I was in SF about 9 months ago and thought it was amazing. Not sure if this guy is just cherry-picking neighborhoods or what. I saw a BUNCH of shops and restaurants. I also found the city to be clean and beautiful.
Tons of retails spaces, hotels, banks, corporate offices - buildings that have 10 foot doors and gigantic lobbies with marble floors, courtyards and statues, rooftop gardens. Some of the spaces are beautiful inside and no one has been able to enjoy them for 2, 5,10 years. Thank you for documenting what happened to the city.
It's truly shocking. I worked for PG&E Corp. at 245 Market St. from 2000 - 2003. Downtown was so vibrant; retail and restaurants thrived. It's shameful what SF's social engineers have done. I'm appalled.
I lived in Humboldt County during those years and I used to look forward to coming to SF for the weekend 3 or 4 times a year. You're right, it was still a fun, happy, thriving city, albeit a bit expensive, of course.
Agree with you, it is truly shocking and btw, I also worked for the same company at the exact same address and about the same time, they let me go few months after they file for bankruptcy
All of those “For Lease” signs on vacant properties should be replaced with “GONE NOW” signs; because realistically, who is going to rent those properties anytime soon?? 😅
i see tons of comments like this just for them to say, "trumpert is better". everybody complains but wants to be controlled by people who don't have their interested behind. No leftie or rightie will save ANY of you.
I lived in San Francisco for 30+ years and used to work at One California in the 90s. All of the recently closed locations were there in the 90s. How heartbreaking!
@@bacardimgtow4505 oh wow! I worked there and went to the Academy of Art university in the early-mid 90s. The closed Starbucks and Wells Fargo that are in the video were there when I there!
@@encinobalboa it was safe in the 80s. I was a kid and I used to take the bus alone, walk to school… when I got older my girlfriends and I went to the clubs South and Market and never worried about crime. In the 2000s, SF was lively!
Difference is...Rome didn´t fell ...Roman Empire become Vatican or Catholic church. Most of the value collected during the history of that empire is now in the Vatican basements. Same will happen in US. Country will become land of ultra rich and poor servants.
@TheBebe666 Rome did experience significant depopulation. Even during the barbarian invasions of the 5th century, it still kept a rather high population. It was during the Byzantine reconquest that Rome was hollowed out. The Roman Empire persisted in certain aspects in the Catholic church. Half of Europe and its institutions could make the same argument.
The problem is that you have people making these decisions and regardless of the outcome they refuse to reverse it. They don't care how it affects everyone who loses their jobs or businesses as a result. They always blame something else as the reason.
The number of tech professionals who prefer to telecommute is huge. Great reduction in occupied office spaces means street level businesses will close.
This is so sad, When I lived in San Francisco in the late 1980s one of my favorite shops was a Rand McNally Map Store. It was on the south side of Market Street between Montgomery Street and the Embarcadero. It was the coolest store. I still have a pillow I bought with the map of the United States printed on it that was the same map my teachers used when I was in school. It's also shaped like the United States. I still have a globe I bought there too. The oceans are a light beige instead of blue, and because it was made in the 1980s it still has the old USSR. Hanging out in that store is one of the happier memories I have of the time I lived there.
My first job in SF was in that building in 1986. I loved that map store. It was made into Chase Manhattan Bank Branch. On Wednesday they were replacing the glass door. Someone had shattered it. Don't know if it was a gunshot or not. They closed down Stacey's bookstore next door to it and opened up one of those Amazon stores where there were no cash registers. They closed that a long time ago. The space is for lease still.
of course. every aspect of your life is controlled. when at birth implants are mandated, you won't have any contrary thoughts, only those you are fooled into thinking are yours! Ha serf, get your knee pads!
@@soavemusica I live in Knoxville, TN. It's an absolutely beautiful downtown, but rednecks with loud trucks and loud Doge Challengers completely ruins it. They cruise up and down revving their engines so loud it completely ruins the city. I hate them so much it almost makes me not want to go down there.
I appreciate the up-to-date information from Metal Leo. I work in downtown and didn't even know the city banned private vehicles. This just shows the conditions from bad to worse that is causing the majority of retailers to leave the once prosperous city.
@@klaraakop3091 I just started my job and secondly, I never voted for progressive politicians. They are the ones that is causing the demise not just the city but the nation as well. You can't assume people like me voting for this kind of evil without knowing the person or unless the person declared their political stance.
I'm an Amazon Driver in and my DSP does the Financial District and SOMA among other areas. I can tell you, as bad as the street is with closed businesses, the commercial real estate high rises are suffering as much or MORE. 30, 40, 50 story buildings are half full of tenants or less. And the floors that are occupied are often just offices that have a token secretary or security guard on duty. Every room has the feel of having JUST had a bunch of people in it doing something important but upon hearing your approach they vanish into the ether. Its an empty rotting corpse with a facade that smells like hobo piss. And it used to be so goddamn beautiful and I was so proud and privileged to live here and now I'm ashamed and want to flee. So much potential and beauty and prosperity! Flushed hard to please the usual suspects and the work averse. Disgusting.
That sweet elderly couple, holding hands, wearing masks outside, on an empty sidewalk, STILL timidly distancing themselves from like, two people, while waiting for the bus -- they are the sad personification of fear and programming... Now multiply that couple's fear and programming by 700,000 San Francisco residents, all doing the same thing and you have an entire city under the control of an agenda, the results of which you're seeing there now...
