I used to work security that ride bikes in that district.. the Historic Core BID (Green shirts) Our command post was next to The Last Book Store and it had underground tunnels. We once walked down there and saw old bank vaults. It was creepy, we got a bit lost and when we went up the wrong staircase, we ended up being inside The Last Book Store. Furthermore, I knew a guard that worked the at Alexandrea Hotel on 5th and Spring, above the Down N' Out bar and he said that the tunnels underneath that hotel were creepy and haunted. Same for the business on Broadway street, they have underground tunnels.
Wait a sec. The LAST Book Store is right next the the Cecil Hotel, (The Stay on Main) right? 🤔 I'd been wondering if there were tunnels either in or very near The Cecil for a while now.
A friend of mine and his wife enjoy doing open houses, not to buy building they could not afford anyway, but to see the architecture, decor, etc. in the DC area. They went to one in a Maryland suburb about five years ago that had a huge living room two storeys high; the bedrooms were on the second story and had a walkway all around overlooking the main area below. The owners had been living there for several years until they needed plumbing work done. As plumbers will, they bashed in walls to find the source of the leak. In a hall closet by the front door, they found the pipes needing repair, along with a staircase going down. The owners knew the house had a basement, but only under the rear half; this basement not only took up the entire front half of the building, but continued out under the entire front lawn: in that cave was both a bandstand and a bar. Another bar was in the part under the house. The place had been a speakeasy in the 20s. Dancing under the lawn where the neighbors could not hear the band, serious drinking in the front basement, and other entertainment upstairs. Gentlemen occupying couches in the living room cast their eyes heavenward, not for salvation, but to take their pick of ladies of negotiable horizontality strolling around the walkway above. Yes, it was the 20s' answer to the one-stop shopping center for sin.
These tunnels actually ran all the way through 12th street under the public works building, but it has since been sealed and concrete poured in. Businesses used to use them back in the day to transport money because they kept getting robbed on regular surface streets.
You should see the underground tunnels in Charlotte, NC. They connect all the bank HQs to the Federal Reserve Bank. A few tunnels have doors that still connect to the old mining tunnels that run all over downtown Charlotte. Those doors are rarely opened and only serve to drain the tunnels in case of flood, which has never happened.
There are a number of houses up in the Hollywood hills that have tunnels that connect to other houses. There were also a number of ships that would leave out of long beach and sail out 20 miles off the cost so people could drink. Floating speakeasy's.
@@accimesylvia1129 A number of years ago, some time in the 90's, I remember a friend of mine was renting a little one bedroom on a hillside near I think Echo Park or maybe Griffith Park I don't remember exactly but it was of of Riverside Drive. There where a number of little bungalows and studios kind of nestled together on this hill side and below them at base was Riverside Drive and there where a number of private garages that kind of went into the hillside a bit. I just remember one day that I went to visit my friend and the whole place for like 5 blocks was all evacuated and the bomb squad was working out of one of those garages. Apparently this guy who owned the garage had secretly tunneled back into the hillside some 300 feet or so, don't quote me on that number as I'm recalling from memory here but it was pretty far into the hillside to say the least. The tunnel passed right underneath probably half a dozen residences including my friends house. After this guy burrowed all that way into the mountain and did it without any one finding out he bunkered it out and started stock piling explosives in it. Not just a little bit but like a national guard armory bit. He had kegs of black powder and gun powder, C-4, dynamite, ammonium nitrate and cases upon cases of ammunition, as well as Claymore mines and other military grade hardware. Then there was his gun collection of hundreds of guns of all different makes and models. The guy had been working for 8 years (again don't quote me on that) digging it all out by hand all by himself. I'm not sure how he was found out but apparently there was enough explosives packed in that tunnel that had it gone off It would have taken out all of the houses above it and would have sent the two classic cars parked at the front of the garage rocketing out like cannon balls from a cannon. I have no idea why this guy was hording so much explosives or even how he got his hands on the explosives but all of those people living there on top of that ticking time bomb had no idea it was even there. I'm a firm believer in the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms but I think this is out of control. It's a crazy F'd up world we live in.
I’ve explored many tunnels with my father around the old bank district area. (4th and main st) Many of them are sealed off to the public, but these historic buildings are a city of their own. FYI, many of these building around the district connect to King Eddy’s saloon.
You guys would LOVE the history of Azusa Street. The events that happened there made an impact that is far reaching around the world and still remaining to this day.
these are now fenced up, I remember back in 2000 when I was a messenger being able to bike as far as I could while waiting for archives to pull my files
Very cool! Took that elevator many times while researching a couple biographical articles I had published almost 2 decades ago. I well recall spending hours amongst those dusty shelves poring over old court records. Thanks for the memories.
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
Most buildings had coal fired hot water heat. The sidewalk lifts were for removing the cinders from the boilers. After coal is burned, the rock and other minerals form cynders that are heavy and would be cumbersome to carry up steps.
