A Walk Around The Neighborhood Silver Lake, Los Angeles

[@deathtodragqueen]

A lovely time capsule. I grew up in Silverlake and was a teenager through the 90s when there were a very particular set of shops there that no longer exists. The stores you show here are the ones I remember when I left a decade ago. I miss it, the way it was then and before. Does anyone remember stores like "you've got bad taste", "out of our heads", "the insense mausoleum", "the onyx café" and "pagan place"? Oh my heart, if we only had footage of 1995. ❤

[@haroldgar1]

I grew up in there, 60s and 70s, I see the streets have gotten busy. Silverlake as a whole as always been a nice area, lot of good memories there.

[@joseluishernandez2382]

Viví dos años ahí ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@brandonburrell8517]

Brings back good memories. Thanks.

[@ciscoray48]

I grew up in the silver lake district. Born in, '48. St Francis Assisi, Micheltorena, Thomas Starr King Jr High, Marshall High. I would like to think I would still be there but for the state taking my family's home away for a freeway that was never built. I have lived all over the state, far north and along the border, but I still think of Silver Lake as my home though it is nothing like it was so many, many years ago. Great video!

[@ralphquintero3350]

More on Silver Lake please 🙏!!!

[@rob3979]

Around 9:40 I spotted my bedroom window above the auto body shop on Rowena

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

rob musito ...and if you closer with a magnifying glass, I believe you are standing there naked.

[@rob3979]

@@MichaelJirochVisualArtist oh thats granny

[@CarlosRodriguez-lk3tm]

Love This Part Of Los Angeles Silver Lake

[@Valerious000]

Thanks so much! We're thinking g about moving to LA and Silver Lake was one of the places we wanted to check out. It looks great. Any recommendations for walkable neighborhoods that have a really urban feel? I'm from New York. I know it won't be the same, but I'd love to live in an area where there are lots of people out and you can walk to a bunch of restaurants, shops, etc.

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

I’m sorry guy, we moved out of LA in 2018. It was bad then, and it’s even worse now. I want to give you fair warning and just don’t move there. California is in its death throws and especially Los Angeles. I wish I could narrow it down to one thing…but it all boils down to incredibly incompetent and corrupted government. And a media not holding the incompetence to account. In short, the place is a shit storm.

[@elinblackburn7345]

adam, if you’re a multi-millionaire or like living on the street, i say go for it!

[@nathanhanson5324]

This is supposed to be one of the hippest neighborhoods in LA and all I see is Pizza Hut, strip malls, and tons cars stuck in bad traffic... cool.

[@fudgedogbannana]

Not like that at all, it is the hip spot now. this vid is 2013

[@danmalone7649]

It has different zones like any other city. Some are hipper than others. Idiot.

[@Valerious000]

Nathan, I had the same thought.

[@foxyicy12]

Things have changed since you last video, including the traffic. I am headed to Trader's and dreading it! LOL

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

N Per ... the traffic issue is clearly a product of our mayor who took traffic lanes away and added bike lanes that are only used by a few. This is a govt that works against its own citizens by trying to be a feel good mayor.

[@fudgedogbannana]

Exaggerating a bit.

[@christinacaruth4894]

It id an great artist colony!! Is like Laguna in the middle of the city!! A fantastic place to meet people!!🌈🌈🌈🐆🐪🐏

[@kiki1965]

Love the video! I could live here.

[@kaivrock]

For about a $2mil mortgage.. Sure.

[@davidmiller3190]

thanks. former resident--before the changes. may visit again.

[@gizzykatkat9687]

Just another place where people live their lives. My Aunty Patsy in Long Beach and my Uncle Ron in Canoga Park.

[@jaysprezz7733]

Do you go stealth mode when recording or just blatant point and shoot?

[@PrincessKLS]

Apparently this is the area where Joseph Gordon-Levitt and other celebs live.

[@randiesequeira1783]

lived here all my life !

