Im in Chicago.. my family's in NY.. This is no accident people.. Better pay attention because the wheels of change are in motion and no ones asking us whether we want it or not
Pretty much to same in many other large cities. Retail is gone. I live near a large city and their is no retail left in the downtown area. (one dollar store, which was robbed so many times, its closed now). Maybe a coffee shop somewhere. I remember when going downtown was an exciting time for shopping and eating. Three big department stores, movie theaters, clothing stores, you name it. This is long after the suburban malls had been around awhile. Now they are suffering also, even in the close in suburbs.
@@iworkout6912 Not really. NYC is still thriving. Is it as busy as it was before the pandemic, no. But walk on 8th avenue from Penn Station to Central Park and compare to San Francisco. Times Square is packed once again with tourists.
If you have studied retail economics, which I have, you will understand that there is no return now from the demise of this city ! Even if you offered the user free rent and free cam charges for 2 years, the pro forma is still impossible, why, it will take the user years to move from the red into the black ! Notwithstanding, where will the consumers come from ??? The anchor retailers have all left which the smaller retailers depend on for spill over to the small mom and pop stores as well. The bigger problem is this, how are you going to convince the Bay Area populous to return to a city frought with crime and anger from a city government that turned on its own people... San Francico has died at the hands of liberal democrat`s...
People have always stolen from stores but it used be kids or the occasional drug addict sticking something under their shirt.. but now we have industrial level shop lifting run by organized crime. Watching someone steal an entire shopping cart full of merchandise was unheard of 10 years ago but now it's a daily occurrence.
The Van Ness store closures were the direct result of the SFMTA Bus Rapid Transit project. They shut down the most of the street and removed all parking which murdered every business lining that corridor. It was one of the most ascinine decisions the city made.
I was lucky to see San Francisco in the 70's, even watched a filming of Dirty Harry and The Streets of San Francisco, plus attended a Giants game at Candlestick and did the Alcatraz tour. Gawd what a great place it was! And the food in the seafood district was stunning. I have my doubts, but I'm hoping those days could return; it was magical and everyone should experience it...
When was it beautiful? I moved here almost 20 years ago, and it was really gross and dirty. My first encounter was a hobo carrying a bloody toddler mattress on bush and sutter . I lived a block away from Cala foods then probably 2006
I worked and shopped in San Francisco. So many good memories. My Apt rent was $510 a month for a large 1 bedroom in a Victorian 4 Plex. Beautiful architecture of wood and molding. I had a subscription to G.Q. Magazine and dressed very nice. I was very lucky to know certain people and was told to buy homes in West Oakland back in the late 80's through Tax Lien sales. Sold all 3 before the real estate crash and moved to Texas over 20 years ago for business. I never would have believed the Bay Area would become what it is. S.F. was a very nice place.
I was in SF over the weekend. The streets and crowds were nowhere to be seen. And yes so many closed businesses and empty buildings EVERYWHERE!!! I hadn't been here for at least 10 years and it was sad to see. I didn't see as many homeless as I expected to however. Even in the financial district amongst the tall buildings which blocked out all the daylight, I could see where all the expensive fancy stores used to be and were now closed and empty. It really is shocking and not being reported on in the mainstream media. This is what it will take for SF to wake up- when the tax $$$ dries up and they can no longer afford their homelessness programs, pay to play games, and other social feel good programs that do nothing to improve the life of working tax paying CITIZENS.
Unlike others who think the channel has a bias you speak the truth. I live in Southern NJ and go into Philadelphia and NYC frequently. I see a few boarded up stores and businesses but nothing on the level of San Francisco which now looks like an abandoned city. Are there pockets of San Francisco that are still thriving, sure. But amount of retail and business vacancies in San Francisco is staggering. You will see a few holdouts that are still open. How long can they survive when the surrounding businesses are empty. Would you feel safe when no one is around.The business leaders and politicians use the phrase San Francisco is a boom or bust town. I think they are referring to the Gold Rush and the earthquake. Both have no relevance today. The city isn't coming back. I guess it could if you could buy Victorians for $300,000-$450,000 or rent a high rise apartment in a new building for $1500 a month. Real Estate would have to collapse that much to get entrepreneurs, artists and young people just starting out to take a chance and try to rebuild the city with small businesses. The housing and rental market is still too high to get the kind of people needed to get the city populated again.
Governor Gavin Newson and Nancy Pelosi don't care about SF. As long as they live in a mansion and put all the tax dollars in their pockets, they don't care what happen to the city or anyone else. They will only make changes when crimes and drugs enter their high ends neigborhoods. They defunded the police department and gave the power to the criminals and drug dealers!
@@Dan-440their Fuhrer Joe Biden painted the curb red rolling out the red carpet for Xi Jinping to takeover San Francisco. All of those vacant buildings will be turned into 0.20 cent an hour sweat shops
Wow...! Thanks for showing the world the TRUE scope of things. Van Ness is a major artery for SF street traffic. The amount of closures on a long, busy street like that is wild.
I used to catch the bus on Van Ness every day. The bus would pull over to the bus stop on the curb. That worked fine for decades. What the hell are the bus lanes for?!
Not sure. Maybe they thought it would result in a better flow of traffic with the dedicated lane. Indeed Poor planning or a lack of studies and surveying beforehand. Would have been better to put in a underground subway but not sure of that would be geologically possible with the hills and threats/hazards of earthquakes.
SF is a major supporter of Agenda 2030 that the UN is trying to jam down our throats. The goal is to have cities with little to no private automobile ownership and people use mass transit to get around.
When is the SF mayor going to address all the closed businesses and the Muni lanes taking away all the customer traffic and parking? How can you have commerce in a city where your only means of transportation is the crime ridding Bart and Muni? For example, older or vulnerable people would never get on those busses or trains, not in a million years. I'm sure there are plenty of other people that feel the same way. Until they change leadership and their way of thinking, SF is doomed!
Good analysis of the situation. Public transportation. I saw a guy pull a knife on another older guy over some argument of a seat or something.. At the next stop both got off and the older guy ran with the young guy close behind him with the knife. The older guy ducked into a restaurant, not sure what happened after that as the bus moved on. The bus passengers acted like if was an everyday occurrence. Don't know if the bus driver called the police, but it was all over so quickly. Not getting into race of the guy with the knife, but you can guess.
Former SF resident. I was in SF for Thanksgiving. I stayed at Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center. Lots of places closed. Parking has always been a challenge, but it is even worse now. Went to Safeway over in the Mission. It was AWFUL. Everything under lock and key and your receipt opened the exits area. Mission Street had garbage and street vendors everywhere blocking the sidewalks. The tenderloin is enough to make you sick - the filth, degradation , tents and homeless everywhere. I will be back to the Bay Area, but not staying in SF. This time will get a hotel in Burlingame near the airport and still decent shopping areas. Will pass on the filth.
You did like the others of your kind...ran off and left. Gee, girl you showed 'em! Some of that "girl power". But seriously, why are "former" SFers so happy to brag about being from SF? I would be ashamed, hide that fact. Are you proud of the city you helped make...ah before leaving?