This is my new favorite episode for this season's Oddity Odysseys. WOW! I learned a bunch and was entertained at the same time. Loved the interview and connection between King Eddy's, too. The reference to the underground access between City Hall and the underground tunnels blew me away! Back in the day, this underground world was thriving. I had no idea. Thanks for another GREAT episode!
Well kudos to spotting that, but that hall wasn't supposed to be abandoned, and it's not like they were asked to leave, so... I'm not sure what that accomplished.
I work in a building a couple of businesses over from the king eddy and we have basement access and when I first went in to our basement, I immediately figured it could have been part of the old tunnels. Wish I could explore it more
At the end of my senior year at Pasadena High School in 1967, I went to a beer party following an awards banquet. We went to a California-Spanish house on the north side of New York Drive, in Altadena. It was empty of furniture and was owned by one of the kid's families. One of the gang asked to have the host "show Potter the basement". He took us to a master bedroom, opening a large, cedar-lined walk-in closet. He moved a hidden lever and the floor hinged up, revealing a staircase. This led to (really, this wasn't a dream) a series of brick-walled and paved walkways, open to the underfloor structure. One led to a full-height vault door, open, and showing a wood-paneled room with empty shelves. Another led to a barred, covered tunnel and the last led to the rear of the house. The host explained that this had been a secret gambling casino for the Altadena Country Club, due south of the house. The barred opening led to a tunnel that ran down to the Club, since filled in about 50' down. When the family bought the house, they removed a layer of carpeting in the master bedroom, showing indentations in the old carpet where the roulette table legs had stood. We went back up and continued the party. It all had to have been real, I guess.
Interesting that the elevator down to the Hall of Records tunnels was so easily accessible! From the time I've spent in the US I definitely got the impression that people are very intent on blocking access to restricted/private property. Cool to see an exception!
Most people think LA has no history. But its full of history . Take the names of some of major streets in LA . There are names of people in the LA's past. Not to mention the names of the neighborhoods.
Love this weeks video!!! It's really entertaining and informative, like all your work!!! I just cannot believe all the 1000s of videos out there that someone talks about what they had for breakfast!!! Or 10 reasons why they like going to the bathroom with the door open!!! How and why do those videos get so many hits??? Please keep up the great work!!! All your following really enjoy it!!!!
It says there are two replies to this comment, now there should be three including mine but when I expand it I'm only shown one reply. I came back to this video because I got a notification that someone replied to one of my comments. It was a bit of an off color remark but nothing to crazy but when I read the replies there it's no where to be found. It showed up in my E-mail and it shows it's there in regards to the amount of replies but again when I expand the replies it isn't shown. Why youtube do you feel it is your job to police the conversations taking place here? OK. I can understand taking down comments attacking others for race and religious bigotries so this place doesn't turn in to a cesspool but arbitrarily ghosting peoples comments that you don't like, the ones that challenge the carefully crafted public narrative is taking things to an Orwellington level of suppression and is in my opinion unacceptable. This platform was developed as a censorship free place to share and express ideas and opinions that otherwise would have died in the wilderness never to have been heard or seen. It was left to the people to filter out the BS. This kind of censorship is exactly what the developers rallied against. TH-cam knock it off.
Just re-watched this oldie but goodie, and WOW, what an interesting episode. Beth is great in her interview, BTW. So interesting to think about the prohibition era and what went on at the King Eddy and elsewhere. Excellent quotes, too. Thanks for another informative and fun episode!
Awesome shots here and SPOOKY........great episode. Feels like you are part of the exploration of the tunnels and the discovery of how it all fit together back in the day. So glad that you two didn't get trapped in the elevator! Thanks for bringing light (literally) to the prohibition era. Really fascinating.
Look into scoping out the old Ridge Road near Castaic. I hea in the 20s that area was chock-a-block with speakeasies. Check it out first large parts of it are still closed off due to forest fire and floods.
Love it 🍻!!! You were so right, this is what I love about LA!! So unbelievable how well constructed those tunnels are! I'm shocked they haven't tied the Metro Line into them? I wouldn't want to be down there during an earthquake! 😳
The premise of this video is misleading. The hall of records tunnels were not built during prohibition. They are service tunnels to connect to the County of Los Angeles' central plant - across Temple street from Hall of Records - for building heating and cooling. There are many county court buildings in this complex. When you drive on CA-101, you can see the evaporation that looks like smoke from a power plant.
When I was a kid (I was born in '65), I remember a lot of those sidewalk freight elevators were still being used! In fact, some may still be in service. You can see some of them in the Three Stooges shorts, from back then.
