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Originally Posted by craigs
I've said it before and I'll say it again--after living elsewhere for 20 years and returning to LA almost a year ago, downtown has changed more than any other part of the city. It's truly heartening to see how much it has improved in those years.
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Correct. Why some ppl here in this forum or elsewhere resent that being cited or celebrated is beyond me. My posts & vids have just about always been because I like focusing on examples of dtla being much better now than it was over 10, 20, 30, 60, 70 yrs ago.
I've occasionally pointed out that I think dt in 2022 is better in various ways for the first....first....time in LA's history. Even when streets like broadway or 7th St attracted large crowds of shoppers back in the 1940s or 30s, ppl in general didn't want to live around there or spend 24-7-365 of their time in it. I think that's a major reason why dt went downhill so fast, so far & for so many decades. I bet if it had reached the level is at right now over 70 yrs ago, it would have held on better. That's the key to hoods like pasadena, sections of samo, west LA never falling apart as bad as dtla did.
Better income ppl started leaving bunker hill over 80 yrs ago,,,back in the 1920s. I've seen pics of dtla from over 70 yrs ago & it looked largely gritty in an industrial way even then. I know it wasn't a great looking place to be back when I worked around what's now South pk.
In my list of things that make me more positive about the hood today than I've ever been before, I forgot to include this....
https://twitter.com/SoCal360/status/1514750715826122757
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btw, I had a post which went to a link of a vid showing a 100,000 sf mansion on a mountaintop in bel air...17 miles from dtla. That property has views of dt on one side, century city in the middle, the pacific on the other.
I notice a lot of sspers place the height & number of skyscrapers in dt on the top of their list of what they think is most important. To me, that's the least crucial or interesting aspect of it. But ppl in places like that mountaintop in bel air, who possibly never go to dtla, may be more aware of it due to its taller bldgs. lol. In a way, ppl who don't spend much or any time in dt itself will find the main reason to care about it being based on the visibility of its bldgs as seen from 17...or 5, 10, 20 miles away.