L.A. River Special | Visiting with Huell Howser | KCET

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  • The Los Angeles River is often thought of as a huge concrete eyesore. Not anymore, at least not after you join Huell for this special 1 hour adventure where Huell literally travels down the miles of river bed stopping along the way to talk to some of the many people working hard to bring our river back to its natural state. He'll see the animals that call the river home, he'll learn about the many 'pocket parks' which connect the community back to the river allowing local families to relax and enjoy the view, and he'll get the scoop on what local government is doing on, in, under, and around the river to make clean and green.
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ความคิดเห็น • 107

  • @MikeFromNashville
    @MikeFromNashville 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Good Ole Huell. The original Vlogger before Vlogging existed.

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      live this guy, been watching since beginning

  • @gracie99999
    @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    “he’s casting his laaaaaiiiinnn”
    love his accent and how he’s almost
    musical when speaking
    As someone mentioned, he brings the best out of people as far as their passion is concerned

  • @xxxYYZxxx
    @xxxYYZxxx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    This was peak television programming. It can't get better than this. Huell was the original vlogger.

    • @sardu55
      @sardu55 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      DanOCan up in Canada has a lot in common with Huell in his approach and also his subject matter. He roams the open spaces seeking topics not usually take on by the big boys.

  • @ashxdesign
    @ashxdesign 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Love you Huell Howser, this type of interaction can never be forgotten! Huell has the ability to make the people he speaks to absolutely thrilled to discuss their doings, and genuinely just open up. What a legend!

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💯

    • @sardu55
      @sardu55 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When did the episode originally air? Back in the 90s, I think.

  • @alexramirez78
    @alexramirez78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    He Is Truly Missed🖤

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      💕 lucky to have these

  • @Giminey
    @Giminey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Good ol Huell. He is getting everyone excited talking about the LA river.

  • @stevekillgore9272
    @stevekillgore9272 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    These are greatly undervalued here on TH-cam, Huell was a treasure !

  • @chainsawbarbarian
    @chainsawbarbarian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Yesss!!!! Please bombard us with Huell shows!!! Keep em comin'!!!!!! Please and thank you!

  • @burritofueled7415
    @burritofueled7415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These "Visiting" uploads are completely new Huell content for those of us outside of the L.A. area. 🤗

  • @huerosantos7563
    @huerosantos7563 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Huell was our HOMIE of Los Angeles.. Thank You Huell.. Forever you'll be missed. 😎🫶🏽👍🏽👍🏽✌🏽

  • @michaeldavis9774
    @michaeldavis9774 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was born in LA in the 50s. Thanks for showing me what I always though was a sewage canal.

  • @mycatclaire9666
    @mycatclaire9666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I used to live in Atwater Village for years and used to walk several blocks to go down to the river and watch the birds and visit the horses at the LAPD stables. I miss it. And I miss Huell too!

  • @R10sp0rt
    @R10sp0rt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That was me and my homies wall sliding 😂

  • @rudygalindo3977
    @rudygalindo3977 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My deep gratitude to the activist and conservationist that are restoring the L.A. River to a more natural and ecologically healthy river.
    I live now by the Klamath River near where it confluences with the Salmon River but when I was twelve years I lived in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles City. This Huell Howser documentary brought back the fond memories of bicycling across the city to the unpaved bottom of the L.A. River near the Los Feliz overpass to collect frogs and snakes to bicycle miles back to my house to keeps as terrarium pets.
    Now the unimaginably fantasy of fishing for Steelhead in the L.A. River, in the middle of the city, may be realized in the near future thanks to your visionary work. You also will give may more children the opportunity to connect to their wild nature in the middle of a city.

  • @huerosantos7563
    @huerosantos7563 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I miss Huell, he shared the landmarks of Los Angeles where I grew up and other interesting places I've never been to.

  • @bucac1213
    @bucac1213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I work for Chapman University. They have a Huell Howser Museum here. Great place to visit.

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I need to

    • @debrac1688
      @debrac1688 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Museum for HUELL?!!!!!! Omg I gotta go, who wants to meet me up there?

  • @maha77
    @maha77 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love that LA river bike path, I've used it when I've biked from Santa Monica to downtown LA to downtown Long Beach to Palos Verdes and back to Santa Monica, about an 80 mile round trip.

    • @huerosantos7563
      @huerosantos7563 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was it peaceful to travel or too many homeless encampments ?

