Good video, I grew up in Silverlake's 60s 70s and was around a little for the 80s; I saw your nighttime Silverlake vid, good stuff. I remember visiting McCarther Park when I was a kid, it was a decent place to let the kids go out and play, feed the ducks, and walk around. I can't believe the dystopian turn that the place took. Good job on researching the neighborhood, and props.
Little Central America, Pico Union. So much unknown history and untold stories about the Central Americans that have been there for decades. Nice video.
Nice one man. I just scrolled through this on my phone and now my gf and I are watching it from the beginning on our living room tv here in NYC. Loving it so far my friend. Cheers and happy labor day!
Thank you for sharing. My husband lived on this street back in the 60s, somewhere between Beverly Blvd and Court Ln/St. with his sister and her family, on the right side in one of those homes, don’t remember the address. He attended Belmont High School. Great video, so sad for the homeless community. What a journey walk! Awesome!
SAction Kid, o disappointed that you walked right past one of the most famous Deli's in California, Los Angeles's Langers Del on the corner of Alvarado & 7th St, most say it is the finest Pastrami Sandwich in the World! What ever reseach you did you blew at least an opportunity to have the #19 sandwich there since 1946. Their rye bread is baked twice! Every New York City person would welcome an opportunity ...next time Action Kid, next time!
I've never been to Alvarado Ave, so it's nice to see the historical architectures in the neighborhood! 😃 It's sad to see the homeless population at MacArthur Park, but thank you for documenting this. ☹ I've also been curious about Historic Filipinotown and glad to see you featured this neighborhood as well. Keep up the good work, AK!! 😎👍
Good Monday Morning AK I Really Appreciate Your Videos Keep Up The Good Work Always With Love Ms British Gray From Tampa Florida Blessings Happy Labor Day
Yo as a native from this neighborhood, it’s crazy to see how much has changed. Just seems like yesterday that my folks would scurry me to get back home before the sun sets
AK, did you know palm trees are classified as a grass! In 2006, LA city stated that they will use native trees along streets, no more palms, that is why you see no young palms along the street. Only one palm is native to Southern Cal, the California Palm or Fan Palm.
Westlake along Wilshire Blvd was a premiere area back in the 1920s to 1940s. Lots of beautiful buildings. The park was amazing 1 park, no road between it. Dense architecture. Post war downtown, Koreatown Wilshire center, Hollywood and old LA declined as richer and whites moved west like midwilshire, Beverley hills, Westside and suburbs. Old LA attracted new but poor immigrants. Crime, drugs, poor education, homeless, cycles of poverty keeps old LA this way. Starting around late 90s, LA improved slowly with less poor immigrants arriving, crime drugs gangs lessening. Downtown attracts developers like staples center LA lives. Subway system was small but brand new. Fast forward today, downtown built entire new neighborhoods for middle class. Koreatown built lots of new middle class buildings. Silver Lake and echo park got gentrification spreading into historic Filipino town. Right in the middle is Westlake. Koreatown has pushed gentrification east on Vermont and downtown pushed gentrification west of 110 freeway. Lots of potential new development including high rises and midrise along Wilshire Blvd. In next 10 years, Westlake along Wilshire should be clean up and slowly cleaned up north and south of Wilshire.
Wow you really did walk a lot in SoCal. I’ve been to every place you have except not walking and over 40 years. I worked in westlake area for 20 years. It was very dangerous in the 90s. MacArthur park was actually cleaned up and they planted tons of palm trees and a skate park but has a huge homeless problem. The most famous place on Alvarado is Langers deli on 7th famous for their pastrami. You could of easily click baited everyone by highlighting the homeless problem in MacArthur park but I’m glad you didn’t do that.
@@ActionKid well it’s not that it’s any cleaner now but it was just more dangerous before with lots of drug deals and shootings. It’s still dangerous compared to other parts of LA and the homeless problem is out of control. The streets are also very dirty and no one really cleans up.
A little bit, about journalism. collect key facts about the area you are documenting and when you reach of the key spots offer that information to your viewers. Alvarado street is one of the oldest streets in Southern California. Too many missed opportunities to inform viewers of the Pico-Union , Westlake and Echo Park-Silver lake areas.
