"Same old, same old." Yep, looks like the same old potholes in the sidewalk where you can trip and break an ankle. Haha. That's pretty cool that you have locals that recognize you. Be safe.
Hah yeah on return visits to AC, now spanning almost two decades, I always make it a point to say g'day to a couple of pieces of broken concrete on Fields Ave I stumbled over on my first trip in 2004. That's because they've never been touched in all that time. And I'm sure they'll still be in the same spot when I get back😇
They still repair in US too.. Go to "ANY" military community and U will see shops that repair both civilian and military shoes/boots. A lot of truckstops across the US have shoe repair shops.. The popularity of cowboy boots and other expensive footwear is why many people repair instead of replacing...
I visited in June 2018, and the place was booming. So full of life, party 24/7. It was rainy season. I remember what seemed like thousands of umbrellas bouncing along with the street, neon lights, and a caphony of sounds. This is just pathetic and it makes me angry. Thanks for the updates Brian. Keep them coming.
@@scotmandel6699 even if AC never returns to what it once was, I will go back to the Philippines. There are many places to go and enjoy the friendly people there.
I feel it’s going back to normal sooon! I can’t wait to visit and put my Christmas decorations in our new house! Urg but Philippine embassy here their pain in the butt lately.. I have my fingers cross and still hopeful we go to Philippines before this year ends.. Awesome update again Sir Brian! 😊. Hi ate lotlot 💗
Hey Brian Dave Australia here thanks for an excellent video again as we all said it’s horrible looking at these close businesses but interesting to see the renovations going on and by the way I noticed you did not mention as you walked past lollipop and club XS but they are opening this Thursday maybe you don’t know.. .. Maybe they are opening as a cafe eating place but that’s the word from the local forum hopefully on Thursday you can do a video walk by on those two places thanks Brian
I spotted a Red Ford Mustang across the street from the remodel of the cebuano store. Don't see many of those there. Thanks for the walk about! Stay safe out there!
Wow, that looks as bad as Pattaya, Thailand. I pray this gets better soon. So many wonderful people are being hurt physically and financially by this covid-19 virus. Stay strong and safe. Glory be.
Before Covid it was still a place where young virile Pinoys would go after meeting a bg who had finished work and either met Casanova down the Mitchell Ext in years gone by or more recently at the 7-11 located at the jeepney terminal.
Waiting for your update a few months from now. Bars open with customers, walking street full of people, street vendors selling their wares. Back to the good old days. I hope.
Hi and Good Day Sir Brian, Great weather for a walkaround and thanks. After watching you checking around Fields Ave Walkaround and saw most hotels/restaurants are closed and got me thinking. I suspect this owners are moving around to the new area at or around New Clark City/Korean Town where more Hotels and Casinos are popping and expanding. I would think that's the new HOSTELS. Penny for thoughts.
Can you show where the old Clark main gate was some time please? Everything looks so different than in 1990 and it would be nice to have a frame of reference. Thanks!
i would think a coffee shop would do well ,the kind like they used to have in the usa back in the 60s ,where they would have acoustic people play and open mikes sometimes n,no need girl shows ,just gives a stage for upcoming musical groups to practice in front of small crowds and serve coffee instean of booze -filipina people love to entertain
Thanks for the updates! You always give me something forward to see when I can travel even more. Now that I’ve moved up here from Cebu, I’m looking forward to visiting your part of Luzon... hopefully soon! Things are much more open here in Laguna. It’s refreshing. This is more like what I thought the Philippines would be like when I arrived here in February- right before the lockdown 😥
That corner where the shoe repairman is sitting (corner Teodoro st) brings back some memories. Back in 2001, I was standing near there (where the 7Eleven is now) talking on my cellphone. A guy grabbed it from my ear and ran around the corner to a backstreet there (Tinio Street). I chased him and was met with a gang. One guy pulled a gun on me. I told him to keep the cell phone and walked away LOL.
You're correct. The government cleared it out back around 2008 or 2009 when they first started talking about a high speed railway from Manila to Clark. Nothing happened with the railway and vendors moved in, then the park, then the carnival and now sitting empty again.
So I think I've seen most of your vids. From all the way back when you were in your home in Philly talking about making the decision to move to the phil. Somewhere along the road you mentioned that you would do a vlog about how you and Lot met. :) I guess I missed that one.
