Its currently mid April 2023 and more than ever before, those of us older than 40 find ourselves wishing that a time machine was a real option as we helplessly watch the once beautiful world around us decay and decend into what is sure to become a dystopian hellscape. The robber barons were never defeated, they just hid their identities behind innumerable smaller shell corporations, held and controlled by their massive global umbrella corporations such as Blackrock and Vanguard.
The beauty of the original city has faded & the people are now too poor to live a life of happiness & diversity. The infighting among ethnic groups & greedy land owners has forced me to seek a life outside of the Los Angeles city limits. In my heart, it will always be my home. In reality, if the only home I can afford is a tent in the street, then Los Angeles can not be where I live out my life as I age & approach my final days on earth. Sadly Los Angeles is no longer my home. This video allowed me to see a happier time that is now long gone in 2018.
San Francisco is the same way The hypocrisy of the rich leftist elites is horrible They live in their big mansions behind gates and drive their expensive cars and fly in their private jets and yet tell us how to live our lives
@@indianlandconstruction3528 I worked very hard for a long time. I had money, homes, cars & lived the good life. My business partner and husband of 22 years decided to screw me out of my share. What I needed was a better Attorney and the guts to fight an illegal lockout/swindle. I was naive. After 5 years in court, I was broke, tired and scared for my child. I left town, lost the rest of my belongings to theft, had an on the job injury, and the rest is history. But I got to live through it. Hard times are headed to all of us. This time, I will have the experience to deal with it...again! Work SMARTER- NOT HARDER!
@@indianlandconstruction3528 Yes, I should have listened to my Mother when she told me he was no damn good. She saw something I did not have the life experience to recognize. She was right. I'm certain that you have made some poor decisions in your life too.
I would love to read your essay! I love the theme about us all being family. That type of thinking is what the world needs more of right now. Can you please send me a copy of your essay? Text/Facebook messenger, email, etc.? Or just post here as a reply to my comment? Thank you? And thank you for caring.
I’d love to read it. Tom Bradley was an inspiration to me too. I was lucky enough to go to the same law school he did many years later and hope to have honored his memory in my work👍⭐️
Bunker Hill became home to many medical, osteopathic, chiropractic & naturopathic college students who would take Angel's Flight down to Hill Street where more than a dozen such colleges flourished between 3rd & 4th Street in the years 1910 to 1950.
The one constant of Los Angeles is that it never stays the same. It is now probably the most culturally diverse city in the world. There is gentrification going on in parts of the city I thought would never see redevelopment. There is no grand plan for the city. The change is organic. It's not so much as what Los Angeles will become, but what is Los Angeles becoming.
So great of PBS to condense over 200 years of history into a 21 minute video with REALLY crappy music. I mean, even for the 90s, that was SHITTY ass music. But also- I feel like they glossed over some stuff. Or everything.
I loved the music myself, but yes, people watching this documentary should realize that it has a very superficial and ideologically constricted narrative.
All the freeways ruin LA for me. Compact cities are way better. Just being able to walk or take a short bus ride to most places you want to be in cities like New York and London is just so much better.
I just keep envisioning a Los Angeles of the '50's and early '60's...a Beach Boys type of environment where the guys all were sandy-haired beachcombers who surfed and raced hot rods, and all the girls were Gidget-types. That's the period of LA history that I would have liked to have lived during, especially with that great music scene there of the '60's. Now it seems overrun with competing African American and Puerto Rican drug gangs that have totally polluted a once liveable environment. And the housing and rental prices have become obscene and out-of-reach there, although the rash of recent and frequently occurring tragic wildfires may change that. The real remaining attractions that are now there remain the sunny weather and the incredible variety of cuisine to sample. I think that the Los Angeles that I have an idealistic picture of probably died off after the Manson murders in 1969.
Did you even watch the video? There was a very large black population in Los Angeles, very early on. So I doubt it was all sandy hair and hot rods. Also there are not many Puerto Ricans here in Los Angeles. We have Mexicans and Salvadoreans, mostly. You're thinking of Florida. You know, near Puerto Rico.
Mike Gee Wow your really bitter about something. I grew up in LA in the 50’s and 60’s. Yep, had a surfboard, hung out at the beaches. Crazed Whittier Blvd and listened to Wolfman Jack and Dr Demento. Schools were integrated and the biggest racial problem might end up in a fist fight at worst. Most people chose to stick with their own peer group but many mixed freely with no issues, unlike today with the politicians promoting fear of the , others.
