Vintage Footage of Drive Down Florida Ave, Highway 74, Hemet Ca. 1989.

Vintage footage of a drive down Florida Ave Highway 74 in 1989. Starting on the far east side of town near idyllwild.

[@kaydimullin5447]

The fact that the park is now a scary part of town where most drugs deals happen shows damn

[@isidrodelacruz6624]

I lived in LA county and remember for the first time going to Hemet in 85 to repair a roof and other construction to a home near HHS it was so peaceful I recently went back for the second time 35 years later and what a change .

[@lindat.7520]

And it STILL remains one of the smallest malls ever lol!

[@shanestuart-ramirez429]

What happened to the corn dog place....haha. I feel old

[@MayberryMafia]

Sad but true, and also hilarious!

[@notavery.]

Fr

[@ssisnake]

i graduated from hemet, my grandparents bought their house there in 89 i cant believe how bad the town is now and how much it has changed Edit: just watched this again and cant believe I missed it but my grandpa of all people is driving in front of them in his pickup at the end of this, a lady tboned him by the lake while it was still being made when he was leaving the flea market and totalled that truck and he ended up getting another, he loved the little toyota trucks after the military also fun fact small part of the first fast and the furious was filmed in hemet

[@mr.chocolatehazelnutspread8317]

I like how the hemet bank literally hasn’t changed at all

[@RebeccaHargate]

In 1989, I was 16 y/o and living in Hemet. We moved there from Huntington Beach when I was 5. My mom had remarried a guy who’s family owned the livestock auction in San Jacinto. It was a nice small town to grow up in back then. Yeah. Lots of banks. This is like a time capsule. I had heard it had gone down hill. Went back a couple years ago. Yeah. Wouldn’t want to live there now.

[@MalkaLand1996]

Moved from Hemet to a different state, lived there for 25 years and don’t miss it. It’s not the same small, charming town I grew up in

[@jbenz1990]

4:43 I call it Homeless Park everytime I drive by

[@9277707]

Before all the hate comments below - anyone notice the building just before Hemet Theater? It was ( obviously ) still there - pre-fire, also notice the Train Depot was till in it's "abandoned" state. Just a couple of Major changes ... in 30 years - like, Big trees in Weston Park, long list ....

[@wehttaMFunghini]

Now that's the Hemet I know... WTF happened :(

[@zoom539]

I lived in Hemet in the 80s good times there lived close to the park thanks for taking me down memory lane

[@liljibi]

Worked in hemet mall 1987was fun .and it was a nice place hemet is heaven always

[@freakfrangella]

I lived in Hemet for from 1992 to 2005 and they were the best years of my life. I heard it's really a ghetto now. That makes me sad.

[@matthewmarack4889]

Early to mid 80's....cruising Florida ave... Parking your car and sitting on a park bench watching cars drive by...cruising park ave ....drinking beer down on strawberry creek in valley vista.....oh the memories

[@matthewmarack4889]

Wow the anchor....i remember that place...wow

[@joepedroza4707]

I use to live in Hemet back in 89 Now its become a very unsafe place to live. I was going to use a more nasty word but i will go with that. I wont ever raise my children there which saddens me because this was my home town at one time.

[@vincentbronzino219]

I live in Hemet, it’s just full of homeless people now.

[@bobbazoid909]

Thats one of the 1st thing I noticed, that hemit is a city without a freeway... Great place if I was a banker owner.

[@elmocotton3078]

39 cent Hamburger Stand! 2:42

[@adamclark9253]

That was damn cool to see, thanks

[@GinjaNinja77]

Hemet WAS Heaven.

[@johnshedlock7894]

I lived in Hemet...2002-2007...I painted the old train station, Helped retent Soboba Casino...Today it's homeless people, meth heads and loosers...

[@Liefvikerson]

All those same people were there in 02-07

[@Eidelmania]

thats awesome

[@jr2904]

Soboba now has a resort haha, but it's still ghetto here. Definitely declined in my lifetime, I was born the year this was recorded.

[@jr2904]

Soboba now has a resort haha, but it's still ghetto here. Definitely declined in my lifetime, I was born the year this was recorded.

[@ThiccChickCrisha]

Thank you taking me back to my childhood

[@Abnormalofficial]

It's bad out here now but I just work come home and repeat

[@199gonzo]

Raised there moved there in 1970 moved out of that dumpster fire 2019 best thing we did used to be so a decent town .... not anymore

[@FelipeRodriguez-eh6ty]

Your camera quality is a lot better than some people’s in 2021.