@sailingaeolus I drank the kool-aid myself, back when I was living in the belly of the beast, there... I moved to SF in 1993. I thought it was glorious, and I was so excited to have moved there all by myself, driving 11 hours up the 101 freeway from San Bernadino. In two years I worked my way up from being a housecleaner, to a housekeeper, to a house manager for a very wealthy family, in 1995. They built their dream home on Broadway at Divisadero and moved into it in 1999. At the time, Broadway was called "Millionaire's Row"; now it's "Billionaire's Row." The family had made their millions in the early days of tech -- around 1975 -- and were finally seeing the results of all that hard work They were a wonderful, nice, normal family at the time. They had two boys, and eventually, I became their nanny, too. They respected others, they respected themselves, and they respected their money. It took a long time to build that wealth... Big Tech had started to invade SF around 1994, and by 1999 there were 22 year olds driving BMWs and Mercedes' around town (In a previous post here I said CA is a car culture, and will always be, lol. Even in SF) At that time, I was a registered Democrat. The family I worked for was, as well. Nancy Pelosi lived just down the street on Broadway. Larry Ellison also lived there, as well as the Gettys, and their "nephew" Gavin Newsom visited often. I lived and worked right smack in the middle of what was the richest neighborhood in the country at that time. That area was absolutely *oozing* wealth, money, and power by the year 2000... The stuff of dreams, right? Work hard, and you too can achieve that level of comfort and prestige. What could go wrong... In 2004 the family I worked for held the first-ever fundraiser in NorCal for some guy no one had ever heard of west of the Mississippi: Barack Obama. I was a little puzzled because he was from Illinois. Why were we holding a fundraiser here in CA for an Illinois Senator who was now going to run for the U.S. Senate? Well, that was before I understood what a slush fund was... The entire City was mesmerized by that guy. Obama was young, handsome, and charismatic. I was mesmerized, too. I bought into all of that crap; all of the City's Dem politicians were engaging, smooth-talking, and when you spoke to them they looked you right in the eye while they were lying through their teeth so graciously... My family got caught up in that web. They, too, drank the kool-aid. Many newly minted millionaires did. The Mrs. would go on and on about Rachel Maddow, she listened to Keith Olberman, and they donated such a huge amount to Obama's eventual presidential run that they were invited to the inauguration. I made a copy of the 8x10 gold-printed invite and framed it In 2008 I remember driving in the car with her and she was gushing about the big luncheon she attended the day before about the exciting collaboration between the City of SF and China. Feinstein was at that lunch... Between 2004 and 2009, while I was steeped in the glamour of the super-rich, there was always a niggling feeling that something just wasn't right. They were razing buildings in the City left and right; rents kept climbing higher and higher. The artists and musicians and regular working folks were being pushed out. The rich *were* getting richer while everyone else was falling farther and farther behind. The family I worked for had changed dramatically once they had moved to Broadway. Things were not the same. But I could never, ever put my finger on just what it was. I began to feel that the City was being taken over by the very people "elected" (installed is more like it) to represent it, and the super rich were subsidizing it lock, stock, and barrel, thinking they'd all be immune to the changes, when in fact most of them would eventually be tossed aside if they didn't continue to play the game as written by those who wanted a total takeover of the City. If you didn't cooperate they would ruin you, your business, and your family Living in San Francisco was starting to feel very sour and abnormal to me, and in 2010 I quit my job as house manager and moved north to Marin I'm sorry this is a long-ass reply, but I don't care. I was part of the problem there, and then I woke up. It happens... Most people are good and kind and think the best of everyone. It's not so much they're wearing rose-colored glasses. Most people are incapable of being so corrupt, so greedy, so dark, that it's hard to believe others can be so evil and conniving. That they have a massive agenda that is SO anti-human, so lacking in compassion, that they've had a plan in place to figuratively burn an entire city to the ground for decades... That's what's happening in San Francisco today. God help it...
@@hamsterdiving7593 Fascinating reply, thanks for the candor and for sharing. I've always been able to "see" the future. Back in the 1990s at SDSU I was warning all "the agenda" would not work out well. Of course that prognosis was not well received. I suppose for me personally there's a sort of "how did you not see this coming" component to it. I lived in Sacramento as a kid in the 1980s. Yes, at one point SF was a very beautiful place. What happened there cannot be easily forgiven.
This is absolutely surreal. Van Ness was _the_ place to buy a car for 50 years. It was 100% open for business, one of my favorite high-end audio stores was here. I'm 66, a second generation CA native. I really gotta wonder what's going to happen to this state. I live in Carmel CA now, they've fought hard to keep it the same and it shows. So sad. I know this is what they've intended, but have to wonder what their end game is? Thank you Leo, and Merry Christmas!
Haha...failed liberal state is now resorting to conspiracy theory. Get a load of this! The man writes, "I know this is what THEY've intended...end game is?" Who the F is "they"...? You're on the wrong side of the isle with this secret "they", friend. You sound like a kook.
I've asked the same here on the East Coast. After these lowlifes finish robbing all these stores and they close down, then what? We aren't too far behind Cali.
This is just despicable, what Mayor or Governor would want business to leave their town, It doesn't make any sense, there is something very nefarious going on.
You should talk to people on the streets in these areas and just ask them they about all these places closing down. That would be pretty interesting to hear locals opinions! *EDIT: Sorry Leo. I wanted to add Merry Christmas and all my best to you and your family in these crazy times. Thank you for giving an unbiased straight to the point look at what's going on. Stay safe!
I know a girl from SF that says, "Oh, it's really not THAT bad". The locals are brainwashed zombie Joe voters. How do you think the place got that bad? A well armed, informed, aware community? The fact that you asked that questions and got 24 thumbs up is shocking...like the local have a dang clue. Do you believe speaking to them will help, or you'll get a well informed answer?
Leo, perhaps you should think of having a partner on these walks, so that you can concentrate on the video and narrations; and your partner could be continuously scanning the area for any possible dangers or problems while you are filming.
You should see Chicago, New York and Philadelphia not any better and guess what there all Democrat City's. I live in Indiana and our Democrat City's are in the same shape....... i wonder why??? O yeah crime and no punishment go figure. Its time to vote red and see what happens.
Thx for the video, sad and heartbreaking!! Those “planter” things are ugly! My grandparents used them on their farm for watering livestock. So original!!
I remember when they started tearing up Van Ness to put in that bus lane. My dentist has been on Van Ness at Vallejo forever; I've been going there since 1999. Parking could be tricky in that area, but you just had to time it right. In 20 years, I was only a couple minutes late to my appointment just ONCE. I always found a spot to park. One time, in fact, I found a spot on Van Ness right in front of the office -- no green zone, no meter... 🤩 Then they painted the entire length of that curb red and started that stupid bus project The last time I was there was a year ago, and there were trash bins that some angry crazy person kicked over that spilled all over the sidewalk in front of the dental office. Pedestrians just ignored it; no one cleaned it up. Sad... The people who "run" San Francisco seem to think they can turn this city into a version of NYC, where it's part of the tradition, history, and culture there to walk everywhere and take public transport. Not so, here. This is still California -- car culture capital of the world. For the most part, they view walking as something tourists do, not ambition-driven, over-scheduled San Franciscans... Thanks for another great vid, Leo!
@@m1activealesis551 I know -- I wasn't being critical of them, I was pointing out that when you actually see it *written* , it just sounds so unrealistic. Like writing, "The goal of PGE is to eliminate all electrical usage after 6 pm"
I came back to San Francisco in '76 and I remember the flying boats and Alcatraz with prisoners, but what it has become is a travesty and breaks my heart to see her like this now. I moved north a day away twelve years ago before this tragic level of decay began and don't believe I could stand to go back 'live' after seeing this and several other videos you've made hombre. Good work and the challenge I see is WHAT to do to FIX IT!!
I was born and raised in SF. left years ago...On Van Ness It was years of construction, no parking no driving no anything while the businesses withered and died and now they are dead...I do not go to the City anymore... too depressing...
A famous cosmopolitan city with a near endless sea of boarded up buildings interspersed with people either sitting with head hanging low or lying down sleeping with a shopping cart as the main cargo transportation at the side. That's truly somthing.
Things are deteriorating so rapidly in blue states and cities that any knowledge that you had five, ten years ago no longer applies. There are places I would have liked to visit one day but thanks to current posts like yours and others, I have to say not right now, not anytime soon, and possibly never ever. Sad. But the information you provide is invaluable. Thank you.
It's just fascinating to me , and possibly a lesson on insanity , that the people that vote in favor of all of the policies that result in this will NEVER admit that they are wrong. They can't be happy with all of this , but many say that they are. It absolutely makes no sense. Clinging to your ideology is one thing , knowingly taking everyone around you down with it is another. It's absolutely criminal.
That CVS @ 8:07 used to be a movie theatre the Galaxy, across the street north at the corner we’re two movie theatres Regency 1 and 2. I worked at all three in the 80’s.
Walking these streets of SF must be like walking on the set of an apocalyptic movie in the making. Whenever you mention the Zombie Tours it makes that movie seem even more real. Please continue to be safe out there, Leo. ❤ Merry Christmas. 🎄
Plywood and giraffe is the main source of employment I guess. Lots of plywood, and some paint to paint over some of the worst giraffe. Progressives consider it 'art' i say BS.
The apocalyptic quality you mentioned is perhaps more real than you knew- I lived in SF for 12 years, up until mid autumn this year. My weekday morning commute routine involved leaving my front door on foot at about 4:40 am and making my way from south of Market Street to the Bay Area Rapid Transit station at Civic Center. What I encountered every day indeed resembled outtakes from Escape From New York, Mad Max or some zombie horror film. Especially when some deranged street denizens took after me, an occurrence that was anything but rare. I lived like an airport smuggler, valuables secreted in hidden pockets under layers of clothes and in bags with false bottom compartments. No word of a lie. Some sources call these kind of measures "urban survival". They aren't kidding.
