@SlingbladeJim that is true, but it’s worth putting this reality out there , even if it takes me a long time, as soon as I can afford to go to a different city I’ll be on my way there, thank you for your support
Hollywood is a district within LA and really doesn’t have much to do with the industry as most studios are in Culver City or West LA and most agencies are in Beverly Hills. It has some really nice neighborhoods and it would be nice if it cleaned up. I would love to have another place to go walk around and enjoy. I’m about 5 miles from Hollywood.
Huh. If you listen to politicians from these areas, they claim things are going great! You bring the reality, Thank you, and please keep telling it like it is.
The biggest one every state should watch out for is Gavin Newsom we call him Gavin gruesome as he destroys California and wants to be the President to destroy every state I mean after all he is related to Nancy Pelosi.
For some years, the Hollywood area has been declining. Normal people don't want to deal with mentally ill,drugs addicts,and homeless in Hollywood. Welcome to la la land California.
My wife and I went to LA in 2022 having never been. We stopped by Hollywood and parked in the garage near the Dolby theater. The first thing we saw coming out on the street were homeless people sleeping by the Dolby entrance. It smelled strongly of garbage and urine. We walked around for about an hour and left flabbergasted and disgusted at how awful the place was. Will never return.
That area was so awesome and vibrant till about 2017 or 18 when you started to see serious signs of decline but was still acceptable enough to walk around and stores were still open. Then each year got worse and worse from there until it became embarrassing.
If you come to L.A. county you should visit and stay in the South Bay area. That’s the nice part in the coast where there’s not so much of the b.s. that’s destroyed L.A. visit and stay either in Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, or El Segundo. You can even stay in Torrance and drive like 10-15 mins till you got to those beaches. That will make your visit to L.A. worth it. And coke after May and June b/c is overcast weather during those two months.
you have better theme parks in the EU I would just stick to them. Like you have "Efteling" nearby!...watch this YT on them he is the best at showing them IMO "provost park pass"
Biggest disappointment in my life though I was going to see glitz and glamour and movie stars got there bums hookers sleazbags filthy and people just walking over the homeless
it had nothing to do with drugs or criminals because hollywood has always had that even when it was at its most prosperous times . the terrible economy and higher costs to travel to visit hollywod , high rent , the internet and then the covid shutdowns changed the way people do business which caused alot of retail and restaurants to close and only the retail businesses that had alot of available cash capital survived .
Considering almost every movie is a remake of something that was perfectly fine before, and now the public knows about the secret inner world of the industry, Hollywood's days are numbered.
This video is a prime example of why I don’t watch mainstream news anymore. I only watch TH-cam reports for real news. You just earned a new subscribers!
@@westwardHo- LOL! Right on queue. This is the familiar, programmed response of the left... blame the mess that California is in on Reagan. There may be some truth to it, but decades have passed by since his presidency, and there has been ample time for Democrats running these states to figure their sh* out. So, no... I don't accept that it can just all be blamed on Reagan and that this exonerates Democrats, the left, progressives, etc. I'm not anti-progressive, in principle, but the left needs to own the monumental f-uo that they've turned the states and cities that they govern into.
Isn't CA a one party state? Where does "politics" come in? I think it's just plain looting going on. It's the same story in any part of the 3rd World. Striving for power is not about ideas, solutions and serving the public - it's just a get-rich-quick scheme for you and yours.
We visited in 2014, did the tourist thing and went to Hollywood Boulevard, saw all the characters outside the Dolby theatre, there were people everywhere and I don't remember seeing empty retail spaces. I am truly amazed this is the same place. Thank you, Leo.
Hollywood Blvd is very long, around the Chinese theatre etc you can still find people in costumes and stores etc but it used to be everywhere and now just around the very center
Hollywood blvd, its always been a shithole. Legit Angelino born and raised, it was a shit hole when I was born, it was a shit hole when my parents arrived to the US, and it will remain a cesspool til the end of time.
definitely walk of shame, famous people abused since childhood to perform and manipulate the public or just used to represent something we like before they destroy their character to ruin society.
As a resident of Los Angeles, I am not surprised, and i stopped going to Hollywood years ago. I'd rather drive 30 minutes to go to another city to eat and shop. It's criminal what politicians have done to many cities.
I saw a UN or fema map on b1tchut3 (don't remember which it was a few years ago) it showed California as empty, I didn't really believe it but I'm starting to wonder now.
@@tima4929 yes it always had crime but I’m talking about it being ghost town. The homeless population did this. They were surviving through business with the crime still.
@@BigmommaKi Honestly, my fam and I live in LA near Hollywood and we all unanimously agree, COVID did this. The shutdowns. Before that, downtown was seeing a revival and Hollywood was as packed as ever. It has recovered a lot, but not quite yet what it was. Maybe a year or two and it'll be back.
I left after over 60 years of living there. I arrived in Hollywood in 1961 and California was paradise. It stayed that way for a few decades. Then it rapidly deteriorated until I felt I was living in a third world country. In 2022 I moved to Florida. I am heartbroken. I loved California and it used to be so beautiful. We need good leaders who feel the same way about California.
@@screenname1 So far it is beautiful, no graffiti, homeless or trash all over the streets. Perhaps California is an example of what can happen if you follow their policies.
Used to live right down the street from The Walk of Fame. Absolutely a disgusting neighborhood to live in. Homeless everywhere, shanty towns on every block, people smoking crack and shooting heroin in broad daylight, I caught a homeless couple having sex on top of my neighbor's car, and the sidewalks are covered in piss. The only time the city would ever bother cleaning up a bit is when The Oscars are around the corner. It was like living in Gotham City.
I've visual there and thought the leaders of LA are absolutely crazy from not capitalizing on what they've got there. They get tourists from all over the world. Look at how Nashville does it. That should be prime real estate.
Fr. Yet you got all these people from different countries wanting to tour the area. The place is a dump. Why would you want to waste your money there. It feels sketch too like you’re gonna get pickpocketed or mugged all the time.
Genau das wollte man mit "Corona" erreichen. Hat nicht ganz funktioniert nun versucht man es mit dem 3.Weltkrieg. Es lebe die Deutsch Russische Freundschaft. Viele Grüße aus Leipzig ( DDR ) ❤❤❤
Im not from the USA. But in interested in something. Who are gonna be interested in buying super costly apartments down town when there are no stores or city life? That's like the point in living downtown.
I turned my TVs into monitors. Hollywood died in the late 90s. Same for the music industry. Haven't been to a movie theater since the 90s. Haven't bought a CD or DVD since the early 2000s..
@@suppylarue220 no it’s not it is somebody who works in the industry. It’s Tech that has ruined movies. Then people that have opinions about social media or what they like on social media influences media. I work in production and movies are completely different due to tech and cgi and now AI
17:06 "Post No Bills" has nothing to do with not paying, they are talking about *_not posting handbills,_* which are like fliers, paper announcements of various kinds. They don't want people taping paper announcements to their walls.
As a Angeleno, this saddens me, use to be a thriving area with tourists and entertainment, but with the high rent, homelessness corruption, crime, it’s soulless like a ghost town.
This breaks my heart. I grew up in Hollywood in the 70's and it was vibrant, friendly and so cool! After school we walked to Hollywood Blvd to have Arby's and hang out. I cannot believe what this country has turned to!
You lived in the peak time. Just look at China, India, and the Middle East. That’s what this side of the planet has to look forward to. Overpopulation, and societal degradation, as well as environmental, and societal collapse.
Only idiots will put their name and signature on sidewalks everyone steps on it, no class at all. Hollywood never been holy, it's just bunch of mediocre never been living around the world all alone since childhood not a complete multiracial not fluent multilingual.
It’s amazing to think how all those “stars” believed that having their names put into the sidewalk was a form of legacy.. Now it’s the irony of collapsing civilization. Those were better times.
The nobody's walk of shame thank God hollywood is not really civilization, unless you've been Braindrained by celebrity mentality and still trying to keep up with the Kardashians & their botox ghetto booty
Only idiots will put their names and signature on tiles where everyone steps on it, no class at all. Hollywood never been holy, it's just bunch of mediocre never been living around the world all alone since childhood not a complete multiracial not fluent multilingual.
Those storefront could be filled no problem. The problem is the Retail Space down. There is so freaking expensive. They rather leave it empty and dilapidated than to lower the rent, which is crazy.
I hate it when they do this, there should be a penalty for people leaving housing/retail space unfilled. I don’t care that you “own” it, it’s part of a community, it’s part of a city, people like this are literally blighting cities because they’re sitting on spaces. We have spaces like this in my small city that have been empty for 15+ years, it’s so obnoxious. I’d much rather have a stupid dirty hipster coffee shop than an empty dusty store front. I say after 10 years of a storefront or housing being empty they have to start paying increasing fines for literally lowering the economic value of the city. We don’t abide unkempt lawns, this isn’t really that different. Unkempt lawns attract vermin and pests, dead spaces attract crime.