How i wish i was back home in the philippines right now ....u should do video of getting ready for the start of the school year for hannah grace online schooling explaining to folks what all it takes to set it up ...i found out my son will be doing 7 am to 6 pm monday thru friday of online schooling there in valenzuela ..
The Owl's Nest is the only original bar left from the 80's when I was there and in the exact same location...doesn't mean it will return after COVID-19, but at least the same. There's a side street that runs to the right (heading toward Dau) of Fields for about two blocks (used to have the bars Yellow Submarine, Brass Knobs, Little Wheel, Temple of Rock, El Toro's, etc.) could you please do a walk down that street and video? Thanks.
I do not think it will be as it has been before, no smiles and laughter just mouth guard and face visor it is good to live on hope, but I think it is over
are you allowed to go to nepo or marquee mall or dau or mabalacat, intrigued to see whats happening on that side of Angeles, thanks from Sydney Australia ;)
its sand , with a little concrete powder mixed in . then when the road gets pot holes . they fill the hole so it is a bump , just as bad as a hole . try riding a bike on it . usually its better off the side in the dirt if there is room .
Need to come back and recorded the new Freelance park after dark ( : Can you travel outside Manila? Meaning.... If i stay in Manila? Can i travel to AC or Subic?
no you need travel pass and medical clearance, i live in angeles city and i cannot go to manila without these which i got denied a few weeks ago by the PNP!
I live in Quezon City you all the documents that people said and your supposed to quarantine for 14 days when you get to your destination and when you come back home
@@canuk4u631 no im on a permanent retiree visa from the PRA...i wanted to stay 3 days in manila...they- the PNP- only gave me 24h so i said forget it i won't have have time to do all i have to do in 24h....
Brian, watching from Ohio. Love UR videos. Saw the video with the African guy from Kenya I am_marwa at the Haunted Hospital, and also with the Kid Boxer when U went to visit them in the Province. He had tremendous hand speed. The next Manny Packman Pacquaio. Lol!!
a/c was going to be the new world manufacturing hub in the old Clark base land area ,but everyone worldwide is broke or just not spending due to the chimmp ,many company's had big plans for a/c worldwide, young workforce cheap labor with no unions .
Recently, by that I mean in the last decade or so, there was an actual play park behind that fence, swings, slides and suchlike, it was actually a nice spot, well sorta, then bit by bit more and more homeless folk started hanging out there and sleeping rough at night, eventually the CDC closed it completely. Before they closed it there were many older ex bgs there freelancing, including my neighbor from 15 years ago, her foreign bf died and her "habit" took over....sad!
Its a shame so many people and businesses there will not survive, a 3rd world country is a poor place and without tourists and I'm guessing the foreign men not coming there for girlfriends and wives the Philippines economy may collapse, I think the devastation from the lack of this will be worse than the virus itself.
Complete crap, you think that the whole 109 million people in the Philippines rely on prostitution for their livelihoods? Grow up, the Philippines has 4 major red light districts and all of then are tiny compared to places like Pattaya in Thailand. The loss of places like Walking St in AC or P Burgos in Makati will have zero effect on the economy of the Philippines. The Philippines economy was one of the fastest growing economies in Asia before Covid it has been devastated by the lock downs with unemployment now running at around 45% but it will bounce back when the economy re-opens and it will grow even faster because China is losing manufacturing because of the hostile actions of their government and Trumps trade war. There are boom times ahead for the Philippines and it wont involve sex tourism.
If they open island to island travel they will kill tens of thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands. Closing inter island travel has saved all those lives by stopping the virus from spreading to islands that have no hospitals that are equipped to treat people with the virus. On those islands thousands of Lolo's and Lola's would be dead within a few months and so would many younger people, Filipino's have a very high rate of diabetes and high blood pressure making them very susceptible to Covid complications and without the sort of interventions we have in the west the death rate there would higher. The government has done a wonderful job containing the infection in Manila and Cebu with relatively low numbers elsewhere allowing it to escape to the thousands of islands across the country now would be insane and criminal.
Coffee shop, travel agency,money changer where the heck is the pawn shop, there is always a pawn shop in every block, the Philippines is the pawn shop capital of the world.