People today just don't seem to realize just how much money prohibition brought to organized crime and it's brother, politics. Mayors, judges, police cheifs, even governors and their underlings. Los Angeles and 'the mob' were very well connected under such people as Mickey Cohen and Benjamin 'Bugsy' Segal as well as several Mayors, judges, and a numbers of LA police cheifs. LAPD was 'The Gang' one had to go through in order to have any kind of illegal activity in Los Angeles. There are a number of articles online covering this subject. One particularly interesting story is that of Clifford Clinton (the founder of Clifton's Cafeteria) and his fight with corruption in LA. www.kcet.org/shows/departures/clifford-clinton-the-man-and-his-cafeteria-shaped-food-and-politics-in-la
You can see street-level lifting mechanism in operation, like the one they point out at 11:12, in a 1929 Laurel and Hardy silent movie titled "Liberty", that is also in Los Angeles.
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
Hello, I know it's not open for the public, but did you guys see any no trespassing signs. Or is the elevator just there in the open or do you need to jump over any door or gate
there are tunnels going from Jack N/Marlon Brando's houses (which is why Jack bought Marlon's house....and Warren Beatty's establishment straight to HH's playboy mansion....trafficking young girls etc. etc.
Love your videos! Have been watching them all back to back. I got a good laugh when Drew went left looking for the escalator at 12:23 when he was standing right in front of a sign showing the escalator was to the right.
At the now Wells Fargo center building aka Crocker center in DTLA in the parking on P4 level there are lines carved in the cement floor that curve like a road and Leeds straight to what seems like a concrete wall the end of the level 4 parking but it’s not it’s a hallow wall and there’s a small hole on it to the left bottom and if you see in you can see what looks like an old subway tunnel it and if you go even more down to P-5 on one wall there is a door behind that door there is a huge tunnel that goes underneath the building to the other side and continue on to the Bank of America building or cal 1 not sure which one
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
So weird to see this now in 2024. There are certain areas in downtown that always gave me an eerie feeling and I would sense things going on underground. Also there's a large opening at the end of Chinatown under Elysian park that I was convinced was a reptilian tunnel 😮
Nice history; right under people's shoes. The speakeasy times are indeed interesting. And I hope you washed down your under Los Angeles explorations with a cool, frosty beverage! Thanks, Bethany and Drew. Keith
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
Been a security in downtown for many years now and I’ve worked most building on spring st main st broadway and hill st the stuff I have seen in this basements is beyond crazy ball rooms bars and in the room right next to that there was Bank bolts and safety deposit boxes so crazy the king eddy is not as interesting as the security lofts and also the Alexandria hotel so many
There are more taller larger tunnels below where they went. I went there years ago. I wish they could have went there or I could have went with them to show everyone. Room enough for big trucks.
It's correct that it would cost too much. What's great about that bar is that it's not a "trend" and a perfect spot to have a drink in downtown without the madness of crowds. We highly recommend it :)
The city won’t allow it cause the fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
That oval shaped vent with the whirrelling sound had a fast spinning fan in the shadows and if you had climbed up just a couple feet more, it would have chopped your head off!
Their is actually a Bar in my rural town here in PA that had their liqueur licenses since 1933. And it has been Passed down through generations beaing ran by the same Family
He could rebuild the cellar King Eddy Saloon into a speak easy bar again for attracting more clientele, do a whole theme and band night thing. cellar would dampen the sound a lot more.
They should restore the speakeasy into original condition and then charge people a fortune to drink there. They should serve original type drinks and food. They should also either restore or build a secrete it for folks to have fun leaving in.
Pretty cool video. A few years ago, I saw a similar show about the tunnels on the History Channel called "Cities of the Underworld". I think Don Wilder hosted.
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
So, how did you get out of the tunnels? Did you back down the escalator and then up the crackly old elevator? I went on a tour of the Seattle Underground back in the late 70's. You go to Doc Maynards bar in Pioneer Square and they have tours. Anyway, the guy giving the tour told us about the bums that would get down there and sleep or live sometimes. He was walking a tour through and they came upon one of these guys. He was all angry and started pounding on the guide! The people in the tour thought it was part of the tour and the guy got throttled! True story? Could be. I wouldn't go down where you guys went without "backup."
Awesome videos, they are so well made, and I live near LA and had no clue many of these things existed. I am going to have to explore them. Also, what knife does Bethany carry?
I used to work security that ride bikes in that district.. the Historic Core BID (Green shirts) Our command post was next to The Last Book Store and it had underground tunnels. We once walked down there and saw old bank vaults. It was creepy, we got a bit lost and when we went up the wrong staircase, we ended up being inside The Last Book Store. Furthermore, I knew a guard that worked the at Alexandrea Hotel on 5th and Spring, above the Down N' Out bar and he said that the tunnels underneath that hotel were creepy and haunted. Same for the business on Broadway street, they have underground tunnels.
Wait a sec.
The LAST Book Store is right next the the Cecil Hotel, (The Stay on Main) right? 🤔
I'd been wondering if there were tunnels either in or very near The Cecil for a while now.