Yeah because those places are bought by the owners of the world and they would rather see it rot than let people use it cheaper, thats not how they get all the power and money
Nah, even worst is having your Walk of Fame Star and millions step on our name every day AND homeless addicts relieve themselves on it...and sleep on it
I was last in Hollywood in 1995, I’m totally shocked. Here in London, we too are suffering retail devastation. In the UK, more and more people are working from home and shopping on line.
Same is whole world. Online shopping destroying old "street" shopping. But in Hollywood also old film industry losing vs internet huge streaming companies. So there are 2 factors why is so bad there. Now nobody waiting like mad and go Cinema looking new Hollywood film. Now people open laptop and watch favorite tv series online from streaming company like netflix or others. Also dont go Hollywood buy some film gadget when can buy it online.
People is loosing their jobs, the glamour about Hollywood is just memories. The dream about going to Hollywood to pursuit their dreams is no longer a thing
Wow those neighborhoods around Hollywood Blvd look sketchy AF now.. even in the daytime! Can’t imagine at night.. & where are all the tourists? Looks pretty deserted on a beautiful day? .. got to be like 75% less tourists there , than 15-20 years ago… and nothing shits up buildings more than graffiti tagging them all up … seems like everywhere there! Too bad.. good ole days gone… Like way, waaay back in 2010 😭
I grew up there.... last week I took a relative there ( haven't been there for years) i felt like a hand was around my throat.... everything is blacked out dead feeling could not wait to get out of there... Hard to explain the feeling.
Know what you’re saying. Was in SF last summer for the first time in a while and it just had a dead feeling. Couldn’t wait to leave and I used to love it there
Even in its better days Hollywood gave off bad vibes, sleazy and with an oppressing atmosphere. Despite all the hype and cheap veneer of glamor, couldn't wait to get out of there. An overwhelmingly evil place.
I'm pretty sure there's something stronger, more nefarious and much more competent than a couple druggies and burglars here and there. This smells like decades of corruption
So what is that supposed to mean? Give free money to people who don't want to work and take drugs all day? Give free money to forgive high student loans for an arts degree in a university? Money is given overseas to build alliances so we don't have enemies at our gates that we have to fight. You know what's disturbing?, people who support Bl@ck lies Matter, the Woke, the Progressive left, Newsom and the local government.
In all fairness, this is a local state issue. Not really up to federal government to fix what states decided to neglect. Money sent overseas comes from a federal budget.
Spot on. I’ve watched in the past (1979 to 1981 or so) these old exploitation films where the serial killer is driving up and down Hollywood. And there’s that “womp womp wooommmp” depressing music in the background… But you notice all the storefronts are occupied. It’s a lot of liquor stores, convenience stores, adult bookstores, but occupied. This feels different…
I used to work on Hollywood Blvd in the 90's outside the Chinese theatre handing out audience tickets for TV shows. Wow that street has fallen hard. Looks like a Ghost town!
Across the street is the old Roosevelt Hotel where Led Zeppelin CIA handlers took charge of the Hotel when Led Zeppelin was on tour in the LA area and they had such huge drug parties that trashed the place so bad it took a boatload of money to refurbish the interior Eye saw them at the Rose Palace when they came and remember going to the Graumans Chinese manuscript theatre and the line was all the way around the block to get a ticket to C the first public showing of The Exorcist Remember that movie Hollywood used to B a huge party Animal Farm Down on the Sunset strip they had a lot of big names show up at the Whiskey A Go Go and the Roxy Theatre bar with names like The Doors Crosby Stills Nash and Young Janis Joplin all those folks were directly tied to child trafficking through Hollywood studio network tied directly to the CIA MK Ultra sleeper cells Wonderland USAF Alice looking Glass technology projects up Mulholland drive and Laurel Canyon There used to be an underground Tunnel network that ran through UCLA Hugh Heffner Playboy Mansion and the Getty Museum U may remember some years back the network was reporting explosions going on through those areas If U read US Executive Order #13818 back in December 2018 U will C that order declaration that being engaged in child trafficking and crimes against humanity ur financial assets are getting seized and will prosecuted for war crimes and taken Tu GITMO Everything that Leo puts up is the take down of these Satanic Ritual Torture and demonic sacrifices in which the Los Angeles area from Burbank studies out to Calabasas to Malibu and Topanga Canyon and particularly from Hwy 101 across Santa Monica boulevard to PCH and everything north and west of I-5 was a round up It was a huge Black Mirror Hub server of loosh farming experiments forced breeding experiments abductions and ritual spiritual torture programs The landscape is different now Mu ah 💋 🌈💜🌋..
Back in April 1988, a friend and I traveled to the L.A. area from NYC just to check things out. We went to Mann's Chinese Theater and at the time, Beetlejuice was the premier. We walked all of those starred streets and there were a lot more people than there are now.
@@bigfoot-id8bv same situation in vancouvers gastown, not many of the original stores left, any store that sold eclectic or oddball items is long gone, whatever is left is generic tourist rubbish and they were slow, soon it could be called ghost town.
@@audenharper3014 what was there recently that is now suddenly shut down ? Lots of peoples fleeing those states to California? They running to Chicago? Please explain
I grew up just north of Hollywood in Ventura Co. This breaks my heart to see. But we (collectively in CA) DID vote for this. I've tried to convince my friends and neighbors that voting Blue No Matter Who would lead to disaster. And now my prediction is coming true. CA was a much better place when it was a purple state and we had Republican governors. The Red politicians could keep the Blue politicians honest, and vice versa. But now the Blue politicians have total power, and the worst of their policies are getting passed.
They pretty much look at The Chinese Theater, the Mall next door to get a snap shot of the Hollywood sign, take a picture of the Dolby theater, buy a Hollywood T-Shirt and thats it.
So much sadness watching this. I moved away for good in 2001. In the late 70s, Punk Rockers were drawn to Hollywood Blvd from the Masque Club, off Cherokee. Never any fear walking at night alone, and some years later I would roller-skate at about 3am on the terrazzo surface of the Walk of Fame when it was empty except for the crew power-washing it to keep it clean. It's all been destroyed.
I used to work on Hollywood Blvd., at Madame Tussauds (2017) and at Ripley's Believe it Or Not (2018) while pursuing my car design career out there. So glad that I moved out of there during 2019. I also worked for Gold's Gym on 7th street (watched your DTLA video this morning) and also lived in DTSF, which is also a nightmare now. Such a shame. Keep voting the same way, but wonder why things get worse in Cali.
@@sr9253I moved back to Boston, where I'm originally from, which is still a left-leaning place, but still many same moderate/conservative people live here (old school Boston type of people).
I grew up in Moreno Valley and we literally went to Hollywood every weekend. This was back in the late 90’s to mid 2000’s I can’t believe it looks like this as it was always busy with shops and people before
I went to Hollywood all the time in the 90's and early-mid 2000's and... it was just like in the video LOL. Maybe there were more shops open, but it was a dump, it smelled, there were prostitutes and drugs out in the open.
I was almost living on the streets of Los Angeles when the writer’s strike happened last year. I watched some of my writer friend/neighbors lose jobs and it was one of the more terrifying moments of my life. Everything changed so quickly. It breaks my heart to see a city I loved and lived in for so long like this.
"This is all boarded up, this is all boarded up, this is closed, this is closed *Oh look there's Lassie"* 😅 Great job, as usual, Leo. Keep the documenting coming I've been there many times. In years past, you could barely find a spot to park and there'd be tons of people crowding the sidewalks. Not anymore...
The very things that Hollywood sells to the world are dying. The movie and music industry is dying. When Taylor Swift is the best thing going in music and Barbie is the biggest movie, you know the entertainment industry is circling the drain.
I'm 38, new Hollywood sucks more than ever. You got garbage in between but good was the rule. Now garbage is the rule with good stuff in between. Keep dreaming.
I've been a Hollywood resident for over 35 years. Contrary to what you might think, about a third of these businesses have been closed since way before the pandemic, for the last 8-9 years. There has been a lingering recession since about '08, getting worse every day. With the average lease on Hollywood Blvd. anywhere between $20-$35k per month depending on size, most shops have not been sustainable for at least 15 years. Since the pandemic some enterprises keep a boarded up look for security reasons. They are tired of having to repair smashed glass. They keep very limited business hours, mostly noon to about 8p. Good luck if you're trying to go to a restaurant for lunch or dinner. It is a shame what happened to this country.
@@mitch868 Long term they really can't - but they are incentivized by city tax write-offs and business loss declarations to keep mum, to keep a status quo and do nothing. Most landlords are just fence men holding the property in name only. This is what is called shadow banking, a scheme that has become very popular since the late 90's. The US has learned from the Chinese regarding this unfortunately.
@@mitch868Would love to go into more detail here but the powers that be at YT/Google have redacted my previous answer to your query. That in itself tells volumes about the "free" internet.