@@Al_NERi O M G!!! 😱 You painted such a good picture with you words. I was seeing everything you described and it is chilling to think that you were NOT talking about a movie. Happy to hear that you were able to escape the madness.
Oh my gosh 😮❗️. I haven’t driven through there in about 10 years and I’m just SHOCKED at what I’m seeing. This is so disgusting 🤮. Thank you for sharing this. Blessings,Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸
Taxed and Minimum Waged out of Biz. They voted for the Folks doing the BS that's wreaking Traffic, so I don't see the problem. You get what you Voted for.
I kind of disagree with that because I’m not a native Californian but at the same time I don’t think anybody within a Republican or a Democratic Party has any idea what to do with California because California set no standard. I think California needs a politician that hasn’t grown up in California but it’s still an American because for some reason I don’t think Californians have great experience in anything that’s not to be offensive…. that’s just something that I notice as a Washingtonian who’s been here for almost 20 years and if you’re Republican, why do they keep voting for celebrities ? can I ask …..because Schwarzenegger who didn’t do anything , racist ass Ronald Reagan who basically turned DC into San Francisco I really hated him for that…. It just seems like California politicians just really know how to mess up things.
Taxed, yes, but minimum wage, are you kidding? One of the new laws passed in CA for 2024 is they're raising the minimum wage to $20.00 an hour *$20 dollars.* For *fast food workers* !! It's just getting nuts. And that $20 STILL won't get you an affordable place to live there... San Francisco is a snake eating its own tail...
@Katsnacks You are correct. Both sides of the aisle have been in bed together for many years, doing deals and lining their own pockets out of greed and power The division between dems and repubs among the general public was orchestrated *by* the politicians themselves. THEY started all the fires to get people riled up and fighting each other, while BTS the politicians quietly stole and laundered all of OUR taxes for themselves, laughing at us all the way to the bank...
As always, thanks Leo for keeping it real with your videos. They keep me linked to the city (I left SF in 2020 for West Hollywood). So sad to see what’s happened, what has been allowed to happen to a once beautiful city. Anyway, Merry Christmas to you! 🎁🎁🎁🎁
Whoa, friend...! "allowed to happen"? Were not you part of that? Voted for that? Friend, I'm curious why you feel you have no responsibility? Toss your "I ran off so I'm not guilty" in the comment section to heal your conscience? Write us, friend. Tell us how you are not part of all this...before you ran off.
@@LeoMetalTravelerI don't see thousands of electric scooters and electric bicycles waiting for users. Please talk about BART & MUNI ridership? Fisherman's wharf? Leo, where do you eat when you are out and about? *(I don't think San Diego is being affected, except Target did drop their lease. They are however building lots of condo towers.)
@@sailingaeolus Yes, “allowed to happen.” There is no jail time for the violence that occurs. Renters, home owners and small businesses get scared and tired of the lawlessness. If you must know, I left after I witnessed a murder outside my window. I know that was enough for me. Think what you will.
@@sailingaeolus And no, I was not part of that. I did not vote for that useless mayor. I never said I was not guilty, not that I am. I worked two jobs in SF, paid my rent and taxes, shopped locally, never looted or damaged property and did not protest. I ran off to protect my life.
Thank you for the VLOGS, San Fran is deteriorating because once businesses starts to move out, everyone else will do the same: collective behavior. It is like a cancer or wild fire and very difficult to reverse. Commerical and residential properties values are down and with many empty stores (not rented) and tax bill responsibilities, the City is going broke with less tax collections from property owner bankruptcies.
We visited SFO from Australia some years ago when it was still a really beautiful city and there were lots of shops and restaurants and places to go visit. Seems all that has now changed and not for the better. Hope things do get back to the way they were at some stage.
I’ve been lucky enough to visit san Francisco 9 times. Last time was 11 years ago and omg the changes are astronomical. What a shame. It was so beautiful and alive.
@@JB-yb4wn What city do Republicans even run? There are cities within red states with R governors but pretty much every American city is run by democrats.
@@pedanticmrpender Hard to do since Republicans make a vast minority of city governments. But Jerry Dyer seems to be doing an excellent job at running Fresno into the ground.
The closed Honda Dealership on Van Ness & Market used to be the legendary Rock & Roll venue, the Fillmore West. There is a documentary (video on UA-cam) titled, "The Last Days Of The Fillmore West," in which you can see the late, great Rock Promoter, Bill Graham, walking outside to greet a long line of concert-goers. The Bank of America building (still there) can be seen in the background. My favorte artist to perform AND record a live album at the Fillmore West was Aretha Frankin, 1971. And now...? A CLOSED Honda dealer. I live two blocks from Van Ness Avenue and Market Street. I watched, day by day, the "destruction" construction for SIX YEARS of the Van Ness "transformation" and in my gut I was just SO CERTAIN it was going to fail. It did. Even before COVID, people had quit riding the Van Ness buslines. SOME businesses were leaving due to the cost of doing business, but this so-called "up-grade" demolished Van Ness. It looks dreadful now.
Thank you very much for sharing. I’m going to look up the Fillmore West. six years is a long time for businesses to survive, and that’s without counting the prior year, where they closed all the left lanes before construction started for almost a whole year
Very sad state of affairs. I lived in Sacramento in the early eighties. I have family in the Bay Area. The Bay Area was so beautiful. I don't think I could go back for a visit 😢
I'm glad you're shedding light on the stupidity of the bus lane and bike lane issue and how this useless PR tactic has destroyed small and corporate businesses. Why punish these businesses? Messed up priorities.
It is a convoluted way to apparently improve traffic flow. Sadly, it did not work in this case. Many cities are implementing bike lane and dedicated bus lanes. In European cities it has been somewhat successful, but just does not seem to work well here. USA relies on auto traffic especially for deliveries. This may have been the result of poor planning, lack of impact studies and surveying.
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. We celebrate this special day for a week, with gratitude, love, and calm. Thank you for bringing this to us Metal Leo, you're certainly getting your exercise.
Showed this to my wife, who is involved in local government (not a politician). After awhile, she said there's no recovering from this. I agree; not in the short or medium term, at least. This will most likely endure for a generation, or perhaps two. The situation is absolutely unreal.
HORRIBLE !!!😡The Beautiful San Francisco is going down in flame😥 I used to work there on Van Ness and I'm glad I'm not there to see in every day the destruction. At least at the end of your video you make me smile with that bus who supposed to have the correct advertising saying:"Have you see the Unusual ? and you saying :"Checking the Zombies!", "Don't get off the Bus!" 🤣🤣🤣 Merry Christmas to You !!! 🎅🎄⛄
Yes, that tour bus at the end of the video was exploring the unusual like what says on the side of the bus , that’s why it’s always worth it to watch until the end of the video for the best part, the cherry on top🍒 @dyarom4575 happy birthdays! 🎄
After watching👀 your video per UA-cam recommendation I watched 👀 "✨🎄The World's Most Spectacular Holiday Lights Display 2023 | London Christmas Lights Tour [4K HDR]" and is like going from Hell 👿to Heaven😇. @@LeoMetalTraveler
I am thinking about all of these jobs just gone. Seems like we are being forced to work online and live an online existence. Since 2020 I work online only and it's really tiresome being in front of a screen all the time. I have to be mindful of it and go outside for a break. Anyways, I appreciate your videos. ... the end has me cracking up - zombie land tours lol
San Francisco...What a tragedy. I only have fond memories of the "old SF." A horrible reality check. Don't know if I will ever be back. Stay safe and happy holidays.
Metal Leo your videos are very interesting. You are showing how a city is being steadily turned into a “wasteland” if you will to put it bluntly. People need to wake up and realize what is being shown here, is what’s coming to every state in the nation if we don’t get a handle on it. Metal Leo you made some good points as well being stuck in debt over a worthless college degree. You really gained my respect and keep showing these videos. We won’t see this on worthless msm.
Unbelievably sad and tragic. Having lived in San Francisco Marina district from 1994 to 2017 and driving down Van Ness weekly TheStreet is almost unrecognizable. Thankfully I have beautiful memories of the city. ❤️❤️
I lived in San Francisco for 13 years in the 90s I drove and took public transportation and did a lot of walking I had friends who lived on Van Ness one of whom lived on what you thought of might have been a hotel b u t what could have been one of the older apartment buildings She was a well-known interior designer who worked at Gump's department store when they had an interior design service and she had a gorgeous apartment beautifully appointed .She has since passed away but I can't imagine what she would be thinking if she actually saw her old neighborhood deteriorated in this way I still have friends who live in San Francisco one on Nob Hill who lives in one of those landmark buildings It seems that neighborhood is still intact but everything around it seems to be crumbling.😢
It's amazing how some state and local governments can force an agenda down the throats of the public whom they're supposed to serve, and somehow expect no adverse consequences or public reaction.