@@brandixx7453 me too!
This is where they do human trafficking and other evil acts like Epstein and other elites
I’m from the purple team Mann tell me More I work the afternoon shift getting off at night !!!???
Fuck Barneys 💯@@Alokikc45
A friend of mine and his wife enjoy doing open houses, not to buy building they could not afford anyway, but to see the architecture, decor, etc. in the DC area. They went to one in a Maryland suburb about five years ago that had a huge living room two storeys high; the bedrooms were on the second story and had a walkway all around overlooking the main area below. The owners had been living there for several years until they needed plumbing work done. As plumbers will, they bashed in walls to find the source of the leak. In a hall closet by the front door, they found the pipes needing repair, along with a staircase going down. The owners knew the house had a basement, but only under the rear half; this basement not only took up the entire front half of the building, but continued out under the entire front lawn: in that cave was both a bandstand and a bar. Another bar was in the part under the house. The place had been a speakeasy in the 20s. Dancing under the lawn where the neighbors could not hear the band, serious drinking in the front basement, and other entertainment upstairs. Gentlemen occupying couches in the living room cast their eyes heavenward, not for salvation, but to take their pick of ladies of negotiable horizontality strolling around the walkway above. Yes, it was the 20s' answer to the one-stop shopping center for sin.
These tunnels actually ran all the way through 12th street under the public works building, but it has since been sealed and concrete poured in. Businesses used to use them back in the day to transport money because they kept getting robbed on regular surface streets.
You should see the underground tunnels in Charlotte, NC. They connect all the bank HQs to the Federal Reserve Bank. A few tunnels have doors that still connect to the old mining tunnels that run all over downtown Charlotte. Those doors are rarely opened and only serve to drain the tunnels in case of flood, which has never happened.
There are a number of houses up in the Hollywood hills that have tunnels that connect to other houses. There were also a number of ships that would leave out of long beach and sail out 20 miles off the cost so people could drink. Floating speakeasy's.
click... clack.. (i'm winking my eye bro! Jake A Lope!? shh!)
Just like the tunnels under Epstein’s island, same thing, gotta traffic them somehow right 🤦🏽♂️
Its crazy
What's inside the mountains tho?
@@accimesylvia1129 A number of years ago, some time in the 90's, I remember a friend of mine was renting a little one bedroom on a hillside near I think Echo Park or maybe Griffith Park I don't remember exactly but it was of of Riverside Drive. There where a number of little bungalows and studios kind of nestled together on this hill side and below them at base was Riverside Drive and there where a number of private garages that kind of went into the hillside a bit. I just remember one day that I went to visit my friend and the whole place for like 5 blocks was all evacuated and the bomb squad was working out of one of those garages. Apparently this guy who owned the garage had secretly tunneled back into the hillside some 300 feet or so, don't quote me on that number as I'm recalling from memory here but it was pretty far into the hillside to say the least. The tunnel passed right underneath probably half a dozen residences including my friends house. After this guy burrowed all that way into the mountain and did it without any one finding out he bunkered it out and started stock piling explosives in it. Not just a little bit but like a national guard armory bit. He had kegs of black powder and gun powder, C-4, dynamite, ammonium nitrate and cases upon cases of ammunition, as well as Claymore mines and other military grade hardware. Then there was his gun collection of hundreds of guns of all different makes and models. The guy had been working for 8 years (again don't quote me on that) digging it all out by hand all by himself. I'm not sure how he was found out but apparently there was enough explosives packed in that tunnel that had it gone off It would have taken out all of the houses above it and would have sent the two classic cars parked at the front of the garage rocketing out like cannon balls from a cannon. I have no idea why this guy was hording so much explosives or even how he got his hands on the explosives but all of those people living there on top of that ticking time bomb had no idea it was even there. I'm a firm believer in the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms but I think this is out of control. It's a crazy F'd up world we live in.
I’ve explored many tunnels with my father around the old bank district area. (4th and main st) Many of them are sealed off to the public, but these historic buildings are a city of their own. FYI, many of these building around the district connect to King Eddy’s saloon.
jose herrera ?
Anaheim, Magnolia '73, by any chance?
Mui MasMacho downtown Los Angeles
Mui MasMacho sorry, I’m only 26yrs 😂 class of 2012 Belmont high
Boo… Beth is wearing way to much clothing in this one.
You guys would LOVE the history of Azusa Street. The events that happened there made an impact that is far reaching around the world and still remaining to this day.
What happened there?
Why is this not a netflix show already ??
I agree.
PBS worthy....
@Free R kelly 😂😂why
more more more more more more - Homer Simpson
Hahaha
these are now fenced up, I remember back in 2000 when I was a messenger being able to bike as far as I could while waiting for archives to pull my files
I like the fact that this Girl ALWAYS wears an "I love LA" shirt!! (y)
Yeah! We LOVE L.A.
