the orig. Hard rock at the end ! I went there and to the Morrison hotel a few mos. ago w/ a copy of Morrison hotel album in hand and a buddy taking photos in front of each spot. Thanks for the archives
I grew up there from 1949 to 1966. My Father was the Manager of The Hotel Huntington on 8th and Main. I went to school, graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in 1969, and had a successful career as Creative Director for Los Angeles Advertising Agencies.
Ah the good old days in downtown L.A. You hit the legendary Main St. Gym where world rated boxers trained daily and then headed down the street for an evening of dirt cheap drinking at Crabby Joe's bar. Life didn't get any better.
This was the end of the original Row when it was full of drunks that couldn't hold down a job, many of them veterans. Los Angeles started tearing a lot of these old buildings down due to code violations & ten years later the tents sprung up as crack cocaine changed everything.
It goes to show you even though it was a dump, it was so much better then than now. Now, it's a lot more diverse and more homeless people there. I miss that L.A. It wasn't lively but it was cool though.
It's chilling to watch this footage, knowing that in just a few months time, serial killer Vaughn Greenwood, the Skid Row Slasher, would begin preying on these vulnerable souls.
I was offered a transfer to Long Beach from Houston Texas in 1974 at my job....should have jumped on it. I was making good money in 1974....could've should've would've
I notice these things: absence of homeless tents they are no where to be seen, of course back then there were flop houses (cheap housing) AND I notice how clean the streets were. Oh how I miss the 70's I was robbed of my childhood but I still miss the 70's.
I remember going downtown LA in the 70s even though it was Skid Row but compared to today it's really a beautiful place to to be today is just a shame shame shame shame shame on America
Qué limpio y qué bonito se veía la verdad gente muy diferente ahorita ya es un mugrero está peor que un país tercermundista estaba hermoso en esa época
City of Angels L.A inn the Super 70's riding inn a Ford Torino & filming people places & things was an idea that sparked curiosities adding classic blues - rhythm - sounds - & vibes is why I choose too oblige inn kind for taking me back too a place inn time! Gratitude too D.D
The problem now is not enough room to shelter the homeless that’s why you don’t see tents in the video. And back then the homeless if there was no room at the shelters used card board boxes to shelter and sleep on. Back then also if you notice very few blacks and woman back then where homeless.
Downtown Vegas then,part of it was the dregs of society,mostly hotel,casinos,there were stores,movie theatres,still remember having to roll the windows up,similiar to LA in that it was alot better than now!!!
Sy. That is the one and only ORIGINAL Hard Rock Cafe. The one The Doors had their pic taken in front of for the Morrison Hotel album cover. The owners of the current franchise got the name from the album.. so this is the real deal. It just had a new sign in '74 than in '69 when the album shoot occurred there.
Over Pushed No Sell Jabroni STFU you creepy old fake Botox queen. Nasty racist. Thank God, your kind is dying out. Stop with the plastic surgery already........you look disturbing.
Weird to see absolutely no tents there.
Tents Wasn't invented yet
We didn't enable people to the extent we do now.
Don't be fooled skid row is around the corner.
I don't get the 1950s style blues on the soundtrack for a 1974 reel, but it was interesting to watch.
1974 was such a perfect year to live in Los Angeles!
the orig. Hard rock at the end ! I went there and to the Morrison hotel a few mos. ago w/ a copy of Morrison hotel album in hand and a buddy taking photos in front of each spot.
Thanks for the archives
No obvious homeless problem there, except for an occasional drunk here/there. Wow! Big contrast to the times of today.
Thank you Demoncrats.. Everything you touch turns to shit! But...let's keep voting them into office...😂😂😂😂😂😂
Michael T lol true
*DRUNK REPUBLICANS MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAUHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Policies that REAGAN put in place created the homeless problem in Downtown LA
@@michaelt3308 Except the homeless issues were a product of Reagan .. so shut the fuck up 😄
I was tending bar at The Brass Ring Night Club on Ventura in 1974. Loved LA.
I grew up there from 1949 to 1966. My Father was the Manager of The Hotel Huntington on 8th and Main. I went to school, graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in 1969, and had a successful career as Creative Director for Los Angeles Advertising Agencies.
steve rogers that sounds amazing. I'd love to sit down with you and have a chat about your life, I currently live near the LA area.
good history story mr. rogers
steve rogers Your life sounds like you could’ve been in Mad Men
How lucky are you. Those were the best years in our history. Now we've gone back to the pre-FDR days of toil and misery.
You can actually see this same street in the background in a Columbo episode called "A Friend in Deed." They go down to skid row to arrest a guy.
Great episode.
I was born in Downey this year myself. Inside my fathers 1969 Camaro..
Wow the hard rock cafe at the end was a trip
That's their flagship site.
Ah the good old days in downtown L.A. You hit the legendary Main St. Gym where world rated boxers trained daily and then headed down the street for an evening of dirt cheap drinking at Crabby Joe's bar. Life didn't get any better.
My grandpa was found dead on Skid Row in 1977 - Stormin Norman was his name. I wish I could find old video of him.
It was so empty! No cars and hardly any people! And no tents or trash!