I’m an LA native, but have always loved SF as the better city, and this is heart shattering. San Francisco was such a unique, beautiful, vibrant, artistic city. Someone mentioned that they know this has been done on purpose although they don’t know why. My guess is that they are either trying to clear it out in order to make room for others who might possibly inhabit the city, or they’re leveling the places and things that were on a “higher” more affluent level or frequency so that all classes may reap the benefits of being surrounded by encampments, graffiti, biohazard, trash, vagrants, etc.The goal is to have every place packed with as much misery as possible, so that eventually we only have two castes-the parasites, and the downtrodden people. Same thing is happening in LA, but it’s more spread out and not as much of a shock as what’s occurring in SF. I wish all good people there peace💗
my bet is on a smart city/15 minute city /PRISON that folks dont release it is a prison.i lived 20 years in the loin/tenderloin and would safely alone Walk day or night anyplace in the loin.i got out 2016 and small town colorado is better
@@tracyjames291715 minute cities sounds interesting, never heard of it. Tell me more about it being bad like a prison? What problems you think they're gonna push on us?
@@erictaylor3897it's on the wef website. The most famous is the one planned for the Netherlands and Germany. Supposedly everything you need would be within a 15 min walk. And you get fined if you leave your area.
Thank you for your work!!!! Merry Christmas, it is much more impactful for people voting to see someone who knows the area to do a video like this. It hurts to see what should be some of the best of America's economies destroyed.😢
I remember hearing like 10 years ago that someone was going to buy that lot for like 20 million…. I bet they wish they sold now or maybe they did and theyre still waiting for a permit😂
I grew up in SF in the 60s and 70s, this is just unbelievable.
Im in Chicago.. my family's in NY..
This is no accident people..
Better pay attention because the wheels of change are in motion and no ones asking us whether we want it or not
We are devolving into communist take over.
first democraps ruined SF, then they ruined NYC and many more to come.
That is for sure.
We are irrelevant, the future does not include us.
@@christophernichols1379 no argument here
I drove taxi cab in SF for 13 years to me this is hard to believe 😢😢5 years ago I moved to Phoenix.
This is unbelievable.
By 2025 even the stores that are open now will close. It will be very hard to turn this around.
If they keep voting Democrat it will only get worse. But they will still vote for the morons because they are morons.
Pretty much to same in many other large cities. Retail is gone. I live near a large city and their is no retail left in the downtown area. (one dollar store, which was robbed so many times, its closed now). Maybe a coffee shop somewhere. I remember when going downtown was an exciting time for shopping and eating. Three big department stores, movie theaters, clothing stores, you name it. This is long after the suburban malls had been around awhile. Now they are suffering also, even in the close in suburbs.
@@iworkout6912 Not really. NYC is still thriving. Is it as busy as it was before the pandemic, no. But walk on 8th avenue from Penn Station to Central Park and compare to San Francisco. Times Square is packed once again with tourists.
If you have studied retail economics, which I have, you will understand that there is no return now from the demise of this city !
Even if you offered the user free rent and free cam charges for 2 years, the pro forma is still impossible, why, it will take the user years to move from the red into the black !
Notwithstanding, where will the consumers come from ???
The anchor retailers have all left which the smaller retailers depend on for spill over to the small mom and pop stores as well.
The bigger problem is this, how are you going to convince the Bay Area populous to return to a city frought with crime and anger from a city government that turned on its own people...
San Francico has died at the hands of liberal democrat`s...
People have always stolen from stores but it used be kids or the occasional drug addict sticking something under their shirt.. but now we have industrial level shop lifting run by organized crime. Watching someone steal an entire shopping cart full of merchandise was unheard of 10 years ago but now it's a daily occurrence.
This is what happens when running a city devolves to virtue signaling.
Yup. Without taking into account how people *really* live and work here
This is what happens when you let the world economic forum and the drug companies hijack your government
Sad thing is these Democrats move out of San Fran and into Republican states. They vote the same way. They are like viruses looking for new hosts.
Vote Blue and this will happen to YOU and your City! Go Woke Go Broke... from as ex Democrat. Thanks Gavin and London Breed!
Well Stated !!!!
Something very nefarious is going on.
Just the Democrats having another go at doing what they did in 1860. Splitting the union down partisan lines.
Yes
What do u expect when china n gay people price everyone else out
End times believe or not the world waiting for something big read the Bible
@@Leik2487😊yes... they".. need to Google Roman's 10.9.10 ❤
This is more than a shame. This is scary AF. I'm convinced this is being done by design.
Oh it definitely is
you get what you vote for
No doubt. They're are certainly doing this on purpose.
Yes. It is.
Agreed
Those aren't "decorative" planters. Those are horse troughs. They cost about $130 each from farm supply stores.
Sidewalk deuce dumps...
They were brought in by Gavin Newsom for the communist dictator of China’s visit. That’s why they’re all still shiny.
More like $1300 when the city buys them, then 5k a pop to install them.
@@8EnigmaVirus8 You may be a bit low on those estimates.
That'll be handy because we'll be back to horse and buggy before Electric Vehicles are practical.
All those closures represent thousands of lost jobs.
exactly
A lot of loss in general. What a terrible shame. This was the best city in the nation clear up until the late 80s.
Equals more homeless due to NO job to pay rent, WOW, what a tragedy!
And taxes. Only way to make up lost revenue is to charge the ones who haven't yet left more!!
Not to worry, Xiden has rehired all those people as IRA auditors.
The Van Ness store closures were the direct result of the SFMTA Bus Rapid Transit project. They shut down the most of the street and removed all parking which murdered every business lining that corridor. It was one of the most ascinine decisions the city made.
Say it again brother and say it loud for those in the back.
Newsom for president! We can do this to the entire nation.
done on purpose, nobody that slow... this is planning for a near enough future.
When Moscone was elected the handwriting was on the wall, that’s when we sold and left California never to return.
@@MrbfgrayNewsom is a very dangerous person.
Thank you Leo for telling us the truth ❤❤❤
I was lucky to see San Francisco in the 70's, even watched a filming of Dirty Harry and The Streets of San Francisco, plus attended a Giants game at Candlestick and did the Alcatraz tour. Gawd what a great place it was! And the food in the seafood district was stunning. I have my doubts, but I'm hoping those days could return; it was magical and everyone should experience it...
it ain't gonna return. today is a taste of the future.
First, we have to ask ourselves, do we feel lucky?
@@jamesrecknor6752 Nice! Well do you, PUNK?!
One of the most beautiful cities in the nation, and they did this to it on purpose. Why? I have no idea, but I have no doubt that this is on purpose.
Yea it used to be a real beauty, no more. It’s devastating, so much money and work went into it.
Your government wants you 💀
When was it beautiful? I moved here almost 20 years ago, and it was really gross and dirty. My first encounter was a hobo carrying a bloody toddler mattress on bush and sutter . I lived a block away from Cala foods then probably 2006
They want to get rid of cars and develop their 15 minute cities and destroy the middle-class. The Green New Deal.
New World Order!
OMG you're in DEEP economic trouble when Honda has to close shop and leave. You think they'll return? Yeah.....good luck with that.
SF Honda moved to Van Ness & Bush St and also added Acura to their dealership a year or so ago.
Honda doesn't have an automotive future.
I worked and shopped in San Francisco. So many good memories. My Apt rent was $510 a month for a large 1 bedroom in a Victorian 4 Plex. Beautiful architecture of wood and molding. I had a subscription to G.Q. Magazine and dressed very nice. I was very lucky to know certain people and was told to buy homes in West Oakland back in the late 80's through Tax Lien sales. Sold all 3 before the real estate crash and moved to Texas over 20 years ago for business. I never would have believed the Bay Area would become what it is. S.F. was a very nice place.
Oakland is another sheethole. All from DemocRATS!
that was way back in the days now the rent in San Francisco is just way out of the roof😊
Van Mess was destroyed by those bus lanes. They are still moving forward with an identical project on Geary Blvd.
great video Leo! 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks for the info!
Outstanding and unfiltered ''boots on the ground' reporting.
