Building the Metropolis | Lost LA | Season 2, Episode 3 | KCET
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- Wood, iron, steel, concrete -- these are the materials that gave form to Los Angeles and shaped its identity in the national imagination. This episode also questions the cultural legacy and environmental costs of the city's relentless growth.
00:00 - 01:02 Introduction
01:02 - 08:12 Redwood
08:12 - 17:10 Iron Sprawl
17:10 - 24:35 Concrete Fantasy
24:35 - 24:51 Conclusion
24:51 - 25:32 Credits
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Those early 1900 pics of the Hollywood area intersections absolutely blow my mind. Cannot imagine it ever being all farmland
I grew up in L.A. El Sereno North East L.A. i remember in the 70's my mother and father was worried about the 710 Freeway getting extended over our neighborhood. The residents have been fighting to keep the freeways out of el sereno for decades now. My father was offered a settlement for our 1930's home and declined and so did 90% of the residents. Still till this day, they are trying to extend the 710 long beach freeway through El Sereno/Alhambra to connect to Pasadena but with no success.
Right... because of growth...ooops never mind, I mean racist!
@@davidcross701 exactly bro
I'm the most anti -freeway guy out here. If it were up to me, we would have 2 freeways. The 5 and the 10.
HOWEVER!!!!! we do have a million freeways and the fact that the 710 and the 110 don't directly connect to the 210 will always bother me. But I get it, it's El Sereno. We wouldn't want to move your multimillion 900sqft home.
Whenever we go to Oxnard, CA, I always imagine the farmlands of Ventura County as how 1800 Los Angeles used to look like.
Coming from Philadelphia, this is fascinating. The history of the West coast is so different from the East.
How so?
@@lorenovergaauw The reason is buildings don’t really get torn down or changed in cities like Manhattan and Philadelphia... if you were someone 1925 and you went to NYC right now, you would pretty much know how to get around... Of course there are newer buildings, but most of the old ones are still there too... also the subways and roadways haven’t changed much...
Funny how the saying grass is greener on the other side of the tracks is so true. While this interests me because it's the history of where I grew up. The history of the east coast fascinates me
As a young man from the San Fernando valley, still loved taking the street car into Hollyweird. Pretty funny, it looked like the modern busses of the day (1960's) but rode on rails. Then, during the mid 60's or so, I actually drove my first car into Hollyweird and saw them paving over the rails....bygones of different time.
How sad the logging of the beautiful red woods 😢😢🌲🌱🌿
My great grandfather opened the first lumber planing mill in Los Angeles.
Yes, even this easterner knew the Pacific Electric was essentially a real estate development scheme. Build it and we can sell lots along the line. Moving people in mass numbers as in the big cities of the east was only a secondary consideration. When they got to the part about problems on the line and the lack of private money (the driver was drunk, cars interfered with the streetcars), I was tempted to add: and Harold Lloyd was hanging from a trolley pole :).
I’ve lived in SOCAL off and on since I was 13 in 1958. This series is a fascinating lesson in history and trek down memory lane.
That redwood range map is impressive as hell 4:40 Long Live the Redwood They don’t call them Sequoia sempervirens for nothing!
I can still see some of the trolley rails on Santa Monica Blvd by Wilcox Ave. kinda cool
Love Lost LA 👍💓
Wow, great eye opening episode on the history of the Freeways.
The truth is, Pacific Electric helped build the Los Angeles of today, connecting nothing to nowhere and making those places communities.
Thank you for sharing these educational videos. Proud Angelino living on the other side of the world.
Same here! Currently in Australia, will be here 6 more months. Where are you?
The Moran/Murphy families of Detroit owned over 1 million acres of California Redwood forests and still have interests in them till this day.
Such an important series and deeply insightful and exposing of so many poor growth decisions. It could have been so beautiful.
no doubt city planners between the 1920’s - 1960’s were being “progressive” in their vision of a modern, car centered Los Angeles
This is cool. KCET showed up on my feed today. I used to watch this channel and other UHF stations in the area when I was a teenager. Live far away now, but I subscribed. Once in a while you can go home, in small parts.