I know what you mean about the masks, it's pretty rare around here to see someone wearing a mask now, it's trailed off to almost nothing… But when I do see someone still doing that boy do I roll my eyes. most of the hard-core Lib programmed sheep NPC people hung on for years but finally gave up within the last year.
Wells Fargo closing on 322 is a clear signal to Skull and Bones. THEY are no longer in charge. The bell tolling in the Galleria mall was classic. Great video. It is shocking to see people walling around there. For what?
Tbf Driving around San Francisco but fk all the poop and tents around it’s dangerous to walk around at night, but would prefer to walk like few years ago much better to get around with biking and buses driving just isn’t it in SF even back then
This is shocking. Our once bustling, Beautiful city is gone. I remember how absolutely busy and vibrant it was from 2014-2019. This is sickening. How are any of the restaurant staff surviving?
@@richardmorris7063 you piece of flatulence. You do realize Kamala “aka DEI wonderFK WordSalad” was DA, Newsom was mayor before that trashbucket London Breed and Gascon was chief of police? How about that rotten bucket of Apples?
I have family who still live in San Francisco. Some are lifelong residents but most have been there three to four decades. They see the problems with the city yet still refuse to vote republican. They all are college educated yet they continue to repeat mistakes by voting liberal.
Banks left because all of the businesses left or leaving. They have no business and the rent is high. Thanks to the drugs, thugs, thieves, politicians giving the shoplifters license to steal, the #1 tourist’s attractions in the world became a ghost town. I used to work at Spears and Howard, it’s so sad to see the city meet such demise.
@@robertmann446 wake up! The news below must be a lie I just googled now to find out. You wake up! San Francisco's boom is going bust One of the biggest catalysts for San Francisco's decline has been a rise in crime. Inventory shrink is bad around the country, per Walmart, Target, and Home Depot, but some businesses say it's no longer viable to stay in San Francisco specifically. Nearly two dozen stores have said they plan to pull up stakes and leave San Francisco as the crime issue remains unresolved. Some of these retailers include Old Navy, Banana Republic, Crate & Barrel, AmazonGo, Saks Off Fifth, Anthropologie and Office Depot. Walgreens has been chaining up some of its most stolen goods from heavily shoplifted stores to prevent theft from further cutting into its bottom line.
@@robertmann446 street cars have been there for over 100 years google it. bike lanes officially painted maybe 15 years ago but people were biking on market without the lanes before that. there was actually a thriving courier/delivery industry in downtown SF. that's how many documents/pkgs arrived to your office. no cars i think 4 years during the plague.
imagine all the square footage of commercial building rooftops that need to be maintained by private owners. then no city maintenance for roads, sewers, etc... add in a couple of fires or a big natural disaster. that place will be Detroit west.
I remember the days when you were allowed to drive on market Street. There were a lot of cars and traffic. However, there were also a lot of people walking on the sidewalks shopping and going to work.
Shocking! We stopped going into the city years ago because of safety concerns. SF was once a great city. There is no joy and nothing to be proud of anymore. This blight was caused by more reasons than just banning cars. See who’s in charge of the city. It’s a shame.
Leo this is crazy back in 1993 i used to hang out in S.F with my boys drinking all night at bars and go to crazy horse and till the morning walking at night in street drunk. lol it was full of people walking day and night. im from bay Area seeing it its changed alot! everything is GONE! Lol! Thanks Leo like watching your video. be safe out there.
I went to my first Oracle training in one of the office buildings on market Street back in the '90s. SF was a wonderful place back then. I looked forward to the classes there. Now they are long gone from that office and moved their corporate offices from California completely.
They banned cars in the centre of my city 40 years ago with the exact same results. They made some streets in the outskirts one way roads and the same thing happened with shops closing down everywhere.
It's a crying shame that Market St. has become so desolate in a short amount of time. I just hope it recovers before my time is up or it's "Gone Now'. Thanks Leo.
St. Cloud, MN, tried this in 1973. 75% of the stores closed. And, remember, for up to five months the average temperature is 19F. Lasted for 20 years until they let vehicles drive again. Result? Downtown stores have returned.
Such was the way of the world back then, when the American dream was perfectly reachable. It oozed class, sophistication, cosmopolitan upward mobility for those that wanted it. Today's world is a grotesque, classless and mentally ill, drug-addled nightmare.
@@ericwalberg9261 hippies weren't everywhere. there were still normal people around. you had to go to specific areas of sf to see the hippies and it wasn't until about 66 that they stopped taking baths and you started smelling them
When I watch this video, all I can do is cry. This is no longer the beautiful, vibrant city that it was when I lived there in the 70s and 80. It breaks my heart. 💔
@@BernadetteBuhl Ohh, that hurts my heart!! I haven't been there since the late 90's and one of things I loved were all the different small shops in France and The Netherlands.
@@springfauna1465 Yep, more crime from illegal immigration, higher community fees and taxes, minimum wage is rising everywhere. There is no Javier Milei in Europe. Greetings from Germany.
Oh, I just realized this is like watching a civilization collapse. I always wondered about ancient collapsed civilizations now we’re watching it in real time.
@@springfauna1465 The elites plan for another reset of the world and implement their Agenda 2030 which states: "These are universal goals and targets which involve the entire world, developed and developing countries alike, etc." You may want to look into it further. Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum said "You will own nothing and be happy." The reset will include 15 minutes cities. These cities should be able to fulfill “key aspects of life” within a 15 minute walk or cycle from their home." These barren cities like SF, Colorado, etc. is the beginning of their plans. They want citizens to be contained in a radius of 15 minutes i.e. population control/depopulation, etc. It's not going to be a pretty sight. It's a reset, New World Order coming. And I am looking up for the return of Jesus Christ. He's the only one who can clean up this world mess and establish His just and true Kingdom.