    • @maha77
      @maha77 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@huerosantos7563 Completely peaceful. no homeless encampments on the path from Vernon to Long Beach, although it does go through some 'sketchy' parts of town like East Compton etc, the only homeless camps on the river that I've seen are on the section up by Griffith Park, but never had an issue. I've even biked many times through Skid Row and never had an issue there, felt very safe believe it or not!

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Even though I've never been to Los Angeles, the L.A. River has always fascinated me. When someone first showed me a photo of the river I asked: "That concrete channel with a trickle of water down the middle is a river?"
    More people should learn the history of this waterway because without the river, there would be no Los Angeles

    • @derek20la
      @derek20la ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There would be no Los Angeles without (deceptively but legally acquired) Owens Valley water from 150 miles to the north.

  • @awesomedreamfangames8981
    @awesomedreamfangames8981 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Huell's programing is the only thing that gives me hope in my state. Theres so much hidden beauty clouded by so much crap

  • @chainsawbarbarian
    @chainsawbarbarian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I love you, Huell!!!!! Peace to you, Sir!!!!! And respect too!!!

  • @mikecarter8880
    @mikecarter8880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Oh BTW KCET It would be great if you added when it aired. I can only tell what era of Huell im watching based on his arm guns and clothing attire.

  • @ivanmolina5778
    @ivanmolina5778 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Always love my self some Huell Howser IM born and raised LA native it is beautiful and diverse I miss it every day. I moved to Arizona for a more affordable quality of life I still come to California every couple months. Im here binge watching Huell Howser missing my childhood days I am 31 now

  • @280StJohnsPl
    @280StJohnsPl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love these shows and I'm from NYC !

  • @sardu55
    @sardu55 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I never say this, but God bless ole' Huell. He is sorely missed. The woman in the blue blouse looks just like a gal I dated at UCLA, only a bit older. I really think the bike path should be named 'The Cal Worthington-Okie Memorial Bike and Railroad Path'. I wonder if the people Huell interviews here were set-ups who were put in place. Maybe, but they did a good job. This is probably one of my Top 5 Huell fav episodes.

    • @leeatterberry1239
      @leeatterberry1239 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He died?

    • @sardu55
      @sardu55 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@leeatterberry1239 Yes, in 2013. Been awhile. I think he had some kind of infection, but I'm sure someone out there knows for sure.

  • @DavidinSLO
    @DavidinSLO 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's important to remember that the LA River overflowed it's banks in 1938, resulting in the deaths of over 100 people, and destroying thousands of homes. The Army Corp of Engineers took care of that, paving it over to prevent future floods.

    • @jimsonjohnson3761
      @jimsonjohnson3761 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And preventing any natural future of an already water starved area.

  • @randellgribben9772
    @randellgribben9772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    freind took me fly fishing on the river this spring.. caught bass. carp, bluegill on the 2 days i was in LA.. river was cleen, very few homelss folks.. had lots of fun fly fishing there.. 5 weight cor carp and bass, 3 weight for the bluegill and smaller bass

    • @alexandrahill9280
      @alexandrahill9280 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm glad to hear that, I was afraid it would be nothing like this video nowadays.

  • @farwest6321
    @farwest6321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Miss that California Gold...... and Huell Howser 😢

  • @headwyvern11
    @headwyvern11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Huell's voice just makes me happy. Gentrification makes me sad.

  • @MrMac5150
    @MrMac5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    May everybody work together on keeping the water ways clean, teach and enforce.

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Healthy rivers are the true barometer of a nation’s wealth never to be taken for granted and abused but treasured for the life they represent. Millions of years in the evolution to perfection.
    Roll on Mighty River my soul right beside you.
    The urban interface with natural riparian systems need not be diametrically opposed.
    The river represents life. Yes it is in fact a living entity. Manage and treasure it, appreciate what it once was, and could be again. Teach the younger generations there is hope.
    Give nature a venue to display its magnificent majesty.
    Long Beach California U. S. A. 🇺🇸

  • @Sojourning_
    @Sojourning_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm 74, for years the only thing the LA river / wash basin was only seen for channeling
    flash flood rain run off / storms: Lots of news videos of people needing to be
    rescued out of the super fast storm waters rushing through:
    Years ago, some people / persons were rafting in places, demonstrating it was usable.
    W moved out of CA a few years ago for a slower pace: Huell was a main TV stapple for many of the CA people who enjoyed his work: California Gold. No one ever pick up on his work to carry it on......

  • @Nowhereoh
    @Nowhereoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Maria Lopez & the duck family were the stars. River reminds of Dave Alvin songs and movie locations.

  • @westtexasdave2140
    @westtexasdave2140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love watching Huell. I miss that California so much. Now it’s just gone completely to crap.