LedHed Steven 🎶 🎸 🎹 🎸 🎶
This story hurts my heart . We can't get the red wood back.
From redwood forest to gulf stream waters, this land is not meant for you and me anymore.
I live in the old Ribolli Family Home of the San Antonio Winery, across is the 5 fwy. It s horrible brake dust everyday.
I use to eat Sandwiches at Lanza Brothers in 1974 when the 'Family owned it...Different owners NOW 2020..🥪
I enjoyed this! I love learning about this cities history!!
Great program! Of Los Autos City!
As an urban planner and historian, this tale about the streetcar in Los Angeles is incredibly misleading and actually a bit scary. Please read "Fragmented Metropolis" for a way way better explanation - as it sure deserves it.
Make more of this series!
So the city with the worst public transit in America was built around the street-car. Ouch that stings.
Actually, it's now becoming one of the finest. The problem is ridership and cultural divisiveness. The less wealthy among the cities population rides the Metro system. The more wealthy refuses to ride where the 'trash' rides (according to them, not all - but THEM) then touts the reason they wait in traffic in their nice cars - because they say the transit system sucks. I left the Manhattan Beach area in the mid 1990's and revisited in 2014. Decided to show my friend the Metro system, bought a day pass and went from Redondo Beach to Norwalk, back and transferred to the Long Beach line out to Long Beach, back to Los Angeles, then on to the North Hollywood line, transferred to the Orange Busway (very nice ride along my old stomping grounds as a kid, Chandler Blvd.). We then reversed out route back to downtown LA, back on to the Blue to the 105/110 station, then back on to the green line home. All in all, it took about 7 hours including stops at eateries and a downtown walk. He was impressed, and I as a 'build the freeways' kid was impressed even more. Today, with the addition of many more transit ways, WOW - L.A. is going first class modern transit. Hope I live long enough to see the MONORAIL system, preferably above ground, from Wilshire to the valley.... a dream I conjured up and drew maps of as a 10 year old valley boy.
Probably not the only reason, but SUBURBANIZATION was the root cause. Cultural racism at it's finest.
@@hgr4255 lol 😂 not wanting to be around crime is raycisssss
We wuzzz kangzzz
@@foxbodyblues6709 Try taking into account decades of discriminatory lending practices and outright refusing to allow people to move into an area if they aren't white. you sound like a stupid bitch, fitting for your basic username.
@@madProgenitorDeity lol 😂 wrong...you believe the propaganda. Redlining is credit scores.
A freeway metropolis ... Sounds lovely lmfao.... Can't believe people actually want to live here. It took me like an hour just to get to the local grocery store...can't believe I didn't hate it lol ..well I guess I did only stay there a few months ..so I guess I did hate it lol
Beautiful
"I am rich, I am powerful... I use Redwoods" sounds like a quote straight out of Redwood to bad be we cut down all those trees building a city, hope the people can appreciate we live in a time of endless possibilities
Nowadays Boyle Heights residents have unparalleled access to the freeway system to take them to downtown, the beach, where jobs are, etc. Most houses cost north of $800k.
Super interesting and not about t-shirts thank you.
I want to know more history bout the whole east side of la. Lincoln heights highland park el Sereno cypress park rose hills.
A City of The Future!!
I would really like to see early videos and pictures of Arcadia. Before it was overdeveloped.
Mostly beautiful orchards and a lot of nut farms .... real nuts, not the people.
if you live there then you are part of the overdevelopment
I’ve been saying this for a while now that every hour is rush hour now. 10 years ago you knew what times to stay off the freeway in the morning for people going to work and between 2pm-8pm for people heading home. now at 12:30 in the afternoon TRAFFIC, 1:30am in the morning TRAFFIC. Now LA has too many people and too much crime.