Dont forget a skirt too!
@@SandyWolf- yeah thats true ! She looks so sweet !
Very cool! Took that elevator many times while researching a couple biographical articles I had published almost 2 decades ago. I well recall spending hours amongst those dusty shelves poring over old court records. Thanks for the memories.
Love old History like this.Thanks for the tour....
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
Most buildings had coal fired hot water heat. The sidewalk lifts were for removing the cinders from the boilers. After coal is burned, the rock and other minerals form cynders that are heavy and would be cumbersome to carry up steps.
This is my new favorite episode for this season's Oddity Odysseys. WOW! I learned a bunch and was entertained at the same time. Loved the interview and connection between King Eddy's, too. The reference to the underground access between City Hall and the underground tunnels blew me away! Back in the day, this underground world was thriving. I had no idea. Thanks for another GREAT episode!
Basement of the Cecil Hotel has great history. Plus a secret hatch to go under the basement even further. I love working in this spooky ass building
20's are back in 2 years 😉
Minds. Blown.
You mean in 1 Month now !
NvrMissBravo
I see an opportunity to bring back Fedoras and Trench coats.
@@couragew6260 1 week now!
It's here. AND IT SUCKS!!! Take me back to 2019.
Prayers for all the poor children that’s been there!
You mean homeless people?
3:06 someone's at the end of the hall
Well kudos to spotting that, but that hall wasn't supposed to be abandoned, and it's not like they were asked to leave, so... I'm not sure what that accomplished.
I work in a building a couple of businesses over from the king eddy and we have basement access and when I first went in to our basement, I immediately figured it could have been part of the old tunnels. Wish I could explore it more
At the end of my senior year at Pasadena High School in 1967, I went to a beer party following an awards banquet. We went to a California-Spanish house on the north side of New York Drive, in Altadena. It was empty of furniture and was owned by one of the kid's families. One of the gang asked to have the host "show Potter the basement". He took us to a master bedroom, opening a large, cedar-lined walk-in closet. He moved a hidden lever and the floor hinged up, revealing a staircase. This led to (really, this wasn't a dream) a series of brick-walled and paved walkways, open to the underfloor structure. One led to a full-height vault door, open, and showing a wood-paneled room with empty shelves. Another led to a barred, covered tunnel and the last led to the rear of the house. The host explained that this had been a secret gambling casino for the Altadena Country Club, due south of the house. The barred opening led to a tunnel that ran down to the Club, since filled in about 50' down. When the family bought the house, they removed a layer of carpeting in the master bedroom, showing indentations in the old carpet where the roulette table legs had stood. We went back up and continued the party. It all had to have been real, I guess.
Interesting that the elevator down to the Hall of Records tunnels was so easily accessible! From the time I've spent in the US I definitely got the impression that people are very intent on blocking access to restricted/private property. Cool to see an exception!
Most people think LA has no history. But its full of history . Take the names of some of major streets in LA . There are names of people in the LA's past. Not to mention the names of the neighborhoods.
4:25 anyone see the guy in the corner of the hallway
Junior Septiceye yes
oh a city worker
i actually went recently and we heard doors open and no one was there, we thought it was the security guards or smthg
Love this weeks video!!!
It's really entertaining and informative, like all your work!!!
I just cannot believe all the 1000s of videos out there that someone talks about what they had for breakfast!!!
Or 10 reasons why they like going to the bathroom with the door open!!!
How and why do those videos get so many hits???
Please keep up the great work!!! All your following really enjoy it!!!!
Correction: There's supposed 11 miles of service tunnels under LA, and 70 miles of tunnels total. Many are said to be ancient.
And who the frick are you 🤡
@@thedriver8534 he's not wrong
It says there are two replies to this comment, now there should be three including mine but when I expand it I'm only shown one reply. I came back to this video because I got a notification that someone replied to one of my comments. It was a bit of an off color remark but nothing to crazy but when I read the replies there it's no where to be found. It showed up in my E-mail and it shows it's there in regards to the amount of replies but again when I expand the replies it isn't shown. Why youtube do you feel it is your job to police the conversations taking place here? OK. I can understand taking down comments attacking others for race and religious bigotries so this place doesn't turn in to a cesspool but arbitrarily ghosting peoples comments that you don't like, the ones that challenge the carefully crafted public narrative is taking things to an Orwellington level of suppression and is in my opinion unacceptable. This platform was developed as a censorship free place to share and express ideas and opinions that otherwise would have died in the wilderness never to have been heard or seen. It was left to the people to filter out the BS. This kind of censorship is exactly what the developers rallied against. TH-cam knock it off.
Just re-watched this oldie but goodie, and WOW, what an interesting episode. Beth is great in her interview, BTW. So interesting to think about the prohibition era and what went on at the King Eddy and elsewhere. Excellent quotes, too. Thanks for another informative and fun episode!