I remember in mid 80's my Aunt and I both worked on Market street. We would sometimes meet up for lunch at Crocker Galleria, which was packed with people. Back then Market sidewalks were packed with suits. Stockbrokers, lawyers, bankers, insurance people. They are all gone now. What happened? Its like an apocalypse swept them all away.
My office was on Sansome. If I had time, I'd cut over to Crocker Galleria (btw my first checking account was with Crocker Bank) grab something from the amazing food court and eat outside on the roof top garden. After lunch I'd window shop the three levels: Versace, Polo, Ravitz, the stationary store, or drop off a pair of shoes at the cobbler. The younger generation can't know what the internet has replaced.
Don't forget the effect of online retail and its inherent advantage of having a fraction of the overhead required to run a brick and mortar store. Once those like amazon rose and made a lot of us addicted to their convenience and (at the time) lower prices in exchange for waiting a day or two for our stuff to arrive at our front door, what advantage could these places have to keep the bulk of us going to them? The microcosms that were shopping malls, is now playing out en masse, bad policy notwithstanding.
"For lease!"... "Gone now!" these voices are renting some corners in my head 😂😂 Thanks for the video, hope SF can heal itself. Greetings from Indonesia.
We used drive all the way down from Chico CA to take the ferry over from Vallejo and catch the BART at the Embarcadero station and get off at Montgomery station and walk over to Union Square and have the best time ever in the city. It's truly shocking to see everything away blown away and boarded up. We're not going back anytime soon.
All cities are 15 minute cities. Once you have to replace the plumbing, it makes the foundation unstable....... Only idiots pretend that a skyscraper has a lifespan beyond about fifty years......same for any building. Only stupid people ever believed the lie. You cant tunnel next to the foundation.... to replace pipes , unless you are prepared to put in a new foundation, and that means a building teardown.
I remember walking and also driving there. I think there is a deeper problem to this than just the ban of cars. If enough people and tourists would walk and shop in safety the stores would flourish.
It’s so sad to see all of the “Gone Now” memories. SF was such a thriving, vibrant, world. Had so much Character and charm. Time will tell. What they are up to. There must be a plan we aren’t allowed to know.
They banned cars in Oakpark Illinois years ago. When all the stores and business died they spent years trying to bring them back and is now recovering as a city with cars and parking. The speeding buses in SF seem dangerous and it is more of a freeway than a city for people.
Burbank closed streets and had a walking mall when I was a kid. Didn't work. We'd drive to the Zody's department store nearby, but never go to the walking mall. Downtown Burbank was a hollow shell of a suburban downtown by the '80s.
The buses in SF are super dangerous. They don't stop for anybody because they can't. All that weight and high speed mixed with the open road is dangerous 🎉
I grew up visiting my grandparents at least twice a year in San Francisco from Los Angeles. I never really liked the weather up there, but I could appreciate San Francisco but it’s just really hard to believe how the city manager is officials have destroyed that city. It’s really a shame my grandparents immigrated there from Italy and loved it spending their whole life there.
I’m willing to bet that shoplifting crime has decreased significantly since all those stores were shoplifted right out of business!
Yea. Now take what’s left.
LOL. Good one! I am pretty sure this is how the politicians are spinning it to the taxpayers. Wow, what a mind job!
Yes it's a good way to stop crime. Close everything. It's all planned. It's going to bee one of those 15 minute city for those who obey
No, it just moved to YOUR neighborhood.
You can bet the left will run on this too,less crime sure!
There used to be a city here. Gone now
I was in SF about 9 months ago and thought it was amazing. Not sure if this guy is just cherry-picking neighborhoods or what. I saw a BUNCH of shops and restaurants. I also found the city to be clean and beautiful.
@@TimLucasdesign Hahahahhahahahaaha oh Newsom, you're funny.
@@TimLucasdesignyou’re either trolling or you haven’t lived in many places. SF is obviously a city in decline.
😂😂😂😂! I’m kind of loving the gone now 😜🤪🤣😂😁😆😄
@@CarsandCats shill bidder on EBay?
Don't forget about all the empty office space above all the closed retail spaces.
Yep! I went to my first Oracle training on market Street back in the early '90s. Since then they've left California.
Oh, just more living spaces for illegals so they could get a job at a nearby restaurant to serve Nancy, Gavin and friends!!! Utopia for everyone!!!
That's what closed the retail. They relied on the office workers to spend money.
This ought to bring the film industry back to California. They can film post-apocalyptic films right downtown!
Just like the film The Omega Man.
Who cares..SF Is dead . .
Zombie movies for sure!
Tons of retails spaces, hotels, banks, corporate offices - buildings that have 10 foot doors and gigantic lobbies with marble floors, courtyards and statues, rooftop gardens. Some of the spaces are beautiful inside and no one has been able to enjoy them for 2, 5,10 years.
Thank you for documenting what happened to the city.
Makes for living accommodations for the " Border Czar's " opportunist border crosers-!!!😎
SF is Gone Now
Gooone naww :-)
Movin out sometimes is for a better outcome, the large conglomerates have taken the money and disappeared. To elsewhere?