I was in SF over the weekend. The streets and crowds were nowhere to be seen. And yes so many closed businesses and empty buildings EVERYWHERE!!! I hadn't been here for at least 10 years and it was sad to see. I didn't see as many homeless as I expected to however. Even in the financial district amongst the tall buildings which blocked out all the daylight, I could see where all the expensive fancy stores used to be and were now closed and empty. It really is shocking and not being reported on in the mainstream media. This is what it will take for SF to wake up- when the tax $$$ dries up and they can no longer afford their homelessness programs, pay to play games, and other social feel good programs that do nothing to improve the life of working tax paying CITIZENS.
Unlike others who think the channel has a bias you speak the truth. I live in Southern NJ and go into Philadelphia and NYC frequently. I see a few boarded up stores and businesses but nothing on the level of San Francisco which now looks like an abandoned city. Are there pockets of San Francisco that are still thriving, sure. But amount of retail and business vacancies in San Francisco is staggering. You will see a few holdouts that are still open. How long can they survive when the surrounding businesses are empty. Would you feel safe when no one is around.The business leaders and politicians use the phrase San Francisco is a boom or bust town. I think they are referring to the Gold Rush and the earthquake. Both have no relevance today. The city isn't coming back. I guess it could if you could buy Victorians for $300,000-$450,000 or rent a high rise apartment in a new building for $1500 a month. Real Estate would have to collapse that much to get entrepreneurs, artists and young people just starting out to take a chance and try to rebuild the city with small businesses. The housing and rental market is still too high to get the kind of people needed to get the city populated again.
Homeless depend on stores and general vitality too, more than the rest of us.
@@Mrbfgraythe homeless just steal from the stores
Governor Gavin Newson and Nancy Pelosi don't care about SF. As long as they live in a mansion and put all the tax dollars in their pockets, they don't care what happen to the city or anyone else. They will only make changes when crimes and drugs enter their high ends neigborhoods. They defunded the police department and gave the power to the criminals and drug dealers!
The cold December weather sends a lot of the street people looking for indoor shelter. Come back in March and they'll be back out there.
My family lived in San Francisco for 91 years this is so depressing.
Who'd your family vote for? lol.
The Party @@jonathantaylor6926
@@jonathantaylor6926not blue
You wouldn’t even believe what happened to my family home
@@DebbiesWorldI dont believe you, because there is not even one republican that you could vote for years.
San Francisco, you are getting you voted for.
Do you expect them to vote red?
They are way too sophisticated to do that.
@@Dan-440Too sophisticated and so much smarter 😂🤣😆
Glorious, revolutionary, humanist socialist people's paradise. lol
@@Dan-440their Fuhrer Joe Biden painted the curb red rolling out the red carpet for Xi Jinping to takeover San Francisco. All of those vacant buildings will be turned into 0.20 cent an hour sweat shops
@Dan-440 red areas don’t like like this 🤣. Does SF empty their dumpsters in the streets?
Wow...! Thanks for showing the world the TRUE scope of things. Van Ness is a major artery for SF street traffic. The amount of closures on a long, busy street like that is wild.
Well said!
I used to catch the bus on Van Ness every day. The bus would pull over to the bus stop on the curb. That worked fine for decades. What the hell are the bus lanes for?!
Not sure. Maybe they thought it would result in a better flow of traffic with the dedicated lane. Indeed Poor planning or a lack of studies and surveying beforehand. Would have been better to put in a underground subway but not sure of that would be geologically possible with the hills and threats/hazards of earthquakes.
SF is a major supporter of Agenda 2030 that the UN is trying to jam down our throats. The goal is to have cities with little to no private automobile ownership and people use mass transit to get around.
When is the SF mayor going to address all the closed businesses and the Muni lanes taking away all the customer traffic and parking? How can you have commerce in a city where your only means of transportation is the crime ridding Bart and Muni? For example, older or vulnerable people would never get on those busses or trains, not in a million years. I'm sure there are plenty of other people that feel the same way. Until they change leadership and their way of thinking, SF is doomed!
Not in your lifetime.
Most older people have left. Most children are not there anymore. Most blacks have moved out. A city in decline right before our eyes. DemcoRATS!
Good analysis of the situation. Public transportation. I saw a guy pull a knife on another older guy over some argument of a seat or something.. At the next stop both got off and the older guy ran with the young guy close behind him with the knife. The older guy ducked into a restaurant, not sure what happened after that as the bus moved on. The bus passengers acted like if was an everyday occurrence. Don't know if the bus driver called the police, but it was all over so quickly. Not getting into race of the guy with the knife, but you can guess.
Sad. A total and complete failure of leadership on the local and state level.
you got it wrong.
what you see is what they want.
My heart is broken!
The decline of Democrat run cities will continue until residents make smarter decisions in the voting booth.
@@suppylarue220 Cloward-Piven strategy.
Not a failure. This is intentional
Former SF resident. I was in SF for Thanksgiving. I stayed at Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center. Lots of places closed. Parking has always been a challenge, but it is even worse now. Went to Safeway over in the Mission. It was AWFUL. Everything under lock and key and your receipt opened the exits area. Mission Street had garbage and street vendors everywhere blocking the sidewalks. The tenderloin is enough to make you sick - the filth, degradation , tents and homeless everywhere. I will be back to the Bay Area, but not staying in SF. This time will get a hotel in Burlingame near the airport and still decent shopping areas. Will pass on the filth.
You did like the others of your kind...ran off and left. Gee, girl you showed 'em! Some of that "girl power". But seriously, why are "former" SFers so happy to brag about being from SF? I would be ashamed, hide that fact. Are you proud of the city you helped make...ah before leaving?
@sailingaeolus Stop. You have no idea what this person’s history is.
@sailingaeolus I drank the kool-aid myself, back when I was living in the belly of the beast, there...
I moved to SF in 1993. I thought it was glorious, and I was so excited to have moved there all by myself, driving 11 hours up the 101 freeway from San Bernadino. In two years I worked my way up from being a housecleaner, to a housekeeper, to a house manager for a very wealthy family, in 1995.
They built their dream home on Broadway at Divisadero and moved into it in 1999. At the time, Broadway was called "Millionaire's Row"; now it's "Billionaire's Row." The family had made their millions in the early days of tech -- around 1975 -- and were finally seeing the results of all that hard work
They were a wonderful, nice, normal family at the time. They had two boys, and eventually, I became their nanny, too. They respected others, they respected themselves, and they respected their money. It took a long time to build that wealth...
Big Tech had started to invade SF around 1994, and by 1999 there were 22 year olds driving BMWs and Mercedes' around town (In a previous post here I said CA is a car culture, and will always be, lol. Even in SF)
At that time, I was a registered Democrat. The family I worked for was, as well. Nancy Pelosi lived just down the street on Broadway. Larry Ellison also lived there, as well as the Gettys, and their "nephew" Gavin Newsom visited often. I lived and worked right smack in the middle of what was the richest neighborhood in the country at that time. That area was absolutely *oozing* wealth, money, and power by the year 2000...
The stuff of dreams, right? Work hard, and you too can achieve that level of comfort and prestige. What could go wrong...
In 2004 the family I worked for held the first-ever fundraiser in NorCal for some guy no one had ever heard of west of the Mississippi: Barack Obama. I was a little puzzled because he was from Illinois. Why were we holding a fundraiser here in CA for an Illinois Senator who was now going to run for the U.S. Senate?
Well, that was before I understood what a slush fund was...
The entire City was mesmerized by that guy. Obama was young, handsome, and charismatic. I was mesmerized, too. I bought into all of that crap; all of the City's Dem politicians were engaging, smooth-talking, and when you spoke to them they looked you right in the eye while they were lying through their teeth so graciously...
My family got caught up in that web. They, too, drank the kool-aid. Many newly minted millionaires did. The Mrs. would go on and on about Rachel Maddow, she listened to Keith Olberman, and they donated such a huge amount to Obama's eventual presidential run that they were invited to the inauguration. I made a copy of the 8x10 gold-printed invite and framed it
In 2008 I remember driving in the car with her and she was gushing about the big luncheon she attended the day before about the exciting collaboration between the City of SF and China. Feinstein was at that lunch...
Between 2004 and 2009, while I was steeped in the glamour of the super-rich, there was always a niggling feeling that something just wasn't right. They were razing buildings in the City left and right; rents kept climbing higher and higher. The artists and musicians and regular working folks were being pushed out. The rich *were* getting richer while everyone else was falling farther and farther behind.