So, I guess most of the girl's went home since the China Virus has ruined their incomes? I feel sorry for all the stripper's, hooker's, etc.. nowadays. Even here in Nevada, imagine how many girl's incomes have been affected.
One of the stars in front of Atlantis had the name 'Hillary Clinton' etched on it but then someone scratched her name out but if you looked closely you could still make it out. As secretary of state she was making noise about the sex scene in Angeles so perhaps a critic of hers had had that star made.
maybe, maybe not. only time will tell but I bet it comes back eventually. if the clubs can eventually reopen girls will flock back there to work in them. they have so few other options for work over there.
@@scotmandel6699 i hope so... Cause what i have lived there didn't live anywhere else, even in Pattaya. The personality, kindness and craziness of filipino women is really unique.
*God Bless The Freelancers* ❤️🇸🇽🇺🇸👍
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"Same old, same old." Yep, looks like the same old potholes in the sidewalk where you can trip and break an ankle. Haha. That's pretty cool that you have locals that recognize you. Be safe.
Hah yeah on return visits to AC, now spanning almost two decades, I always make it a point to say g'day to a couple of pieces of broken concrete on Fields Ave I stumbled over on my first trip in 2004. That's because they've never been touched in all that time. And I'm sure they'll still be in the same spot when I get back😇
I miss the simplicity of the Philippines, I hope things get back to normal
I was there for the opening of Angel Witch. Oh my, how time flies. Thank you for the updates!
They still repair in US too.. Go to "ANY" military community and U will see shops that repair both civilian and military shoes/boots. A lot of truckstops across the US have shoe repair shops.. The popularity of cowboy boots and other expensive footwear is why many people repair instead of replacing...
I visited in June 2018, and the place was booming. So full of life, party 24/7. It was rainy season. I remember what seemed like thousands of umbrellas bouncing along with the street, neon lights, and a caphony of sounds. This is just pathetic and it makes me angry. Thanks for the updates Brian. Keep them coming.
Lots of memories in AC, some bad but mostly good. Been 5 years since being back and hope to return once more in this lifetime.
@@scotmandel6699 even if AC never returns to what it once was, I will go back to the Philippines. There are many places to go and enjoy the friendly people there.
@@nav1pi983true but if AC isn't open i doubt it will be safe to travel anywhere else also.
I feel it’s going back to normal sooon! I can’t wait to visit and put my Christmas decorations in our new house! Urg but Philippine embassy here their pain in the butt lately.. I have my fingers cross and still hopeful we go to Philippines before this year ends.. Awesome update again Sir Brian! 😊. Hi ate lotlot 💗
I remember those places. I grew up near there. Our house before are now part of ABC hotel. It's nice to see some of this places
12:54 I shook hands with the great philly right here. He is such a cool guy in person.
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Hey Brian Dave Australia here thanks for an excellent video again as we all said it’s horrible looking at these close businesses but interesting to see the renovations going on and by the way I noticed you did not mention as you walked past lollipop and club XS but they are opening this Thursday maybe you don’t know.. .. Maybe they are opening as a cafe eating place but that’s the word from the local forum hopefully on Thursday you can do a video walk by on those two places thanks Brian
Thank you Brian for another update, take care.👍
Sad to see Road House barricaded for renovation. For years that was my favorite place, loved the music. Brian love your videos thanks!
Thanks again for taking me on a neighborhood tour, like you said same old, hopefully it will be open for some🙏take care🥰😎
I spotted a Red Ford Mustang across the street from the remodel of the cebuano store. Don't see many of those there. Thanks for the walk about! Stay safe out there!
Thanks for the walk and talk Brian and Lot Lot. Another great video Brian!!!!
Wow, that looks as bad as Pattaya, Thailand. I pray this gets better soon. So many wonderful people are being hurt physically and financially by this covid-19 virus. Stay strong and safe. Glory be.
few weeks back those shields were selling at 70-100 pesos
In the 80's Astro park was known as freelance park. I'll take the 5th on what all happened in and around the bushes in that park.
Before Covid it was still a place where young virile Pinoys would go after meeting a bg who had finished work and either met Casanova down the Mitchell Ext in years gone by or more recently at the 7-11 located at the jeepney terminal.