I was born and raised in the L.A. area and Hollywood was a dirty, disgusting, dangerous place 30 years ago. There’s nothing shocking in *this* video, but the one about Los Angeles is absolutely horrifying! Skid Row used to be confined to one area, and it was safe to walk around the jewelry district, flower district, textile district, and Santee Alley. People would walk up and down Broadway to shop. (We referred to it as the “Mexican Promenade”, an homage to the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The Promenade was cool until all the independent shops & boutiques were forced out by big businesses.) I wouldn’t walk down Broadway in the daytime now. All the shops are gone anyway! The businesses close to DTLA are now closed, boarded up, and tagged. Homeless and other sketchy looking people are wandering around. Broadway north of 6th after dark is a great place to go if you’re looking to get stabbed. The trash is unreal! It looks like someone emptied a ton of dumpsters into empty lots. I was a 19 yr old girl who lived alone in the city. I drove around very late at night so I could learn to navigate without traffic. I wanted to know how to get places without taking freeways, too. This was before smartphones or Google Maps. (You could pull over and use a real map, if you wanted to advertise that you were lost.) There were places where the cops wouldn’t go, and you needed to avoid drug dealers or gang members, not homeless. I learned to mind my own business while keeping my eyes open and acting like I knew what I doing. Driving through South LA at night, taking Normandie or Vermont from the city to the South Bay, you’d feel eyes on you. Dealers were selling drugs and women were selling themselves. It was obvious, too; they’d be in the middle of the damn street. If I was at a red light and someone started to approach my car, I’d hit the gas. It’s not like there was a cop around to give me a ticket. I admit, I got into a few bad situations where I could’ve been killed. I’ve had a gun and a knife pulled on me, and ppl who were bigger/stronger physically attack me. I’ve never been gravely wounded, though, because I’m never totally unarmed; I’ve used my head to read the situation, reason with ppl and/or talk my way out of tight spots. The problem is that you can’t reason with someone in a full-blown, drug induced psychosis. Whether or not ppl become homeless because were they were mentally ill or on drugs is moot. Once someone loses their job and their home, they’re in a state of shock, fear and trauma that generally leads to homelessness. The few who managed to escape homelessness and integrate back into society have repeatedly expressed how rampant drug addiction is among the homeless. It’s easier to use drugs and escape from the horror than fight your way back into a society where the odds are always stacked against you. Drug use takes a toll on your mental and physical health, so the longer you are homeless, the less likely you are to escape. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but I’m dismayed by how many comments are so misguided. Everyone is arguing that it’s the Democrats’ fault, it’s the Republicans’ fault, it’s because of COVID, it’s the lack of housing, it’s because of immigration, blame China, blame the governor, blame teachers, blame Millennials, preach about the economy, defund the police, defund the IRS, blame Hunter Biden, blame the pizza guy, repent because the apocalypse is near… There is no single cause for what’s happening, just as there’s no single solution. The descent into homelessness is a process. The decay of a community is a process. Everyone is part of the problem but no one wants to devote a significant amount of their time and effort to understand the problem in order to work toward the solution process. We’re all guilty.
If it were a single city, perhaps, but this is indicative of far too many cities across the entire US for it to be a 'process that is everyone's fault'. The Same thing is happening in Canada and Australia and England/Europe. All 'part of a process' they're all responsible for, as well, I suppose. I'm sorry. you're woefully ignorant.
@@jessihawkins9116 of course i don't want too talk bad about does little angels 😇. Anyways back in the 80s, taggers l knew told me they usually stole the cans.
Celebrities should have stayed out of politics, and kept their choice of relationships to themselves but great actors and great movies do not exist anymore
When it was called Kodak Theatre in 2010, that was the last time I step foot on Hollywood Blvd. It was somewhat booming with families and tourists but when you cross the road south and walk maybe 200 meters, it starts to get shady. You are better on having a few drinks and lunch down Melrose Avenue. Not sure what it's like these days, maybe check it out?
Leo, I'm so glad I came across your channel because my friends are coming to town next month and we had planned to come to Hollywood but theres no businesses open!!! Thanks for saving us a trip!!! 😊👍🏽
People use to flock to Ca / Hollywood with nothing but a suit case / duffel bag and a dream. Now they flee from there and flock to Texas , Indiana , and the Carolinas …total role reversal
@@oiler62 this is just one video about Hollywood on this channel , yesterday was east LA , before that Sacramento, and before that SF. It’s the whole state actually, real shit show
So terribly sad! I used to love that city. Moved in LA in the 80s for the music, cool cars, cool creative people, and work and career opportunities and experience both the highs and lows that comes with living in a big city but nothing like this. That looks like death. So happy to know that I made the right decision to move out. There is not much left, just empty ugly new buildings with no life. R.I.P California
Hollywood was the heartbeat of LA.in the 80's.. The Rainbow, Roxy, the whiskey, Cat Club, Gazzarris...Last fun decade. All closed now or should be. Edgy cool vibe is gone. Strays from the radiator shop in Van Nuys come here now and bewildered tourists trying to see the 80's leaving empty handed. Stupid of me to come back and find out what I already knew, which is you can't go home again..Last trip here when the lease is up..
I lived in Hollywood until 2002. I feel I experienced the last vital breathe of Hollywood. At the end of 2002 I started to feel yucky about LA already. I really don’t underhand how people can live in a state where you can’t buy a home insurance. That itself is big to me.
Hey Leo my Brother!! Thank you for the work you are doing. I’m sharing your videos with everyone and posting the link on other yt videos. Born n raised So Cal, living in Seattle now; This is so important dude, God Bless u and yours!!!
Wow! I lived in Hollywood at the Lido apt. complex on Yucca and wilcox st. across from the Playboy liquor store in 1990's! It's amazing how deserted and ugly it looks now as opposed to the 90's!! I've always called it the city of demons because it was filled with predators on the prowl for the innocence of the young! "The Place of Hollywood" was amoung the night clubs that lured in the innocent to thier doomed fate, just like "the Viper room" did! Godspeed!
I used to live in Hollywood - left in 2019 - all those blocks you walked, I knew them well (I shopped at that Trader Joes). Crazy how many businesses are gone! Thanks for the video.
I just found you Leo. People need to see this. I've lived in the valley north of L.A. most of my life. Before covid, Sunset strip was it! Theaters, clubs, shops of every kind, preformance halls and schools, tattoo parlors, restaurants, 4 dozen bars, etc. After covid, it was cut in half. EVERY storefront and intersection you passed I could tell you what it was and it's a kick in the nuts to see it all boarded up and empty. Like the rest of Los Angeles. Hollywood is finished and the culture is dead. Unless you live in Socal, save yourself the trip.
VonValen: Fellow Valley denizen here. You're absolutely right. There's another poster in here saying he's misleading viewers because it's not that bad, etc, etc; and I asked that person to explain what is false or misleading, because I stopped going into The City 10 years ago when I saw the downward slide. It's not just Hollywood. It's: Downtown with what used to be the fun cultural towns of Olivera Street, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, the fashion district, the business district, and the government administration areas. The Beach Areas of Santa Monica and Venice that are disgusting to even live in now. It's the Westside that's fighting tooth and nail to keep the crime, homeless and their encampments, and other blights out. It's even affecting The Valley that was never as exciting, but it was once a pleasant and fun place to live and visit. Now, even the Southwest parts that were once the wealthy areas (Sherman Oaks, Tarzana, and Woodland Hills) are suffering from the blight that's overtaken The City. Even the Southeastern part over by Pasadena that used to be a great place is slowly getting worse from what I hear. We have to work harder to get rid of the Leftist Mafia. Everything depends on it. The sooner We get those leeching ticks Out, the less money it'll take to fix everything they broke and ruined
@@LA_HA You must not understand the difference between a leftist and a liberal. Look it up. As for references to the mafia, look that up, too. There's only one major politician that operates like a mob boss and he's on trial and facing three more trials as a result of a lifetime of criminality. So lets get the crooks OUT.
Been in LA in 2018, first time visit. Seeing these video's from Leo makes me never want to visit again. Glad I've seen it in a good state. And thank you Leo for all your videos!! 👍🏻🤘🏻
Well Leo I know you have to finance these videos yourself including travel expenses so thank you.
@SlingbladeJim that is true, but it’s worth putting this reality out there , even if it takes me a long time, as soon as I can afford to go to a different city I’ll be on my way there, thank you for your support
Thank You Leo,as they say "go woke,go broke".
Hollywood is a district within LA and really doesn’t have much to do with the industry as most studios are in Culver City or West LA and most agencies are in Beverly Hills. It has some really nice neighborhoods and it would be nice if it cleaned up. I would love to have another place to go walk around and enjoy. I’m about 5 miles from Hollywood.
There ar a few really pretty neighborhoods there. Tree-ladened and homey.