I'm glad they looked at the environmental issues. "Growth" often means ruin. I worked in a field related to construction and real estate "development" Now the only thing that I would espouse is restoration of historic buildings and de-populating the planet. I learned what ruin I was connected to.
Depopulating the planet? Why don't we start with "depopulating" California (and the US) of all the illegal aliens with no marketable skills and can't be bothered to learn English getting knocked up in their 3rd world shithole, then pouring over the border, having their "anchor babies," and taxing the infrastructure? Does your "depopulation" include suicide?
They stripped the redwood forests and wonder why they have landslides.
Yeah, they should've built everything out of adobe brick. But then, you'd bitch about the ground being exploited and lament the hills being leveled or the holes having to be dug to make the bricks. Ever heard of replanting? Trees are a renewable crop. Remember that the next time you go to hug one.
@@wannawatchu66 They apparently did not replace them.
We have cement spraying Monsanto weed killer going into our waters now.
General Motors killed trolley in every American town. Freeway were never high speed. This a fable, a myth.
Tire companies played a huge part too.
As well as Pacific Electric not wanting to no longer repairing the streets and paths that their rails used.
I've read where the Carson mansion in Eureka California has a variety of wood from every forest on Earth... Or rather I was probably told this..🌍
I don't see the negative to the growth of so Cal. I see more negatives in the way we're dealing with Los Angeles.
For those with ADD, 14:36 -14:58 explains the reason we no longer have the PE.
FBones S Thank you! that disability sucks
Hmmm, sounds like Huntington took his conquest on a romantic date way out in the country, fooled around for awhile, got his, then told her to get her own ride home.
Is there any mention anywhere of the historical accuracy (or not) of the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" as it relates to the demise of mass transit and the spread of the automobile in LA?
yes its pretty accurate
Unfortunately, Disney got that right.
As my research has helped me figure things out, the 110(Pasadena) freeway north of the i10 (San Bernardino) freeway is the area closest to the Roger Rabbit story.
FYI the Red Car still operates at the Inland Empire Railroad Museum in Perris, California.
Anyone interested in the Red Car, it still operates in the Inland Empire Railroad Museum, Perris, California.
7:30 EUCALYPTUS TREES ARE NOTORIOUS FOR THIS! ALSO A CALIFORNIA TREE I BELIEVE.. THEY ALSO SMELL SOOOOO GOOOD!
6:03 looks like Dr. Emmet Brown's house.
I believe it’s the same house
Because it is.
❤
Really depressing to see how much of LA was created at the destruction of the forest, and then after that at the destruction of the undesirables. I wish I had learned more about stuff like this in school rather than European history of centuries ago that has little bearing on us today.
I worked at least 8 hours a day everyday since I was 14 years old. I'm 70 now, and a year or two ago when my commute suddenly jumped from about 20 mins to over an hour one way, I said "screw it" and retired. Someday, sooner than later, there will be a formal scale of insanity whereby the mental health of entire civilizations will be universally judged on how long a commute people were willing to tolerate. Sanity will be inversely proportional to the length of commutes, and medical insurance providers will factor that into how much they are willing to reimburse for medical treatments. You tolerate a 1.5 hour commute, you get half the insurance a person who tolerates a 30 minute commute. Just watch. ;-)
i am 77 and spend 1:45 minutes in my car...I love it..
Working from home, the car sits in the garage. Thank you, covid!
I love LA in the 1920's to 1960's
Lol before black people came right??
Howard Harris blacks been in the city since the 1890s. They all lived in central avenue bro. Learn your history before spewing ignorant stuff. The only difference was that they were segregated. Every race back in LA lived in separated community.
@@howardharris5238 and the Mexicans
@@thecraplordsell4575 I know my history... I’m saying before blacks became dominant in the metro part of the city and before the schools were integrated... yea I know central was like the Harlem renaissance of Los Angeles until Crenshaw started popping
@@howardharris5238 yes
LA is still a lost city.
