In 1987/88 this park was a class act and right as the crack epidemic was progressing aggressively the park began to go downhill. Believe it or not it used to be a great family park and the chill spot. This definitely hurts. Wow.
You right! I’m 45 and remember my uncle would take us fishing there in the mid to late 80s. That’s around the time the park began to go downhill. My parent tell me that back in the 70s it was a beautiful park with mainly elderly people and very clean and safe. It’s sad to see our city become a dumpsters. Is there any hope to restore our city or will it continue down this destructive path?
Same here 48 years old….. Jewish community back in the days.. late 1920 till early 1970s …. For some reason city council wants to shut down wilshire between wilshire pl and Hoover st …
I went to Langer’s a month ago and it was absolutely mind blowing how we can allow what was going on around that area. It was literally a zombie apocalypse. Sad
@@officialVertYT Wow, so I guess it happens all the time. I remember seeing a local news (KTLA) reportng about finding some dead bodies there several years ago.
5:14 from AI Yes, if you see a mouse out in the open on the street, it's a strong indication that there are likely more mice nearby, as a single mouse usually won't venture out into open areas unless there is a large population causing them to search for food and territory; seeing one in the open during the day is especially concerning.
A park full of lost souls;most will nerver find their way back to reality, society, or being productive citizens!!!!! Very sad, they didn't say NO to drugs!!!
@@flanagamerok but how? There's work... MFS crossing the border find work and can rent a room or somewhere to stay. I find it hard to believe someone with your credentials can't do better then those people with no education whatsoever
Is this guy literally walking up to them with a camera up in their faces? Or is he being discrete with a small or hidden camera. I can't believe how nobody says anything back.
I was down there last week buying some Menthol Newports. I like the small businesses. Some good people in an area that’s otherwise a public disgrace. LA do better!!!!!!
Can you call the police department and tell them what’s going on? This is absolutely horrifying. I’m shocked how this can go unnoticed by the police. They need to know about this.
The city and police will clean up a block and remove this behavior but within minutes of leaving more come. The issue is the drug problem. California is a populated state. If you put all drug offenders in jail then the jails get overcrowded. Now you have a dilemma of releasing low offenders like drug addicts or hardened criminals. The system is broken. Needs to come up with a better way to deal with addiction.
I grew up there my momma still lives there and am always scared for her safety and unfortunately these cops know and don’t care to do anything because the reality is the newsom laws wouldn’t put these guys away they would go to jail only to get released the next day on DA reject because it’s a misdemeanor to have drugs that are personal use ..
Bro, you roll up people and start giving a voice over while filming? Haha, you are brave. No invisible cloak, just you in the flesh documenting the behavior. Be safe and keep up the good work.
That is so sad! I remember walking around there 45 years ago and was pretty clean then and there were ducks swimming in the lake. Very tragic scene today.
Awesome video. I was about to ask isn't this the same park from Training day. Then I looked in the description and it does say there. I thought so too. I'm not sure which scene though but I know they mentioned it in the movie.
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, my parents used to take me and my brother to that park. Nowadays, you can't even take a walk at the park without watching someone hitting a pipe, shooting up, and getting beat up because of drugs.
In 1976-1977 I would attend and work at the concession stands for the 2-day Festival in Black held annually at MacArthur Park. There was lots of free entertainment and ethnic food choices. I'm m 64 years old now and yes the neighborhood has changed.❤🙏
It’s so easy to judge or criticize a drug addict. We don’t know what awful experiences encounter in life. Most of them are doing drugs to numb or escape a painful reality. If only we could invest more in Mental Health we could avoid going down this destructive path that once you get caught up in it, it’s so hard getting out. If anything instead of criticizing a vulnerable struggling persons live, be grateful that you aren’t struggling as hard as they are.
Or LA County could stop giving out meth pipes and arrest shoplifters. Spending more money on services they don't want and can't be forced to use is pointless.
I feel so bad for the elderly that have to walk through this especially in this country you can tell they’re mostly immigrants walking in that park so sad😬🥲
It amazes me to see these people doing I don't know what drug there on but to see them sleeping bent in half and standing there for however long without falling
@@flanagamer I mean even in downtown depends where you go. I walk my dog down Grand and Fig from time to time. But yea you'll still run into couple homeless, and some blocks reek of urine. But definitely spots that are still beautiful.