[@fudgedogbannana]

Me too. Micheltorena Street school, King Jr. High, Marshal High- class of 1976

[@zqpcydbfoqbdiehdj]

The United Snakes 🐍 of America 😂😂😂 at 3:41

[@shyana9807]

Please don't try to kiss me on the sidewalk On your cigarette break I can't afford to love someone Who isn't dying by mistake in Silver Lake -xanny Billie eilish

[@foxyicy12]

Pizza Hut is no longer there, but Trader Joe's parking lot has expanded!

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

N Per ...time for me to make a new edition of Silver Lake.

[@fudgedogbannana]

@@MichaelJirochVisualArtist Yes, its changed even in the last 6 years.

[@rory7347]

I'm an argetinian woman, i' see Under the Silverlake,movie ...and I think that place exist? -yes!! 😳😜💖

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

Since the 1920s…100 years old.

[@rory7347]

@@MichaelJirochVisualArtist omg!

[@kaivrock]

That table full of hipsters. Yecch!

[@SevenFootPelican]

How can people afford to live here? What kinds of jobs must they have? I really hate how urban spaces and everywhere in general in America has become to violently and intimidatingly expensive to live...

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

SevenFoot Pelican ...well, needless to say most of the people bought these homes 20-25 years ago. Most are baby-boomers on their way to retirement or have retired already. (Like me). Most of the people here are professionals or work in the entertainment field. We cashed in our chips last year and moved to Santa Fe. The person who bought our home was in high tech and commuted to a job in Silicon Valley.

[@fudgedogbannana]

Lower end homes here are $1million but there are multi million dollar homes up in the hill above Sunset Blvd. my parents bought in at $19,000 in 1968, now the same house is $1.2 million. Mostly professionals, doctors, Lawyers, entertainment industry, actors writers, musicians, gay. Nice neighborhood, good schools, 4 miles west of Down Town LA, 2 miles east of Hollywood.

[@gmlasam]

What's the demographics in the city of Silver Lake?

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

The neighborhood was highly diverse ethnically. The breakdown was Latinos, 41.8%; whites, 34%; Asians, 18%; blacks, 3.2%, and others, 3.1%. Mexico (26.6%) and the Philippines (15.7%) were the most common places of birth for the 41% of the residents who were born abroad, about the same rate as the city at large.

[@fiercemakeup31]

In Silver Lake 61.28% of the population is Caucasian.

[@fudgedogbannana]

You couldn't tell if a person was black by speaking to them on the phone here in Silver Lake.

[@piv989]

Is this where the LA Lakers got its name from?

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

Piv Piv ...no, not at all. LOS Angeles bought the Salt LAKE City Laker franchise and moved them to LA, and kept the name.

[@angelmoncada382]

Michael is wrong as well. The Lakers franchise was originally from Minnesota, otherwise known as "The land of 1000 lakes." They moved to Los Angeles sometime in the late 50s, I believe, and kept the name.

[@kaivrock]

Those houses have got to be in the millions. Hard to believe it used to be thug paradise although the town itself is kind of ugly,

[@MichaelJirochVisualArtist]

Mickey Vidakovich so true. Even Echo Park has gentrified. And Echo Park Homes are in the millions.

[@danmalone7649]

@jack ramirez One side of Sunset is nice, the other side is ghetto as fuck. The ghetto side used to be pretty nasty until about 10-15 years ago. It was a good place to get mugged if you went walking at night.

[@Filipinoheat44]

Silver Lake I heard was ounce a dangerous area to live in the 80s and 90s Gangs Drugs And Prostitution, this city should be an example for the City of San Bernardino CA which is a city in desperate need of revitalization and economic growth

[@joshuaestrada7029]

+Filipinoheat44 tell it to someone who cares

[@fudgedogbannana]

Not Silver Lake

[@michellelopez1201]

Bye lying ass felicia

[@danmalone7649]

Anyone who says Silver Lake was never dangerous must be some pussy who never went south of Sunset. That side of town was a gang infested ghetto until about a 10-15 years ago, if you deny it then must never have been there.

[@eduardoggg1179]

Perfect for crashing cars in races