Why didn't they include MANLY P HALL . Or PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA. The Amy Semple McPherson was a huge spiritual pioneer. She gained 5000 new followers by picking up a chair and saying follow me when a huge crowd had gathered she got on the chair and they were all saved healed and delivered.
I love Los Angeles. However, it ranks with Chicago and Boston as the most historically racist and violent, non-Southern U.S. cities. I think life would've been better for a black family in Northern Minnesota than Los Angeles.
Mike Gee Yeha and at one time Watts was all Caucasian, what’s your point? I certainly hope you don’t live in LA. You seem to have a large stick up your butt about my home town. It’s people like you that mess LA up. We love our diversity, our high taxes, awesome sheriffs dept and even our lousy freeways. Earthquakes don’t bother us, fires are a part of living outside the inner city and in short we natives take it all with a grain of salt, cause when you fly into LAX,” another LA another inconvenience,” you see those lights spread across the horizon and something in your gut relaxes. Your home. If you don’t like Cali, leave.
Thank you so much for posting this! I remember it well and can't go back--until someone invents a time machine!
Its currently mid April 2023 and more than ever before, those of us older than 40 find ourselves wishing that a time machine was a real option as we helplessly watch the once beautiful world around us decay and decend into what is sure to become a dystopian hellscape. The robber barons were never defeated, they just hid their identities behind innumerable smaller shell corporations, held and controlled by their massive global umbrella corporations such as Blackrock and Vanguard.
I loved the very brief history.
I enjoyed these two videos very much.
The beauty of the original city has faded & the people are now too poor to live a life of happiness & diversity. The infighting among ethnic groups & greedy land owners has forced me to seek a life outside of the Los Angeles city limits. In my heart, it will always be my home. In reality, if the only home I can afford is a tent in the street, then Los Angeles can not be where I live out my life as I age & approach my final days on earth. Sadly Los Angeles is no longer my home. This video allowed me to see a happier time that is now long gone in 2018.
San Francisco is the same way
The hypocrisy of the rich leftist elites is horrible
They live in their big mansions behind gates and drive their expensive cars and fly in their private jets and yet tell us how to live our lives
You should've work harder
@@indianlandconstruction3528 I worked very hard for a long time. I had money, homes, cars & lived the good life. My business partner and husband of 22 years decided to screw me out of my share. What I needed was a better Attorney and the guts to fight an illegal lockout/swindle. I was naive. After 5 years in court, I was broke, tired and scared for my child. I left town, lost the rest of my belongings to theft, had an on the job injury, and the rest is history. But I got to live through it. Hard times are headed to all of us. This time, I will have the experience to deal with it...again! Work SMARTER- NOT HARDER!
@@sherrydee7880 perhaps you should've worked hard in your life decisions
@@indianlandconstruction3528 Yes, I should have listened to my Mother when she told me he was no damn good. She saw something I did not have the life experience to recognize. She was right. I'm certain that you have made some poor decisions in your life too.
very informative...thanks
This is wonderful, thank you ✨💖🙏
Thanks for the upload.
Thanks for the lesson 🤗🤗🤗
I recall Mayor Bradley. He gave me an award for an essay I wrote called, "My Credo." In short, all humans are one family.
COOL!
I would love to read your essay! I love the theme about us all being family. That type of thinking is what the world needs more of right now. Can you please send me a copy of your essay? Text/Facebook messenger, email, etc.? Or just post here as a reply to my comment? Thank you? And thank you for caring.
I’d love to read it. Tom Bradley was an inspiration to me too. I was lucky enough to go to the same law school he did many years later and hope to have honored his memory in my work👍⭐️
Even family members fight for lottery money so?
Bunker Hill became home to many medical, osteopathic, chiropractic & naturopathic college students who would take Angel's Flight down to Hill Street where more than a dozen such colleges flourished between 3rd & 4th Street in the years 1910 to 1950.
Interesting. Didn't know that.
Should have mentioned the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics.
I loved it!
Los Angeles is beautiful
As of 2018, Italian Hall is now a museum. 🥰
FYI there are tunnels underneath the placita throughout olvera st. And the Pio Pico cellars.
I never thought I would look on 1990 as the high water mark of LA society. Notice no tents or trash.