Gone now 😂😂😂😂
Newsom put the last nail in that coffin.
I read that in Leo's voice 😂
Newsome has discovered how to reduce shoplifting, thieves can't steal from empty buildings.
What a brilliant strategy 😮
There can steal the copper pipes and cabling from empty buildings.
Coming soon... BONFIRE.
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are no
Rich no more
ten years after 1971
😃
Where do you think the thieves will steal next that their retail source has dried up? Remember, these thieves are foolish people.
Shoplifting is gone now!
The Great Reset/Depression has started and nobody has admitted to it or is even allowed to talk about it!
Good point.
Do you not realize the internet has taken all the businesses. Not crime or recession.
As a SF native this is heartbreaking. I appreciate your videos. Mainstream media never shows this. 😥
Yup sucks. Especially when you grew up there and know what it was like back then to now.
It's truly shocking. I worked for PG&E Corp. at 245 Market St. from 2000 - 2003. Downtown was so vibrant; retail and restaurants thrived. It's shameful what SF's social engineers have done. I'm appalled.
Your former employer is one of those social engineers
@@hamsterdiving7593 I agree with you.
I lived in Humboldt County during those years and I used to look forward to coming to SF for the weekend 3 or 4 times a year. You're right, it was still a fun, happy, thriving city, albeit a bit expensive, of course.
Agree with you, it is truly shocking and btw, I also worked for the same company at the exact same address and about the same time, they let me go few months after they file for bankruptcy
Its the work from home tech workers that SF milked for years that did this. 36% of offices are vacant.
All of those “For Lease” signs on vacant properties should be replaced with “GONE NOW” signs; because realistically, who is going to rent those properties anytime soon?? 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fallen Babylon
I’m applying for government loans for my consultation business. Even tho I live in nashville😊
Sf state students
@@andrewisaac9599 Yup….Use them for affordable housing for the economically challenged….but, no drug heads and criminals allowed….
Newsom has done a helluva job And his cohorts
Problem is those diabolically incompetent reprobates don't do their job-!!!🙄
YOU THE TAXPAYERS WILL TREAT THEM TO THE FINEST FRENCH LAUNDRY MEAL IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
I'm addicted to how you say, "closed now", "gone", "gone now" "for lease"
Same 😂 I love his accent
Same! Needs merch lol
It's become a family joke
Me too! 🥰
It’s weird because it is not annoying and I don’t get tired of it 😂
Dystopian nightmare
(D)ystopian
Better than Oakland.
@@armoredghost6180 ha, true
@@armoredghost6180 Both cities are Sh#tholes run into the ground by dipsh#t mayors....London Breed & Sheng Thao are so inept!
i see tons of comments like this just for them to say, "trumpert is better". everybody complains but wants to be controlled by people who don't have their interested behind. No leftie or rightie will save ANY of you.
I lived in San Francisco for 30+ years and used to work at One California in the 90s. All of the recently closed locations were there in the 90s. How heartbreaking!
ninjette I worked on Battery and Pine for 5 years from 2013-2018. All the shops in the surrounding area is gone except the Subway on Pine
@@bacardimgtow4505 oh wow! I worked there and went to the Academy of Art university in the early-mid 90s. The closed Starbucks and Wells Fargo that are in the video were there when I there!
@@ninjettegirl Yep It seems the only Wells Fargo that's still open is the one on California and Montgomery. The one with the museum.
I lived in the City in the early 1990's. It was vibrant. It was beautiful. It was relatively safe. All that is gone now.
@@encinobalboa it was safe in the 80s. I was a kid and I used to take the bus alone, walk to school… when I got older my girlfriends and I went to the clubs South and Market and never worried about crime. In the 2000s, SF was lively!
Must be like walking through Rome in the 5th century- seeing everything falling into decline.
Difference is...Rome didn´t fell ...Roman Empire become Vatican or Catholic church. Most of the value collected during the history of that empire is now in the Vatican basements. Same will happen in US. Country will become land of ultra rich and poor servants.
Yes !!-and "NERO"-FIDDELING_!!!
@TheBebe666 Rome did experience significant depopulation. Even during the barbarian invasions of the 5th century, it still kept a rather high population. It was during the Byzantine reconquest that Rome was hollowed out.
The Roman Empire persisted in certain aspects in the Catholic church. Half of Europe and its institutions could make the same argument.
@@TheBebe666great note. We’re typing Roman letters right now. Lots of historical lessons although the scale is vastly different
@@tomtravis3077yes the Roman Empire became Catholicism and of course our alphabet is Roman. Calendar etc
Thank you gavin newsom....your the best
15 minute city. Nothing for 15 minutes in any direction. Money and prosperity desert.
Lol.
The problem is that you have people making these decisions and regardless of the outcome they refuse to reverse it. They don't care how it affects everyone who loses their jobs or businesses as a result. They always blame something else as the reason.
YES 100%
They're nothing but psychopaths.
No. It was their plan.
That's the definition of a liberal,,& they'd love to see Newsome run for President so he can finish the job on the rest of the Country.
@@richardmorris7063 😔😪
The slow death spiral of San Francisco. Very sad to see.
Slow death ? This shit happened pretty quick .
The number of tech professionals who prefer to telecommute is huge. Great reduction in occupied office spaces means street level businesses will close.