  • @bigrr64
    @bigrr64 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I grew up in California, but moved many years ago Thank God looking at its current state. But I always look forward to California's gold. Huell Howser was such a nice kind man r.i.p. mr. Howser

  • @MountainFisher
    @MountainFisher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I lived near the San Gabriel River on the south side of LA county. I remember what it looked like before it became a 'cement' river. We used to call the part near us the "Bamboo Jungle" as it obviously had a lot of bamboo growing there. They had cement sides to the bare sandy bottom, there really were no good reasons to cover the base with cement, but they did it anyway.
    edit; Sadly politics run the show, but replacing all the destroyed wetlands would drastically reverse any Warming.

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Citizen De Watts Only out of Artesian springs creeks that had madtom catfish and little bream, but we didn't fish, more interested in catching tadpoles. There were some larger springs that fed small ponds where there were fish. Had to get permission to go 5 miles over there in La Mirada. If we had permission to go to La Mirada we'd go down to Seal Beach instead. We would fish the breakwater, caught a lot of surf perch.
      edit; Circa 1958-62. Now it's a city with no neat places for kids to play and even more sadly, no one would let their 8 to 12 year old kids ride their bikes 5 miles to the beach for fear of kidnap.

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Citizen De Watts The old song by Melanie; "Look What They've Done To My Song".

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Citizen De Watts You are welcome. Always nice to look back on youth.

    • @ccrider00
      @ccrider00 ปีที่แล้ว

      Out in Ventura you have hobo's jungle the Ventura river w.of the
      city of ventura. has been a hangout for many homeless
      live. but beware, it could be dangerous to you're health.☠
      the hobo's there don't take too
      kindly to outsiders, and if you're
      unlucky, they just might not
      miand a showing ya!☠🤜🧔🤛
      they hate people from l.A
      County and so.e of the manson
      Types will want to kill ya !!!🎯☠
      I read in the ventura county star newspaper when I was staying in moorepark at my girlfrends place. They had found a murdered person who was cut into 9 pieces and floating down the river towards the ocean!☠
      After a few days they identified
      Him,his name was Terry Ciecil
      And showed his picture, I realised
      I met him years ago thru a friend of mine,during my high school years,we all liked dirt bikes@,🥳
      apparently he had been living IN hobo's jungle for some time,but let's not forget he was from L.A.county and some of the low life MORONIC hobo's who live along the bamboo riverside's
      Think that's enough reason to do someone in if they all get together and want to do it👹no one never gets caught for it either, because the vegation is
      So thick no one ever see's who did it, but it's general hobo tribe,
      But mum's the word ya-digg ?
      Many a person's have been touted and killed by that murderous tribe of killer hobo
      Bums who live down there
      100/150, savage murderous mansonite types people's!☠👹
      Nobody is ever caught because
      They mind there own business
      And don't tell the police!🙉usually victim are buried along the sandy river banks,but when they get crazy wild and stupid they throw the body parts in the river, knowing there not going to get caught any way!🖕👎💩👹
      DONT. ☠ GO. 👽 THERE!
      🖕💩😭☠☠🎯👎🙉🤡🦇🤮🐞

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ccrider00 What does that have to do with what I was talking about?

  • @debrac1688
    @debrac1688 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great camera work Luis😍

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bell Creek / Arroyo Calabasas, Aliso Wash. Owensmouth California.
    Reseda, Northridge Los Angeles County California.
    That river has great potential for a premier example of riparian systems management for sustainability and still utilize flood prevention.

  • @fridaytieday
    @fridaytieday ปีที่แล้ว

    So clever!!!! How wonderful!!!!

  • @demosmash
    @demosmash 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    That girl so cute

  • @radiola3454
    @radiola3454 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great video

  • @illmsg77
    @illmsg77 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gah, I love Huell Howser. I miss him so bad. Ok, where is Carmelo today?

  • @ganginfr4923
    @ganginfr4923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    better than rick steves europe, fight me

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      he’s awesome too though for me in his own way but I think i like this better...
      the Europe guys gets into mapping and
      too much detail (I ain’t going anytime soon yo?)
      idk
      😐

  • @12hunter100
    @12hunter100 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can you please put the dates these shows were aired? People that don't know Huell are thinking this came out a year ago.

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 ปีที่แล้ว

    The lawns and water treatment plants are contributing to delaying salt/brine purges.

  • @jbizzletx3420
    @jbizzletx3420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    RIP HUELL

  • @conqueringlion420
    @conqueringlion420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Now all his projects are overrun with snicker bars floating down river

  • @ballpeenbaby
    @ballpeenbaby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Now comes another agonizing decision, watch more Huell? Or go to work?