I remember this park in the early 90s. It was kind of bad then but ok and I used to love to eat at Langer's. Not anymore. It looks like Kensington Ave in LA. 😢
I'm from the UK and this is shocking to see especially when we think America is great doesn't look that great to me looks worse than the 3rd world countries
In the uk does the goverment give help to people that chose to not work and do drugs? Thats is the problem here. They give help and dont care if they use the money for drugs All those people there get money every month from gov. Ebt cards and food stamps.
It is the drug epidemic. People keep saying the word homeless. The truth, the majority of the homeless are drug addicts. The fentanyl addiction is bad. Even worse they all move west, as there are harsher winters as you head east and they don’t want to be out in the cold. A lot of transient in California. It’s really a war on drugs out in America.
What is there to love? It’s sad to see how a vulnerable person going through difficult times be entertainment for you. What have we become? Heartless individuals that enjoy seeing others struggling in life?
Fuuuuuk!!!! This is really a modern reality Zombie Apocalypse,iam being serious,my god if Hollywood wanted to make a zombie movie they would not need a budget for real
I remember walking through there in 2015, it was nothing like that, it had cleaned up since the 80s and 90s. Now it looks like a place Snake Plissken would have to rescue the president from.
@@ariiar8003 If that park had looked that way in 2015, there's no way I would have stepped foot in there. Not just because I might have been shot or stabbed, but because Hepatitis and Tuberculosis must be THICK in the air there, not to mention the presence of HIV. Nasty.
Damn if u seen the movie jungle fever Wesley Snipes looks for his brother who was played by Samuel L Jackson who was a crackhead Charlie Murphy a drug dealer tells Wesley Snipes his brother is at the Taj Mahal in new york which Charlie's character said was the trump towers for crackheads MacArthur Park is the West Coast outdoor but Taj Mahal
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This is the best video I've seen that captures reality. Homeless my ass, drug addics!!
exactly
they fucked they own shit up
Jay walkin’ is the best West Coast Vlogger.
They are homeless because they are drug addicts. That's all. The truth hurts
They use drugs out in the open. Police do.nothing
Even the ducks at that park are on quack💯🦆💨
😂😂😂
Completely quackers!
😅😅😅
For real
Even the Rat was doing Drugs
I bet that rat is a drug dealer 🐭
In 1987/88 this park was a class act and right as the crack epidemic was progressing aggressively the park began to go downhill. Believe it or not it used to be a great family park and the chill spot. This definitely hurts. Wow.
You right! I’m 45 and remember my uncle would take us fishing there in the mid to late 80s. That’s around the time the park began to go downhill. My parent tell me that back in the 70s it was a beautiful park with mainly elderly people and very clean and safe. It’s sad to see our city become a dumpsters. Is there any hope to restore our city or will it continue down this destructive path?
Same here 48 years old….. Jewish community back in the days.. late 1920 till early 1970s …. For some reason city council wants to shut down wilshire between wilshire pl and Hoover st …
But it was still a drug park. I used to go to the Park Plaza hotel to club Scream back in those days & it was really bad at night!
It's always been bad.
Poor kids in the community and the elders
Those are the ones I truly care for and feel for them 😢
I went to Langer’s a month ago and it was absolutely mind blowing how we can allow what was going on around that area. It was literally a zombie apocalypse. Sad
Democrats 🤷♂️
They are closing Langers?
@@HeadNtheCloudsnot yet
I couldn’t imagine what they would find when that lake is drained
😳
I grew up there and unfortunately I can’t count the amount of times they drained that lake and found dead bodies in there
They literally found several dead bodies, hazmat had to lock down the whole park.
I think this might have been 5 or so years ago from my memory.
@@officialVertYT Wow, so I guess it happens all the time.
I remember seeing a local news (KTLA) reportng about finding some dead bodies there several years ago.
@ it’s happened several times bro..