@@canuk4u631 Bar Girl ehhhhhh
Not to be a hater but it's going down down down worst is yet to come
Life in the Philippines looks perfect ❤️
Cool video Brian. That McDonalds next to JJ's has got to be the smallest I've ever seen hah!
Waiting for your update a few months from now. Bars open with customers, walking street full of people, street vendors selling their wares. Back to the good old days. I hope.
It will be back, but I think smaller, less bars. And it will not happen till Summer or Fall 2021 IMO
Hi and Good Day Sir Brian, Great weather for a walkaround and thanks. After watching you checking around Fields Ave Walkaround and saw most hotels/restaurants are closed and got me thinking. I suspect this owners are moving around to the new area at or around New Clark City/Korean Town where more Hotels and Casinos are popping and expanding. I would think that's the new HOSTELS. Penny for thoughts.
Can you show where the old Clark main gate was some time please? Everything looks so different than in 1990 and it would be nice to have a frame of reference. Thanks!
i would think a coffee shop would do well ,the kind like they used to have in the usa back in the 60s ,where they would have acoustic people play and open mikes sometimes n,no need girl shows ,just gives a stage for upcoming musical groups to practice in front of small crowds and serve coffee instean of booze -filipina people love to entertain
Thanks for the updates! You always give me something forward to see when I can travel even more.
Now that I’ve moved up here from Cebu, I’m looking forward to visiting your part of Luzon... hopefully soon! Things are much more open here in Laguna. It’s refreshing. This is more like what I thought the Philippines would be like when I arrived here in February- right before the lockdown 😥
Great video’s and style of showing places. Good stuff
Hi Brian , I know I sound like a broken CD , but the new normal will be Freelancers, no more bar fines and Korean only bars , yippie.
Great work on the update. Thank you.
congrats sir you like and love the philippines.......
Wheres the new freelance park???
Just reading some comments. Well nice video keep safe when pandemic and typhoon was here.
*Gotta Love The Freelancers* ♥️👍🇺🇸
Another good video brian i like those walking videos.
The video and audio quality is excellent, Brian!
Your freelance park across the street from Envy. After 10 pm for at least the past five years is where the baklas hangout.
The Marines taught us to stay away from street walkers when i was in Subic and AC 85 86, ive been going back yearly since 2007
Alpha Bravo or Charlie company.
We still have a shoe, tent, and zipper repair store in our town. We used to have two at one time not bad for small town in NY state.Nice walk today.
So where is the new freelance park?
Thank you for the update. If I ever get back to the Philppines I will look you up.
I just had my boots repaired a few months back in South Carolina. Shoes are to expensive in the US to just throw away if they can be repaired.
That corner where the shoe repairman is sitting (corner Teodoro st) brings back some memories. Back in 2001, I was standing near there (where the 7Eleven is now) talking on my cellphone. A guy grabbed it from my ear and ran around the corner to a backstreet there (Tinio Street). I chased him and was met with a gang. One guy pulled a gun on me. I told him to keep the cell phone and walked away LOL.
Yesterday I watched your 2017 vid on Freelance park and though you should do a "then & now". You read my mind. Bee Safe.
Angeles City needs to embrace its heritage and open up Freelance Park with actual freelancers.
Thanks for the update Brian.
GREAT WALKING VID U 2 THANKS....Z....
I remember the shoe repair when I was a kid, and we used to get cleats on our shoes to sound cool.
i guess no one really know when we can freely travel again.. more and more like 2022 - 23 ...
Thinking that's worst case but vaccines could be approved this year. Will they be available to all? Who knows.
Can you do a 10pm walk Mr Brian? Would be cool😎✌🏼
Can you walk down Santos and Raymond and pan camera left and right. I want to see the changes, I haven't been to Angeles since 2000? Thanks
Thanks Brian great walk! Good vid.
all those clear ball cap brims everywhere! I guess it must be a requirement to 'wear' a face shield there at the moment?
Yes, the AC Mayor mandated all must wear a mask and a shield when in public
Watching again from japan nice to see you again sir phil
nice 1 m8s, thank you, you and yours stay safe an well eh!
hey brian no more words on your face mask.anyways walking street be fully operational once international flights coming in.only time will tell
I'm almost sure that what you call the 'old freelance park' is actually the right of way of the PNR (Manila to San Fernando LU railway)
You're correct. The government cleared it out back around 2008 or 2009 when they first started talking about a high speed railway from Manila to Clark. Nothing happened with the railway and vendors moved in, then the park, then the carnival and now sitting empty again.