Unexpected against ideas or memories of "Hollywood Blvd.*
@@LeoMetalTravelerI’m letting the ads play out to give you a little profit
Huh. If you listen to politicians from these areas, they claim things are going great! You bring the reality, Thank you, and please keep telling it like it is.
Pelosi, et al made California a real mess! Notice what profession her daughters took: selling illegal drugs!
It’s what the people want and voted for.
The politicians are still collecting their paychecks and thinking that they are doing a great job at the same time.
@@db-rc5frnot all Californians voted for this. The voting is rigged so it didn’t count those of us who voted conservative
The biggest one every state should watch out for is Gavin Newsom we call him Gavin gruesome as he destroys California and wants to be the President to destroy every state I mean after all he is related to Nancy Pelosi.
For some years, the Hollywood area has been declining. Normal people don't want to deal with mentally ill,drugs addicts,and homeless in Hollywood. Welcome to la la land California.
Newsom's Nirvana.
Agree
I mean, I’ve lived in LA for three decades and honestly, it’s always been a shithole. It isn’t much worse now than it was in the early 90’s
@@MrVarsityphysicsGlendale in the 90’s was the shit.
I went there in 2017 and was underwhelmed. Not much to do or see and alot of it smells of pee.
My wife and I went to LA in 2022 having never been. We stopped by Hollywood and parked in the garage near the Dolby theater. The first thing we saw coming out on the street were homeless people sleeping by the Dolby entrance. It smelled strongly of garbage and urine. We walked around for about an hour and left flabbergasted and disgusted at how awful the place was. Will never return.
Part of the grand plan!
You should had known in advance what to expect, when you visit cities or states run by democrats
The $20 min. wage is running all the Restaurants out now.
That area was so awesome and vibrant till about 2017 or 18 when you started to see serious signs of decline but was still acceptable enough to walk around and stores were still open. Then each year got worse and worse from there until it became embarrassing.
" Will never return " 🤣😭
Thanks! Saved me thousands of pounds travelling from UK to Hollywood. Was my dream destination but looks like a dump
If you come to L.A. county you should visit and stay in the South Bay area. That’s the nice part in the coast where there’s not so much of the b.s. that’s destroyed L.A. visit and stay either in Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, or El Segundo. You can even stay in Torrance and drive like 10-15 mins till you got to those beaches. That will make your visit to L.A. worth it. And coke after May and June b/c is overcast weather during those two months.
you have better theme parks in the EU I would just stick to them. Like you have "Efteling" nearby!...watch this YT on them he is the best at showing them IMO "provost park pass"
Come to San Diego instead😊
Always been a dump. Having it your dream destination just shows the power of propaganda.
Biggest disappointment in my life though I was going to see glitz and glamour and movie stars got there bums hookers sleazbags filthy and people just walking over the homeless
The most shocking part of your walk is how few people are on the street. That area used to be very congested.
German in Venice just did a Friday night video also on Hollywood Blvd and it was a ghost town! He couldn't believe it.
Crime, drugs, ordering online, etc.... all contribute to this mess.
But the streets and sidewalks are very neat and clean.
Just think of all the jobs that were lost.
@@mikeifyouplease There’s a maintenance fee for each Hollywood stars. That’s why the streets are kept clean.
Prioritize criminals and drug users over law abiding and hard working citizens, this is what you get.
make home prices $5986875,959,000 and nothing happens.
"Stars here, stores gone." Last wake-up call for the woke.
Decriminalize prostitution and watch all of those empty storefronts fill with Thailand-like hooker bars overnight.
it had nothing to do with drugs or criminals because hollywood has always had that even when it was at its most prosperous times . the terrible economy and higher costs to travel to visit hollywod , high rent , the internet and then the covid shutdowns changed the way people do business which caused alot of retail and restaurants to close and only the retail businesses that had alot of available cash capital survived .
@@marleonetti7 hey cupcake, with a comment such as yours you'll find some oceanfront land for sale in Nebraska that has your name on it...
Considering almost every movie is a remake of something that was perfectly fine before, and now the public knows about the secret inner world of the industry, Hollywood's days are numbered.
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And their movies are all their Plans against humanity... close close close Hollywood SINNERS movies! Close!
Honestly I disagree, all they have to do is put out a few actual good movies and everyone will forget.
@@Briman2052 Some people want to watch the world burn or something...
Say that shii then homie!💯
There is something poetic / melancholic to this. The remains of an era that is dying. Thanks for sharing!
All good things comes to an end
@Silentkat1975By Qui?
This video is a prime example of why I don’t watch mainstream news anymore. I only watch TH-cam reports for real news. You just earned a new subscribers!
Me also do the same!
News media lie because they depend on businesses advertising. Closed business means no news media.
Yup Leo is LEGIT.....all over big cities.
The mainstream news is on Yt.
MSM is nothing but leftard/woke fake news.
Looks like the Hollywood Walk of Fame is gonna turn into the next Skid Row.
Thank Ronald reagan for closing all the mental Hospitals when he was governor
@@westwardHo- LOL! Right on queue. This is the familiar, programmed response of the left... blame the mess that California is in on Reagan. There may be some truth to it, but decades have passed by since his presidency, and there has been ample time for Democrats running these states to figure their sh* out. So, no... I don't accept that it can just all be blamed on Reagan and that this exonerates Democrats, the left, progressives, etc. I'm not anti-progressive, in principle, but the left needs to own the monumental f-uo that they've turned the states and cities that they govern into.
A very,very sad day if it does.
Hollywood walk of shame 🧌
They'll be auctioning a few of those 'stars' for loose change.
I worked as a FF/ Paramedic in Hollywood for twenty years. I left Calif in 2018 . This breaks my heart. Politics killed California.
Isn't CA a one party state? Where does "politics" come in?
I think it's just plain looting going on. It's the same story in any part of the 3rd World. Striving for power is not about ideas, solutions and serving the public - it's just a get-rich-quick scheme for you and yours.
Leftist politics
No voters did
Yes it started in California with Reagan now it's ending in California..
@@Russeljfinchyes republican and keeping encumbants also professional politicians too..
We visited in 2014, did the tourist thing and went to Hollywood Boulevard, saw all the characters outside the Dolby theatre, there were people everywhere and I don't remember seeing empty retail spaces. I am truly amazed this is the same place. Thank you, Leo.
Hollywood Blvd is very long, around the Chinese theatre etc you can still find people in costumes and stores etc but it used to be everywhere and now just around the very center
Santa Monica area is even worse than this ..
This is well east of the Dolby Theater area.
Good to see what Hollywood really looks like. You don't have the national media show any of this. Why is no one else covering this drastic change?
The media is just propaganda now. They only run a narrative for one party.
Hollywood blvd, its always been a shithole. Legit Angelino born and raised, it was a shit hole when I was born, it was a shit hole when my parents arrived to the US, and it will remain a cesspool til the end of time.
Because there are more pressing issues in the world than what Hollywood really looks like.
They won’t show you the Great Reset.
Well, Disney owns one news agency. Do you think they would allow negative reports? This is why monopolizing industries is bad.
I've heard that in Hollywood there is no longer _the walk of fame_ but _the walk of shame_
definitely walk of shame, famous people abused since childhood to perform and manipulate the public or just used to represent something we like before they destroy their character to ruin society.
Has the gender research studied Oscar yet? The street is non-repressive.
Excellent comment
Cool story, bro; all of a sudden, you Nietzsche! LOL LOL
I was just there. It's definitely thriving...
As a resident of Los Angeles, I am not surprised, and i stopped going to Hollywood years ago. I'd rather drive 30 minutes to go to another city to eat and shop. It's criminal what politicians have done to many cities.
Democrat politicians.
I saw a UN or fema map on b1tchut3 (don't remember which it was a few years ago) it showed California as empty, I didn't really believe it but I'm starting to wonder now.
While places like Hollywood and some parts of dtla are dying , places like culver City, Inglewood, mid city and west adams are growing
What did politicians do?
@@ghostmellissaYour joking right? The media has really blinded people
So Depressing, Newsom what have you done??
And yet unbelievably, Newsom carries on. Hard to believe.
I never in my lifetime thought I would see Hollywood like this
Cmon now Hollywood was always sketchy. Hollywood and Vine had alot of crime and not the best to be at least since the 80's
@@tima4929 yes it always had crime but I’m talking about it being ghost town. The homeless population did this. They were surviving through business with the crime still.
@@BigmommaKi Honestly, my fam and I live in LA near Hollywood and we all unanimously agree, COVID did this. The shutdowns. Before that, downtown was seeing a revival and Hollywood was as packed as ever. It has recovered a lot, but not quite yet what it was. Maybe a year or two and it'll be back.
@@Briman2052 I hope so lord knows I don’t want the whole United States to look like a slum. At least keep our tourist sites
I graduated from Hollywood High, this is so sad to see.