The family I worked for had changed dramatically once they had moved to Broadway. Things were not the same. But I could never, ever put my finger on just what it was. I began to feel that the City was being taken over by the very people "elected" (installed is more like it) to represent it, and the super rich were subsidizing it lock, stock, and barrel, thinking they'd all be immune to the changes, when in fact most of them would eventually be tossed aside if they didn't continue to play the game as written by those who wanted a total takeover of the City. If you didn't cooperate they would ruin you, your business, and your family
Living in San Francisco was starting to feel very sour and abnormal to me, and in 2010 I quit my job as house manager and moved north to Marin
I'm sorry this is a long-ass reply, but I don't care. I was part of the problem there, and then I woke up.
It happens...
Most people are good and kind and think the best of everyone. It's not so much they're wearing rose-colored glasses. Most people are incapable of being so corrupt, so greedy, so dark, that it's hard to believe others can be so evil and conniving. That they have a massive agenda that is SO anti-human, so lacking in compassion, that they've had a plan in place to figuratively burn an entire city to the ground for decades...
That's what's happening in San Francisco today. God help it...
@@hamsterdiving7593 Fascinating reply, thanks for the candor and for sharing. I've always been able to "see" the future. Back in the 1990s at SDSU I was warning all "the agenda" would not work out well. Of course that prognosis was not well received. I suppose for me personally there's a sort of "how did you not see this coming" component to it. I lived in Sacramento as a kid in the 1980s. Yes, at one point SF was a very beautiful place. What happened there cannot be easily forgiven.
Excellent comment, and fully worthwhile to read. @@hamsterdiving7593
When the liquor stores are closing down you know youre in trouble.
LOL
This is absolutely surreal. Van Ness was _the_ place to buy a car for 50 years. It was 100% open for business, one of my favorite high-end audio stores was here. I'm 66, a second generation CA native. I really gotta wonder what's going to happen to this state. I live in Carmel CA now, they've fought hard to keep it the same and it shows. So sad. I know this is what they've intended, but have to wonder what their end game is? Thank you Leo, and Merry Christmas!
Haha...failed liberal state is now resorting to conspiracy theory. Get a load of this! The man writes, "I know this is what THEY've intended...end game is?" Who the F is "they"...? You're on the wrong side of the isle with this secret "they", friend. You sound like a kook.
The end game is Communism.
I've asked the same here on the East Coast. After these lowlifes finish robbing all these stores and they close down, then what? We aren't too far behind Cali.
@@roshelltannen9698 All major US cities are not too far behind Cali and Newsom is looking like an eventual candidate for president.
Communism is the end game. One global economy with a few mega moguls running it. The rest of us will "own nothing and like it".
I’m always here for the Leo line, “yeah good luck with that, haha”
Thanks for documenting this. Some think I'm exaggerating when I tell them how bad it's gotten. You can't make this up.
OH, wow. I lived in San Francisco back in the late 1980s. and I bought a little Honda Civic from that dealership. Sad hear it's no longer there.
Did you vote for democrats? If yes, you destroyed SF
This is just despicable, what Mayor or Governor would want business to leave their town, It doesn't make any sense, there is something very nefarious going on.
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho, Kim, Castro and Joe join the chat.
This is ridiculous!! I can’t stand to see the city like this.
Keep voting for democRATS and this is what you get. Destruction and despair.
The decline of Democrat run cities will continue until residents make smarter decisions in the voting booth.
I can't either.
The city still looks beautiful - from across the bay in Belvedere and Tiburon.
This extraordinary channel shows the truth. I have spent many happy times in San Francesco. Its hard to watch a once beautiful city die.
I'm loving it (tm).
The $64 Billion California Budget Deficit is starting to show!💯
They killed the city 😢
They don't care they know big daddy Federal Government will bail them out.
You should talk to people on the streets in these areas and just ask them they about all these places closing down. That would be pretty interesting to hear locals opinions!
*EDIT: Sorry Leo. I wanted to add Merry Christmas and all my best to you and your family in these crazy times. Thank you for giving an unbiased straight to the point look at what's going on. Stay safe!
It`s almost like SF is run by junkies. Just kidding, it`s the people who call themselves "liberals"...
I know a girl from SF that says, "Oh, it's really not THAT bad". The locals are brainwashed zombie Joe voters. How do you think the place got that bad? A well armed, informed, aware community? The fact that you asked that questions and got 24 thumbs up is shocking...like the local have a dang clue. Do you believe speaking to them will help, or you'll get a well informed answer?
Rentals are all stuffed to the brim all around these shut down vandalized tagged closed businesses it’s like NO ONE had a voice!!!
Leo, perhaps you should think of having a partner on these walks, so that you can concentrate on the video and narrations;
and your partner could be continuously scanning the area for any possible dangers or problems while you are filming.
@@mikeifyouplease
I think Leo is packing.
Living in a blue sanctuary city looks absolutely terrifying.
You should see Chicago, New York and Philadelphia not any better and guess what there all Democrat City's. I live in Indiana and our Democrat City's are in the same shape....... i wonder why??? O yeah crime and no punishment go figure. Its time to vote red and see what happens.
This is sad a once great city is now in ruin and its never going to recover its all going to get worse until its been demolished.
I wanna thank all black peoples for making this possible.
We have the same thing in Chicago, except we aren’t worried about about our’world being on fire!’
@oneaboveallferdarifan2725 there’s a low black population in this city..
It's like what Willard said in Apocalypse Now, "Never get off the goddamn boat."
SF is going farther and farther up the river.
Great movie with an insane general, depressing ending like gruesome and California 😢
Thx for the video, sad and heartbreaking!! Those “planter” things are ugly! My grandparents used them on their farm for watering livestock. So original!!
Those planters are definitely an eyesore and give the city a bad look
I remember when they started tearing up Van Ness to put in that bus lane.
My dentist has been on Van Ness at Vallejo forever; I've been going there since 1999. Parking could be tricky in that area, but you just had to time it right. In 20 years, I was only a couple minutes late to my appointment just ONCE. I always found a spot to park. One time, in fact, I found a spot on Van Ness right in front of the office -- no green zone, no meter... 🤩
Then they painted the entire length of that curb red and started that stupid bus project
The last time I was there was a year ago, and there were trash bins that some angry crazy person kicked over that spilled all over the sidewalk in front of the dental office. Pedestrians just ignored it; no one cleaned it up. Sad...
The people who "run" San Francisco seem to think they can turn this city into a version of NYC, where it's part of the tradition, history, and culture there to walk everywhere and take public transport. Not so, here. This is still California -- car culture capital of the world. For the most part, they view walking as something tourists do, not ambition-driven, over-scheduled San Franciscans...
Thanks for another great vid, Leo!
The goal of the MTA is to eliminate all parking in SF.
@saintpreferred9223 Just you writing that sentence, you can hear how absurd that sounds! As if they can really accomplish that...
@@hamsterdiving7593 he is saying they would like to, if they could get there way. The MTA is working in that direction.
@@m1activealesis551 I know -- I wasn't being critical of them, I was pointing out that when you actually see it *written* , it just sounds so unrealistic. Like writing, "The goal of PGE is to eliminate all electrical usage after 6 pm"
@@saintpreferred9223 the goal of Sacramento is to eliminate most cars.
Aussie here...I stayed there in a cheap hotel back in '89.
It was thriving.
Unemployment must be up too. Those businesses are vital to service sector jobs on a massive scale. Tragic
I came back to San Francisco in '76 and I remember the flying boats and Alcatraz with prisoners, but what it has become is a travesty and breaks my heart to see her like this now. I moved north a day away twelve years ago before this tragic level of decay began and don't believe I could stand to go back 'live' after seeing this and several other videos you've made hombre. Good work and the challenge I see is WHAT to do to FIX IT!!
I was born and raised in SF. left years ago...On Van Ness It was years of construction, no parking no driving no anything while the businesses withered and died and now they are dead...I do not go to the City anymore... too depressing...
Just sad!!! I'm getting my Family the hell out of here. My heart 💙 can't take it. 💔 Born and Raised.
Should have voted better.
That Burger King drive-thru looked like a place to get murdered. 4:55
Forcing people to use buses in the car dealer district. Brilliant
The Democrat's Talking Point On O'Bidenomics:
Crime Is Down And Jobs Are Up.
PRICELESS!!!😂😂😂
Crime is down ! Inflation is down! Unemployment is down! Stock market at record highs! Lock Trump up!
"We have a secure border. " - Kamala Harris, Democrat 🤥
@@Letsgowarriors2023 🤣🤣🤣
@@margaretthatcher6828 look at the economic numbers! Trump loves the poorly educated!