This is so sad, When I lived in San Francisco in the late 1980s one of my favorite shops was a Rand McNally Map Store. It was on the south side of Market Street between Montgomery Street and the Embarcadero. It was the coolest store. I still have a pillow I bought with the map of the United States printed on it that was the same map my teachers used when I was in school. It's also shaped like the United States. I still have a globe I bought there too. The oceans are a light beige instead of blue, and because it was made in the 1980s it still has the old USSR. Hanging out in that store is one of the happier memories I have of the time I lived there.
My first job in SF was in that building in 1986. I loved that map store.
It was made into Chase Manhattan Bank Branch.
On Wednesday they were replacing the glass door. Someone had shattered it. Don't know if it was a gunshot or not.
They closed down Stacey's bookstore next door to it and opened up one of those Amazon stores where there were no cash registers.
They closed that a long time ago.
The space is for lease still.
@@JackWMatrix thanks for the update.
My 25 year old wants to know what a Rand McNally map store is
@@TarikSolimanX Thomas Guides were super helpful for those who knew how to look things up
The map store I remember it
Not even Dirty Harry could save San Francisco now! 🙄
Dirty Harry would have no crooks to go after today.
Haha, good one. Wasn't Bullit with Steve McQueen also in SF? I think there are some Charles Bronson movies set there too.
@@bondgabebond4907 "You feel lucky punk, do you? Go ahead, find an open business in downtown, make my day."
“A man has to know his limitations.” 😉
This is so sad,I moved to San Francisco from Seattle in 1968,and stayed until 2000.I cannot even watch,I will keep some beautiful memories.
Who would want to move there? Let alone go downtown. It seems like the beauty of this city is gone.
Rich people with nothing better to do.
ocean beach is a great reason to live in SF.
Well it looks like they got rid of the crime! Lol nothing left to take!
It actually looks really nice, for a city. Absence of cars makes it looks peaceful, but not having stores doesn't look good.
Gaze and Trans Am, that’s who.
Usual suspects caused this.
The dark devils
Now, look, if cars don`t run on oat milk, they are racists. Best Regards, SF.
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of course. every aspect of your life is controlled. when at birth implants are mandated, you won't have any contrary thoughts, only those you are fooled into thinking are yours! Ha serf, get your knee pads!
@@soavemusica I live in Knoxville, TN. It's an absolutely beautiful downtown, but rednecks with loud trucks and loud Doge Challengers completely ruins it. They cruise up and down revving their engines so loud it completely ruins the city. I hate them so much it almost makes me not want to go down there.
reset in progress. your walks show it clearly.
"didn't take an earthquake or fire this time. Just ban the cars..."
NAILED IT!!
Exactly
The GREAT RESET. Buy the book. You will own nothing and be happy.
💯
Reset means to start over. I don't see nothing restarting.
@@robertmann446Stay tuned...
Zombies and FOR LEASE signs, what a place to live.
Straight up dystopian.
We walk with you Thanks Leo
I appreciate the up-to-date information from Metal Leo. I work in downtown and didn't even know the city banned private vehicles. This just shows the conditions from bad to worse that is causing the majority of retailers to leave the once prosperous city.
@@ConcernedNinerFan Even you don't know what's going on in your city ,very sad.All country collapsing and people like you again voting for evils😔
@@klaraakop3091 I just started my job and secondly, I never voted for progressive politicians. They are the ones that is causing the demise not just the city but the nation as well. You can't assume people like me voting for this kind of evil without knowing the person or unless the person declared their political stance.
I'm an Amazon Driver in and my DSP does the Financial District and SOMA among other areas. I can tell you, as bad as the street is with closed businesses, the commercial real estate high rises are suffering as much or MORE. 30, 40, 50 story buildings are half full of tenants or less. And the floors that are occupied are often just offices that have a token secretary or security guard on duty. Every room has the feel of having JUST had a bunch of people in it doing something important but upon hearing your approach they vanish into the ether. Its an empty rotting corpse with a facade that smells like hobo piss. And it used to be so goddamn beautiful and I was so proud and privileged to live here and now I'm ashamed and want to flee. So much potential and beauty and prosperity! Flushed hard to please the usual suspects and the work averse. Disgusting.
I’m 3rd generation. I saw this happening years ago! It’s ALL PLANNED DEMOLITION. The Great Reset.
Look at the masked zombies!
I bet you hate to leave the truck,who lets you in?
The result of leftism and liberalism.
But San Franciscans are very proud of all this great destruction 😂😂😂😂in fact they will keep re electing the same garbage for eternity ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
Comunizm is coming...
Progressivism.
@@BroNapartay isn't that like comunizm ...??
@@ww5302 Similar, they're both on the left, only difference is the amount of cu.ltural ma.rxism involved.
Market street needs to be renamed since the markets are gone. Maybe rename it, For Lease Street! Ideas for renaming it?
I’ll meet you at the corner of For Lease Street and Gone Now Avenue. How much tax revenue is the city losing?
How about "Good Luck With That Boulevard"?
Gone Street
@@kananimiranda3376 none of those are Leo's catchphrases though. They are all quite appropriate, but not really keeping with the theme.
Feces Blvd
I know the chick who runs SF Bicycle coalition. Don’t underestimate the destructive power of a Karen with an axe to grind.
Social engineering at work here.
Also the Bicycle riders are super militant in SF.
Wow..the decline, decay and rot of San Francisco.
I miss San Francisco of the 1990s and early 2000s, they were great times!!
Same here!
I lived there in the mid 70s. What a time to be alive! Before AIDS, post hippie, long before Dan White did murderous deed.