[@maidenthe80sla]

ARCO Gasoline for 0.87 cents per gallon. @ 3:15

[@pudster4115]

If you weren't around in 89 then you might not "get" why we think the town went down hill...You always ran into someone you knew anywhere you went. Everyone knew everyone and their business (sometimes to a fault). Nice houses and neighborhoods (even the old hoods) Safe, clean, and pleasant. Nothing to do but, we had fun. The mall used to be not too bad...arcade, plently of foods, shopping and hangin out. As teens we cruised, hung out at a handful of designated locations (stater bro's, the sights, aqueduct ect.). just a shame to see it the way it is now

[@TfwAgostin0123]

2:41 thats my familys restaurant dattilos thats when it was still being built and now its been 32 years! Thanks to my family's loyal friends and customers

[@SurferJoe46]

My wife and I were loyal customers a lot. I loved the coolness of the statues and tile floors --- very nice. The food was excellent - the service was perfect and it was a very nice place to go out of the heat.

[@JustForSneaksEnt]

The very last second of that video was an In-N-Out Burger on the left.

[@rebekaa85]

Love this video ❤

[@devinturtlebands4841]

Omg hemet changed alot but not at the same time

[@jrudymorganclark2072]

Can you post a video of san jacinto cal from 1995 or the 80s to see how it was before i moven in please?

[@brookeamberjonas4359]

I live in hemet :(

[@milknhoney_3252]

Same

[@Isejankhonojanem]

GET OUT

[@SurferJoe46]

I did. I moved. I'm gone.

[@blooztraveler]

Wow just as i remember 😁

[@jannettearanda2968]

Tastee Freeze 😭

[@sbswtnchoice]

and Hamburger Stand!

[@SurferJoe46]

@@jannettearanda2968 The owner of that Taastee Freeze and his wife were robbed and forced on their stomach on the floor and on the way out, the robbers shot them both in the back a few times. He was paralyzed and in a wheelchair from then on. He was my friend and it shook me that someone could be that wicked .... that's the day Hemet died to me.

[@annoythefish]

LOL CCR on the radio, not even the "classic rock" stations will put CCR on these days. Cool video.

[@JessicaRodriguez-wb2zu]

Wow, it has definitely grown up and changed! #SadButTrue

[@michellecisneros8635]

Jessica Weideman Yep GROWN ..... but nothing has CHANGED ... for the Huge amount of people that have moved here over the years!!! They’re suppose to build a median that goes all the way down Florida Ave ... the entire length of it ... not sure how that will work. But who knows😉

[@johnbeverage6710]

It looks practically the same to me

[@Mistamista69]

I love that metallica song #sadbuttrue

[@carlovvs]

a year later, they are now working on it, if not, they are now done with it

[@djung9064]

memory lane for me...

[@kmlguitar]

I love hemet we moved like 2 years ago and it’s perfect for us (east hemet )

[@skycoolflare213]

I moved to valle vista . It’s okay. Still see some crack heads roaming around.

[@matthewmarack4889]

That pizza place on Florida and san jacinto ave....by pick and save on a Friday night after a bulldogs football game....😢😢

[@guadalupetreto6180]

Lol you cut the footage a few houses before my current home.

[@lopezj951]

Wow Murphy's law.. moma always said life is like a box of chocolates

[@mrjoshua1979]

Millies!!!!! Hemet native 1979.

[@sbswtnchoice]

Same. I've lived in Hemet since 1979 also. I miss the way that Hemet used to be like in this video.

[@mikegold3130]

So much potential to remain a simple little town unfortunately it’s run by tweakers and homeless. What a shame.

[@ruthgatorbinzburg1876]

very surreal for me

[@TV-cx2zw]

This is a trip!!!

[@ericosborn2223]

I lived in Cherry Valley then. But my foster brother is from Hemet. Ramona expressway did not go to Florida then.

[@Isejankhonojanem]

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THIS PART OF TOWN

[@eduardohowcomedf6971]

I love that song I was born in 1971 and im 47 just a year ago I started to find out who and how famous Ritchy Vallen was or is . I paied close attention to stories of what caused the plane to cart wheel long ways were it came to rest.one thing I can't figure out is vallen and singer of Peggy sue came to rest very close to plane but I cant figure out vallen and other guy ( plz forgive me I don't remember on top of my head the guy who had a black hand gun on him later someone found close by BUT THATS not my important concern at the moment but I know big bopper omg ! I asure you no disrespect to you everyone who reading here well back to whats bothering me that plane made ground contact very far away around a block or more cart wheel or something continued till where it came to rest with both body's lay close to plane but how why there ? because where plane hit ground at that moment energy brute force is at its peak decreased further away where plane ground contact was made and plane finally rested second or two right when I just about to stop moving all energy brute force was over my point is why vallen and singer Peggy sue didnt came to rest where plane hit ground where brute force impact was at its peak but vallen must of gotten ejected where energy brute force had to be extinguished ? bopper must of gotten ejected some how where plane had to be cart wheel in progress and sling shot him far not to far but far. BUT what caused richly and other to come to rest close to each other close to plane and all three experience same energy force but bopper landed farther ways . ? I don't know I understand theres no real true answer to my question unless security cameras were invented that time 1950s or someone out harvesting area to have witnessed actual moments where plane came to rest . that never Happened ill never find why three body's got ejected where energy of hitting cart wheel and finally plane came to rest 0% brute force impact energy was no more enstead of where plane first hit maximum brute force impact energy should of ejected them there but that didn't happen . it was the total opposite I don't get it . plez if I may important the pilot was said to was pined still inside of plane I rewind where the cameras at the crash site camera lenses recorded couple of fairly close up of where pilot was pinned I rewind slow motion I paused to get glimpse of pilot body but nothing all I view where pilot seat suppose to be there was imploded into a pack pile of plane parts thats all I saw not one glimpse of pilot WHY and how did they excavate pilot body out of plane ? I don't have a strong mental state of mind to be ones who got pilot body free out of plane very sick just thinking was pilot intact ? is it true richy vallen half of his head was missing ? last thing well I came to a final conclusion what caused plane crashed that is pilot had issues with mentally having a mental brake down dew to in flight in strong storm pilot got scared up in sky or it was altimeter reading show plane was in a upward flight. but actually

