Hoods of Bakersfield,California

[@jetpetty1613]

The San Joaquin Valley helped my ancestors survive during the dust bowl. It'll always have a special place in my heart.

[@slufoot77]

Mine 2 :) I'm still an oakie lol

[@naelyneurkopfen9741]

@@slufoot77 Okie...

[@bethalicia]

I’ve lived in Bakersfield all my life and I’ve never had a problem going out.. yes there’s a lot of violence but it’s not even as bad as it is. Union is where all the horrible things are (edit: there is a lot of sex trafficking here though, it’s sad.)

[@wolfgang9742]

Fresno is dangerous compare to Bakersfield

[@RACHELLEflo]

This is offensive!!!

[@RACHELLEflo]

Scotsman class of 1996.

[@bethalicia]

Rachelle Flores what’s offensive lol..

[@BustahK]

@@wolfgang9742 fresno aint shit

[@RB-sy1vp]

Rent is cheap because there is nothing to do here and it's hot as hell. Are you from Bakersfield? ??

[@slufoot77]

Farming is actually one of the biggest employers here also, Agriculture is huge.

[@slufoot77]

Hot as hell lol, today is supposed to get 100°

[@giovargas1922]

Nice, imperial valley has a many farms and farmers there it’s really hot there

[@gabrielcervantes2495]

@@slufoot77 how is the weather today

[@slufoot77]

@@gabrielcervantes2495 Hot as hell lol

[@gabrielcervantes2495]

@@slufoot77 very smokey too right lol

[@woahdatsnoice188]

Me: Damn glad I don’t live there 😏 A few minutes later “AYE! THAT’S MY HOUSE!”😡

[@sunnymelo13]

Right!! 😂

[@Keith9763]

😂😂😂

[@Grace-OTK]

😂 I personally love the East Side. Never a gang member or drug user either.

[@DustyHazADHD]

You should roll through bunk ass oildale ... Now that's scary.

[@BlackBiggot]

Next time i will

[@ricardogonzalez2150]

Make sure u drive on Decatur. You will see kkk on trash cans. Ironically you can hear gangsta rap from those houses lol makes me laugh when I drove by blasting my Hispanic music.

[@RACHELLEflo]

They used to hang people off the bridge. But he is over here talking crap about the Eastside??? Union Ave isn't the EAST SIDE. This is HIGHLY offensive.

[@cdajoint]

Black Bugatti can you go thru the south side?

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

Lol , oil dale is like a whole new world kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@Oheeeoh]

The rent is cheap because no one wants to live there.

[@thatisjustdope4425]

Sadly...….

[@hazelstreet1654]

Nobody wants all their neighbors to be meth addicts

[@californiacan-amraptor7003]

I live in Bakersfield and I do not live in an area of ​​evil living.I live much better than many who are commenting all cities have bad neighborhoods like this video you are watching

[@user-mk9ex3yo1l]

@Gangsta Macc that's sad. Bakersfield has potential

[@alisadashaforesthillsbriga9175]

Correct

[@elspethsilverstar6136]

Lamont, I think these drive through videos with you talking about these areas are good. You have your ear to the ground in ways other KZbinrs do not, so you get the real perspective of an area with you. Thanks

[@RACHELLEflo]

It's not as bad as he is making it sound. AT ALL!!!! Back in the day , yes!!! Not now.

[@rudycabonias5142]

@@RACHELLEflo 👈 she's right I was homeless for 4 years in Bakersfield I got back on my feet last year now I'm Bak in Washington state and doing better yeah but I lived there for years it's not that dangerous A l Iittle yes but he's exaggerating terribly And he is so not even close to getting the whole picture or even facts about the gangs right Smh 😠😤

[@OmarLopez-kh3dx]

@@rudycabonias5142 is baker at a good area to live?

[@stephendre2902]

I live on the east side right by the homeless shelter and never had one problem for 3 years. Right by where you were driving in the beginning on Baker. I lived on 3rd and King.

[@OmarLopez-kh3dx]

Is it calm there? Hows the rent for homes or apartments

[@Grace-OTK]

Same, I moved to OTK in 2018, warned by many about the dangers of me getting killed, robbed or raped. I have never met so many beautiful souls, I love the honesty, and, I have always had something stolen in life from outside my home, even cans. But never here. Until Joey Atkinson moved next door, but he was a resident not homeless. Hope he never returns to hurt another homeless woman.