I’ve always wanted to visit The King Eddy. Maybe one day.
Awesome shots here and SPOOKY........great episode. Feels like you are part of the exploration of the tunnels and the discovery of how it all fit together back in the day. So glad that you two didn't get trapped in the elevator! Thanks for bringing light (literally) to the prohibition era. Really fascinating.
That elevator was certainly a risk ;) Thank you so much for watching!
So I'm more than two years late for this one but you two are awesome.
This reminds me of the movie Us
Look into scoping out the old Ridge Road near Castaic. I hea in the 20s that area was chock-a-block with speakeasies. Check it out first large parts of it are still closed off due to forest fire and floods.
Love it 🍻!!! You were so right, this is what I love about LA!! So unbelievable how well constructed those tunnels are! I'm shocked they haven't tied the Metro Line into them? I wouldn't want to be down there during an earthquake! 😳
We kept running through escape plans in our heads in case an earthquake did happen. Luckily, it didn't! Thanks for watching :)
The tree wall paintings were used to direct patrons to secret exits in the event of a police raid
You missed a few places in the Hall of Records like the electronics control room, no longer used but can be seen behind a glass window.
Entertaining, informative, humorous. You videos are awesome. Great dialogue and just a pleasure to watch.
The premise of this video is misleading. The hall of records tunnels were not built during prohibition. They are service tunnels to connect to the County of Los Angeles' central plant - across Temple street from Hall of Records - for building heating and cooling. There are many county court buildings in this complex. When you drive on CA-101, you can see the evaporation that looks like smoke from a power plant.
When I was a kid (I was born in '65), I remember a lot of those sidewalk freight elevators were still being used!
In fact, some may still be in service.
You can see some of them in the Three Stooges shorts, from back then.
People today just don't seem to realize just how much money prohibition brought to organized crime and it's brother, politics. Mayors, judges, police cheifs, even governors and their underlings. Los Angeles and 'the mob' were very well connected under such people as Mickey Cohen and Benjamin 'Bugsy' Segal as well as several Mayors, judges, and a numbers of LA police cheifs. LAPD was 'The Gang' one had to go through in order to have any kind of illegal activity in Los Angeles.
There are a number of articles online covering this subject. One particularly interesting story is that of Clifford Clinton (the founder of Clifton's Cafeteria) and his fight with corruption in LA.
www.kcet.org/shows/departures/clifford-clinton-the-man-and-his-cafeteria-shaped-food-and-politics-in-la
Another great video! This should definitely be on Netflix or a similar service.
2:32. Touches the elevator button, touches nose, touches button. Nice.
This is my favorite channel on youtube. Love you guys. always fun stuff looking forward to the rest of your videos!!!
So much electricity in use and no one around. Who pays to operate all those lights, the escalator, all the equipment one can hear operating?
Tax money
Love video where people finding old stuff
I would be so scared to explore that I can’t even explore my own basement
You can see street-level lifting mechanism in operation, like the one they point out at 11:12, in a 1929 Laurel and Hardy silent movie titled "Liberty", that is also in Los Angeles.
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
Drew, You and your daughter are doing a good job.
Been there few times...awesome place but little creepy. There's one by the old Pico House...you just gotta look
No shit ? I'm new to L.A and I'm actually mad interested in checking this stuff out. Any details ?
Where is it at? Can u give directions plz
I looked and found nothin
4:53 I believe is where they did the underground scene in the 1988 movie They Live right after they drop through the hole in the ground in the movie.
Hello, I know it's not open for the public, but did you guys see any no trespassing signs. Or is the elevator just there in the open or do you need to jump over any door or gate
Why don’t People tell the main reason for the tunnels in the past few years
I will be the first one who watched this video just because the current concern of nuclear war. This tunnel will save lives!
Kids are kidnapped and/or enticed into the tunnels...
By a clown?
there are tunnels going from Jack N/Marlon Brando's houses (which is why Jack bought Marlon's house....and Warren Beatty's establishment straight to HH's playboy mansion....trafficking young girls etc. etc.
Love your videos! Have been watching them all back to back. I got a good laugh when Drew went left looking for the escalator at 12:23 when he was standing right in front of a sign showing the escalator was to the right.
Your guys channels are awesome thank you 😎 there interesting something people don’t know.
Not sure if it qualifies as an oddity, but there was a "Hawaii Theater" at 5941 Hollywood Blvd.
Thanks for the suggestion! We're always looking for new places whether they can be classified as an "oddity" or not :)
Awesome vid. Your vids just keep getting better and better. Keep up the great work. You guys need your own tv show. Awesome footage and stories.