I left after over 60 years of living there. I arrived in Hollywood in 1961 and California was paradise. It stayed that way for a few decades. Then it rapidly deteriorated until I felt I was living in a third world country. In 2022 I moved to Florida. I am heartbroken. I loved California and it used to be so beautiful. We need good leaders who feel the same way about California.
The same thing will happen in Florida.
@@screenname1 So far it is beautiful, no graffiti, homeless or trash all over the streets. Perhaps California is an example of what can happen if you follow their policies.
@@screenname1I hear it already has. 😐
@@screenname1 Won't happen in Florida, they have a smart governor.
@@whitetrashmillionare4858 maga 🤡
"This was a comedy club. It's no longer funny." "This was a newsstand. It no longer stands." HAHAHAHAHA!
😁😁😁
Haha
Hilarious!!
That was funny, "It's no longer funny"
Truth is always funny.
The best part of Hollywood seems to be the memories.
Used to live right down the street from The Walk of Fame. Absolutely a disgusting neighborhood to live in. Homeless everywhere, shanty towns on every block, people smoking crack and shooting heroin in broad daylight, I caught a homeless couple having sex on top of my neighbor's car, and the sidewalks are covered in piss. The only time the city would ever bother cleaning up a bit is when The Oscars are around the corner. It was like living in Gotham City.
I've visual there and thought the leaders of LA are absolutely crazy from not capitalizing on what they've got there. They get tourists from all over the world. Look at how Nashville does it. That should be prime real estate.
Fr. Yet you got all these people from different countries wanting to tour the area. The place is a dump. Why would you want to waste your money there. It feels sketch too like you’re gonna get pickpocketed or mugged all the time.
Sex on Top of a Car? Seems a bit uncomfortable idk
Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. If you put a dent in the automobile, the owners will generally get upset and antagonist towards you.
Same theeng, every theeng ees closed.😅
“The more I get to know people the more I like my dog” Mark Twain
Wtf?
I concur.
I prefer cats and dogs, if I can have one or two I am good.
@@ceroandonedogs never complain, and love you reguardless, why not?
Nothing is more loyal than your dog.
The land of lies and nightmares is finally coming to an end. Too much of our lives lost to hollywood.
Amen to that … soo much lost time invested..
Don’t forget the plastic
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And the alleged heinous things by sick people
Bravo!
We visited Hollywood before Floyd/covid. It was alive and bustling.Sad to see the state it’s in now.Thanks Biden, Pelosi, Newsom, job well done.
Genau das wollte man mit "Corona" erreichen. Hat nicht ganz funktioniert nun versucht man es mit dem 3.Weltkrieg. Es lebe die Deutsch Russische Freundschaft. Viele Grüße aus Leipzig ( DDR ) ❤❤❤
That’s fast to have become this way.
Terrible.
Even before the summer 2020 riots and COVID, LA was already showing signs of decay. There were tent cities all over downtown
It will be interesting to find out who buys this real estate. They are destroying the value so it can be bought for pennies.
Since Governator....
I lived in Hollywood from the 70's through the 80's and it doesn't even look like Hollywood anymore. Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it, And thanks for sharing
@user-mc1yd9bp5xda money's in Burbank.
If you’re in the business of selling boards I would say you’re in good shape.
Yes, a completely different place.
Im not from the USA. But in interested in something. Who are gonna be interested in buying super costly apartments down town when there are no stores or city life? That's like the point in living downtown.
It’s really bad if the PEP BOYS is closed. That place has been there for at least 30 years.
More than 50 yrs. It was around when I was a kid.
The dollar store is closing next, rock bottom almost hit.
@@Maverick80Eight -How long at the Hollywood location? I’ve only been in LA since the mid 80s.
@@chrisjenkins9978 Not sure. We lived near Sunset & Vine since mid 60's. Only difference the Pep Boys had big statue figures of Manny, Moe, & Jack.
And Arby’s!!
its fitting that hollywood is dying since hollywood is dying, no one cares about new movies any longer.
I turned my TVs into monitors. Hollywood died in the late 90s. Same for the music industry. Haven't been to a movie theater since the 90s. Haven't bought a CD or DVD since the early 2000s..
Leo does a better job with his camera than any producer in that town.
@@jimmyday9536 for sure i love this channel been watching since he started in SF
@@CeeTee-12345 yup, jerks pretending to be acting. for the real McCoy, the 40s,50s,&60s are where you'll see stories and real talent in film.
@@suppylarue220 no it’s not it is somebody who works in the industry. It’s Tech that has ruined movies. Then people that have opinions about social media or what they like on social media influences media. I work in production and movies are completely different due to tech and cgi and now AI
17:06 "Post No Bills" has nothing to do with not paying, they are talking about *_not posting handbills,_* which are like fliers, paper announcements of various kinds. They don't want people taping paper announcements to their walls.
The joke flew over your head goofball
As a Angeleno, this saddens me, use to be a thriving area with tourists and entertainment, but with the high rent, homelessness corruption, crime, it’s soulless like a ghost town.
Yes
Blame to Governor Gavin Newsome.
It's really sad
Ghost town you say?....
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This breaks my heart. I grew up in Hollywood in the 70's and it was vibrant, friendly and so cool! After school we walked to Hollywood Blvd to have Arby's and hang out. I cannot believe what this country has turned to!
You lived in the peak time. Just look at China, India, and the Middle East. That’s what this side of the planet has to look forward to. Overpopulation, and societal degradation, as well as environmental, and societal collapse.
Only idiots will put their name and signature on sidewalks everyone steps on it, no class at all.
Hollywood never been holy, it's just bunch of mediocre never been living around the world all alone since childhood not a complete multiracial not fluent multilingual.
Correction: what the "blue states" have turned into. Red states don't have these problems
@@crystalbluebutterfly 🏆
JUNK 👀👀
It’s amazing to think how all those “stars” believed that having their names put into the sidewalk was a form of legacy.. Now it’s the irony of collapsing civilization. Those were better times.
The nobody's walk of shame thank God hollywood is not really civilization, unless you've been Braindrained by celebrity mentality and still trying to keep up with the Kardashians & their botox ghetto booty
Only idiots will put their names and signature on tiles where everyone steps on it, no class at all.
Hollywood never been holy, it's just bunch of mediocre never been living around the world all alone since childhood not a complete multiracial not fluent multilingual.
Maybe instead of focusing on a rich minority they could have focused on the whole community of people
Then maybe it wouldn’t resemble a bomb site
@@benhartart9487 That would be a liberal value. Are you saying the Hollywood elites are not liberals?
The real stars are on the walls all that graff from people who actually from here fkk Hollywood
The era of Hollywood cinema is coming to an end.
AMERICA...... is coming to an end jojo!
@@mayhemmike1789 Run before too late !
good Hollywood was always a vector for propaganda and the destruction of Western morality
@@mayhemmike1789 Just the deep state pedos..
Those storefront could be filled no problem. The problem is the Retail Space down. There is so freaking expensive. They rather leave it empty and dilapidated than to lower the rent, which is crazy.
I hate it when they do this, there should be a penalty for people leaving housing/retail space unfilled. I don’t care that you “own” it, it’s part of a community, it’s part of a city, people like this are literally blighting cities because they’re sitting on spaces. We have spaces like this in my small city that have been empty for 15+ years, it’s so obnoxious. I’d much rather have a stupid dirty hipster coffee shop than an empty dusty store front. I say after 10 years of a storefront or housing being empty they have to start paying increasing fines for literally lowering the economic value of the city. We don’t abide unkempt lawns, this isn’t really that different. Unkempt lawns attract vermin and pests, dead spaces attract crime.
At this point in time, only massive regulation cuts, tax reductions at all income levels, and a tough on crime approach could reverse this decay.
Yeah because those places are bought by the owners of the world and they would rather see it rot than let people use it cheaper, thats not how they get all the power and money
It’s because it’s the 5th largest economy in the world and deeply inflated
there would always be a retailer who would pay that rent they left because of the lawlessness and the city and state allowing it to happen.
Imagine having your star on the "Walk of Fame" and have all the stores CLOSED. What a joke. Thanks, again METAL LEO.
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Nah, even worst is having your Walk of Fame Star and millions step on our name every day AND homeless addicts relieve themselves on it...and sleep on it
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I was thinking the VERY SAME thing !
I was last in Hollywood in 1995, I’m totally shocked. Here in London, we too are suffering retail devastation. In the UK, more and more people are working from home and shopping on line.
London is no longer London. England will soon be a majority Muslim country.
I lived there in 1983 and 84.
This was the most heartbreaking of all Leo’s videos.
World is changing. Nothing gonna stop this. Still it's interesting what future holds. We most adapt or perish.
Same is whole world. Online shopping destroying old "street" shopping. But in Hollywood also old film industry losing vs internet huge streaming companies. So there are 2 factors why is so bad there. Now nobody waiting like mad and go Cinema looking new Hollywood film. Now people open laptop and watch favorite tv series online from streaming company like netflix or others. Also dont go Hollywood buy some film gadget when can buy it online.