[@julievelasquez5805]

Not even that serious and I lived there my whole life.

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

Agree kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@mr.merritt7125]

Probably was in the house lol . Shit gets active out there

[@elnata278]

Hola como estas amiga

[@elnata278]

Julie conoses el restaurante el pueblito?

[@sewagedump]

Looking at your pfp, I know your type. Bougie and sheltered.

[@minecraftpro661]

It’s weird seeing a youtuber I’ve been subbed to for a long time drive through streets I’m familiar with

[@RenieNostalgic]

I heard the air quality is bad there. I know someone whose baby had a terrible persistent cough when they lived there. A lot of dust in the air apparently.

[@chrisboyer4194]

Yes the air quality is terrible here, that's during the summer though- when it's 107 degrees 🙄 It's not that bad during the cooler months

[@jbennett380]

This is my hometown. Born and raised.

[@badluckbro661]

Same here

[@ginn9282]

Same

[@ginn9282]

@@SoundLoungeRecords hell nah!!! I hadta get out!!!

[@theelestat1981]

Born and raised 39 years ..nothing wrong with the Eastside home sweet home

[@xaviercovarrubias2013]

Same bro

[@andrewfilm6432]

I'm looking at inexpensive safe apartment rentals in Bakersfield. Any suggestions on which area. I'm not too familiar with the City .

[@jjvillarreal381]

Everywhere is safe but at the same time nowhere is safe….just mind your business and pray you don’t get hit in the cross fire

[@ConnorRB]

I'm staying at the Hilton on Brimhall and Coffe rd and I decided to go for a walk around 1am. I walk out of the parking lot and I see a high speed police chase happening on Coffe rd. I then walked towards the Albertsons and not even a mile in a see a dude stalking me. He was watching me and following me. I ran across the street and he started to follow luckily I outran him. I made it back to the hotel quickly. I've never been so nervous about walking at night before.

[@rudycabonias5142]

Some people will pretend to follow you cause they think it's funny trust me

[@cjgriggs8]

That’s the safest part of town lol . You got money if u stay over there ..

[@VanGranico]

Bakersfield Police are Known as The Deadliest Police Force. These Hoods are bad but nothing compared to Fresno. 2023 Update: Bakersfield is growing with opportunities; New Jobs i.e. Amazon & Transportation Hub, Affordable Homes, Good Schools & Sports... Just Stay Out of Those few Neighborhoods

[@TheSmallTownSinners]

Thanks for sharing but east side Bakersfield is no way as bad as you're making it our to be. If you act like a clown and look for trouble, you can find it anywhere. You should highlight how good the food is on the eastside, all the history on the eastside, lots of good locally owned shops and as long as you are respectful nobody is going to mess with you. Just look like you belong there and don't walk around looking scared. Bakersfield rocks, our music rocks, our parties rock, and our food rocks, nothing to turn away from.

[@Tactoe223]

That’s true

[@fucker661]

It's mostly a reputation thing. I'd be more worried about all those addicted rich kids in Rosedale on bikes than anything over here.

[@adamb634]

Hell people are shot walking down the street on the east side minding their own business because so many gangs and pussies...

[@Lilgang24]

@@fucker661 Hey! (Jk)

[@ERNIEBERNY]

Exactly 💯 he don't even live their

[@robertjordaniii5813]

EDP 445 Lives there, but not in that part of town.

[@DarkLight-sz1vp]

EDPEDO445

[@robertjordaniii5813]

@@DarkLight-sz1vp IF he has any brain power remaining, he has already hit the road with his gun collection (leave the Eagles Swag behind, nobody wants it anyway).

[@Keith9763]

EnterDatPrison445

[@kerrybarnes989]

These vids are Great I have never been to America & thanks to you I get to see lots of different parts of it Thank you Lamont I appreciate youP.S. Come to England

[@sagatuppercut2960]

I used to live in Oildale. My neighborhood wasn't so bad. I just couldn't understand why people would walk along Chester Ave. late at night when 99% of the stores were closed. Even women would walk around at 3:00 A.M. all by themselves.

[@fucker661]

There are some nice suburbs up there but yeah north Chester Is still bad

[@fullrigormortis3684]

Yea some of the women are prostitutes bud...