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      work? 👁 👀 Huell man! How can you dis ma man like tha???
      😐
      joke joke
      🏃

  • @KennyboyGM
    @KennyboyGM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Long Beach deforest park in the house

  • @davefarr4596
    @davefarr4596 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Probably catch a lot of Browns in that river.

  • @gabuchin
    @gabuchin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    when was this originally aired? 2010 ish?

  • @nedludd7622
    @nedludd7622 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maps would have been useful. So it seems that the green areas are far upstream. From Arroyo Seco down to the sea it seems to be a concrete channel. It is also notable that Compton which is between two rivers, Compton Creek and the LA River is doesn't seem to be included in the greening. Then at the estuary greening seems to begin again.

  • @DanRKong
    @DanRKong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    👍

  • @aphidtripper
    @aphidtripper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    RIP Lewis MacAdams

    • @KennyboyGM
      @KennyboyGM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Who is Lewis macadams?

  • @leeatterberry1239
    @leeatterberry1239 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👍

  • @cali_cal
    @cali_cal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    how old is this video?

  • @mikecarter8880
    @mikecarter8880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing how time flies. Probably filled with homeless now.

  • @hvacwiz7877
    @hvacwiz7877 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ed bassmaster would ya just look at it.

  • @jesussouless5124
    @jesussouless5124 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man i used to get so annoyed by Huell Howser because he would cut off and interrupt people while they speak but understand now cuz he’s trying to show as he could because sometime you can hear him say he can make a 2-3 hour but obviously they have a schedule to follow.

  • @roadstar92220
    @roadstar92220 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would like to see it now. Bet it’s full of homeless camps as it is in the rest of LA.

  • @EricMartinez-dg2lu
    @EricMartinez-dg2lu ปีที่แล้ว

    TAX PAYERS ARE THE FUNDERS... Don't let them tell you otherwise.

  • @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717
    @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2004 Such Significants

  • @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717
    @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    They Clean Out Locals Too...Louisiana

  • @renoesmaeilian9489
    @renoesmaeilian9489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:35 that would be considered sexual harassment nowadays.

    • @stevekillgore9272
      @stevekillgore9272 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly, perhaps, but Huell would have his defense ...

  • @Steph-us8ik
    @Steph-us8ik 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jaime is cute Wonder what's she's up too 2024

  • @jordanjohnson9866
    @jordanjohnson9866 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nah. Not Special. Not “Special.” The message in the thumbnail for that video is not the truth. /

  • @staceylili6703
    @staceylili6703 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Huell would turn in his grave if he was what Cali looks like today!

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Huell had money. People in Cali have to live on the streets. Sorry, but I doubt people who have money think it's up to them to fix a society that treats one group like kings, but treats another group of deserving people like peasants. Huell knew he would never be treated the wrong way.

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually, If you empty a person's bank account, and tear down his workplace, and his home, then he will be homeless, and then his way of thinking will make 180 degree turn, and then he'll say how terrible it is when people become homeless. So many people who don't lose everything just blame homelessness on the homeless.

    • @gracie99999
      @gracie99999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrJuvefrank i mean I know some who are rich and do care and doing something other then nothing so what are you actually doing?
      Just curious
      😐👀💯

    • @MrJuvefrank
      @MrJuvefrank 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gracie99999 I'm trying to win the lottery. Prosecutors get paid to win against defendants instead of getting paid for their time. When people kill the homeless, then it makes prosecutors happy because they get money for convicting the murderer. If I win the lottery, then I can build shelters for the homeless where they can be safe from people who like to kill the homeless, but the cops are going to try to throw the homeless back on the streets because society "needs" to make money off murder. If crime stops, then cops, judges, and attorneys will lose their jobs.

    • @lilkassaundra
      @lilkassaundra 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No he wouldn’t

  • @flyinnphilini3136
    @flyinnphilini3136 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Trump 2024

  • @chrisstephens5310
    @chrisstephens5310 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    please don't put anything in water

  • @gliver2549
    @gliver2549 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm 100% sure that riveris now full of homeless now... man california has gone down hill over the years : (

    • @lilkassaundra
      @lilkassaundra 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’re weird

  • @BabeTheAstrologer
    @BabeTheAstrologer 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    wtf

  • @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717
    @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mobile Corruption

  • @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717
    @ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Corruption

  • @gregorygarcia7807
    @gregorygarcia7807 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish californian stories employed native californians to do their narration. Either that or get Lindsey Gram to spred his southern mush mouth.