Don't worry, the new generation has it under control right? ...right? I mean, that's all I keep hearing. They know more than anyone.
This is what the main stream news doesn't want you to see.
Streets of San Francisco? Dirty Harry? Anyone
They still wearing face masks 😂 What a horrible liberal state!!
That sweet elderly couple, holding hands, wearing masks outside, on an empty sidewalk, STILL timidly distancing themselves from like, two people, while waiting for the bus -- they are the sad personification of fear and programming...
Now multiply that couple's fear and programming by 700,000 San Francisco residents, all doing the same thing and you have an entire city under the control of an agenda, the results of which you're seeing there now...
Bunch of sheep following the flock!
I know what you mean about the masks, it's pretty rare around here to see someone wearing a mask now, it's trailed off to almost nothing… But when I do see someone still doing that boy do I roll my eyes. most of the hard-core Lib programmed sheep NPC people hung on for years but finally gave up within the last year.
Wait until the Anti-Christ shows up. Many will bow 🙇♂️ down to the Devil.
Wait until the Anti-Christ shows up. Many will bow down 🙇♂️ to the Devil.
People voted for this.
No, they didn't.
I used to believe in the tooth fairy
They probably mostly voted for hyper-idealistic, platitudinous pablum… the evergreen-gullibles.
Wackos voted for it
Votes are 100% meaningless. Wake the F up.
I am stunned! I knew this area and heard it went down, but after seeing through Leo's lens I'm speechless. The old Market will not return.
true wow
America's definitely being transformed
It's called the NEW WORLD ORDER. This is an Agenda. Do your research. Wake up. This is all by design.
Wells Fargo closing on 322 is a clear signal to Skull and Bones. THEY are no longer in charge. The bell tolling in the Galleria mall was classic. Great video. It is shocking to see people walling around there. For what?
Zombies.
☠️🦉🌐🐍
Everything is CLOSED! Gone Now!
Now, as people have to be forced to walk around, they can admire the poop someone else left there for them.
Tbf Driving around San Francisco but fk all the poop and tents around it’s dangerous to walk around at night, but would prefer to walk like few years ago much better to get around with biking and buses driving just isn’t it in SF even back then
@@Fckituppp The dangerous part is on the south side west of the Salesforce Transit Center.
You’re providing us great information, thank you. The mainstream news won’t tell us. I’m glad to see you’re getting recognition.
great job democrats!
This is shocking. Our once bustling, Beautiful city is gone. I remember how absolutely busy and vibrant it was from 2014-2019. This is sickening. How are any of the restaurant staff surviving?
Mostly the Trump yrs ! Coincidence?
DECLINE BY DESIGN TO REBUILD 15 minute cities! The great reset AGENDA 2030
@@richardmorris7063 you piece of flatulence.
You do realize Kamala “aka DEI wonderFK WordSalad” was DA, Newsom was mayor before that trashbucket London Breed and Gascon was chief of police?
How about that rotten bucket of Apples?
@@richardmorris7063 you seem to forget Newsom, Gascon, Breed, Pelosi and Kamala Harris were all running that town and state during that time.
@@richardmorris7063 I know because I lived and worked there until I GTFO in July 2020.
It had already turned into a shithole by the time I left.
I have family who still live in San Francisco. Some are lifelong residents but most have been there three to four decades. They see the problems with the city yet still refuse to vote republican. They all are college educated yet they continue to repeat mistakes by voting liberal.
No crying when the entire real estate sector in SF collapses
Denial
College indoctrinated. Not educated.
You have some really stupid relatives
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
The man is back! Welcome!
I’m back!
Thanks for another great one Leo. How much more “Gone now!” can the city handle?
Good question!
Thanks!
Welcome!
Banks left because all of the businesses left or leaving. They have no business and the rent is high. Thanks to the drugs, thugs, thieves, politicians giving the shoplifters license to steal, the #1 tourist’s attractions in the world became a ghost town. I used to work at Spears and Howard, it’s so sad to see the city meet such demise.
So the thieves made them build bike lanes, street cars, and ban cars? Wake up 🥱!
@@robertmann446 wake up! The news below must be a lie I just googled now to find out. You wake up!
San Francisco's boom is going bust
One of the biggest catalysts for San Francisco's decline has been a rise in crime. Inventory shrink is bad around the country, per Walmart, Target, and Home Depot, but some businesses say it's no longer viable to stay in San Francisco specifically.
Nearly two dozen stores have said they plan to pull up stakes and leave San Francisco as the crime issue remains unresolved. Some of these retailers include Old Navy, Banana Republic, Crate & Barrel, AmazonGo, Saks Off Fifth, Anthropologie and Office Depot. Walgreens has been chaining up some of its most stolen goods from heavily shoplifted stores to prevent theft from further cutting into its bottom line.
@@robertmann446 just research why more than 2 dozens businesses closedown. You can wake up when you’re done.
@@robertmann446 street cars have been there for over 100 years google it. bike lanes officially painted maybe 15 years ago but people were biking on market without the lanes before that. there was actually a thriving courier/delivery industry in downtown SF. that's how many documents/pkgs arrived to your office. no cars i think 4 years during the plague.
All by design. 🐍
The loss of tax revenue must be causing some serious reductions in city maintenance. It's gonna look a lot worse in a few months or years.
Can’t wait!