[@xjulieana]

It was much worse in the 90s.. I'm of Mexican decent and would run around when I was a kid telling everyone I was a crip!😳 Not even understanding what that meant! My neighbor/best friends family were all crips and she was like.. my momma a crip, my daddy a crip, my granny and grampa a crip, I'm a crip and you a crip too! 😅 When I was about 13, she was 16.. she did a drive by and not knowing, killed a friend of ours from school who was hanging with bloods.. they were actually friends as well and didn't know she was in the crowd of bloods when she was shooting. I read she got like 16 years.. that whole situation is still depressing to me! They were both cool af!!

[@EuropeanAmericanGenZ_1999]

How can you be Mexican descent?

[@toniklocc]

That’s weird I guess cause usually if you Mexican you bangin sureños. Usually..

[@southbayrickybobby5820]

I got my windows tinted at a little shop right there on East California and union. Lol sat out there for a few hours by the sidewalk. It’s a a good idea not to lock eyes with anyone. But watch out. Everything East of the 99 and anywhere in oildale is run down to say the least. Speaking of oildale me and my dad got a boob show from some transient there flashing her stuff at an ambulance rolling lights and sirens to either a shooting, stabbing or OD. Anyone who blasts the Kern county sheriff’s office for being to rough are either criminals, know criminals or are completely ignorant to what they deal with. It’s worse than LA. Kern county earned its title as murder capitol of California.

[@gallionz53]

This makes me very sad. I lived there 35 years ago. It has completely gone down hill. Bakersfield was a nice blend city in the 70s & 80s. There were some homeless but it wasn't this seedy back then. Good video

[@rodriga1985]

Dude it's seedy all around the world.

[@barkeyes8592]

Is this Lamont at Large?

[@randydurham9928]

I lived in Bakersfield a lot of years. It used to be a good town, but the east side has always been bad. The good parts of Bakersfield keep spreading further and further outside of Bakersfield proper. At around 6 minutes in video Oildale was mentioned. It should be revisited by Mr Bugatti, because it has gone to hell in a hand basket. I moved around 18 years ago, and have no intention on ever moving back.

[@andreagalarzaarzate7856]

I live on the east side but my street is peaceful i don't know why

[@OmarLopez-kh3dx]

@@andreagalarzaarzate7856 what part of the east side? I plan on moving, from LA

[@sagatuppercut2960]

Some Oildale neighborhoods look nice (north of China Grade Loop). I used to live in that area, and I liked going to Zorba's for breakfast. There's a lot of crap between Roberts Lane and Norris Rd. I see a lot of people with no ambition to get a job. They just hang around 7-11 all day or collect cans & bottles for the recycling center.

[@gabrieltorres8597]

Bakersfield and oildale go together I'm a native her if u don't like oildale u don't like Bakersfield.. sorry thank goodness u moved we need positive people here..,👍👍

[@randydurham9928]

@@gabrieltorres8597 Thank you for the kind words, but I am a positive person. I am positive that my family and myself are happier, safer, and better off financially since we moved. But you keep that stiff upper lip!

[@bracketvilletexas]

please do another video cruzing on ming to caswel ave to neighborhood parks in that area 2022

[@badexter1]

Great video..very interesting. I'm a Floridian..Miami Dade native..it's cool checking out California. Thanks man..BD

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@ScottiPimpin]

I live in a Country Boy Crip area and it's pretty calm and collect. When it was East side in 2013, it was the worst.

[@josevalenzuela5011]

#cottonwood if you know you know

[@Tactoe223]

@@josevalenzuela5011 isn’t that Colonia correct me if I’m wrong G

[@josevalenzuela5011]

@@Tactoe223 well depends cottonwood is in country boy crip area off planz and further down it goes through the okies territory all the way until California ave is where it ends

[@Tactoe223]

@@josevalenzuela5011 oh okay I see

[@josevalenzuela5011]

@@Tactoe223 yes at that point I'd certainly call it east side Colonia something like that but yea cottonwood/planz is country boy crips area and cottonwood/Brundage is okies and further down shit I don't remember but I'd say Colonia since California connects east off to Mt Vernon and so on so yea it's something like that

[@FrancoMartinez-di3jm]

I'm from Bakersfield let me know when you are in town. I'll show you how we get down here.

[@fortis619]

I’ve got pictures from the 50s and 60s when my grandparents lived out there , can believe how it is now smh

[@alisadashaforesthillsbriga9175]

Wow I bet it was great but not now.lol

[@msaintpc]

I lived there in the '60s. If your grandparents were Black then I knew them.