So I think I've seen most of your vids. From all the way back when you were in your home in Philly talking about making the decision to move to the phil. Somewhere along the road you mentioned that you would do a vlog about how you and Lot met. :) I guess I missed that one.
How i wish i was back home in the philippines right now ....u should do video of getting ready for the start of the school year for hannah grace online schooling explaining to folks what all it takes to set it up ...i found out my son will be doing 7 am to 6 pm monday thru friday of online schooling there in valenzuela ..
Freelance Park and you show vegetables and fruits.
Nice vid good tosee the report of the streets in The Philippine
love ur blog ...thxs
The Owl's Nest is the only original bar left from the 80's when I was there and in the exact same location...doesn't mean it will return after COVID-19, but at least the same. There's a side street that runs to the right (heading toward Dau) of Fields for about two blocks (used to have the bars Yellow Submarine, Brass Knobs, Little Wheel, Temple of Rock, El Toro's, etc.) could you please do a walk down that street and video? Thanks.
I would love to come back to Angeles City again. Damn this virus. 😐😐😡😡
Salad! Salad! 5, 10, 15, 20!! Salad! Salad! 5, 10, 15, 20!!
Baaa.. luuut.... Baaa.. luuut....!!!
Thanks for a day in Angeles City!!!
I do not think it will be as it has been before, no smiles and laughter just mouth guard and face visor it is good to live on hope, but I think it is over
if you think they got no clue. Why you bother them?
Nice Video Brain and Lot...
Please find out where the guard’s went. Been there a good while
I stayed at the hotel Natalia in May 2009. The guards were added a little before that.
@@rickyusa1000 2004 i saw them
Better quit the hysteria soon or no one will have much of an economy left.
Letra see how far down the rabbit hole goes.
are you allowed to go to nepo or marquee mall or dau or mabalacat, intrigued to see whats happening on that side of Angeles, thanks from Sydney Australia ;)
of course you can, i live opposite marquee mall...and i went to SM clark for lunch!
Cameras not allowed inside the mall.
I lived in Pattaya when Angelwitch was opened there. Angelwitch 1 was in bkk.
I remember the BKK Angelwitch in Nana Plaza. Wonder if it's still there? Have not been to Nana in about 3 years
please explain what do they make the curbs and sidewalk out of they are always destroyed and crumbling always ?
Shit second grade thin concrete.
its sand , with a little concrete powder mixed in . then when the road gets pot holes . they fill the hole so it is a bump , just as bad as a hole . try riding a bike on it . usually its better off the side in the dirt if there is room .
Baccara is NOT closed, You were just there too early.
Nice to see the fields Avenue again thanks sir Phil 🙏
Need to come back and recorded the new Freelance park after dark ( :
Can you travel outside Manila? Meaning.... If i stay in Manila? Can i travel to AC or Subic?
no you need travel pass and medical clearance, i live in angeles city and i cannot go to manila without these which i got denied a few weeks ago by the PNP!
I live in Quezon City you all the documents that people said and your supposed to quarantine for 14 days when you get to your destination and when you come back home
@@canuk4u631 no im on a permanent retiree visa from the PRA...i wanted to stay 3 days in manila...they- the PNP- only gave me 24h so i said forget it i won't have have time to do all i have to do in 24h....
@@canuk4u631 manila is still under GCQ so they get tougher if you want to go to manila...pampanga is MGCQ
I was there December 2019, was suppose to be there April 2020, and New Year’s Eve 2020, that turned to SHIT, how time flies.
Don't forget to interview girls in all of your episodes, Phil☝️
Never visited the old freelancer park, so I doubt I will be hitting up the new one. Ha-ha!
same here. I always pulled my ladies from the clubs
Brian, watching from Ohio. Love UR videos. Saw the video with the African guy from Kenya I am_marwa at the Haunted Hospital, and also with the Kid Boxer when U went to visit them in the Province. He had tremendous hand speed. The next Manny Packman Pacquaio. Lol!!