@@ultramagnus1275
You do know that the massive amount of illegals in the US came on a visa and just never returned?
A famous cosmopolitan city with a near endless sea of boarded up buildings interspersed with people either sitting with head hanging low or lying down sleeping with a shopping cart as the main cargo transportation at the side. That's truly somthing.
Things are deteriorating so rapidly in blue states and cities that any knowledge that you had five, ten years ago no longer applies.
There are places I would have liked to visit one day but thanks to current posts like yours and others, I have to say not right now, not anytime soon, and possibly never ever.
Sad.
But the information you provide is invaluable.
Thank you.
Yea I have the same thoughts. So bad out anymore I try to just stay home!
It’s not a red/blue thing. It’s an American thing.
Not in my Red City. Its beautiful and booming and people are peaceful and loving and God fearing
I'm noticing nearly all major US cities are slowly but steadily becoming "no go" zones, open air drug markets and unchecked crime.
I live in Seal Beach, California, our police do an excellent job of keeping the blacks and homeless out, so no issues.
It's just fascinating to me , and possibly a lesson on insanity , that the people that vote in favor of all of the policies that result in this will NEVER admit that they are wrong. They can't be happy with all of this , but many say that they are. It absolutely makes no sense. Clinging to your ideology is one thing , knowingly taking everyone around you down with it is another. It's absolutely criminal.
For many people, political beliefs are equivalent to religious beliefs.
Sell it all to China and pocket their sales commission. Win Win for the local democrats. @@TOCC50
They will redress everything, currently they think the city is too crowded and needs less people so it’s a good thing
I live 30 minutes away and haven’t been there in 10 years. Now you couldn’t pay me to go to SF. This video really surprised me how much it’s sunk.
That CVS @ 8:07 used to be a movie theatre the Galaxy, across the street north at the corner we’re two movie theatres Regency 1 and 2. I worked at all three in the 80’s.
That theater was huge. I saw "The Joy Luck Club", "The Truman Show", and quite a few others there.
There's no doubt the end has arrived when even graffiti 'vandals' artists have moved on.
The mayor of San Francisco doesn't care. Everyone around the world can plainly see that for themselves. 😢😢😢😢
I bet “Gavin Newsom” is very proud of what he has done to this city and the whole state. FGN
Gavin hasn’t been the mayor of SF for 15 years now.
Gavin Newsom is an excellent governor, was an excellent mayor and your Republican attitudes are not helpful when disaster is afoot!!!
Walking these streets of SF must be like walking on the set of an apocalyptic movie in the making. Whenever you mention the Zombie Tours it makes that movie seem even more real. Please continue to be safe out there, Leo. ❤ Merry Christmas. 🎄
Plywood and giraffe is the main source of employment I guess. Lots of plywood, and some paint to paint over some of the worst giraffe. Progressives consider it 'art' i say BS.
The apocalyptic quality you mentioned is perhaps more real than you knew- I lived in SF for 12 years, up until mid autumn this year. My weekday morning commute routine involved leaving my front door on foot at about 4:40 am and making my way from south of Market Street to the Bay Area Rapid Transit station at Civic Center. What I encountered every day indeed resembled outtakes from Escape From New York, Mad Max or some zombie horror film. Especially when some deranged street denizens took after me, an occurrence that was anything but rare. I lived like an airport smuggler, valuables secreted in hidden pockets under layers of clothes and in bags with false bottom compartments. No word of a lie. Some sources call these kind of measures "urban survival". They aren't kidding.
@@Al_NERi O M G!!! 😱
You painted such a good picture with you words. I was seeing everything you described and it is chilling to think that you were NOT talking about a movie. Happy to hear that you were able to escape the madness.
Oh my gosh 😮❗️. I haven’t driven through there in about 10 years and I’m just SHOCKED at what I’m seeing. This is so disgusting 🤮. Thank you for sharing this. Blessings,Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸
Taxed and Minimum Waged out of Biz. They voted for the Folks doing the BS that's wreaking Traffic, so I don't see the problem. You get what you Voted for.
I kind of disagree with that because I’m not a native Californian but at the same time I don’t think anybody within a Republican or a Democratic Party has any idea what to do with California because California set no standard. I think California needs a politician that hasn’t grown up in California but it’s still an American because for some reason I don’t think Californians have great experience in anything that’s not to be offensive…. that’s just something that I notice as a Washingtonian who’s been here for almost 20 years and if you’re Republican, why do they keep voting for celebrities ? can I ask …..because Schwarzenegger who didn’t do anything , racist ass Ronald Reagan who basically turned DC into San Francisco I really hated him for that…. It just seems like California politicians just really know how to mess up things.
Taxed, yes, but minimum wage, are you kidding? One of the new laws passed in CA for 2024 is they're raising the minimum wage to $20.00 an hour
*$20 dollars.* For *fast food workers* !! It's just getting nuts. And that $20 STILL won't get you an affordable place to live there...
San Francisco is a snake eating its own tail...
@Katsnacks You are correct. Both sides of the aisle have been in bed together for many years, doing deals and lining their own pockets out of greed and power
The division between dems and repubs among the general public was orchestrated *by* the politicians themselves. THEY started all the fires to get people riled up and fighting each other, while BTS the politicians quietly stole and laundered all of OUR taxes for themselves, laughing at us all the way to the bank...
@@Kosmokatgirl
You forgot Tricky Dick Nixon.
Would love to hear local people’s views who live there in your videos
As always, thanks Leo for keeping it real with your videos. They keep me linked to the city (I left SF in 2020 for West Hollywood). So sad to see what’s happened, what has been allowed to happen to a once beautiful city. Anyway, Merry Christmas to you! 🎁🎁🎁🎁
thank you and happy holidays
Whoa, friend...! "allowed to happen"? Were not you part of that? Voted for that? Friend, I'm curious why you feel you have no responsibility? Toss your "I ran off so I'm not guilty" in the comment section to heal your conscience? Write us, friend. Tell us how you are not part of all this...before you ran off.
@@LeoMetalTravelerI don't see thousands of electric scooters and electric bicycles waiting for users. Please talk about BART & MUNI ridership? Fisherman's wharf? Leo, where do you eat when you are out and about? *(I don't think San Diego is being affected, except Target did drop their lease. They are however building lots of condo towers.)
@@sailingaeolus Yes, “allowed to happen.” There is no jail time for the violence that occurs. Renters, home owners and small businesses get scared and tired of the lawlessness. If you must know, I left after I witnessed a murder outside my window. I know that was enough for me. Think what you will.
@@sailingaeolus And no, I was not part of that. I did not vote for that useless mayor. I never said I was not guilty, not that I am. I worked two jobs in SF, paid my rent and taxes, shopped locally, never looted or damaged property and did not protest. I ran off to protect my life.
Holy shit that BK drive thru looks like an alleyway to hell
Thank you for the VLOGS, San Fran is deteriorating because once businesses starts to move out, everyone else will do the same: collective behavior. It is like a cancer or wild fire and very difficult to reverse. Commerical and residential properties values are down and with many empty stores (not rented) and tax bill responsibilities, the City is going broke with less tax collections from property owner bankruptcies.
mission accomplished
SF was a favorite vacation spot for us. Great food, great shopping, great sightseeing. This is heartbreaking.
We visited SFO from Australia some years ago when it was still a really beautiful city and there were lots of shops and restaurants and places to go visit. Seems all that has now changed and not for the better. Hope things do get back to the way they were at some stage.
That stage will be when voters vote Republican again.
@@Anon1mous No interest in your politics. Just hope someone gets the place back to what it was.
I remember travelling along Van Ness avenue on a bus in 1998. I have lovely memories of the city.
I’ve been lucky enough to visit san Francisco 9 times. Last time was 11 years ago and omg the changes are astronomical. What a shame. It was so beautiful and alive.
Democrats sure know how to run a city (into the ground).
I think both parties are good at it, just shows what kind of incompetent people are getting into office these days. These guys set the bar so, so low.
@@JB-yb4wn There is no city in America trashed like San Francisco run by republicans. This is 100% all democRATS work! All across America.
@@JB-yb4wn What city do Republicans even run? There are cities within red states with R governors but pretty much every American city is run by democrats.
@@JB-yb4wn voters have no choice between incompetent tweedledee and inexperienced tweedledum
@@pedanticmrpender
Hard to do since Republicans make a vast minority of city governments. But Jerry Dyer seems to be doing an excellent job at running Fresno into the ground.
O'Bidenomics In Action - Pay More, Save Less!!!😂😂😂
FJB!