This was the end of the original Row when it was full of drunks that couldn't hold down a job, many of them veterans.
Los Angeles started tearing a lot of these old buildings down due to code violations & ten years later the tents sprung up as crack cocaine changed everything.
I really like this video pretty cool 😎
$1.50 barbers wow now its $25
Minimum wage California 1974, 2 dollars hour. Year 2020 California minimum wage 13 dollars. Incredible inflation.
@@charrua59 It was expensive before CA passed the $15 minimum wage.
Somehow, I do not remember it like this. Whattttt? Hahaha The eyes of a kid.
Hard Rock where the Doors photographed for Morrison Hotel @ 1:25.
Thanks for pointing out
Thanks
The opening shots of the video looked like scenes from Starsky and Hutch.
It goes to show you even though it was a dump, it was so much better then than now. Now, it's a lot more diverse and more homeless people there. I miss that L.A. It wasn't lively but it was cool though.
You don’t like diversity?
@@josecarranza7555He probably wishes it was all white. 😂😂😂
Thank you !
We called them winos. Where's the Midnight Mission?
It's chilling to watch this footage, knowing that in just a few months time, serial killer Vaughn Greenwood, the Skid Row Slasher, would begin preying on these vulnerable souls.
esotouric This is true.
That's a new one never heard of him
Cool to see the original Hard Rock Cafe
I was offered a transfer to Long Beach from Houston Texas in 1974 at my job....should have jumped on it. I was making good money in 1974....could've should've would've
WTF? Where are the tents?
I notice these things: absence of homeless tents they are no where to be seen, of course back then there were flop houses (cheap housing) AND I notice how clean the streets were. Oh how I miss the 70's I was robbed of my childhood but I still miss the 70's.
It was bad then, but it's much worse now.
I was born the next year.
I remember going downtown LA in the 70s even though it was Skid Row but compared to today it's really a beautiful place to to be today is just a shame shame shame shame shame on America
Shame on democrats
@@socalpimp1974 fuck republicans
1:29 the back side of Morrison Hotel
The weekends downtown would turn into a ghost town
Wow, skid row was clean back then. What the hell happened?
The democrats happened
Qué limpio y qué bonito se veía la verdad gente muy diferente ahorita ya es un mugrero está peor que un país tercermundista estaba hermoso en esa época
City of Angels L.A inn the Super 70's riding inn a Ford Torino & filming people places & things was an idea that sparked curiosities adding classic blues - rhythm - sounds - & vibes is why I choose too oblige inn kind for taking me back too a place inn time! Gratitude too D.D
It actually kinda cleaner back then, and less homeless
The problem now is not enough room to shelter the homeless that’s why you don’t see tents in the video.
And back then the homeless if there was no room at the shelters used card board boxes to shelter and sleep on.
Back then also if you notice very few blacks and woman back then where homeless.
You don't see people sleeping on the street.
I like the blood bank right next door to a liquor store.
Most of these people are dead by now.
One has to wonder if any of them had anticipated achieving YT stardom in 2013!
Skid row was originally only for single men. It was not zoned for families which explains why this is so dude filled.
Wow I actually don’t see tents and homeless people just that one dude chilling on the floor
ah adam 12, thats funny
Damn, nothing has changed...
Are you kidding. It’s a lot cleaner here
@@thecraplordsell4575 Nope
The Pinto at 1:06 is cool
Hard Rock Cafe wonder if their name was stolen and used? 1:28
Someone tell me the name of the song please?
Homeless Blues by Willie Smith
More serial killers back then more
Not even Close to what came after. You know a gang banger in a drive by is also a Serial killer.
Skid row was a white mans haven. That’s when there were cheap rooms. Turn the color dial and the occupants ended up on the curb.
Naw there were some blacks there. Enough with the racial pandering.
@@thecraplordsell4575 How far back are you going? Think beyond 50 years.
reminds me of the combat zone in boston
whose film is this?
from tv show, adam-12, 1974
great footage
It looks really, really depressing.
But it's much worse now.
LOL.... looks the same today.
Pre-Reagan (never mind gentrification) era.
Downtown Vegas then,part of it was the dregs of society,mostly hotel,casinos,there were stores,movie theatres,still remember having to roll the windows up,similiar to LA in that it was alot better than now!!!
Look. It's a Hard Rock Cafe ripoff at 1:32
Sy. That is the one and only ORIGINAL Hard Rock Cafe. The one The Doors had their pic taken in front of for the Morrison Hotel album cover. The owners of the current franchise got the name from the album.. so this is the real deal. It just had a new sign in '74 than in '69 when the album shoot occurred there.
David Dutkowski
Noticed that also.
DTLA lost its old soul. Now its a hipster asian melenilal posuer hole..
Over Pushed No Sell Jabroni STFU you creepy old fake Botox queen. Nasty racist. Thank God, your kind is dying out. Stop with the plastic surgery already........you look disturbing.
@@tannawannavannabittannawan7138 , no more meth for you.
The music is a bit anachronistic and about 2,000 miles out of place, but the degradation is all too accurate.
No to the soundtrack. Better to have played some hot ricking early 70s tunes
At least it’s not that new age pop bs that plays everywhere today