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Originally Posted by HossC
While we're talking about YouTube films, back in post #5849, GW posted a link to an hour-long 1995 feature called Things That Aren't Here Anymore with Ralph Story. Sadly, by the time I reached that post, the video has been removed for copyright breach. However, when I watched the extract about Lucas Kiddie Land/Beverly Park that GW posted in post #1811, I found that someone else had uploaded the hour-long version again (see link below).
It covers so many of the places that have come up in this thread, many in moving pictures, interspersed with interviews. Here's my quick list: The CBS/KNX building; The Hollywoodland sign; Red cars; Clifton's Pacific Seas; Cawston's Ostrich Farm; Mount Lowe Railway; The Pike at Long Beach; Gay's Lion Farm; Marineland; Ocean Park Pier; Angel's Flight (still in storage at time of filming); The Honeymoon Elevator; Rifle and Pistol Shooting sign; Drive-in restarants; Shaped buildings; Central Avenue; Helms Bakery; Bullocks Wilshire; Gilmore Stadium; China City; The Spruce Goose; Schwab's; The Garden of Allah; The Cocoanut Grove; The NBC building.
Things That Aren't Here Anymore with Ralph Story (KCET - PBS) |
If it hasn't been noted before, in addition to the above program, there were two sequels:
"More Things That Aren't Here Any More" with Ralph Story and a later one,
"Things That Aren't Here Any More, Part 3."
KCET (which, within the last 1-2 years, is no longer the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, but an independent station) still shows the first two regularly and if you can find the channel, they're airing them soon:
THINGS THAT AREN'T HERE ANYMORE
Wed, Oct 9, 2013 - 2:00 PM - KCET-HD
Sat, Oct 12, 2013 - 12:00 PM - KCET-HD
MORE THINGS THAT AREN'T HERE ANYMORE
Thu, Oct 10, 2013 - 11:00 AM - KCET-HD
Sat, Oct 12, 2013 - 1:30 PM - KCET-HD
A few things I recall covered in the second part were Hollywood's Brown Derby, Gilmore Stadium, a minor-league field, the steamships of Catalina Island and the original McDonald's restaurant.
The third part was produced a few years after these and, for whatever reason, I haven't seen KCET run that one much at all since it first aired. (2010, I believe?)
Perhaps they all can be found on youtube at some links, I haven't checked, but this is what was featured in the third part:
Things That Aren’t Here Anymore, Part 3
Revisit the nightclubs, restaurants, stores, family attractions and hangouts that created fond memories for a generation of people growing up and living in Southern California, in this program celebrating L.A.’s treasured, but lost, places of the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Highlights include: Music venues like The Starwood, Rodney's English Disco and Pandora's Box, the last billed as the first "teen club" on the Sunset Strip, which helped give legendary groups like The Beach Boys their start; Great Los Angeles restaurants, from Tail 'O The Pup, the landmark hot dog stand shaped like an enormous hot dog to Chasen's, the elegant restaurant of choice for Hollywood's elite; Family attractions, such as Orange County's Japanese Village and Deer Park, drive-in movie theaters and C.C. Brown's, the famous ice cream shop on Hollywood Boulevard that, according to some, invented the ice cream sundae; and Great Southern California hang-outs, from Tower Records on the Sunset Strip to the first incarnation of the Sherman Oaks Galleria, which helped create 80's Valley Girl culture. Stories and memories of these gone-but-not forgotten locales come to life through the people who experienced these memorable places first hand, including KROQ radio personality Rodney Bingenheimer, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti (now Los Angeles Mayor), Cherie Currie of the Runaways, music historian Harvey Kubernick, writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson and Ed Pearl, the owner of the Ash Grove. Produced by Saul Gonzalez and Isaac Mizrahi.
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