McArthur park was actually reconstructed about 27yrs ago.Richard Ramirez often mentioned this place in his letters
Rest in heavenly peace Rick
So many picnics there with my family long ago 😞 Now I won’t even walk thru there. Thanks Jay for sharing ☺️
me too. use to walk there and swing the monkey bars and sandboxes late 70s early 80s
This is their Kingston Philadelphia right in LA.😮😮😮
**Kensington
5:14 from AI Yes, if you see a mouse out in the open on the street, it's a strong indication that there are likely more mice nearby, as a single mouse usually won't venture out into open areas unless there is a large population causing them to search for food and territory; seeing one in the open during the day is especially concerning.
It’s a 🐀 rat
One of your best videos bro, would love to see more of the park 💯
Dang that's crazy, addiction doesn't discriminate, all walks of life in that park, sad
A park full of lost souls;most will nerver find their way back to reality, society, or being productive citizens!!!!! Very sad, they didn't say NO to drugs!!!
I did, and yet I’m still homeless even with 2 degrees and an honorable discharge from the military. It can happen to anyone.
If you use the drug caffeine, let's see you say no to drugs!
Sending you blessings and hopefully find housing soon. Times are tough, can’t imagine what you are dealing with. Stay strong
@@flanagamerok but how? There's work... MFS crossing the border find work and can rent a room or somewhere to stay. I find it hard to believe someone with your credentials can't do better then those people with no education whatsoever
I like it how nobody cares about being on camera.
Open air drug use and buying/selling right out in the open is basically 100% legal in L.A. The cops sure as hell don’t care, why would the druggies?
Is this guy literally walking up to them with a camera up in their faces?
Or is he being discrete with a small or hidden camera.
I can't believe how nobody says anything back.
Lmao till he walks past the 18s and get camera took
@@SlimJim-bw3ib some people will still trip
Legend has it, the rat @5:01 is battling addiction
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
Thank you Jay, be save out there ❤
Thank you ..🙏🏾 I will
I was down there last week buying some Menthol Newports. I like the small businesses. Some good people in an area that’s otherwise a public disgrace. LA do better!!!!!!
The rich ain't shit with us workers
Dawn of the Living Dead ‼
Tweakin and geekin
I grew up here,in this area.i used to go to this park all the time.alot of buildings are gone...but not,Langers.lol.
My parents became American citizens there in the 80s....
Wow this can't be MacArthur Park cause it looks so filthy & nasty... My my how it's changed due to the undesirables.
Been like this for the last 30 yrs
It was the same 45 yrs ago when i came to LA, the ms13 and barrio 18 formed in that area, before they got deported.
They formed in pico union then to westlake
So you wanna do drugs...if you have kids, let this be an educational video for them 😵💫😵💫😵💫🙏🙏🙏🙏
Can you call the police department and tell them what’s going on? This is absolutely horrifying. I’m shocked how this can go unnoticed by the police. They need to know about this.
They know
They definitely know…
The city and police will clean up a block and remove this behavior but within minutes of leaving more come. The issue is the drug problem. California is a populated state. If you put all drug offenders in jail then the jails get overcrowded. Now you have a dilemma of releasing low offenders like drug addicts or hardened criminals. The system is broken. Needs to come up with a better way to deal with addiction.
I grew up there my momma still lives there and am always scared for her safety and unfortunately these cops know and don’t care to do anything because the reality is the newsom laws wouldn’t put these guys away they would go to jail only to get released the next day on DA reject because it’s a misdemeanor to have drugs that are personal use ..
@@JayWalkinTVthey literally are right there in the first couple of scenes and they don’t look worried they never look worried 😂😬
Somebody left the "cake out in the rain"!
Beets juice
"and it took so long to bake it....and I'll never have the recipe agaaaaaain....!" so sad~
Bro, you roll up people and start giving a voice over while filming? Haha, you are brave. No invisible cloak, just you in the flesh documenting the behavior. Be safe and keep up the good work.
I appreciate that 🙏🏾 & Somebody has to show the world. ✌🏾
I remember EPA Small Town Cemetery looking like that
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That is so sad! I remember walking around there 45 years ago and was pretty clean then and there were ducks swimming in the lake. Very tragic scene today.
It has always been a dumpy area, and now it's worse...
Awesome video. I was about to ask isn't this the same park from Training day. Then I looked in the description and it does say there. I thought so too. I'm not sure which scene though but I know they mentioned it in the movie.