Thank you so much! :)
At the now Wells Fargo center building aka Crocker center in DTLA in the parking on P4 level there are lines carved in the cement floor that curve like a road and Leeds straight to what seems like a concrete wall the end of the level 4 parking but it’s not it’s a hallow wall and there’s a small hole on it to the left bottom and if you see in you can see what looks like an old subway tunnel it and if you go even more down to P-5 on one wall there is a door behind that door there is a huge tunnel that goes underneath the building to the other side and continue on to the Bank of America building or cal 1 not sure which one
Great vid guys! Every time I hear the word "Prohibition" I can't help but think about one of my favorite shows "Boardwalk Empire" !!!
Good call on "Boardwalk Empire"! :)
Wow forget the tunnels, the bar was incredible,
Those tunnels are literally only for the city steam and central heating/cooling system
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
So weird to see this now in 2024. There are certain areas in downtown that always gave me an eerie feeling and I would sense things going on underground. Also there's a large opening at the end of Chinatown under Elysian park that I was convinced was a reptilian tunnel 😮
Where’s the tunnel located in the park? It sounds like an interesting place to visit.
@@ZacharyRodriguezVlogs on Google maps it shows up using this address 1551 N Broadway la, ca 90012. It's located behind the utility pole.
Nice history; right under people's shoes. The speakeasy times are indeed interesting. And I hope you washed down your under Los Angeles explorations with a cool, frosty beverage! Thanks, Bethany and Drew. Keith
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
Been a security in downtown for many years now and I’ve worked most building on spring st main st broadway and hill st the stuff I have seen in this basements is beyond crazy ball rooms bars and in the room right next to that there was Bank bolts and safety deposit boxes so crazy the king eddy is not as interesting as the security lofts and also the Alexandria hotel so many
There are more taller larger tunnels below where they went. I went there years ago. I wish they could have went there or I could have went with them to show everyone.
Room enough for big trucks.
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Awesome video! I wonder why the owner doesn't renovate that speakeasy?! It'd be such a cool place to have a bar
Definitely, but I'm guessing renovating that much space would be terribly expensive, city permits, etc,
It's correct that it would cost too much. What's great about that bar is that it's not a "trend" and a perfect spot to have a drink in downtown without the madness of crowds. We highly recommend it :)
almondsaregreat because to make it legal for people to be down there will cost a ton of money.
@@mrantropologist8020
It's legal to go down there.
With a "trained tour guide".
The city won’t allow it cause the fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
Great video and interesting story.
Just went there today. I believe the elevators have been shut off.
You guys should explore the very first subway on 4th and Hill...Not too many people know of that creepy subway. I've been there and it's creep af
aye where exactly is this entrance if you don't mind me asking
That oval shaped vent with the whirrelling sound had a fast spinning fan in the shadows and if you had climbed up just a couple feet more, it would have chopped your head off!
Nah..thats a bank chute...looks down the middle...heavily used scrape marks from money drops...
5:46 That’s the entrance to the Power Plant.
There’s way more tunnels then that all the old school LAPD cops in the area know all the entrances. That’s like 10% of what’s there
I like the dynamic shift. Your whole content is sweet, quaint and unassuming :-)
From East Los Angles
Thank you! :)
...well done guys, love this stuff!!
Wow I love this! thank you
Sick location this is one I definitely need to visit !! 🔥
Hmu, I'll go with.
How, absolutely, fascinating!!!
Hi Peter!! 😊
😍
3:06 no a person in sight but there is someone with a rollaway walking to the right down the hall.
Good eye! I don't think we even noticed that guy on the day we shot!
I don't think those are the prohibition tunnels. The real tunnels are shaped like a half tube and lined in bricks.
Didn’t see the secret entrance -tunnel to king Eddie’s. Bummer.
I love that all of these are in LA, young Angelino boutta go adventuring
Niiiice :)
Their is actually a Bar in my rural town here in PA that had their liqueur licenses since 1933. And it has been Passed down through generations beaing ran by the same Family
What used to take place here? How about what still takes place here?
4:21 you can see someone in the hall of records in the very back he is also wearing balck
He could rebuild the cellar King Eddy Saloon into a speak easy bar again for attracting more clientele, do a whole theme and band night thing. cellar would dampen the sound a lot more.
1:52 that is really nice writing
They should restore the speakeasy into original condition and then charge people a fortune to drink there. They should serve original type drinks and food. They should also either restore or build a secrete it for folks to have fun leaving in.
Wait...your going down to the 2nd level and back up to the ground level ??? How is that under anything ???
YOOO it’s the tunnels from the movie US i bet
Got some Resident Evil vibe!
4:54 that is a bank chute..thats where they drop bags of money down from the bank..if u look the scrape marks go all the way down in the middle..
Pretty cool video. A few years ago, I saw a similar show about the tunnels on the History Channel called "Cities of the Underworld". I think Don Wilder hosted.