@@alicjapszenicka5047i agree. I am from Germany and we have the same problems.
People is loosing their jobs, the glamour about Hollywood is just memories. The dream about going to Hollywood to pursuit their dreams is no longer a thing
I like the irony of celebrities thinking they're better than everyone else, yet people are walking over their names every day.
Now with the bums taking over the area, they are doing other things on the sidewalks to degrade them.
Those who put themselves 1st will be the last ✝️🕯️🛐
💩 on a ⭐
Soo true🤣😭😭😭😭
@@freespirit21newyork
Yesss, Amen🔥🔥🔥🔥
What a coincidence, a Bud Light Truck!
Did the trans community kill your grandma?
Exactly…
Very suitable for this video.
Coincidentally, I was reading your comment when I heard the chugging of the truck!
Lol
Gavin Newsom California
Garcetti... the pretty boy Mayor.. and the successor Karen bASS.. ... that is doing NOTHING..
TRUMP/TULSI 2024!!
Donald Trump ain't fixing SHIT. All he wants is to turn America into a Christofaschist dictatorship.
Wow those neighborhoods around Hollywood Blvd look sketchy AF now.. even in the daytime! Can’t imagine at night.. & where are all the tourists? Looks pretty deserted on a beautiful day? .. got to be like 75% less tourists there , than 15-20 years ago…
and nothing shits up buildings more than graffiti tagging them all up … seems like everywhere there! Too bad.. good ole days gone…
Like way, waaay back in 2010 😭
Gavifornia😂😅
Thank you Leo for covering this on-the-ground footage. Msm and media would never cover this like you do.
I grew up there.... last week I took a relative there ( haven't been there for years) i felt like a hand was around my throat.... everything is blacked out dead feeling could not wait to get out of there... Hard to explain the feeling.
Thanks For sharing
Know what you’re saying. Was in SF last summer for the first time in a while and it just had a dead feeling. Couldn’t wait to leave and I used to love it there
@@kylegross1081Tony Hall said it used to be a magical place.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hall_(supervisor)
I am sorry for your loss. Not seen on television...
Even in its better days Hollywood gave off bad vibes, sleazy and with an oppressing atmosphere. Despite all the hype and cheap veneer of glamor, couldn't wait to get out of there. An overwhelmingly evil place.
When you prioritize criminals and drug users over law abiding productive citizens. This is the result
The criminals are the coos
I'm pretty sure there's something stronger, more nefarious and much more competent than a couple druggies and burglars here and there. This smells like decades of corruption
Prioritizing movie stars & lifestyles of the rich and almost famous is just as bad.
Nothing but the TRUTH!!! 🤔👍🏽
BLM did this.
This is disturbing and we still sending billions overseas!
So what is that supposed to mean? Give free money to people who don't want to work and take drugs all day? Give free money to forgive high student loans for an arts degree in a university? Money is given overseas to build alliances so we don't have enemies at our gates that we have to fight. You know what's disturbing?, people who support Bl@ck lies Matter, the Woke, the Progressive left, Newsom and the local government.
You guys pay for free healthcare in Israel, something you yourselves will never get! Good for you! 😂
Because the military industry complex is the main us economy.
In all fairness, this is a local state issue. Not really up to federal government to fix what states decided to neglect. Money sent overseas comes from a federal budget.
With no strings attached 😜
BudLight truck drives by, right on cue, at the boarded-up block🤣🤣🤣
Get Woak....Go Broke.....
Los Angeles needs get rid of corrupt politicians...
👍👍👍🥺🥺🥺indeed absolutely!
Let them enjoy their votes
Not just Hollywood, everywhere
Not only Hollywood but all over the world!
The politicians do what the voters want
Where criminals and drug users have more rights than the honest citizens is just incredible!!!
Now we can add immigrants to the list of people with more rights
Imagine being a tourist in L.A and just seeing a guy screaming out "CLOSED NOW" "FOR LEASE" "BOARDED UP" "CLOOOOOOOOOOOSED"
You read my mind…😂😂😂
😊😊😅😅
Cheers Leo, you've got the guts to show the rot no one wants to acknowledge
I worked on Hollywood Blvd in the 80s and it was seedy then, but there were hardly any closed shops. This is incredible.
Spot on. I’ve watched in the past (1979 to 1981 or so) these old exploitation films where the serial killer is driving up and down Hollywood. And there’s that “womp womp wooommmp” depressing music in the background…
But you notice all the storefronts are occupied. It’s a lot of liquor stores, convenience stores, adult bookstores, but occupied. This feels different…
Wow you must of had a blast in the 80's. The music was way better too 😮
@@michaelfreydberg4619 Yep, at this point even a Pussycat Adult theater would be an improvement! 😅
I used to live in Hollywood back in 2005 until 2009, it was bumpin' back then. I've had good and fun memory, so sad it became like this.
I used to work on Hollywood Blvd in the 90's outside the Chinese theatre handing out audience tickets for TV shows. Wow that street has fallen hard. Looks like a Ghost town!
Across the street is the old Roosevelt Hotel where Led Zeppelin CIA handlers took charge of the Hotel when Led Zeppelin was on tour in the LA area and they had such huge drug parties that trashed the place so bad it took a boatload of money to refurbish the interior
Eye saw them at the Rose Palace when they came and remember going to the Graumans Chinese manuscript theatre and the line was all the way around the block to get a ticket to C the first public showing of The Exorcist
Remember that movie
Hollywood used to B a huge party Animal Farm
Down on the Sunset strip they had a lot of big names show up at the Whiskey A Go Go and the Roxy Theatre bar with names like The Doors Crosby Stills Nash and Young Janis Joplin all those folks were directly tied to child trafficking through Hollywood studio network tied directly to the CIA MK Ultra sleeper cells Wonderland USAF Alice looking Glass technology projects up Mulholland drive and Laurel Canyon
There used to be an underground Tunnel network that ran through UCLA Hugh Heffner Playboy Mansion and the Getty Museum
U may remember some years back the network was reporting explosions going on through those areas
If U read US Executive Order #13818 back in December 2018 U will C that order declaration that being engaged in child trafficking and crimes against humanity ur financial assets are getting seized and will prosecuted for war crimes and taken Tu GITMO
Everything that Leo puts up is the take down of these Satanic Ritual Torture and demonic sacrifices in which the Los Angeles area from Burbank studies out to Calabasas to Malibu and Topanga Canyon and particularly from Hwy 101 across Santa Monica boulevard to PCH and everything north and west of I-5 was a round up
It was a huge Black Mirror Hub server of loosh farming experiments forced breeding experiments abductions and ritual spiritual torture programs
The landscape is different now
Mu ah 💋 🌈💜🌋..
Back in April 1988, a friend and I traveled to the L.A. area from NYC just to check things out.
We went to Mann's Chinese Theater and at the time, Beetlejuice was the premier.
We walked all of those starred streets and there were a lot more people than there are now.
Did you work the block
In rush hour they are on Hollywood Blvd and it’s crowded and looks great. America has fallen from them.
@@Nick0wnszlast time I went over there was around 2016 it wasn’t anything like this
Thank you for doing the work that you do!!! This is very eye-opening 🤯😱
The Hollywood Walk of Stars has become the Hollywood Walk of Stores-Are-Gone-Now. Thank you, Metal Leo, for documenting this.
@catyronwode always !
The Hollywood Walk of Stars has become THE Walk of Taco stands and BACON WRAPPED HOT DOG CARTS....
Because main stream media eant Gavin Newsome to be our next President. He'll close down all of America !!!
Remember Hollywood Blvd back in the 80’s had all those rock/metal t-shirt shops? Even in the early 90’s they were still there. All gone.
Wtf
Must have ran out of black T-shirts
Even better in the 70’s lots of happy people lots of action n music.
@@bigfoot-id8bv same situation in vancouvers gastown, not many of the original stores left, any store that sold eclectic or oddball items is long gone, whatever is left is generic tourist rubbish and they were slow, soon it could be called ghost town.
Wow!!! What a GD shame.... Loved those rock shops😥
don't cry for them....this is what they voted for...
Exactly. I'm happy for them. They'd rather have this than Trump. I think it needs 20 thousand more migrants to make it better..
Sad thing is they still don’t get it , still won’t care . Still listening to the old narrative and lies , oblivious to the truth
This is pathogen behavior. And pathogens don't stay in one spot.
Now go and repost this comment on every tour of : west virginia, rural georgia, mississippi, alabama, mississippi, oklahoma, arkansas
@@audenharper3014 what was there recently that is now suddenly shut down ? Lots of peoples fleeing those states to California? They running to Chicago? Please explain
In Downtown South Bend, IN is just like this and was once a thriving city. It's sad that Hollywood is like this too.