[@drill.is.here-v1m]

Lamont at large?

[@KyleFilms69]

You still in Bakersfield? I live out here man we gotta meet up!

[@DiglaBabyTv]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYObimqBdtx2gLM

[@geraldsedillo4028]

Im curious how the northerner and southerners get down out there is there more of what side

[@maebellaakamaegirl190]

I have to say thank you for sharing so much with us 💗. You're like a history teacher 😂.you tell us where we can go in where we shouldn't go 😁🎉🎉. I enjoy your videos so much. Also I want to say happy Fourth of July 🎆🎊😁🥰😀😎

[@Luciano_LaVoca]

Korn's hometown!

[@robertaustin7757]

love ya man ... you need some breaks on your car bad

[@barneyyruizzy5903]

South of Bakersfield is a little agricultural town called Lamont, it would be really cool if you come on down since I live there😁

[@benn_bazaa]

I used to live in Lamont. I hated it. Until I moved to Bakersfield

[@masquito4570]

What is there to do in Lamont. Lived there for a month then went somewhere else?

[@DustyHazADHD]

@Frost arvin, get some casa burger 🤘🏻👍

[@DustyHazADHD]

@Frost 😂😂😂👌

[@fucker661]

Loved going to el fogon over there but haven't been there in years since I left grimmway farms

[@ForeverYoungandSassy]

I was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA. On Union Ave. Starliter Motel. LoL! So glad I was able to move when I got older. Will be back next year for a family reunion.

[@OmarLopez-kh3dx]

Is union the downtown of Bakersfield?

[@ForeverYoungandSassy]

@@OmarLopez-kh3dx i dont this so. i havent been in cali for 15 years so i dont even remember lol

[@estebanestrada6100]

Do you remember the sunset motel and Dan's trailer park

[@ForeverYoungandSassy]

@@estebanestrada6100 some of my best friends lived in that trailer park

[@darksideevents6072]

Trippin man. East side is the best. Been in Bakersfield since 1982 it's Eastside till I die. Biggest gang you got to worry about in Bakersfield is the BPD.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

Darks ide East side /wEast side who gives a f---k you come to our manor and see the consequences WHAT ?

[@Tactoe223]

Never heard of BPD

[@msaintpc]

@@Tactoe223 Bakersfield Police Department.

[@catmeurig]

I spent 8 years on that side of town...cheapest i could afford. I recognize a lot of where you drove, between walking and buses to get where i needed to go.

[@scrollsessions]

Oh shit! My city!

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@BoriMex100]

Are You From The Bakersfield Area?

[@longrod1896]

1:22, keep going straight up a bit and theirs and am pm make a right there go down to gage st and that’s where I used to live for 5 years. Little while ago had some guys shooting in the street.

[@slade8803]

If you do another video i think it would be interesting to show the the diversity in living quality, how down bad it looks on one end and then migrating to the sw side how good some people have it. Community differences

[@animeweeb6817]

Fr I live in the sw and when I go to the East cause I work there I can really see the community differences

[@hagnewton4255]

I've been through just about every hood in Bfl. I have stories about Cottonwood,, Lakeview, Potomac,etc. You are right about not being out after dark. Anyway streetsmart, minding your own business and being armed are key around these parts. Otherwise citywide car and pick-up thefts are rampant. It's cheap for a reason. By the way I am from Lamont. Grew up there during the 70s& 80s.

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

Like I always say if your somewhere you don't belong or if your out looking for trouble it ain't hard to find , in Bakersfield or anywhere for that matter kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@msaintpc]

I lived there in the Cottonwood and Lakeview areas doing the 1960s. I knew everybody.

[@brendabranam4626]

Buck Owen's and Dwight Yokum sung about the streets of Bakersfield.

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@billiebriggs7531]

Yes I remember!!!! At the door of the grocery store!!

[@angelcharlie2012]

I grew up in east Bakersfield and it was way different back then. I grew up in the 70s. The best time to be a kid. 😁 We didn't really have to worry about gangs and gang violence. I live in Texas now and this video is making me homesick. ☹

[@kimiastewart6293]

I've been to Bakersfield. Thank you for sharing.

[@idkimbored3896]

bakersfield latino hoods : varrio greenfield bakers , varrio rexland park , loma bakers , colonia bakers , varrio bakers , oakie bakers , southside bakers , westside bakers , eastside bakers and uptown bakers

[@mr.flores8104]

You back in Bakersfield?