@@nmatky9327 It's the gangs and homeless that make the neighborhood dangerous, not the minorities. FFS, why is everything 'racist' to people like you? Get over it already.
The third world could teach the sterile 1st world a few things. Remember these new comers do the jobs that 3rd or 4th generayion citizens would never do, it is the immigrants and slaves that did the heavy work whiile the native born try to pay them less and less! I am 3 rd generation age 75, and have been given many awards by cities I lived in...so don't be so harsh and negative could be a good reason why that Asia is rising while our beautiful land has so many folks "entitled" and lazy!
bruh. literally looks like regular ass people living their lives. Is it because it doesn't have a drive thru, Parking lots and no soliciting signs everywhere? God forbid brown people exists in USA
Good video, I grew up in Silverlake's 60s 70s and was around a little for the 80s; I saw your nighttime Silverlake vid, good stuff. I remember visiting McCarther Park when I was a kid, it was a decent place to let the kids go out and play, feed the ducks, and walk around. I can't believe the dystopian turn that the place took. Good job on researching the neighborhood, and props.
Wow, you weren't kidding around about having more LA vids. 👍🏼👍🏼
I wasn't kidding at all
Little Central America, Pico Union. So much unknown history and untold stories about the Central Americans that have been there for decades. Nice video.
Nice one man. I just scrolled through this on my phone and now my gf and I are watching it from the beginning on our living room tv here in NYC. Loving it so far my friend. Cheers and happy labor day!
Awesome, glad you're enjoying it!
Thank you for sharing. My husband lived on this street back in the 60s, somewhere between Beverly Blvd and Court Ln/St. with his sister and her family, on the right side in one of those homes, don’t remember the address. He attended Belmont High School. Great video, so sad for the homeless community. What a journey walk! Awesome!
SAction Kid, o disappointed that you walked right past one of the most famous Deli's in California, Los Angeles's Langers Del on the corner of Alvarado & 7th St, most say it is the finest Pastrami Sandwich in the World! What ever reseach you did you blew at least an opportunity to have the #19 sandwich there since 1946. Their rye bread is baked twice! Every New York City person would welcome an opportunity ...next time Action Kid, next time!
The weather looks so clam and mild.😀👍
I've never been to Alvarado Ave, so it's nice to see the historical architectures in the neighborhood! 😃 It's sad to see the homeless population at MacArthur Park, but thank you for documenting this. ☹ I've also been curious about Historic Filipinotown and glad to see you featured this neighborhood as well. Keep up the good work, AK!! 😎👍
Really appreciate it! I knew Alvarado Street had a lot of changes in scenery along the way and would be a great place to show off the diversity of LA
This video is something else. It seems like one but It has its own attracting power.This video is just amazing.
Good Monday Morning AK
I Really Appreciate Your Videos Keep Up The Good Work Always With Love Ms British Gray From Tampa Florida Blessings
Happy Labor Day
Thanks a lot for this journey! It's always amazing to be able to see somewhere new thru your eyes😊
Yo as a native from this neighborhood, it’s crazy to see how much has changed. Just seems like yesterday that my folks would scurry me to get back home before the sun sets
Wow what a walk! You went far dude thanks for taking us along the journey with you :)
Thank you very much!
AK, did you know palm trees are classified as a grass! In 2006, LA city stated that they will use native trees along streets, no more palms, that is why you see no young palms along the street. Only one palm is native to Southern Cal, the California Palm or Fan Palm.
Interesting, I never knew it was classified as grass
When visiiting my brother, he took us to that Ross department store. Never seen a gated Ross parking lot, I'm from St. Louis, MO
It's nice to see these walks, ActionKid. Cheers from northeast Ohio.
My pleasure!
Looks so much different than when I was growing up... Looks nice ... Try the panduse bread... It's "delish"😋 Thanks for the walk
I can only imagine what it looked like back then.
@@ActionKid a scary place for sure
nice walk, thanks for sharing, looks like a very nice neighborhood. I used to live in one of this kind of neighborhood when I start working in sal-Ca
Awesome!
Nice videos bro
I like to watch all your videos especially about Santa Monica. I am from brazil
Lovely walk!! well done 👏😃👍
Thank you very much!