This is not about LA
It's about trees
I’m not familiar with the community of El Serena. Is it wealthy like South Pasadena or more like Lincoln Heights? I just know that I7 was stopped in it’s tracks at Valley Bl. I’m not sure if the current freeway, renamed 720, is better or worse than having nothing in that stretch.
Yeah
5:05 1st time using a saw?
Redwood is still heavily used in California fyi. Most wood fencelines are redwood. Fresh redwood smells sooooo good! I hate how somtimes your wood is so fresh its still wet nd super piney smelly! Fresh cut from NorCal yummmmmhhhmmmm
gay
I want to meet Nathan I bet it would be a great conversation
5:09 that cut is not gonna be square at all dude... totally came away from the fence
Right on. Great catch
I thought I was the only one who noticed 😂
Take the 401 dude 😅😅
How bout horizontal non skyscrapers?
Land, baby, land.
Can someone explain to me why half of these comments look like they're from shills?
They easily BURNED the forest, not a single one thought, holy moly , this could happen out there tooo ,😱😱😱😱
Lots of these buildings in LA are 500 years old. Explain that.
Boyle Heights was decimated 😢
What happen to all the native Americans that used to live there
They ... LOST.
Giovanni Tovar Some are Still around different tribes the ones back in the day were kidnapped or Killed by the Spanish!
This was 'All their Land at one 'Time...Stolen Land ...What can u do about 'Nothing..Can't defeat the U.S.A Weapons they had....🪔
Mauro Martinez , conquered, conquered is the word, the same thing natives of any land were doing to each other for eons before until yes, firearms and better weapons were used to conquer them. You’re free to prove that now, just get yourself some men, lock and load and see how far you get, there’s plenty of warlords near Yemen that need to become unemployed, You could make USA 2.0 if you conquer them.
Stolen is what politicians, special interests, lobbyist and the world elite did to get where they are and we continue to let them.
Elites ate them
1909 schwinn bicycle
This is a total crock. PE was bought out by the big automakers and tire giants and shut down to sell more cars!
And urban planners are butt hurt 😭
Diversity usually creates conflict. It gets to the point to where none of us are on the same page, thus disruption occurs and this is all a part of human nature. Sad to say but its true.
RADIUM CLOCK yeah segregation wasn’t all bad
@@m.miller2374 Segregation still exists.
@@Minecraftizawsom Yes, it does. I constantly segregate myself from all kinds of people. I have nothing to do with criminals, drug dealers/users, all types of riff-raff, etc. Basically, people with shitty values and no self-control.
RADIUM: diversity is way overrated. Assimilation is what unites a country, not this "celebration of diversity" horseshit. Diversity creates an "us" and "them" paradigm.
@@wannawatchu66 Yes
Nice documentary but the soundtrack sucks. I think Wayne Coin's intern should not do any side work.
Would be lovely if the economy wasn't so bad and they didn't let millions of people just move there ...
fuel?
Cutting down all that ancient red wood whoooo chile bad karma
It’s not racism, it’s called eminent domain!
That's probably not an accurate statement. EMINENT DOMAIN defined is the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. The drivers of said eminent domain can very well be tainted with racism, preferential treatment, and worst of all, the lack of JUST compensation. It's all about the drivers.
Bought by white development.
They talk about the construction of freeways as such a bad thing, but just imagine if they we're not there. The city would be in perpetual gridlock. Freeways are a necessary evil. Many of the traffic problems are because of early freeway design, as time goes on we learn more and more about how traffic moves and how to construct them so that traffic flows more efficiently. As time goes on we learn how to make the vehicles quieter and pollute less. There is no going back, freeways are a part of life now, get used to it.
Freeways have rights too
Your comment shows how little general public usually knows about traffic planning.
A good case in point is the land gobbling parallel routes on either side of a freeway. That's pretty smart planning, I'd say despite the land gobble it takes to build them. The 210 from Arroyo Seco to the end of Pasadena is (key word>) relatively less crowded because of the parallel roadways, but still can get pretty clogged up.