You would rather have a 91 count indicted crook in charge? Then you deserve your third world country.
FJB and slippery Newsom....
This was going on and started before Biden was president.
The closed Honda Dealership on Van Ness & Market used to be the legendary Rock & Roll venue, the
Fillmore West. There is a documentary (video on UA-cam) titled, "The Last Days Of The Fillmore West,"
in which you can see the late, great Rock Promoter, Bill Graham, walking outside to greet a long line of
concert-goers. The Bank of America building (still there) can be seen in the background. My favorte
artist to perform AND record a live album at the Fillmore West was Aretha Frankin, 1971. And now...?
A CLOSED Honda dealer. I live two blocks from Van Ness Avenue and Market Street. I watched, day
by day, the "destruction" construction for SIX YEARS of the Van Ness "transformation" and in my gut
I was just SO CERTAIN it was going to fail. It did. Even before COVID, people had quit riding the Van
Ness buslines. SOME businesses were leaving due to the cost of doing business, but this so-called
"up-grade" demolished Van Ness. It looks dreadful now.
Thank you very much for sharing. I’m going to look up the Fillmore West. six years is a long time for businesses to survive, and that’s without counting the prior year, where they closed all the left lanes before construction started for almost a whole year
@@LeoMetalTraveler: I like your videos. Keep on doing what you're doing.
Thank you, will do!
Very sad state of affairs. I lived in Sacramento in the early eighties. I have family in the Bay Area. The Bay Area was so beautiful. I don't think I could go back for a visit 😢
I'm glad you're shedding light on the stupidity of the bus lane and bike lane issue and how this useless PR tactic has destroyed small and corporate businesses. Why punish these businesses? Messed up priorities.
It's FAR more than that Stephanie... far more.
It is a convoluted way to apparently improve traffic flow. Sadly, it did not work in this case. Many cities are implementing bike lane and dedicated bus lanes. In European cities it has been somewhat successful, but just does not seem to work well here. USA relies on auto traffic especially for deliveries. This may have been the result of poor planning, lack of impact studies and surveying.
Thanks Leo, very informative!
I lived in SF from 1994 to 2006. It used to be an amazing place. I'm glad I got out when I did.
Really sucks knowing this was all done on purpose
It used to be called
" blockbusting".
NWO is coming a world leadership is coming but first the rapture then the great tribulation
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. We celebrate this special day for a week, with gratitude, love, and calm. Thank you for bringing this to us Metal Leo,
you're certainly getting your exercise.
This is one of the most beautiful places. (Geographically) I have ever been to. Such a shame to see it decline. Geography is still stunning though.
Metal Leo, Man of Mystery!!! There is just something about you, Leo. I'm not sure what it is, but I really like it and you.
Gracias Metal Leo por todos los videos. La ciudad está oficialmente jodida. Qué triste.
Showed this to my wife, who is involved in local government (not a politician). After awhile, she said there's no recovering from this. I agree; not in the short or medium term, at least. This will most likely endure for a generation, or perhaps two. The situation is absolutely unreal.
HORRIBLE !!!😡The Beautiful San Francisco is going down in flame😥 I used to work there on Van Ness and I'm glad I'm not there to see in every day the destruction. At least at the end of your video you make me smile with that bus who supposed to have the correct advertising saying:"Have you see the Unusual ? and you saying :"Checking the Zombies!", "Don't get off the Bus!" 🤣🤣🤣 Merry Christmas to You !!! 🎅🎄⛄
Yes, that tour bus at the end of the video was exploring the unusual like what says on the side of the bus , that’s why it’s always worth it to watch until the end of the video for the best part, the cherry on top🍒 @dyarom4575 happy birthdays! 🎄
After watching👀 your video per UA-cam recommendation I watched 👀 "✨🎄The World's Most Spectacular Holiday Lights Display 2023 | London Christmas Lights Tour [4K HDR]" and is like going from Hell 👿to Heaven😇. @@LeoMetalTraveler
Walk us down Union Street next.
I am thinking about all of these jobs just gone. Seems like we are being forced to work online and live an online existence. Since 2020 I work online only and it's really tiresome being in front of a screen all the time. I have to be mindful of it and go outside for a break. Anyways, I appreciate your videos. ... the end has me cracking up - zombie land tours lol
They don't want us around anymore , Just days ago a study came out saying Human Breathing hurts the Climate !
Lived there for 25 years. Seeing this kind of supervised destruction of the city is shocking. I'm so glad I left in 1999
San Francisco...What a tragedy. I only have fond memories of the "old SF." A horrible reality check. Don't know if I will ever be back. Stay safe and happy holidays.
Thank you! Happy holidays
@LeoMetalTraveler Stay safe, brother 🙏
Metal Leo your videos are very interesting. You are showing how a city is being steadily turned into a “wasteland” if you will to put it bluntly. People need to wake up and realize what is being shown here, is what’s coming to every state in the nation if we don’t get a handle on it. Metal Leo you made some good points as well being stuck in debt over a worthless college degree. You really gained my respect and keep showing these videos. We won’t see this on worthless msm.
This all has to be by design. The loss of revenue is staggering.
Gracias Obiden 🤜🤛🫶😼
That hideous hostile architecture gave me chills because what we are witnessing is a purposeful, systematic, economic destruction.
The people leading this city is clearly not thinking
Or it's intentional dismantling.
Unbelievably sad and tragic. Having lived in San Francisco Marina district from 1994 to 2017 and driving down Van Ness weekly TheStreet is almost unrecognizable. Thankfully I have beautiful memories of the city. ❤️❤️
I lived in San Francisco for 13 years in the 90s I drove and took public transportation and did a lot of walking I had friends who lived on Van Ness one of whom lived on what you thought of might have been a hotel b u t what could have been one of the older apartment buildings She was a well-known interior designer who worked at Gump's department store when they had an interior design service and she had a gorgeous apartment beautifully appointed .She has since passed away but I can't imagine what she would be thinking if she actually saw her old neighborhood deteriorated in this way I still have friends who live in San Francisco one on Nob Hill who lives in one of those landmark buildings It seems that neighborhood is still intact but everything around it seems to be crumbling.😢
you'll own NOTHING .
do NOT ASK ANY QUESTIONS !!
you'll BE !!!! happy .
Or ELSE!
It's amazing how some state and local governments can force an agenda down the throats of the public whom they're supposed to serve, and somehow expect no adverse consequences or public reaction.
I’m an LA native, but have always loved SF as the better city, and this is heart shattering. San Francisco was such a unique, beautiful, vibrant, artistic city. Someone mentioned that they know this has been done on purpose although they don’t know why. My guess is that they are either trying to clear it out in order to make room for others who might possibly inhabit the city, or they’re leveling the places and things that were on a “higher” more affluent level or frequency so that all classes may reap the benefits of being surrounded by encampments, graffiti, biohazard, trash, vagrants, etc.The goal is to have every place packed with as much misery as possible, so that eventually we only have two castes-the parasites, and the downtrodden people. Same thing is happening in LA, but it’s more spread out and not as much of a shock as what’s occurring in SF. I wish all good people there peace💗
my bet is on a smart city/15 minute city /PRISON that folks dont release it is a prison.i lived 20 years in the loin/tenderloin and would safely alone Walk day or night anyplace in the loin.i got out 2016 and small town colorado is better
@@tracyjames291715 minute cities sounds interesting, never heard of it. Tell me more about it being bad like a prison? What problems you think they're gonna push on us?
@@erictaylor3897it's on the wef website. The most famous is the one planned for the Netherlands and Germany.
Supposedly everything you need would be within a 15 min walk. And you get fined if you leave your area.
U and ur family voted for this …enjoy it
@@yihuda7459 Didn't vote for it, but thanks for trying.
Your videos surpasses "The Dead Malls" series ! Good job, bro.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you Leo and to All. ❤️🎄❤️
Happy holidays!
Thank you for your work!!!! Merry Christmas, it is much more impactful for people voting to see someone who knows the area to do a video like this. It hurts to see what should be some of the best of America's economies destroyed.😢
its a shock that the Honda dealership is closed. Thats like half of two blocks.
Half of two blocks is one block. 🤔
@@JB-yb4wn its on the corner. entrances on both sides.
@@mcleanblades9234
Now it has zero entrances on any side. Short of a nuclear bomb, you know how hard it is to close a Honda dealership?
I remember hearing like 10 years ago that someone was going to buy that lot for like 20 million…. I bet they wish they sold now or maybe they did and theyre still waiting for a permit😂
This used to be this. This used to be that. Closed