I grew up just north of Hollywood in Ventura Co. This breaks my heart to see. But we (collectively in CA) DID vote for this. I've tried to convince my friends and neighbors that voting Blue No Matter Who would lead to disaster. And now my prediction is coming true. CA was a much better place when it was a purple state and we had Republican governors. The Red politicians could keep the Blue politicians honest, and vice versa. But now the Blue politicians have total power, and the worst of their policies are getting passed.
I loved my summer weekends at the H Bowl every year, but it’s not the same ~ gross and not safe down there.
Libertarians carry the weight.
City just like the people. Shit.
If you grew up in north Hollywood you would know that it’s always been a tweezer town
yes that's what I've been saying...when we become a red state..we get screwed and vice versa. We need a purple state to keep everyone in line
Love your videos. Real news we can use. Only the facts with pictures. Wish mainstream news could do the same.
I wonder when I watch these videos where the people are walking to, when everything is closed. 😂
They pretty much look at The Chinese Theater, the Mall next door to get a snap shot of the Hollywood sign, take a picture of the Dolby theater, buy a Hollywood T-Shirt and thats it.
NPCs literally .... Lost souls aimlessly wandering filling the voids
7-11
Tough time ahead for America
So much sadness watching this. I moved away for good in 2001. In the late 70s, Punk Rockers were drawn to Hollywood Blvd from the Masque Club, off Cherokee. Never any fear walking at night alone, and some years later I would roller-skate at about 3am on the terrazzo surface of the Walk of Fame when it was empty except for the crew power-washing it to keep it clean. It's all been destroyed.
I was there at that time.
funny how even the worst behaved punk rockers and skateboarders from back then seem sillily tame today compared to now
I used to work on Hollywood Blvd., at Madame Tussauds (2017) and at Ripley's Believe it Or Not (2018) while pursuing my car design career out there. So glad that I moved out of there during 2019. I also worked for Gold's Gym on 7th street (watched your DTLA video this morning) and also lived in DTSF, which is also a nightmare now. Such a shame. Keep voting the same way, but wonder why things get worse in Cali.
Is MT and ripleys still open
Very cool. Glad you got out. 💯
Where did you move to?
@@sr9253I moved back to Boston, where I'm originally from, which is still a left-leaning place, but still many same moderate/conservative people live here (old school Boston type of people).
@@JohnSmith-dm1woLast time I was in LA (last November for a press conference), MT and Ripley's was still open.
I grew up in Moreno Valley and we literally went to Hollywood every weekend. This was back in the late 90’s to mid 2000’s I can’t believe it looks like this as it was always busy with shops and people before
Moreno Valley?? That’s quite the commute 😅
@@AppleJackksonwe know what he was up to
That was my time too! It used to be crackin every single weekend!
My condolences that you grew up in Moreno valley
I went to Hollywood all the time in the 90's and early-mid 2000's and... it was just like in the video LOL. Maybe there were more shops open, but it was a dump, it smelled, there were prostitutes and drugs out in the open.
I was almost living on the streets of Los Angeles when the writer’s strike happened last year. I watched some of my writer friend/neighbors lose jobs and it was one of the more terrifying moments of my life. Everything changed so quickly. It breaks my heart to see a city I loved and lived in for so long like this.
You people are monsters
Hollywood =
Pea
Doughs
Good riddence
The Bud Light truck was the best irony in the video …go woke go broke 😢
Good observation.
I knew I'd find this dumb comment here at some point
Good One LOL
Republicans are the biggest snowflakes these days.
The irony was not lost on me! 👍😅
"This is all boarded up, this is all boarded up, this is closed, this is closed *Oh look there's Lassie"*
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Great job, as usual, Leo. Keep the documenting coming
I've been there many times.
In years past, you could barely find a spot to park and there'd be tons of people crowding the sidewalks.
Not anymore...
Yes, it’s a big difference now. lassie was pretty funny to see 🐕
The very things that Hollywood sells to the world are dying. The movie and music industry is dying. When Taylor Swift is the best thing going in music and Barbie is the biggest movie, you know the entertainment industry is circling the drain.
OMG, you're 100% right. I couldn't agree with you more. The entertainment world was once so brilliant, now its utterly crap.
Y’all sound like old folks yelling at clouds. ( And I am 65, lol) A lot of the new stuff is incredible. A lot of it is crap. Just as always.
@@TheGeostoyes there is so many awesome new movies really well done too
Ok. Name 5 good modern movies.
I'm 38, new Hollywood sucks more than ever. You got garbage in between but good was the rule. Now garbage is the rule with good stuff in between. Keep dreaming.
I have watched an shared your videos several times.
Just subscribed. Thank you for the boots on the ground.
Awesome, thank you!
I've been a Hollywood resident for over 35 years. Contrary to what you might think, about a third of these businesses have been closed since way before the pandemic, for the last 8-9 years. There has been a lingering recession since about '08, getting worse every day. With the average lease on Hollywood Blvd. anywhere between $20-$35k per month depending on size, most shops have not been sustainable for at least 15 years. Since the pandemic some enterprises keep a boarded up look for security reasons. They are tired of having to repair smashed glass. They keep very limited business hours, mostly noon to about 8p. Good luck if you're trying to go to a restaurant for lunch or dinner. It is a shame what happened to this country.
Forgive my ignorance, but how do the property owners afford to keep so many empty businesses?
@@mitch868 -- From a creative accounting standpoint, they might be able to deduct the losses on their biz taxes, as well as depreciation.
@@mitch868 Long term they really can't - but they are incentivized by city tax write-offs and business loss declarations to keep mum, to keep a status quo and do nothing. Most landlords are just fence men holding the property in name only. This is what is called shadow banking, a scheme that has become very popular since the late 90's. The US has learned from the Chinese regarding this unfortunately.
@@mitch868Would love to go into more detail here but the powers that be at YT/Google have redacted my previous answer to your query. That in itself tells volumes about the "free" internet.
Hollywood celebrities were overpaid
Closed Nowwwww!...Sing it! Sign of the times, Aye
For Leeeeaaassse.
I was born and raised in the L.A. area and Hollywood was a dirty, disgusting, dangerous place 30 years ago. There’s nothing shocking in *this* video, but the one about Los Angeles is absolutely horrifying! Skid Row used to be confined to one area, and it was safe to walk around the jewelry district, flower district, textile district, and Santee Alley. People would walk up and down Broadway to shop. (We referred to it as the “Mexican Promenade”, an homage to the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The Promenade was cool until all the independent shops & boutiques were forced out by big businesses.)
I wouldn’t walk down Broadway in the daytime now. All the shops are gone anyway! The businesses close to DTLA are now closed, boarded up, and tagged. Homeless and other sketchy looking people are wandering around. Broadway north of 6th after dark is a great place to go if you’re looking to get stabbed. The trash is unreal! It looks like someone emptied a ton of dumpsters into empty lots.
I was a 19 yr old girl who lived alone in the city. I drove around very late at night so I could learn to navigate without traffic. I wanted to know how to get places without taking freeways, too. This was before smartphones or Google Maps. (You could pull over and use a real map, if you wanted to advertise that you were lost.) There were places where the cops wouldn’t go, and you needed to avoid drug dealers or gang members, not homeless.
I learned to mind my own business while keeping my eyes open and acting like I knew what I doing. Driving through South LA at night, taking Normandie or Vermont from the city to the South Bay, you’d feel eyes on you. Dealers were selling drugs and women were selling themselves. It was obvious, too; they’d be in the middle of the damn street. If I was at a red light and someone started to approach my car, I’d hit the gas. It’s not like there was a cop around to give me a ticket.
I admit, I got into a few bad situations where I could’ve been killed. I’ve had a gun and a knife pulled on me, and ppl who were bigger/stronger physically attack me. I’ve never been gravely wounded, though, because I’m never totally unarmed; I’ve used my head to read the situation, reason with ppl and/or talk my way out of tight spots. The problem is that you can’t reason with someone in a full-blown, drug induced psychosis.
Whether or not ppl become homeless because were they were mentally ill or on drugs is moot. Once someone loses their job and their home, they’re in a state of shock, fear and trauma that generally leads to homelessness. The few who managed to escape homelessness and integrate back into society have repeatedly expressed how rampant drug addiction is among the homeless. It’s easier to use drugs and escape from the horror than fight your way back into a society where the odds are always stacked against you. Drug use takes a toll on your mental and physical health, so the longer you are homeless, the less likely you are to escape.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but I’m dismayed by how many comments are so misguided. Everyone is arguing that it’s the Democrats’ fault, it’s the Republicans’ fault, it’s because of COVID, it’s the lack of housing, it’s because of immigration, blame China, blame the governor, blame teachers, blame Millennials, preach about the economy, defund the police, defund the IRS, blame Hunter Biden, blame the pizza guy, repent because the apocalypse is near…
There is no single cause for what’s happening, just as there’s no single solution. The descent into homelessness is a process. The decay of a community is a process. Everyone is part of the problem but no one wants to devote a significant amount of their time and effort to understand the problem in order to work toward the solution process. We’re all guilty.