@@db-rc5fr "The Night of the Living Dead" with Will Smith if you want a glimpse of it now.
imagine all the square footage of commercial building rooftops that need to be maintained by private owners. then no city maintenance for roads, sewers, etc... add in a couple of fires or a big natural disaster. that place will be Detroit west.
I remember the days when you were allowed to drive on market Street. There were a lot of cars and traffic. However, there were also a lot of people walking on the sidewalks shopping and going to work.
The people stopped going to work there in 2020.
Shocking! We stopped going into the city years ago because of safety concerns. SF was once a great city. There is no joy and nothing to be proud of anymore. This blight was caused by more reasons than just banning cars. See who’s in charge of the city. It’s a shame.
It is called: Build Bankruptcy Better.
6uild 6ack 6etter
San Francisco… CLOSED !!
Stores = Commerce. Commerce is not a necessary function for slaves.
THE HAMSTER WHEEL OF DEATH!!!
Kinda is, when the comm unist agenda is run on the working man's tax dollars
You will own nothing and WEF will be happy.
YOUW ILL OWN NOTHING & BE HAPPY
It is, when the entire left!st agenda depends upon taxes 🤣
"Get WOKE!?.... Go BROKE!"
You're clueless.
@@iGame3D nah you are.
San Francisco in ruins.
They destroyed thier city really fast.
Thank you, Leo. An unfortunate walk through what was paradise not too long ago.
Leo this is crazy back in 1993 i used to hang out in S.F with my boys drinking all night at bars and go to crazy horse and till the morning walking at night in street drunk. lol it was full of people walking day and night. im from bay Area seeing it its changed alot! everything is GONE! Lol! Thanks Leo like watching your video. be safe out there.
It used to be safe to walk everywhere in San Francisco after the bars were closed. I wouldn’t do it now.
I went to my first Oracle training in one of the office buildings on market Street back in the '90s. SF was a wonderful place back then. I looked forward to the classes there. Now they are long gone from that office and moved their corporate offices from California completely.
So, we all contributed to where we are today
As a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s, I got to ask, what was crazy horse in San Francisco?
Less Businesses Less Foot Traffic
And no tourism. At least there's that.
With cars you have even less foog traffic tho
I left in 2012…. Looks like The Thanos snap really happened. Emptiness
They banned cars in the centre of my city 40 years ago with the exact same results. They made some streets in the outskirts one way roads and the same thing happened with shops closing down everywhere.
If you dont punish crime crime punishes you
It's a crying shame that Market St. has become so desolate in a short amount of time. I just hope it recovers before my time is up or it's "Gone Now'. Thanks Leo.
In your dreams, Thank the governor & mayor
People wanted to be soft on crime. This is what happens.
You can just leave it’s not going to get better anytime soon
This will happen to every city, IN THE WORLD! Because people allow it! So who's fault? You people will reap what you sow!😊😊
Continual deteriorating of San Francisco and happening right before our eyes. A very sad time in California history.
St. Cloud, MN, tried this in 1973. 75% of the stores closed. And, remember, for up to five months the average temperature is 19F. Lasted for 20 years until they let vehicles drive again. Result? Downtown stores have returned.
Thank you for showing the beautiful city. It's so sad what's happening there. I really hope it can recover ❤
Manhattan looks like this too.
I miss San Francisco of the 1960s - suits, ties and fedoras.
Yes, I was born and raised in SF. People dressed up to go downtown.
Such was the way of the world back then, when the American dream was perfectly reachable.
It oozed class, sophistication, cosmopolitan upward mobility for those that wanted it.
Today's world is a grotesque, classless and mentally ill, drug-addled nightmare.
Hippies wore ties?
That’s what stood out for me in this video. People dressed sloppily, like they are ready to do yard work.
@@ericwalberg9261 hippies weren't everywhere. there were still normal people around. you had to go to specific areas of sf to see the hippies and it wasn't until about 66 that they stopped taking baths and you started smelling them
He looks and sounds like a 90s Narcos Hitman! 😆
" He used to be my Enemy! GONE NOW! "
- METAL LEO
When I watch this video, all I can do is cry. This is no longer the beautiful, vibrant city that it was when I lived there in the 70s and 80. It breaks my heart. 💔
Hello Metal Leo, 👋. I thought San Francisco was getting better? It doesn't look like it's getting better. Thank you for an amazing channel!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you too
Welcome back!!!
Thank you ! I’m BACK!!!
It starts over in Europe….spaces empty, no way to get rid go them… nobody there anymore
Really?? This is happening in Europe too?
@@springfauna1465 yes it does… small cities die and larger ones also.. empty space are no more rent … a whole culture disappears
@@BernadetteBuhl Ohh, that hurts my heart!! I haven't been there since the late 90's and one of things I loved were all the different small shops in France and The Netherlands.
@@springfauna1465 it s all gone more or less…. Chains left like everywhere… everything has changed over here too
@@springfauna1465 Yep, more crime from illegal immigration, higher community fees and taxes, minimum wage is rising everywhere. There is no Javier Milei in Europe. Greetings from Germany.
We moved the entire family and businesses OUT San Fransicko 7 years ago.ahahahahahahahaha
Ur gone now.
Oh, I just realized this is like watching a civilization collapse. I always wondered about ancient collapsed civilizations now we’re watching it in real time.
Keep doing what you do METAL LEO. The insanity continues 🤦🏻
Denver's doing the same thing, in slow motion. While they tear up the central city Mall on 16th Street. No foot traffic, no car traffic....
Californication of Colorado both states I avoid
Just curious...do you think Denver will soon look even somewhat close to this? Empty shoppes galore??