On the other end of that argument is the addition of travel lanes (and) carpool lanes which turned the San Diego through the Sepulveda pass from a nightmare to a wider nightmare. No relief after all that money spent, none at all. Our best bet is mass transit systems and 'smart car' technology. The smart car technology would cut traffic jams by upwards of 35% ... that is until the fuse blows. Incentives for more ride-sharing programs would also help, paid for by the corporations that hire more than xxx workers (pick a number). Lastly, ingress and egress of freeway traffic on surface roads can be somewhat reduced by divergent-diamond interchanges. Using modeling through a software game I have (Cities Skyline) I replaced 4 of my traffic clogged freeway to surface street standard diamond interchanges to divergent diamond interchanges ... the traffic crunches went away. Seeing them in real life (never saw one in real life, only on videos) indicated the DDI's DO reduce ingress and egress traffic jams considerably. L.A. is not going to see less people migrating there, it's time to do something fast.
What a bunch of BS reasons from shills. Get rid of the electric trains and bring on diesel busses, smog, traffic jams, drunk drivers a plenty and sleepy drivers. Bring on the DMV, CHP and Standard Oil...
It's ok they are bringing back metro what a mess! We need bigger better freeways. the progresive agenda is dead on arrival. No one is happy! Road diets less freeways bike paths and now congestion pricing a joke!.
Awww, sounds like somebody's sorry Moonbeam's not in office anymore to further fuck up the state. But take heart: we've gone from the frying pan into the fire...Moonbeam put us in the toilet, Newsom'll push the handle.
@@justinoniloperez3109 bigger better freeways = more worse traffic
Boy, talk about an anti-freeway bunch of schlock. Especially that Avila guy. No one ever considers the idea that there are just too many people for the system to be able to handle smoothly.
I don't see your point there Investor guy. Once the tide rolls in, it's hard to stop it. Build more freeways? Probably not an environmental or transportation solution. The tide keeps rolling in and we have to deal with it by using 'smart' technology, creating a NEW way of looking at urban planning.
avila acts like the golden rule (he with the most gold, rules) shouldn't have applied back then. he acts like palms being greased and deals being made were foreign to that era. robber barons gonna rob, duh
lastttt
But don't we hate sprawl--even sprawl of the past? Trolley line created sprawl. I hate it when documentaries make it seem like the ruin of nature and overpopulation 100 years ago is charming, historical and noble. It was a nightmare then and now.
Ohh fuck no...100 years ago it was awesome...
The railroad ties were not redwood, it is too soft. Try oak.
This is a lie. The transportation system was known as the best in the world at that time. GENERAL MOTORS paid Los Angeles to remove that system.
generally well done but you get a feeling it was produced by the chamber of commerce
Yeah, and now wealthy people are gentrifying Boyle Heights to a degree. The racism is still there. Eastlos is still poorer than West LA.
Mexican community s
'…honeycombed with diverse and subversive racial elements' really?? /:
they were just calling a spade a spade- If this was still allowed, the better things would be.
yes really..malcontents...
Hope no more thanks to your politics.
kcotte59 Freedom has always been a problem for the right
@@pittsburghpirate58 Yeah...because of the left. The left wants to control everything and everybody, bigger and bigger government.
@@wannawatchu66 Yeah...and the right want's to remove environmental safeguards, let the banks run the country, and fix votes to keep them in office. How noble of them.
I grew up watching KCET
This series is awful! Whoever produced/edited this series...
1/2 way through each story I want to kill myself.
Gravitas does not equal morbid. Tell a good story, not just solemn bullshit...
Thanks for producing California's Rust.
very rude person when I talked with them
Greg Dobie Yeah well you shouldn't have came with such an attitude then!
Get yo booty back to your side... Buster🙄👎
fkn sjw's
Wow, way to destroy the land. Way to go
Drama queen
Lies