Karl Gerber talks about Los Angeles' Lost Bunker Hill on KABC AM790

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@antonfarquar8799 Жыл бұрын

My ancestors were the Bekins of Bekins Van & Storage - Milo had a photo album of many of the grand homes in pre depression LA - due to the fact that hey were moving furniture in and out of so many of them.

@antonfarquar8799 Жыл бұрын

@@mykemynah2552 you are most certainly welcome !!!

@davidortega357 2 жыл бұрын

I remember Bunker hill in L A. I got to ride the famous angel flight before it was taken down back in 1971

@jrcwwl Жыл бұрын

Angel Flight is still there today.

@berzerker1100 Жыл бұрын

@jrcwwl yes, but not at the original location, it was on the corner of 3rd street & Hill. Now it's mid block between 3rd & 4th streets on Hill st.😢

@berzerker1100 Жыл бұрын

I remember when the 2 Angel flight cars were stored at the M.T.A's Redline shop for restoration 👍🫡

@MarinCipollina 3 жыл бұрын

I wish that Bunker Hill were still accessible.. Imagine all the stories,,

@benmartinez8443 Жыл бұрын

I live in downtown LA and it’s easy to forget that there were even hills down here.

@setforglobaldoom Жыл бұрын

An absolute travesty that they erased such magnificent and beautiful homes. Such a damn shame!

@DontcallmeaCuck Жыл бұрын

Los Angeles Democrats for you .

@dailydoseofsunshine2319 2 жыл бұрын

The "urban renewal" of LA has to be one of the biggest national disgraces in history.

@jimmyjam26 Жыл бұрын

I love watching pictures of Los Angeles from way back when i first saw Angel Flight in a old 50s sci fi movie called The Indestructible Man Bunker Hill looked like a cool place to live.

@williamlloyd3769 Жыл бұрын

Glad at least they reinstalled Angeles Flight and then fixed the safety issues later on. Made a point to take line whenever going to lunch at Grand Central Market. I’ve seen a couple of B&W films at the annual Film Noire festival that featured Bunker Hill in background shots. Epic loss to Los Angeles. PS - Although I only read about Bunker Hill, served two years at Long Beach Naval Station in late 1970s. Visited area in early 2023 and except for Navy mole, the place was an unrecognizable container yard.

@NuncNuncNuncNunc Жыл бұрын

Bunker Hill was often a backdrop for films both in its glory and its decay. Find an old LA film noir, you're probably going to find a Bunker Hill mansion.

@NoBueno411 3 жыл бұрын

Love it. Great work...

@machinelearng Жыл бұрын

Great commentary. As a native of Los Angeles I love LA history. Sad those in power are so indifferent to it

@richm9455 Жыл бұрын

Grandma would take me to ride on Angels Flight. They had a jewelry store at 800 W 6th St

@alanm5090 Жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how l.a. destroyed a lot of its history.

@kolbpilot Жыл бұрын

I wonder whose house that was at 4:02 ? The prominent one in the background center left. I've seen it in another picture as well. Must have been torn down for the railway maybe ? ps, answered my own question 6:11

@timothymacdonnell9079 2 жыл бұрын

It looked like a beautiful neighborhood. What a disgrace to have destroyed it.

@edwardmiessner6502 Жыл бұрын

What a crime and a shame. All those beautiful mansions, houses, two-, three, and four-deckers, and apartment buildings all taken down by the wrecker's ball save for a few. And one was just painted; its owner clearly inspired by San Francisco's Alamo Square!

@ianholmes2420 Жыл бұрын

Hi Karl, thank for a very interesting, fun and passionate historical video. I grew up on the hill just off Sunset between Dodger Stadium, Sunset, Chinatown and Echo Park of which all were walking distance from my house on the hill. I enjoyed your video but I must let you know that the way you pronounce Beaudry Avenue is not the way us native Angeleno’s pronounce it. It was always pronounced “Bowdry” with emphasis placed like this “Bow-dree”, first part is “bow” like a ribbon tied in a bow and not to bow when greeting someone. I don’t know why but everyone I grew up with in the neighborhood within a two mile radius pronounced it Bowdry. Now your pronunciation of it my be grammatically correct but it’s not correct for the natives of LA’s working class that actually lived, worked and walked the streets of old LA. Cheers to you my friend and I hope you find time to make some more historical videos about LA.