[@BlackBiggot]

Already left

[@5192mark]

I lived there it wasn't much to do but visit the hole in the ground which was a scenic adventure the cliffs was in my backyard I lived off B street , it's hard to breathe valley fever plus the water tasted like pure oil. Part of Bakersfield looked like it was part of an ancient ocean.

[@geezjunior]

I got a clear memory of my uncles wedding on the east of bakers & me n my cousins went to the store on the way back on the 2nd floor of an apartment complex you see a man on his balcony cleaning and assembling back his AK 47 style rifle, never forget that memory he was so nonchalant

[@teoterrell8118]

So tha west side is better ?

[@nickdahusalah]

You just left the territory of a older gang called Varrio Bakers they kinda share it with the eastside crips. westside crips are on the other side of Union Ave they beef with ESC alot.

[@RACHELLEflo]

He is just going off what a friend of his said.

[@idkimbored3896]

@Aj Suavee theres no nortenos in bakes lol they got ran out

[@cheeseburgerbrown7421]

Nortes is in Bakersfield they hood is by bhs 💪🏾💯

[@Calihustla]

@@cheeseburgerbrown7421 The homies from West Side Bakers be smashing on them.my homie shanked a buster in the hood lol

[@elnarco9601]

Aj Suavee there’s no norte hoods in Bakersfield, mfs be lying talking about there is and if they are where they at ?😂😂😂 they all hiding

[@edwardwratherjr3781]

He says a lot of homelessness as he rides by the homeless shelter.

[@raymondflores4757]

Serio😂

[@carlosfonseca5826]

🤣

[@mikenewmanhayes2010]

stay ou of East Bakersfield then if you don't like it, and your going to see homeless when you drive by three homeless shelters

[@RACHELLEflo]

Thank you!!!!. Highland High Class of 96. I thought of sharing this on Facebook to show my friends how he is talking about the Eastside and the places he is connecting to it. Not going to add to his views.

[@mcotton41]

Alot of your information is off on Bakersfield, you should do more research. To be clear that's not really the hood of the east side you on the out skirts.

[@robertobandz6398]

Naw the out skirts is Fairfax and the far east hes in the hood fs..

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

True that kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@dogfacedogface1]

What’s up with Gutter Park?

[@lorrainethepain]

It's videos like this one where I learn enough street stuff to make my husband afraid of me...

[@chicnoir29]

😂

[@billharden7127]

👍🤣

[@hunchojupiter5890]

He didn’t drive his ass in the hood 😂😂😂😂

[@JR-we5tx]

Theres west side crips too

[@Calihustla]

@ 45seconds into video where u pulled over to let ppl pass across the street is Rainbow Market a good place to get the best carne asada to bbq on this side of the Mississippi, Bakersfield 😁

[@nickdahusalah]

Colonia BKS, Okie, Loma, Varrio BKS are the oldest biggest Latino gangs here. Newer growing gangs are West Side BKS & ES BKS big rivals. also the newest is uptown BKS. I know them all as I grew up in that lifestyle..

[@thesyrinjun1850]

What about the brown pride locos?

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@eljunior-mm3tu]

Facts bro u mention all the gang forgot vrp varrio Rex land park

[@toniklocc]

I haven’t been to bakers in almost ten years, I keep hearing about Norte being active too?

[@jjvillarreal381]

Nah man was looking over his shoulder bc he not dumb, always gotta be on ya toes

[@C-Dub-K]

Watts & Lotus has a great lil store

[@paserthaplaya5931]

Watts market tha shit haha

[@craffte]

Raised my feet when you went over those tracks.

[@Elainesunnyy]

Lol I live in Missouri and I had a big, beautiful 1 bedroom apt for $395 and now I live in a nice 3 bedroom house for $800 in the city with my partner and our pets at 20 yrs old.

[@mosethegreat7415]

East Bakersfield born and raised if your not from here don’t come here don’t get caught in the wrong area any time of the day especially East Bakersfield.

[@RACHELLEflo]

Go to Oildale. Baker St has the best burritos .The East side is not as bad anymore. In the early 90s it was BAD. Bakersfield isn't Bakersfield anymore. Oildale is way worse ! Basically, don't start anything, you won't have a problem on the Eastside. Your rent prices are very low. Its way higher than what you are suggesting. I'm a Bakersfield home grown. Moved after Highschool. Came back 4 years later. Moved When I was 28. In my 40s now. The Eastside is huge. You didn't show the nice areas We have a country club on the Eastside as well. This is highly offensive.

