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Originally Posted by ConstructDTLA
I've uploaded several hundred images over the last few days
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your welcome set of pics deserves some video....this person's presentation could be more tightly edited, but its length gets to key quotes around 8:38....
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dtla is in better, more interesting, shape...in various ways....today than in over 80 yrs....or since the city was created.
Even before dt started to fall apart beginning around the 1950s, or as long ago as the 1920s, it had never been a part of LA that ppl would want to live in....or lived in. Unless they were struggling pensioners or the types who still admittedly make up areas like skid row & wander all over dt. I know you & others in the hood 24/7 have mentioned the problems of such homeless through the yrs. The hood is still a work still in progress.....I hope it never falls apart all over again.
quality housing never existed in dt throughout most of the city's history. There were some old victorian houses on bunker hill, some rooms in bldgs like the biltmore hotel. But that was about it. Most of the houses on bunker hill went to seed during the early 1900s, so dtla actually lost even more of what little it originally had.
Hard to think of LA during all the yrs it was mostly areas like samo, pasadena, malibu, palos verdes, century city, bev hills, the burbs, that were in decent shape. The time when those hoods had to make up for the weaknesses of dtla. Never again, please.