This should be taught to the kids now 😱😱
How beautiful it was then what happened now is disgusting
Where is the first part?
Wow downtown looks very different without the us bank tower
The one constant of Los Angeles is that it never stays the same. It is now probably the most culturally diverse city in the world. There is gentrification going on in parts of the city I thought would never see redevelopment. There is no grand plan for the city. The change is organic. It's not so much as what Los Angeles will become, but what is Los Angeles becoming.
Wow! The music! Lol
So great of PBS to condense over 200 years of history into a 21 minute video with REALLY crappy music. I mean, even for the 90s, that was SHITTY ass music. But also- I feel like they glossed over some stuff. Or everything.
chester rockwell FACTS 💯
Doug Kiphut Man don't be talking shit about my nigga PBS now!!!
@@jonmacdonald5345 🤣
I loved the music myself, but yes, people watching this documentary should realize that it has a very superficial and ideologically constricted narrative.
Yeah gosh they couldn't choose better music from one of those copyright free music websites back then? god damn.
All the freeways ruin LA for me. Compact cities are way better. Just being able to walk or take a short bus ride to most places you want to be in cities like New York and London is just so much better.
is this the voice of america?
I just keep envisioning a Los Angeles of the '50's and early '60's...a Beach Boys type of environment where the guys all were sandy-haired beachcombers who surfed and raced hot rods, and all the girls were Gidget-types. That's the period of LA history that I would have liked to have lived during, especially with that great music scene there of the '60's. Now it seems overrun with competing African American and Puerto Rican drug gangs that have totally polluted a once liveable environment. And the housing and rental prices have become obscene and out-of-reach there, although the rash of recent and frequently occurring tragic wildfires may change that. The real remaining attractions that are now there remain the sunny weather and the incredible variety of cuisine to sample. I think that the Los Angeles that I have an idealistic picture of probably died off after the Manson murders in 1969.
Did you even watch the video? There was a very large black population in Los Angeles, very early on. So I doubt it was all sandy hair and hot rods. Also there are not many Puerto Ricans here in Los Angeles. We have Mexicans and Salvadoreans, mostly. You're thinking of Florida. You know, near Puerto Rico.
Don’t forget the Hispanics and their low rider cars and their music
Being white I enjoy their music and cars also
LoL...Aint NO Puerto Rican drug gangs in LA...Sounds like you've been abusing a gang of drugs
Mike Gee
Wow your really bitter about something.
I grew up in LA in the 50’s and 60’s. Yep, had a surfboard, hung out at the beaches.
Crazed Whittier Blvd and listened to Wolfman Jack and Dr Demento.
Schools were integrated and the biggest racial problem might end up in a fist fight at worst. Most people chose to stick with their own peer group but many mixed freely with no issues, unlike today with the politicians promoting fear of the , others.
Lmao "puerto ricans"???
Stay the fuck outta LA if you cant get your facts straight... 😂
Never talked about homeless
It was a soap box derby, Chaplin made his foist short filum
Top bad LA didn't stay small. It's just a pit now.
I’m OkAy 👌 you hungry, I am!
Why didn't they include MANLY P HALL . Or PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA. The Amy Semple McPherson was a huge spiritual pioneer. She gained 5000 new followers by picking up a chair and saying follow me when a huge crowd had gathered she got on the chair and they were all saved healed and delivered.
Stop, you don't talk about Skit Row.
Chili 🌶️ burger?
I love Los Angeles. However, it ranks with Chicago and Boston as the most historically racist and violent, non-Southern U.S. cities. I think life would've been better for a black family in Northern Minnesota than Los Angeles.
Cullen Bohannon Don't forget New York.
california historically is one of the most violent states. started with the gold rush.
Mike Gee
Yeha and at one time Watts was all Caucasian, what’s your point?
I certainly hope you don’t live in LA. You seem to have a large stick up your butt about my home town. It’s people like you that mess LA up.
We love our diversity, our high taxes, awesome sheriffs dept and even our lousy freeways. Earthquakes don’t bother us, fires are a part of living outside the inner city and in short we natives take it all with a grain of salt, cause when you fly into LAX,” another LA another inconvenience,” you see those lights spread across the horizon and something in your gut relaxes. Your home.
If you don’t like Cali, leave.
You don’t speak for all of us. Stop trying to control us. Every US city has a racist past.
The crap lord Sell Stop playing the victim. It’s embarrassing to yourself
Succeed from u.s