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

I agree 100% kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4CQfI18arlsl6c

[@nate0954]

Snow flake. I live in Bakersfield too. This HIS take on the areas he went too. Why do people get so ass hurt over opinions. I stubbed my toe now my pussy hurts. Grow up

[@darkside5608]

@@nate0954damn bro chill💀

[@darkside5608]

I punk oildale foos they aint on shit🤣

[@OmarLopez-kh3dx]

@@darkside5608 ill move therr just for cheap rent. Moving from East Los

[@rhondahicks11]

Thanks for the tour! 🌞🌴🌴🌴

[@slufoot77]

You're in my town :):) lived here my whole life and you are not wrong about the crime. You should visit Buck Owen's grave while you're here. Also don't forget Oildale lol ( pickerwoods is one the biggest gangs there), I lived there off and on for 10 years and the crime there is terrible

[@fixedgearfever69]

Buck Owens was a product of Texas.

[@slufoot77]

Yes he was, but he lived here for many many years. He started the bakersfield sound with Merl Haggard who was born and raised here. Have you ever heard of Crystal Palace? That was Buck Owen's place, he played there up until he died.

[@slufoot77]

He is buried at Greenlawn southwest on Panama Lane

[@RackwitzG]

I recommend the movie "The Onion Field". I was born in Bakersfield and moved to Germany when I was nine. Since then I've been back for visits about 3 or 4 times. On a visit in the early 90's with my brother, we drove through the East Side to look at Cotton Wood Road (mentioned in the movie) and stopped at a gas station in the evening after dark. There was a flashy car with some kids hanging around parked there and they gave us white guys a good stare in disbelief after my brother casually called me a "coño" while approaching the car after getting some beer. lol We told my dad who lives there near the Valley Plaza the next day and he angrily said "You fools! I told you not to go to East Bakersfield!" Bakersfield is becoming a sh/thole like all cities in California.

[@triggersafe1]

Used to live in Alta Vista area close to Panorama drive.I miss the place and ppl I worked with.This was 1999 to 2001.It wasnt bad then.

[@prophetesskarenobee8706]

Hey YOU ARE AWSOME IM THINKING OF MOVING TO “BF” NOT KNOWING WHICH SIDE OF TOWN IS OK. LORD HAVE MERCY . I WILL PRAY ABOUT THIS MOVE TO “BF” thanks for such a detailed tour be SAFE.

[@chrisboyer4194]

Sooo....did you end up moving?

[@MsStarlet21]

Man… watching this 4 years later and knowing the house prices now!! Yikes

[@samlouie2332]

My hometownnnn

[@billiebriggs7531]

Lived in Bakersfield in 1977-78. I don’t remember it being bad except we lived outside of town

[@elnarco9601]

It got bad

[@susanmontgomery5418]

Actually really good you do these video’s for one thing it helps others to know exactly where to avoid when they are traveling. I don’t even walk around a quiet town at night anymore you just never know when you could be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@mobsquad0173]

Lived in the COLONIA my whole life just Recently moved out to the south west a couple of years back never had any problems it was chill.

[@RB-sy1vp]

I was surprised about the meth problem in Bakersfield So disgusting when i see truckers( well saw it once ) picking up girls, taking diseases home to their wives

[@RB-sy1vp]

Terrible

[@Tonymuthaphukkng]

Yeh that is pretty nasty

[@kristinakellogg1732]

@ R.B. I agree very nasty. They dont want their wives cheating while they on the road why even chance bringing something home. Trifling...

[@lisareed896]

Rent here is Not $550 oer month like you say. The hood you're showing is more like $850 and southern California slum lords are buying up everything and charging more and more every month.

[@longrod1896]

Yup.

[@DNuts-ws1uz]

I don't know what to make of the east side? I guess its like a big Ventura avenue. White, black, mexican gangs all in one area

[@dorojessy6932]

Yess, very interesting video about Bakersfield. Do you know Pasadena?

[@nickdahusalah]

You just drove by my favorite weed dispensary on California ave.fire

[@LetLoveLiv]

1929 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@marthaveronica5371]

How many times have you been to Bakersfield before your visit here?