Millenneals are to blame
Only in America. In Asia were on the Rise ! America is not a safe place to live too many crimes, Drugs, in Asia we don't have zombies.
Amazing comment ,I enjoyed reading this. Thank you.
I dissagree, the pizza guy is to blame
If it were a single city, perhaps, but this is indicative of far too many cities across the entire US for it to be a 'process that is everyone's fault'. The Same thing is happening in Canada and Australia and England/Europe. All 'part of a process' they're all responsible for, as well, I suppose. I'm sorry. you're woefully ignorant.
The stores that sell cans of spray paint must be open 24 hours.
Yeah but do taggers pay for spray or steal them?
@@charrua59sometimes I buy sometimes I steal it just depends on the store
@@charrua59just because someone is a vandal doesn’t mean they’re a low life thief. try to be a little more respectful on here. 🤨
@@jessihawkins9116 of course i don't want too talk bad about does little angels 😇. Anyways back in the 80s, taggers l knew told me they usually stole the cans.
@@charrua59Oh snap!
Thank you Gavin Nuisance and gang.
Celebrities should have stayed out of politics, and kept their choice of relationships to themselves but great actors and great movies do not exist anymore
AI will be a nail in the coffin for the movie industry
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they jumped the shark and no going back
ALL Actors ever were TRANSGENDER deciever- EGI
Yet they still give out Oscar's every year! For what? Alot of crap,that's what?
When it was called Kodak Theatre in 2010, that was the last time I step foot on Hollywood Blvd. It was somewhat booming with families and tourists but when you cross the road south and walk maybe 200 meters, it starts to get shady. You are better on having a few drinks and lunch down Melrose Avenue. Not sure what it's like these days, maybe check it out?
Thank you for this video. I will now mark Hollywood walk of fame off my bucket list. As it is now CLOSED and boarded up!! Wow!
Piss bucket list hollywood is now a honeybucket town
@@westwardHo-
Oh whatever. I just made a comment to the creator but you ans me why?
It’s not worth seeing. Save your time and money
Leo, I'm so glad I came across your channel because my friends are coming to town next month and we had planned to come to Hollywood but theres no businesses open!!! Thanks for saving us a trip!!! 😊👍🏽
GREAT JOB NEWSOM
People use to flock to Ca / Hollywood with nothing but a suit case / duffel bag and a dream. Now they flee from there and flock to Texas , Indiana , and the Carolinas …total role reversal
Didn't know those states were motion picture meccas. I know Georgia is trying to be.
@@oiler62 this is just one video about Hollywood on this channel , yesterday was east LA , before that Sacramento, and before that SF. It’s the whole state actually, real shit show
@@daendiznigh Red State cities aren't doing that great either
@@oiler62 think your kind of missing the point of this video my friend.
@@oiler62 think your missing the point , your missing the bigger picture , you must be a liberal?
2 weeks to flatten the curve
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3 generations destroy a nation
More like 3 freaking years
Another lie.
Thanks Leo! Holy Wood, Holy Shit. Lost Angeles!!!
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😁 Great thanks for the video 👍🏼👈🏼
So terribly sad! I used to love that city. Moved in LA in the 80s for the music, cool cars, cool creative people, and work and career opportunities and experience both the highs and lows that comes with living in a big city but nothing like this. That looks like death. So happy to know that I made the right decision to move out. There is not much left, just empty ugly new buildings with no life. R.I.P California
Hollywood was the heartbeat of LA.in the 80's.. The Rainbow, Roxy, the whiskey, Cat Club, Gazzarris...Last fun decade. All closed now or should be. Edgy cool vibe is gone. Strays from the radiator shop in Van Nuys come here now and bewildered tourists trying to see the 80's leaving empty handed. Stupid of me to come back and find out what I already knew, which is you can't go home again..Last trip here when the lease is up..
This is by design. They have done it in Russia, Germany, france, England....even Bagdad.
The beginning of a purge
I lived in Hollywood until 2002. I feel I experienced the last vital breathe of Hollywood. At the end of 2002 I started to feel yucky about LA already.
I really don’t underhand how people can live in a state where you can’t buy a home insurance. That itself is big to me.
Cali says they have the best economy in the United States. Doesn't look that way to me. Love the videos ML!!!
I'm sure their blue liberal utopia is just around the corner, we just can't see it !😂
Trust less of what you hear (narratives and opinions) and trust more of what you see (verifiable facts and evidence). You’re absolutely right.
They are probably only counting the high tech corporations, movie studios, and real estate - all the big money. Democrats are killing small business.
Retail is suffering everywhere, have you checked your own town lately? In the meantime, California is still the fifth largest economy IN THE WORLD.
California doesn't base their economy on stores in Hollywood or San Francisco 🙄
Hey Leo my Brother!! Thank you for the work you are doing. I’m sharing your videos with everyone and posting the link on other yt videos.
Born n raised So Cal, living in Seattle now;
This is so important dude, God Bless u and yours!!!
So which shithole is worse, LA or Seattle??
You went from the frying pan into the fire.
@@johnjuarez8005 I still love them both but LA is uglier. The view of Seattle as you go south on the 5 Obe Lake Union takes my breath away every time.
Mainstream says otherwise yet people still watch them. Thank you for real reporting.
Wow! I lived in Hollywood at the Lido apt. complex on Yucca and wilcox st. across from the Playboy liquor store in 1990's! It's amazing how deserted and ugly it looks now as opposed to the 90's!! I've always called it the city of demons because it was filled with predators on the prowl for the innocence of the young! "The Place of Hollywood" was amoung the night clubs that lured in the innocent to thier doomed fate, just like "the Viper room" did! Godspeed!
What about Gold Finger?!?!
I used to live in Hollywood - left in 2019 - all those blocks you walked, I knew them well (I shopped at that Trader Joes). Crazy how many businesses are gone! Thanks for the video.
Thanks for sharing!
whats going on why are businesses closing in hollywood whats the problem
Thank you for posting this I had no idea
I just found you Leo. People need to see this.
I've lived in the valley north of L.A. most of my life. Before covid, Sunset strip was it! Theaters, clubs, shops of every kind, preformance halls and schools, tattoo parlors, restaurants, 4 dozen bars, etc. After covid, it was cut in half. EVERY storefront and intersection you passed I could tell you what it was and it's a kick in the nuts to see it all boarded up and empty. Like the rest of Los Angeles. Hollywood is finished and the culture is dead. Unless you live in Socal, save yourself the trip.
VonValen: Fellow Valley denizen here.
You're absolutely right.
There's another poster in here saying he's misleading viewers because it's not that bad, etc, etc; and I asked that person to explain what is false or misleading, because I stopped going into The City 10 years ago when I saw the downward slide.
It's not just Hollywood. It's:
Downtown with what used to be the fun cultural towns of Olivera Street, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, the fashion district, the business district, and the government administration areas.
The Beach Areas of Santa Monica and Venice that are disgusting to even live in now.
It's the Westside that's fighting tooth and nail to keep the crime, homeless and their encampments, and other blights out.
It's even affecting The Valley that was never as exciting, but it was once a pleasant and fun place to live and visit. Now, even the Southwest parts that were once the wealthy areas (Sherman Oaks, Tarzana, and Woodland Hills) are suffering from the blight that's overtaken The City.
Even the Southeastern part over by Pasadena that used to be a great place is slowly getting worse from what I hear.
We have to work harder to get rid of the Leftist Mafia. Everything depends on it.
The sooner We get those leeching ticks Out, the less money it'll take to fix everything they broke and ruined
I used to live in SoCal, totally agree.
@@LA_HA You must not understand the difference between a leftist and a liberal. Look it up. As for references to the mafia, look that up, too. There's only one major politician that operates like a mob boss and he's on trial and facing three more trials as a result of a lifetime of criminality. So lets get the crooks OUT.
I remember watching movies in the 1980s about dystopian future cities. It's ironic cuz now we're living it.
Yes, Escape rom New York. , Escape from L A. Kurt Russel, great movies who would have thought you know what they say never say never .
Yay Leo!!!! Keep bringing it!
Been in LA in 2018, first time visit. Seeing these video's from Leo makes me never want to visit again. Glad I've seen it in a good state. And thank you Leo for all your videos!! 👍🏻🤘🏻
Other than these kind of walk-throughs, you never hear about how extensive the blight is in all these major cities. Thanks for bringing it to light!
I went there several years ago. I was so disappointed. It was so dirty and hardly any shops were open..
Thanks for sharing
Marvelous video bro! You could run a dystopian tour guide business. A Gen X guy like me who grew up in the heyday of malls loves this stuff!
Thanks for the idea!
@11:34 Pretty cool effect from the sunlight coming between the trees. It looks like white paint was thrown on the building and sidewalk 😮