While Governor Newsom just purchased a 9 million dollar home, go figure 😏
You'd buy one too if you had the money😂
9 mil on a house your a dumbass @@AC-bm6zx say bah sheep
He’s a disgrace
@@thehateugave9699You're a pass a 10 JEALOUS dumbass ostrich liar and hater😂
You mean WE !!! We should go knock on his door and a tour of OUR new house ! 🤌
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, my parents used to take me and my brother to that park. Nowadays, you can't even take a walk at the park without watching someone hitting a pipe, shooting up, and getting beat up because of drugs.
It's crazy...when im crusing in that area and when i get at the park i step it up a little! One of LA's worse.
Let’s not forget that the neighborhood wannabes gangsters tax all the mom and pops vendors that’s barely making ends meet so sad
Where's the old men playing checkers. Great song and great video.
I like how no one's telling him anything about him filming 👍 cool video
What do you use to film this? RayBan meta?
Naw…I’ve thought about getting those… but The RayBan meta only shoot 720p
Very nice 👍🏿
People used to get fake ID, DL and SS cards down there
Still can
In 1976-1977 I would attend and work at the concession stands for the 2-day Festival in Black held annually at MacArthur Park. There was lots of free entertainment and ethnic food choices. I'm m 64 years old now and yes the neighborhood has changed.❤🙏
Very accurate video if you walk out there 1st thing AM this is exactly what you see! Not at all recommended at night😅
I don't recommend it at any time of day... 😬
It’s so easy to judge or criticize a drug addict. We don’t know what awful experiences encounter in life. Most of them are doing drugs to numb or escape a painful reality. If only we could invest more in Mental Health we could avoid going down this destructive path that once you get caught up in it, it’s so hard getting out. If anything instead of criticizing a vulnerable struggling persons live, be grateful that you aren’t struggling as hard as they are.
Or LA County could stop giving out meth pipes and arrest shoplifters. Spending more money on services they don't want and can't be forced to use is pointless.
Everyone is doing the new school Bump Slump dance
Anybody that was alive in the crack era from LA?? Was it like this??
Had a friend who got caught up in this lifestyle and kicks it around here. Take care of your homies
This is a beautiful park but sooo sad these people are allowed to ruin it
Too bad they cant clean it up like Venice beach! Ive lived on CA, orange county my whole life and never heard of this park! Love the lake w ducks! 😊😊
I feel so bad for the elderly that have to walk through this especially in this country you can tell they’re mostly immigrants walking in that park so sad😬🥲
7:27 WOW THIS IS DANGEROUS TO WATCH AS A FORMER DRUG ADDICT 1 YEAR 10 MONTH'S SOBER. GOD BE ALL THE GLORY. I WAS A DRUG ADDICT FOR 24 YEARS
Ever notice the word depression has disappeared and replaced with “mental health”?
9:20 he's doing the errol Barnes dance from clockers
My mom had an old picture in a paddle boat in the pond there…like in the mid sixties…
That dude in the red sweatshirt was trying to imitate the robot dance guy from the Chapelle Show
Scary going to that Beef Bowl drive through.
Mac Park is a natural spring water source LOL
Don't blow up the spot yo!! 😂😂
1:51 we see why we never got a max payne 4
These are the people that are in charge of our street pretty sad 😢
That park seems like the perfect place to take your family for a walk on a Saturday afternoon and let your kids feed and pet the rats there 😅🐀
It amazes me to see these people doing I don't know what drug there on but to see them sleeping bent in half and standing there for however long without falling
99% of them are on fentanyl (and/or meth, & sometimes crack)
Gosh, as a kid I would dream of going to California..yeah no thanks.
yes, a state made up of 163,696 square miles is represented in this one park. the guy in the red hoodie might have a higher IQ than you.
San Diego is still pretty nice overall, just stay tf outta downtown 😅
😬😂
@@flanagamer Go across the border to Tijuana, San Diego's other half!
@@flanagamer I mean even in downtown depends where you go.
I walk my dog down Grand and Fig from time to time.
But yea you'll still run into couple homeless, and some blocks reek of urine.
But definitely spots that are still beautiful.
