Temple Street urban renewal project Los Angeles 1963 Full
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- Temple Street, Rochester House, 1963 movie for the Urban Renewal project, Downtown Los Angeles.
The storefront loft below the Rochester House was my studio. It belonged to Rick Griffin before me and Ron Cooper before that.
Students from The Chouinard Art Institute had been living in many of the buildings around there as they were cheap and close to campus. My rent was $35 a month including water.
In the late 1960's and early 1970's I ran Albert Grossman's California office out of the storefront. With artists like Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Peter Paul & Mary, we needed to keep a low profile.
The back street, Court, was a dead end and I often parked my 1963 Porsche up there and walked down to my studio. Porsche was not yet popularly known back then.
The Hollywood Freeway connection to the Harbor Freeway South wrapped around my studio. I could regularly hear car crashes at night. You can see the connection and vehicles in the later part of this movie, from Court Street on.
The La Sirena was a tortillieria that had women hand making tortilla's all day. I could hear the gentle clapping of hands and masa when I passed.
Temple urban renewal project, 1963
Promotional film about the Temple Renewal Project, 1963 October 15. Shows the existing conditions of the area targetted for renewal bounded by West Temple Street on the north, North Beaudry Avenue on the east, West First Street on the south, and Glendale Boulevard on the west. The route of the film begins at Temple and Beaudry and ends at Glendale and First.
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Wow! if you look back and stop the video at 13:16/18:42 the last two duplex houses you see a lady with a broom walking away thats My Mom. Wow! unbelievable - we moved in 1961 or 62 i was just 3 yrs old. on courts st. dead end/cui-de-sac next to the freeway across you can see D.W.P. Thank you for posting
I am from El Salvador, came to L.A. when I was 9 I became a citizen and to today this city has been my home, I am 40 now and love old cars, hence why I have a 64 Galaxie, and searching for videos from the past are a thing of mine, I like seeing old L.A. specially in the 50s and try to get a sense of what things were like, so I loved seeing this footage! Thanks.
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As a kid, I walked all these streets in the late 70's and 80's. I attended Cortez Elementary School, which you can see at 3:33 and I also attended Belmont High School, which you can see at 5:05 and at 18:19. It's amazing to see all the old houses and apartment buildings which are no longer there. You can also see all the oil rigs that used to be there. I can still remember walking home from school and smelling and hearing them pumping. Madonna filmed her music video "Open Your Heart" on Court St. and Toluca St. You can see an oil rig at 3:48 of the music vide. th-cam.com/video/snsTmi9N9Gs/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Randy for posting this video. - Guillermo Quezada
This is a wonderful look into the past.
Hey, este fue mi barrio en los years 80 's, yo vivi en los apartamentos,angelina,y cortes. Saludos desde las vegas nv...
I was about 8 or 9 when all this was happening (we lived in Pasadena) but I remember the controversy for sure! My grandparents driving me around Bunker Hill, nearly in tears at was happening - and my other grandmother, all for the redevlopment and my poor parents not taking sides (they actually supported the renewal)...amazing time to be a kid watching it asll happen from the frreeways..
Hi Randy....I know I'm a little late on this video... I grew up in this neighborhood in the 60s. I recognize every street and most of the houses.Temple Beaudry Mignonette Angelina Laveta Ter (where my parents still live in their 100 yr old house) Court Colton and so many others. Thank you so much I really enjoyed it
Really fascinating. My sis taught for a few years at Cortez Street Elementary School in the early 70's, right where much of this is filmed.
Thanks for posting,
Fascinating on many levels. Interesting to see the state of the buildings and their infrastructure maybe 60 years into their lifespan, to ponder the economic history that brought them to that state. Also everyday life then and now, and how our environments have changed and why. And can't help but think of Raymond Chandler.
This film should be subtitled: Waiting for the Wrecking Ball. Where are all the people? I've been researching Bunker Hill and have come to the conclusion that the destruction of this neighborhood was the greatest intentional act of urban vandalism ever perpetrated by a U.S. government entity. Not only did they destroy every building standing in this video (and others) but they also smashed the landscape into smithereens. What sane group of people would perpetrate such an act of civic ruin? Don't answer. I know already. These dumbbells!