[@towk8818]

bakersfield gangs : CRIP ROLL CALL ES 3-9-11st crips ES lakeview crips ES spoonie g crips WS 6st gangsta crips WS carnation tracks crips WS family crips SS country boy crips PIRU ROLL CALL WS warlordz piru SOUTHSIDERS ROLL CALL ES loma bakers ES colonia bakers eastside bakers ES okie bakers ES varrio bakers westside bakers SS varrio rexland park bakers southside bakers

[@alexteplecity]

I was there today and i don't see any cops

[@anruganm4235]

This makes me happy to live in the SW in grand island, no joke my neighbor has 2 lambos, and my father drives a BMW and my mom has a mercedes

[@fucker661]

Except for the bikers, street racers, and drug addicts it's not so bad

[@anruganm4235]

@@fucker661 I like the street racers, I love hearing the rumble of an engine, but I understand why some people don't like them

[@mikeforce5926]

Great video.I just enjoy seeing the scenery.I probably never will see places in different states.so i do enjoy these kind of videos.I don't want you taking too many risks just for my enjoyment so stay safe my brother.

[@Bill-cv1xu]

This dude covers a lot of ground, if ever the topic comes up about him needing a new rig,I'm down. I'll throw in a hundo, now if everyone tossed in a few bones we'll continue to see more ....

[@Rubster760]

🤑👍

[@Rotnbully]

Love your geographic tours almost as much as your cemetery tours Uncle 🙏🏿

[@andrewvillanueva4222]

Looks like east Salinas. Bakersfield is very dangerous place to live if you live in a area.

[@selenarivas436]

East side bako is ware i stayed just moved a few blocks off and on

[@msaintpc]