Alvarado is an infamous street , try walking Figueroa or Crenshaw blvd next time tho..
Westlake along Wilshire Blvd was a premiere area back in the 1920s to 1940s. Lots of beautiful buildings. The park was amazing 1 park, no road between it. Dense architecture. Post war downtown, Koreatown Wilshire center, Hollywood and old LA declined as richer and whites moved west like midwilshire, Beverley hills, Westside and suburbs. Old LA attracted new but poor immigrants. Crime, drugs, poor education, homeless, cycles of poverty keeps old LA this way. Starting around late 90s, LA improved slowly with less poor immigrants arriving, crime drugs gangs lessening. Downtown attracts developers like staples center LA lives. Subway system was small but brand new. Fast forward today, downtown built entire new neighborhoods for middle class. Koreatown built lots of new middle class buildings. Silver Lake and echo park got gentrification spreading into historic Filipino town. Right in the middle is Westlake. Koreatown has pushed gentrification east on Vermont and downtown pushed gentrification west of 110 freeway. Lots of potential new development including high rises and midrise along Wilshire Blvd. In next 10 years, Westlake along Wilshire should be clean up and slowly cleaned up north and south of Wilshire.
+Actionkid Oddly enough, the church in Pico-Union was an early meeting place of the Jonestown cult, (the people’s temple) really sad history there 😅
The comment i was looking for
Super video
The houses 🏠 on this street are very beautiful. I bet they have filmed some movies here before
Thanks for the video
I grew up in that area... 1992
THATS CRAZY I LIVED MY WHOLE LIFE IN WESTLAKE AND IT HASNT GOT ANY BETTER I WISH THEY WOULD CLEAN THE PARK AND THE STREETS SMH 🤦♂️ 😢
I'm guessing the continues illegal immigration in the area. I lived in.the neighborhood in the 1980s and 90s.
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Wow you really did walk a lot in SoCal. I’ve been to every place you have except not walking and over 40 years. I worked in westlake area for 20 years. It was very dangerous in the 90s. MacArthur park was actually cleaned up and they planted tons of palm trees and a skate park but has a huge homeless problem. The most famous place on Alvarado is Langers deli on 7th famous for their pastrami. You could of easily click baited everyone by highlighting the homeless problem in MacArthur park but I’m glad you didn’t do that.
I can't imagine what this area looked like back then Glad to hear it's improved
@@ActionKid well it’s not that it’s any cleaner now but it was just more dangerous before with lots of drug deals and shootings. It’s still dangerous compared to other parts of LA and the homeless problem is out of control. The streets are also very dirty and no one really cleans up.
Bob's Market near Echo park in Los Angeles, CA if Anyone wanted to know the location.
A little bit, about journalism. collect key facts about the area you are documenting and when you reach of the key spots offer that information to your viewers. Alvarado street is one of the oldest streets in Southern California. Too many missed opportunities to inform viewers of the Pico-Union , Westlake and Echo Park-Silver lake areas.
Do you miss Sifat?
Your LA videos really highlight the fact that NYC and Chicago are the only two "real" cities in the US. Every other city is way too spread out!
Didn’t see echo park
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NICA-RA-GUENSE lol
I watched to see if you'd get robbed. Now try walking it at night.
Why would I get robbed?
@@ActionKid he's a racist that thinks you can't walk in minority neighborhoods without getting robbed
@@nmatky9327 It's the gangs and homeless that make the neighborhood dangerous, not the minorities. FFS, why is everything 'racist' to people like you? Get over it already.
@@ActionKid Because that is a notoriously bad neighborhood with high levels of gang activity.
Not impressed! In fact I am shocked! Looks 3rd world to me.
The third world could teach the sterile 1st world a few things. Remember these new comers do the jobs that 3rd or 4th generayion citizens would never do, it is the immigrants and slaves that did the heavy work whiile the native born try to pay them less and less! I am 3 rd generation age 75, and have been given many awards by cities I lived in...so don't be so harsh and negative could be a good reason why that Asia is rising while our beautiful land has so many folks "entitled" and lazy!
bruh. literally looks like regular ass people living their lives. Is it because it doesn't have a drive thru, Parking lots and no soliciting signs everywhere? God forbid brown people exists in USA
Los not las lol