"What sane group of people would perpetrate such an act of civic ruin?" The same type of liberal lunatics in office today who are perpetrating the same urban ruin manifesting in lawlessness and unchecked vagrancy all over Los Angeles.
But none of this was Bunker Hill. Most of it was Echo Park & Angelina Heights.
@@cazanator5741Everything in the film is Temple Street neighborhood, all south of the 101 freeway between Glendale Avenue and the 110 and Belmont high school . What’s now called Angelino Heights is north of the freeway.
Beautiful! brought back so many memories...Thank you!
You're beautiful. Nice picture, :).
@@javi-wan9375 Thank you
@@Laura-pu6xo You're very welcome.
Thank you for posting this very informative video. Memories of all these neighborhoods flashed before my eyes.
Great video.. I grew up in that area in the 70 and 80s.. wow.. I saw my house. I attended Cortez elementary. Belmont high school saw them all in this video.. very nostalgic.. thank you for posting..
Fantastic historical record of a period when old Los Angeles was deteriorating and fading away.
I'm too young to know (1977), but I am guessing, from the position of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and...Ferraro Building?...that this is just west-north-west of Bunker Hill? It's amazing to learn that not only was there was a functioning neighborhood next to all that legendary clearance, but, according to the gracious posters before me, that it stood for so long after this film was made. I now see that Los Angeles' "urban renewal" mission was a long-range hunt-and-peck business. I wonder what Downtown L.A. boosters of the 1930s would think of it today...and how long it took to get it this way.
My parents lived in the converted apartments in the Rochester House in the late 40's, they called it the 'castle'.
Mine too. We were the Campbell/Harp family
I guess another woman named Dora that taught at Luther Burbank Jr High lived there too.
@@Greeneyedghost2020 My uncle built those houses
Great video. I remembered those day's. There were many alpha betas supermarket back into those days.
My family lived in the Rochester House in the 1940s. I have a picture of it from back then too.
You could have told me this was shot last week and i would believe you if it weren’t for the cars. Urban renewal did nothing to address systemic poverty in this area and likely made it worse by depleting affordable housing stock. Sadly some of these areas still look much the same. Still a beautiful walk down memory lane.
Even if some of the areas appear a bit shabby, it still looks 100 times better than the homeless infested dystopian nightmare it has become.
Actually this neighborhood doesn’t have much homeless people.
If you want something junked up and trashed, leave it to people to get it done. So they fix it up and destroy it all over again. California used to be a wonderful place. USED TO BE. Sadly, the heavenly scent of orange groves in blossom is gone (and sorely missed by those who remember).
Florida used to be wonderful place. USED TO BE. Sadly, the heavenly scent of orange groves in blossom is gone (and sorely missed by those who remember).
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I can see why these house's were condemned. Built on hills causing to slide from leverage therefore unsafe to live in. Poorly founded perhaps? And the memories that old community must hold to those who grew up there.
Your aware that many of these houses still exist in the area right? Maybe not the exact ones in the video, but many homes near to ‘em still exist today. I think the cameraman purposefully recorded mostly the deteriorating home & buildings. I live in Echo Park now in a house built in 1908. That’s 114 years old and it’s on a bit of hill also. Depends on how well the owners took care of ‘em.
Is this the one-and-only Bunker Hill neighborhood that was razed, or a different area?
Different area, bunker hill was located closer to down town.
@@Hypnotikshiva oh, thank you! I thought no one would ever answer.
@@jeremynv89523 well it took 5 months but it happened.
Nope. Mostly Temple Beaudry area near Vista Hermosa Park, also a bit of Echo Park, Angelina Heights, and possibly maybe a bit of the area known today as Historic Philippine town.
Everything in the film is Temple street neighborhood which lies directly west of Bunker Hill… to be exact, the borders are the triangle of the 110 fwy, 101 fwy and Glendale Blvd.
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