hard-working folk have got nowhere for their labours. All these Old Money families had to have been as crooked as the hind leg on a dog, and accusations of bribery et al proves the point. This family has nothing to be proud of; nothing.
First American millionaire was a drug dealer.
How about you do the research and come back and make us a video
He accepted what Jesus rebuked
@@mickeybell8933Lol he has a point though it’s hard to become wealthy like that without being cutthroat
The video makes it sound like he did all that by himself. It just ever so briefly mentioned the business partner that helped him with the first well.
Your criticism makes sense. If he arrived in LA basically broke, with only the money he may have made as a (sign)painter, it is appropriate to ask how he supported himself here, how he paid for the permits and equipment and the labor before he managed to sell his very first barrel of oil.
I can't help but think, "I drink your milkshake." every time I see oil towers.😄🥤
😂 Daniel Plainview!
I love Doheny Beach here in Orange County. I feel bad for anyone who didn’t grow up here
In that cess pool? nah!
Doheny, a great American!
The worst part is that is he is probably on the clock!
I don't think old money needs to be in quotations😅There is DEFINITELY A DIFFERENCE AND I KNOW IT WELL,having been from friends with homeless, middleclass,new money and many more😅
When ever I heard Doheny I thought of something Hawaiian.
❤🎉🎉😊😊❤
Fascinating history of the family and the LA area, but the narrative is so pretentious…..
Do these families still exist today ? Or did they sell off there land or keep in family trusts ?
I wonder why they didn't mention the murders there. Ned was killed and also his secretary.
'Preciate the correct, that is the non-English pronunciation of 'Los Angeles'.
so ugly with oil fields in la brea. i think there's still some to this day.
A British accent narrating an American city sounds odd.
…pronounced “contra…buted” (you’d have to be money loaded to say “contra…buted”)
I don't think Doheny had anything to do with the Huntington Library..... Henry E. Huntington did not need money.... Haha....
Hi I happy for them, I wish they can help me out.
Sounds as if the patriarch was a crook.
EVERYBODY KNOWS IT WAS THE CLAMPETTS
a great place for the homeless bums in la
You could of learned how to say the name . its doh-eny not do -heny.
We decided to use the pronunciation they use in modern Los Angeles
*could have
Doh-eny sounds like Doh-weeny...say it. No one in L.A calls it that.
It's like Wil-shire is the correct British way to say it, but ppl will laugh at you in L.A. if u don't say Wil-sher.
why you talk like that
Is there any billionaires that can get a invite to do adult film and make some money to help animals and homeless and anyone assisting