@@tonybartoli3655 yes 15th street and Champa looks just like this😒
I don't understand why?!! Like what's the plan? What's next??
@@springfauna1465 The elites plan for another reset of the world and implement their Agenda 2030 which states: "These are universal goals and targets which involve the entire world, developed and developing countries alike, etc." You may want to look into it further. Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum said "You will own nothing and be happy." The reset will include 15 minutes cities. These cities should be able to fulfill “key aspects of life” within a 15 minute walk or cycle from their home." These barren cities like SF, Colorado, etc. is the beginning of their plans. They want citizens to be contained in a radius of 15 minutes i.e. population control/depopulation, etc. It's not going to be a pretty sight. It's a reset, New World Order coming. And I am looking up for the return of Jesus Christ. He's the only one who can clean up this world mess and establish His just and true Kingdom.
I remember in mid 80's my Aunt and I both worked on Market street. We would sometimes meet up for lunch at Crocker Galleria, which was packed with people. Back then Market sidewalks were packed with suits. Stockbrokers, lawyers, bankers, insurance people. They are all gone now. What happened? Its like an apocalypse swept them all away.
This is worse than Thanos snapping away 1/2 the population in Avengers: Infinity Wars. In downtown SF it’s more like 95% just disappeared. Insane!
My office was on Sansome. If I had time, I'd cut over to Crocker Galleria (btw my first checking account was with Crocker Bank) grab something from the amazing food court and eat outside on the roof top garden. After lunch I'd window shop the three levels: Versace, Polo, Ravitz, the stationary store, or drop off a pair of shoes at the cobbler. The younger generation can't know what the internet has replaced.
What happened?
LOL
I'm guessing you voted hard left your whole life.
Don't forget the effect of online retail and its inherent advantage of having a fraction of the overhead required to run a brick and mortar store. Once those like amazon rose and made a lot of us addicted to their convenience and (at the time) lower prices in exchange for waiting a day or two for our stuff to arrive at our front door, what advantage could these places have to keep the bulk of us going to them? The microcosms that were shopping malls, is now playing out en masse, bad policy notwithstanding.
Office workers working from home happened
"For lease!"... "Gone now!" these voices are renting some corners in my head 😂😂 Thanks for the video, hope SF can heal itself. Greetings from Indonesia.
At 8:50 When I was homeless back in May 2020, I use to sleep on that porch.
Leo the Grim Reaper! Thanks for the video my friend!
I watch your videos just to hear you say Gaaawn Now!!!!, Metal Leo Hahahahaaaaa, Gaaaaawn Now
Great ear and translation for the phonetic spelling, that is a talent
I love how he says gone now
If this was a movie it would be unbelievable.
Thanks Leo ❤
America is gone now.
Used to work on Market Street and it was quite bustling, cars everywhere, lines at Starbucks. Wow.
We used drive all the way down from Chico CA to take the ferry over from Vallejo and catch the BART at the Embarcadero station and get off at Montgomery station and walk over to Union Square and have the best time ever in the city. It's truly shocking to see everything away blown away and boarded up. We're not going back anytime soon.
"15 mins cities" being created.
It's the New Reservation for the White man and every other color now!!!!👈🏻🧐
Not quite they'll be inland they don't want you living near the ocean
@@fernandoscrenci4874 Yeah, but it's for like the lame city Liberal white people 😂
All cities are 15 minute cities. Once you have to replace the plumbing, it makes the foundation unstable....... Only idiots pretend that a skyscraper has a lifespan beyond about fifty years......same for any building. Only stupid people ever believed the lie. You cant tunnel next to the foundation.... to replace pipes , unless you are prepared to put in a new foundation, and that means a building teardown.
@@comfeefort you got a taste of that recently 2020 to 2022. has your JAB kicked in yet?
Here Gavin Newsom, watch this, the whole state GONE NOW!
I remember walking and also driving there. I think there is a deeper problem to this than just the ban of cars. If enough people and tourists would walk and shop in safety the stores would flourish.
Didn't live there, but I used to deliveries to all the independent retailers. Those streets used to be so crowded, you couldn't move.
It’s so sad to see all of the “Gone Now” memories. SF was such a thriving, vibrant, world. Had so much Character and charm. Time will tell. What they are up to. There must be a plan we aren’t allowed to know.
Ooooop''sss..!!!!????
GONE NOW! 😎🎸
They banned cars in Oakpark
Illinois years ago. When all the stores and business died they spent years trying to bring them back and is now recovering as a city with cars and parking. The speeding buses in SF seem dangerous and it is more of a freeway than a city for people.
Burbank closed streets and had a walking mall when I was a kid. Didn't work. We'd drive to the Zody's department store nearby, but never go to the walking mall. Downtown Burbank was a hollow shell of a suburban downtown by the '80s.
The buses in SF are super dangerous. They don't stop for anybody because they can't. All that weight and high speed mixed with the open road is dangerous 🎉
They built a multi-billion dollar transit hub which no bus could arrive to or leave from because of the density of traffic outside of it.
I grew up visiting my grandparents at least twice a year in San Francisco from Los Angeles. I never really liked the weather up there, but I could appreciate San Francisco but it’s just really hard to believe how the city manager is officials have destroyed that city. It’s really a shame my grandparents immigrated there from Italy and loved it spending their whole life there.
I'm 63 and I grew up and was born and raised in the Bay area and it's so sad to see what it's like now