I like countries that still have shoemakers, tailors and seamstresses etc..
Are the hotels open again? If hotel is open are the hotel pools open?
Things are on their way back to normal much faster than I expected
@GB SHIELD I was hoping they would never be. But they already are in many ways.
what determines which businesses close and which stay open? on walking street.
@@canuk4u631 ok a lot of variables
a/c was going to be the new world manufacturing hub in the old Clark base land area ,but everyone worldwide is broke or just not spending due to the chimmp ,many company's had big plans for a/c worldwide, young workforce cheap labor with no unions .
Where you show the 'new freelance park', i think that was a playing field. The first bar on that corner was 'Birds of Paradise'
Recently, by that I mean in the last decade or so, there was an actual play park behind that fence, swings, slides and suchlike, it was actually a nice spot, well sorta, then bit by bit more and more homeless folk started hanging out there and sleeping rough at night, eventually the CDC closed it completely. Before they closed it there were many older ex bgs there freelancing, including my neighbor from 15 years ago, her foreign bf died and her "habit" took over....sad!
Is it mandatory to wear a face sheild?
Its a shame so many people and businesses there will not survive, a 3rd world country is a poor place and without tourists and I'm guessing the foreign men not coming there for girlfriends and wives the Philippines economy may collapse, I think the devastation from the lack of this will be worse than the virus itself.
Very true.
Complete crap, you think that the whole 109 million people in the Philippines rely on prostitution for their livelihoods? Grow up, the Philippines has 4 major red light districts and all of then are tiny compared to places like Pattaya in Thailand. The loss of places like Walking St in AC or P Burgos in Makati will have zero effect on the economy of the Philippines. The Philippines economy was one of the fastest growing economies in Asia before Covid it has been devastated by the lock downs with unemployment now running at around 45% but it will bounce back when the economy re-opens and it will grow even faster because China is losing manufacturing because of the hostile actions of their government and Trumps trade war. There are boom times ahead for the Philippines and it wont involve sex tourism.
FYI the place you pass at minute 2:30 is Margarita Station not Kokomo's. Kokomo's is at Fields and Santos St.
Slowly things are improving, but we still need the Island to Island transport back and running.
If they open island to island travel they will kill tens of thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands. Closing inter island travel has saved all those lives by stopping the virus from spreading to islands that have no hospitals that are equipped to treat people with the virus. On those islands thousands of Lolo's and Lola's would be dead within a few months and so would many younger people, Filipino's have a very high rate of diabetes and high blood pressure making them very susceptible to Covid complications and without the sort of interventions we have in the west the death rate there would higher. The government has done a wonderful job containing the infection in Manila and Cebu with relatively low numbers elsewhere allowing it to escape to the thousands of islands across the country now would be insane and criminal.
Do you know who is behind that 'Euronet' ATMs ? I heared they have a ridiculous high exchange rate and charge extra fees.
Lets see the park at night
In the words of Alex Bambam “Click bait is a form of art” 😂
Coffee shop, travel agency,money changer where the heck is the pawn shop, there is always a pawn shop in every block, the Philippines is the pawn shop capital of the world.
So, I guess most of the girl's went home since the China Virus has ruined their incomes? I feel sorry for all the stripper's, hooker's, etc.. nowadays. Even here in Nevada, imagine how many girl's incomes have been affected.
not much to see. but stil wish to be in the ph now . specialy now summer is finish in europ . miss my family and my dogs over there
One of the stars in front of Atlantis had the name 'Hillary Clinton' etched on it but then someone scratched her name out but if you looked closely you could still make it out. As secretary of state she was making noise about the sex scene in Angeles so perhaps a critic of hers had had that star made.
Cant you walk around villasol subd,where used to be For your eyes only.I
Still not much happening, unfortunately.
AC was already on the way out before Covid.
Field Avenue is not AC.
Field Ave is just one among thousands of streets in AC.
It's a pity... But there is no reason to back Angeles anymore...
maybe, maybe not. only time will tell but I bet it comes back eventually. if the clubs can eventually reopen girls will flock back there to work in them. they have so few other options for work over there.
@@scotmandel6699 i hope so... Cause what i have lived there didn't live anywhere else, even in Pattaya.
The personality, kindness and craziness of filipino women is really unique.