@karlgerber7652 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Beaudry was the mayor of Los Angeles, and died in the late 19th century. He was French Canadian. I wonder if people were making the area sound like the Bowery, or that's how he pronounced his name and it was lost at a certain point because he died before wide scale sound recording. When did you grow up in old Los Angeles?

@finnmcginn9931 Жыл бұрын

Would " Beaudry"be pronounced "bow-dree"? I could be wrong, look how the English pronounce "Beauchamp" (beech-um). Great video.

@karlgerber7652 Жыл бұрын

If you listen to people talk they don't all talk the same. There are too many cultural and regional ways of saying things not to mention accents in Los Angeles, and everywhere else. I am starting to think that the act of correcting pronounciation might be viewed as ethnocentric. When I used to do comedy I had a shtick about a man named Myron Alfombra pronounced Matting, but spelled M'N'M.

@E180TEKNO 2 жыл бұрын

This mansons are very wonderful i always finded , claerly

@cliftonbowers6376 Жыл бұрын

Know some of these folks ..Crocker knew em as well..Swiss Ave in Dallas ..omg? 😮

@bartonlee3594 Жыл бұрын

Great narrative. LA kills its history.

@user-gs6fq1jq8y Жыл бұрын

They moved all houses off bunker hill years ago..

@JPVillalobos27 Жыл бұрын

They moved some of them, the rest were destroyed.

@RoyAH. 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget about the Noirish Los Angeles posting board!

@briansmith9439 Жыл бұрын

Before the hilltop could be built upon Prudence Beaudry (2-term LA Mayor 1874-1876) had to get water to it. Frustrated in his attempts to get the LA City Water Company involved he did it himself by pumping water from a spring a few miles east to reservoirs he had built at the top of the hill. Hill Street between 3rd & 4th has a unique standing in perhaps all of the U.S. - between 1900 and 1950, the west side of Hill was home to 10 health-related colleges - 1 medical, 1 naturopathic, 1 osteopathic (now UC-Irvine Medical College), 5 chiropractic (Now So Cal University of Health Sciences in Whittier), a 'liberal physician' university (later Emerson University), and the St Helena Sanitarium (now St Helena Hospital & Health Center). The northern part of Bunker Hill was called Fort Moore Hill; this was leveled in 1948 for the Hollywood Freeway which really doomed the whole hill. To improve the quality of your productions, you may want to verify the correct pronunciation of people, places, and things before making a recording.

@shadow_hillsgrandma8224 Жыл бұрын

Criminal 💔

@andyoncam1 Жыл бұрын

A huge loss.

@burleq 11 ай бұрын

Shouldn't an attorney be able to pronounce the words he says? You really really need an audio editor.

@karlgerber7652 11 ай бұрын

If you don't like my free videos don't listen. I don't put them up for nit-picking. I'd like to hear your perfect elocution while on live radio where we do not do re-takes. Los Angeles history is my passion. These vidoes are for people focused on that and not their versions of pronunciation.

@burleq 8 ай бұрын

@@karlgerber7652 Just sayin'. Words matter. Names mean something to those who have them. Don't be so touchy. Sheesh.

@karlgerber7652 8 ай бұрын

@@burleq Comments like yours turned me off from further sharing my historic collections and knowledge on KZbin. Well, I am teaching a trial college next week, am on 105.1 FM Sundays with an audience of 20,000 listening for 15 consecutive minutes, and am generally cleaning up on the cases with my bad pronunciations. What exactly are you doing other than making fun of someone on KZbin???

@burleq 8 ай бұрын

@@karlgerber7652 Really, I have to roll my eyes. I still maintain that a historian discussing history in public should be able to pronounce the regional names and namesakes when those names are the basis of the delevopment of the history you're reporting! Nothing personal. Geez. Best of luck in your work - which I happen to value.