Lights Camera Los Angeles

Hour-long professionally shot video showcase for Los Angeles; from a VHS series called "Video Visits".
Includes a brief history of L.A., an excerpt with seismologist Kate Hutton (the Earthquake Lady), and short segments on such iconic places as Pasadena, Hollywood, Venice Beach, Catalina Island, and more.
Released in 1989, produced by Jim Settlemoir.

[@re-si2wx]

Back when Los Angeles was known for as " one of the best cities in the world"

[@marciellopez5845]

Source?

[@toybags]

What great times before the iPhones, Facebook, and Teslas. Families actually visited Hollywood walk of fame. Now it’s just tents, homeless and hecklers.

[@bigmajordawg]

80-90ties..best times living in the US!

[@chrisstephens5310]

I love Los Angeles.....

[@WDI2008]

Surprisingly they didn't include Dodger Stadium,the Forum in Inglewood, Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, LAX,and the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal.

[@TheMetalComedianene]

Universal Studios 17:18 Other Major Studios 19:04 Hollywood 23:32 Beverly Hills 26:22

[@notyetskeletal4809]

I went to Disneyland and stayed at the Howard Johnson hotel at about '87/'88. The rest of the time I've been beneath Australia in my little home New Zealand. Hello America!

[@deirdre108]

24:51 "Downtown Hollywood"-- a term locals never use.

[@oregonrainbird4307]

28:50 Though I'm aware that this was produced in 1989/90, I doubt those maps lasted too much longer after actress Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered at her home on 19 July 1989.

[@mcflyc1]

This is so metal.

[@silvervalleystudios2486]

Before the dark times. Before the tent people.

[@jeffreyzimler7978]

True... tough watching this now.

[@FuneralFather]

lol, it was probably more fucked up back then, there just wasn't cameras to capture it. I sure wouldn't wanna wake up to find ol richard in my living room.

[@angusorvid8840]

@@jeffreyzimler7978 Well, it had a darkside back then too. This just glosses over it. But, yes, a lot of things about L.A. have gone way downhill. I live in South L.A. and to be honest, I prefer it to Santa Monica where I grew up because it doesn't have a bunch of tent people. They're too afraid of the gangs and crime! Ha ha!

[@WDI2008]

And the Democrats!

[@supercsim]

I was raised in LA and that stuff existed back then too. It just didn’t receive all the attention it does now. But people that didn’t grow up there have no damn clue. Also, many areas have gotten better. When I was growing up I couldn’t go to certain parts of East LA or you’d get shaken down by the local gangs. That rarely happens anymore and the crime rate numbers show this, but keep believing the narratives that support your fake beliefs. The gangs were much more violent when I was a kid. While they are still there, it’s just not as bad.

[@ptelephant9469]

Thank you for posting these video visit travels! Would you have anymore to post? Thank you again, great show.

[@FawmahRhoDyelindah]

Glad you enjoyed it! Unfortunately this is the only video I have from Video Visits.

[@jhm5lmc]

@@FawmahRhoDyelindah - Do you know who produced this?

[@augustinlodnan3023]

So beautiful place you living, people have to come back to live without drugs, alkohol and gun crime

[@brwncrss1]

SINCE THE BEGINNING HAD BEING GUNS AND CRIME OF ALL KIND IN LOS ANGELES ,,, OTHERWISE HOW YOU EXPLAIN THE EUROPEAN INVASION OF NATIVE LANDS HERE ??? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️👋👋 GREETINGS 🖖

[@petergivenbless900]

Was that a young German in Venice @51:06 ?!

[@augustinlodnan3023]

Please American people wakeup

[@charrua59]

Don't this people that film documentaries know that lot's of us are afraid 😟 of height's

[@blueroad226]

100TH LIKE COMES FROM MY SIDE :) :)

[@gabrieldally6044]

Saying Disneyland opened in 1952. It was 1955😂

[@JohnMarcovich-nj8wh]

What's the year?

[@deirdre108]

Looks like the footage is mostly from the mid/late 1980's.

[@stevec0326]

I believe it's the early 90s. At approx. 23:20, the narrator states construction began on the rapid transit in the late 1980s.

[@MikeMartagrano]

1989

[@DEL-dn1wi]

Can we please enjoy videos from the past without shoehorning in some corny “back in my day when life was simple”comment? That’s all I ask.

[@3hooks781]

Thank you!

[@supercsim]

Right? I grew up and LA the bs that comes from these people is weird. There was problems back then too. 😂

[@jeffreywillmitt]

LA sooooo sucks now

[@christopherp.hitchens3902]

Before the TENT-PEOPLE…before the $20 burrito…before Will Smith slapped the Oscar host. LA is not what it was.