The fact is there are tunnels like this all over the world not cause they were dug out yes some have been dug as extended areas for the newer metro trains etc but almost every city in the world has these it why we have a sewer system in the first place, the sewers weren’t some advance plan that was blue printed dug out and built by us, these places were all once street level and as things changed ground was moved through earthquakes and for intentional plans to build on and around all the older buildings some were knocked down to only the recent street level leaving the remains of old aqueducts and sometime the bottom floor witch would’ve been street level for the past civilization and also the basement would be left over and when more things were built on top of the remaining bottom floors they’ve now become the basements and underground tunnels of our civilization, basically our ground level Im most places starts on what would’ve been the 2nd story or 2nd floor of the past civilization, where our streets our could be build directly over one half of an old building essentially leaving small corridors and hallways that turn into random maze like underground structure, big picture and what the mainstream narrative want you to think was an intentionally built dug out that was made during prohibition, is really the outcome of the people we call founding fathers who found and rediscovered lands and continents with remains and infrastructure that had already been built and was left over and they laid claim on it built on and around the older remains tore down and or repurposed and restored some older buildings cause of the sturdiness of the old architecture it was so hard to knock down the left the bottom floors as somewhat of a foundation to build on it was hard enough breaking down the exposed parts of the buildings with wrecking balls so the portions that were buried usually the original bottom floors of the older remains were built on top of, I’m sure during the prohibition these were used but that’s not the original reason for them being there, what the mainstream won’t tell you is there were left over structures all offer the world from past civilizations, no Christopher Columbus came and discovered an empty wilderness land and started building from scratch there were remains everywhere,long before any founding fathers came, the natives here were using already built trains and tracks from the civilizations before them, and most lived in buildings like any other people yeah some lived off and on the lands but most of the photos you see of natives living in teepees are because they’re were oppressed and removed from place to place forced to have to live in their versions of tents when the white founders came and decided to take over they’re called that for a reason cause they found and some inherited it from there ancestors who were encouraged to come here and repopulate the and repurpose the already left over stuff I can go on about all kinds of other details and proofs for what I’m saying, do some research and thinking of your own cause if u just take everything the powers that be tell you at face value and think that their narrative is anything more than a BS story to create a history that ultimately makes u feel like your free in a free country instead of being actual modern day paid slaves for your masters and controllers who throw you change of the dollar for the labor you do while reaping the true benefits profits and fruits of your labor, while you live in a debt cycle paycheck to paycheck for most with no real money or valuables or private owned property for most, you may own ur house but you still pay mortgage on their land and are under their control while also paying for the basic necessities that the earth makes for us in abundance, yet you depend on the people who’ve taken control of those basic needs and sell them to you as if they have some Devine right to own and take control of things that come free, and put there hands out to collect, who gave them that right, to make you dependednt on them, don’t believe that, then ask ur self this, why to they teach or even encourage agriculture, if we were really free that would be the first thing we learned in school so we could all go home and be self sustainable collecting rain waters and growing our own foods not having to buy and eat there poisoned foods from markets we depend on, look at the food we eat and the health rates in America alone you think that’s not intentional to keep you sick so u go to their hospitals and take their medicines and your teeth rot an you go to their dentists, your money has no value, it used to be a silver dollar or 50 cent piece was worth is weight in silver or copper of gold 50$ bars money was a currency when it was backed in precious metal in the amount of its value, but they collected all that kept and horde it for themselfs while you work for IOU worthless paper and coins that aren’t worth the metal they’re made out of, and now it’s just an imaginary number in a computer system they control, when that’s gone then what they can freeze or crash the system whenever they feel like it but as long as you work so u can get you imaginary credit, then they’ll keep trading there modified versions of food water and everything else you don’t really need for your labor in advance so the few can get richer and richer and you remain depended on them for all things and if that doesn’t give you a a visual of the big picture, where can u go with out being subject to their imaginary boundaries checking in and out everywhere u go that they allow, and your not even checking in you luxuries you pay for are doing it for you, but your not a slave, sounds like house arrest to me but they give u a big piece of land so u think your free, but so would an animal in an enclosure that was big enough…. Go ahead and marinate on that. The facts of life…
So, how did you get out of the tunnels? Did you back down the escalator and then up the crackly old elevator? I went on a tour of the Seattle Underground back in the late 70's. You go to Doc Maynards bar in Pioneer Square and they have tours. Anyway, the guy giving the tour told us about the bums that would get down there and sleep or live sometimes. He was walking a tour through and they came upon one of these guys. He was all angry and started pounding on the guide! The people in the tour thought it was part of the tour and the guy got throttled! True story? Could be. I wouldn't go down where you guys went without "backup."
Awesome videos, they are so well made, and I live near LA and had no clue many of these things existed. I am going to have to explore them. Also, what knife does Bethany carry?
We love hearing when people live in/near LA and feel like they are seeing a different side to the city!
And what's under the tunnels. Layers and layers of tunnels and cities. More people/beings, underground than above. All will be revealed soon....
great video, I enjoyed it very much
Further down below are the secret entrances the Lords use. The lizard people.