I lived in Bakersfield from 1962 until 1965. My family are the McMillans, Betty McMillan, Alberta McMillan and Dahlia Lee Lusinger, David McMillan and Bill "Ripple" McMillan, the Crew's and the Lusingers. My aunt and uncle lived across Brundage Lane out in the country near Mother George's, and owned a garbage hauling business where we picked up most of the poc's garbage. My cousin Bill Ripple was a jazz DJ on the radio station there, and was dating the daughter of the family that owned the Cotton Club and the liquor store attached to it on Lakeview Ave (the McDaniel's). They both were Judo students and used to play around in the liquor store where she worked when he'd stop in to see her before going to work at the radio station. One evening while they were playing around she flipped him and accidently broke his back and neck. The racist ambulance drivers pushed his gurney off the hospital ramp, causing him and the gurney to fall and he was killed. When I first moved there to live with my aunt and uncle, the guys my age nearly beat me to death every time they saw me or could catch me. I eventually became a member of the local blues and R&B bands there, the first being with Roosevelt Finley on guitar with either Walter Lewis or "Black Bo" on bass, and me on piano or drums. At the Cotton Club I played with Pete "Guitar" Lewis (he had been fired from the Johnny Otis band), Charly Haley, and Hermann Killebrew on drums, and a tall light skinned brother named "Yellow" Mitch on Bass. Bee Bopp Daniels was on sax if we could get him sober enough to play, and Dave Gomez sometimes sat in on guitar. We also had a lesbian singer named Big Joyce. Back then there were many Black owned businesses on Lakeview and out in the country. J.D. McFarland, a piano player, bought the night club out in the country and named it the Brown Derby and we played there too. Big name blues men and R&B acts came there every weekend, and most of the time they didn't have bands. or some of their band members would OD and we'd be their back up. I knew all the Randall's, everyone was afraid of them, they'd kill you as soon as to look at you. I once saw Son Randall give his daughter a gun and tell her to shoot her boyfriend, and she emptied the gun in him. Doc Randall moved to Palm Springs. Rosie Randall was a real sexy woman who had a restaurant up the street from Mom's Poolhall and right before you got to O.C. Craft's restaurant. My girlfriends were Hattie Mae Summage and a pretty girl named Ora Lee, can't remember her last name anymore. Not a day ever passed when someone didn't get killed, John Cherry, who later dated Ora Lee, and a bunch of other dudes were murdered by their own friends. Now mind you, I was only 17 at the time. I ran around with Lee Gains, George Randall, and Michael Brown (we used to steal gas out of cars so we could ride all night). I also ran with Lewis McGuire, he later got shot and killed while robbing some guy in either Rosie's place or in Reverend Young's restaurant. My girlfriend Hattie Mae's dad Jeff Summage, got into it with O.C. Craft in his restaurant. Jeff had his knife (he went for a badass and was always pulling it on people) and O.C. had his gun (he was gay but still a nice person). They killed each other right on the spot in front of fifty people. A smooth brother named Sylvester, had the poolhall out in the country, many died in there. There was a woman named "Bad Acting Mary", she killed all her boyfriends by stabbing them in their necks, I think Donnie Ray was the only one she didn't kill, and she never saw a day in jail. The authorities didn't care about black folks killing each other as long as they stayed in the Lakeview area and didn't try leaving it to venture into town. The Cooley's owned the only black funeral home and they couldn't keep up with all the business. The biggest and worst bully in town was Ronnie Foster, he was 6' 10" and only 17 years old and would literally beat you to death. His brother David was Dolly Walker's boyfriend. The town had only one black cop and his name was Phillip. His daughter ran away from home and I was dumb enough to let her stay at an apartment I had rented behind the Lakeview Inn/Hotel, that almost cost me my life. He was a Tom and collected money for the Italian mob from the Black and Filipino guys who owned gambling establishments and hoe houses, ie, Donut's father Dan Murphy, Filipino Dick and every other black or poc that who owned businesses. He would also pistol whip them if they came up short. Donut and his Brother Chief were half Arapaho and had light skin with straight and curly hair, and all the black women were crazy about them, and nearly fifty young girls had babies by them. There was another dude called "The Mexican", he was half black and half Mexican, they all liked him too and he must've made at least 100 babies. Color and hair texture was/is, a big deal for Black people who were from the south, and was also a big deal for the ones born in Bakersfield too. I had the wavy hair and henceforth all the beatings I first received when I first arrived there. While uptown, for a while I lived at JD Walker's house with him, his mother Dolly Walker and his sister. My best friends were Junior Kinder, his brother Nolan who could sing real good, and Melvin Jones (he was later killed with a tire iron by a dude named Leonard, who while swinging it at someone else's head accidently hit Melvin's). In 1965 me and Lewis McGuire had to leave the city, we thought we had gotten in trouble with the law, of which we later found out that we weren't in trouble. His mother packed us a lunch and gave us enough money to buy a loaf of bread and some baloney, and then drove us to the railroad tracks where we proceeded to catch a freight train to Los Angeles. Lewis had never been out of Bakersfield or away from home, and L.A. scared him. He called his mom and she told him that he wasn't in trouble, so he caught the freight train back home...only to end up getting his head blown off after snatching a man's money out his hand and running for the door. The guy shot the back of his head off before he could even get to the door. Bakersfield was a nightmare town if you were a poc, but it had the best nightlife and blues night club atmosphere that I've ever seen to this day. I wish I could get in touch with some of the people from that time that are still living. Btw, they called me Contrel. Pete "Guitar" Lewis gave me that nickname and I wore it proudly.🙂

[@jlssg2575]

I have a bunch of people harassing me following me around town everywhere I go I don’t know what I did to this people idk if you can you know just saying i live on the east side of Bakersfield between mounthvernen and Oswell on Virginia you probably seen me idk just hit me back yeah I’ll appreciate it thanks?

[@CANADIAN_FIRE]

If you're on Bakersfield maybe try and hook up with AV and/Crenshaw. You would be able to get the Story about the 2 missing toddlers o Out to your subscribers. Any attention to this story to help find these boys would be awesome. Thank you for everything you do Lot's of love from Canada Krash

[@barroninc]

I was raised in La Colonia Across from Mt. Vernon school lol I was a busboy at La Colonia Restaurant! Man being a little kid in the barrio it was the best of times it was the worst of times!

[@OmarLopez-kh3dx]

Thats a gang or the restaurant?

[@TheDollsofHorror]

Thanks for reminding me why I moved to Chicago 13 years ago… definitely an upgrade 😂 (southeast side born and raised, by Foothill)

[@fucker661]

Because when we think of peaceful and quiet it's chicago

[@TheDollsofHorror]

@@fucker661 In comparison to my old BTown hoods, it is peacefully quiet.

[@anthonycollins3453]

I think we all like that Lamont just tells it how it is

[@idkimbored3896]

Bakersfield black hoods : ES 3st-9st-11st crips , ES spoonie g crips , ES lakeview crips , mid city crips , WS 6st crips & carnation tracks crips , SS country boy crips and WS warlordz piru