I remember this park in the early 90s. It was kind of bad then but ok and I used to love to eat at Langer's. Not anymore. It looks like Kensington Ave in LA. 😢
the corn man selling the stuff
Street food off the hook …
It sad how city allows this...sad for community
7:27 swag
How are you filming without them knowing? Glasses’s?
I guess this is democracy in action. Letting people run wild. Revolting.
I'm from the UK and this is shocking to see especially when we think America is great doesn't look that great to me looks worse than the 3rd world countries
Pull up video of Native American Reservations, the American Dream is a LIE.
In the uk does the goverment give help to people that chose to not work and do drugs? Thats is the problem here. They give help and dont care if they use the money for drugs All those people there get money every month from gov. Ebt cards and food stamps.
@gmm1904 they do give our citizens help when out of work but that's only a small amount of people compared to how many do work.
It is the drug epidemic. People keep saying the word homeless. The truth, the majority of the homeless are drug addicts. The fentanyl addiction is bad. Even worse they all move west, as there are harsher winters as you head east and they don’t want to be out in the cold. A lot of transient in California. It’s really a war on drugs out in America.
The difference with 3rd world countries is that, this is only one area in LA, not the whole country 😊
Finally MacArthur Park! Please do more videos here and on skid row. Love your videos, especially when I see tweakers. ❤
What is there to love? It’s sad to see how a vulnerable person going through difficult times be entertainment for you. What have we become? Heartless individuals that enjoy seeing others struggling in life?
I heard want to change the name of the park instead MacArthur to Pancho Villa? That true?
Haha ... hell Noooooo...👎 Wtf. 🤮 This is a central American area not mejican.
14:06 go to the alley in back of that yoshinoya.. then walk to 6th street. they call it yoshinoya alley.. it’s brutal drug usage
RoboCop or the 2012 Judge Dredd movie in real life
They ain't shit without us
Corrupt as society will live in
Wow all these people need help. Drugs are bad mkay. I hope something changes this way of life people are living.
Richard Ramirez hung out here before his arrest in 1985 He and his brother Julio aka Ruben often rolled dice for money also known as (shooting craps )
If only Richard were alive, he could have run for president now a days..
They are having a good time
Fuuuuuk!!!! This is really a modern reality Zombie Apocalypse,iam being serious,my god if Hollywood wanted to make a zombie movie they would not need a budget for real
They see what it does to users but are not smart enough to avoid it. God bless them
I've never been on drugs, but I guess the addictive effects are just THAT strong.
i bet 1000000000 that there is cops undercover pretending to be homeless
I remember walking through there in 2015, it was nothing like that, it had cleaned up since the 80s and 90s. Now it looks like a place Snake Plissken would have to rescue the president from.
Nice reference!
Really? 2015 it was clean? That area has been a mess like this for decades. Not ok since the 80’s
@@ariiar8003 If that park had looked that way in 2015, there's no way I would have stepped foot in there. Not just because I might have been shot or stabbed, but because Hepatitis and Tuberculosis must be THICK in the air there, not to mention the presence of HIV. Nasty.
@@ariiar8003 2015 was much better there. I wouldn't step foot in that disease-ridden place now.
Cute little rat has a better life than the people in the park.
To be honest this is the most fucked up place I ever been in Los Angeles it's like walking zombies!
G.. forgive Americans.
Hey look the ceo shooter and he still has the back pack on!
America the beautiful? City of Angels? This is really delusions!
This tiny little section does not represent Los Angeles..2nd largest city in the nation. Relax.
@@ariiar8003 tiny take a look at compton down to long beach and the valley to east la and hollywood is a horrorshow!
👍👍👍
Zombies 🧟♂️ lmfao
Damn if u seen the movie jungle fever Wesley Snipes looks for his brother who was played by Samuel L Jackson who was a crackhead Charlie Murphy a drug dealer tells Wesley Snipes his brother is at the Taj Mahal in new york which Charlie's character said was the trump towers for crackheads MacArthur Park is the West Coast outdoor but Taj Mahal
GREAT CONTENT
Great content? Wow if anything it’s sad and horrifying seeing this type of footage. It amazes what people now a days find entertaining?
The rat is on tweaking too😂
i thought that too. it was acting unusually weird in public like that
What a shame that park has gone to shit
No it's a zoo.used to be a world attraction......!
Until. The homeless destroyed it.