[@rickr1689]

And when a car pulled up next to you it was rock and roll you heard.

[@rickr1689]

Yeah, I was in my 30's and living in hemet back then it was a much better place Imo, no homeless, not alot of crime, and not much public housing either. Thing is, I'm still here and in my 60's now 😥.

[@shanestuart-ramirez429]

At the beggining looks like Valle Vista coming down from Idyllwild

[@davidflores5035]

San jacinto is where it's at really Hemet has always been dim nothing special but the San jacinto mountains are magical and the sunsets here are some of the best in the world. Pull over on the hills down from Beaumont heading twords Ramona expressway around sunset and tell me you don't think the same.

[@shawnhendrix8671]

I was born in hemet in 1989.

[@MayberryMafia]

I was four at this time!

[@davidkelly9837]

It spelled Hemeth..

[@ZK-cl7sb]

Hmmm was that the golden era productions prison

[@eduardohowcomedf6971]

im confused you have I974 and bottom saida 1989 well ???

[@scottjustscott4273]

It's Highway 74 not 1974

[@elz1250]

More of these videos

[@mistytorres3099]

Y'all make hemet seem like a hell hole. It ain't even that bad.

[@james9603]

You must be new....

[@johnfarmer4612]

True. There are worse places

[@rubenclark8017]

@@johnfarmer4612 Pretty sure it's close to the top of the top 10 worst cities to live in C.A list. Just sayin. Had to check 4th.

[@azlivin9155]

It's terrible. I left 7 years ago to Arizona because it was so bad! Especially bad to raise children there

[@matthewmarack4889]

Much better in the early 70's and 80's....i left for school in 85...it was better then....so sad

[@christineberry3076]

Vic the Slick wouldn't even put on semi popular songs from the eras he played.. Just wrong! Like " Silver threads and golden needles"!

[@yachtboy6756]

Camera operator is too short

[@timeextreme5161]

Dam so long agoo

[@Mistamista69]

Oh yeah an eternity ago

[@jr2904]

You guys make me feel old lol, I was born that year

[@Liefvikerson]

Where's my fellow basketball Americans @?

[@sonnydacuse7622]

Hemet is still poor

[@rolandr.4151]

Turn the Dam music off your cool WOW. 🙉🙉

[@melissaplano8064]

This was a personal family recording. So thats why the music was on. We just decided to share it.

[@earlwilliams5473]

If your family is not from Mexico and thought English in school your not bilingual. Therefore you won't work in hemet. Better find yourself a park binch or a buss stop to live.

[@PugFaceMedia]

Fake. He used a retro filter on a modern video to make it look old.

[@re8618]

PugFace no, some of these businesses like Coast savings and Loan were long gone before the mid nineties.

[@ThePopTartKids]

Fake comment. Dogs do not know how to use the internet.

[@pinedo76]

Thrifty still exist??? How about O'Reilly, Wal-mart grocery and Starbucks across from Cheveron that isn't there...did they are those down real quick and put a field. Did they tell everyone to stay home that day? When did they change the speed limit signs from 35mph to 4pmph and lower $4gal gas to under a dollar, lol. These guys did a lot of work to just drive down Florida and they cleaned the whole city up, wish they clean the shit hole up again.

[@kuetto1601]

Is old bc my shop Allen Tire Company don't exist in that time, is the next door to dennys, now called Angie's restaurant, I think is called in that time Hemet Tires, 1772 w florida ave, and the next door to the west, has a Chrysler dealership, now is a mall with Burger King

[@jr2904]

​@@kuetto1601 not to mention that where red robin is now was a Chrysler dealership back then, even into the mid '90s. Applebee's and Smart and final used to be a dealership back then as well

[@joeschmo5171]

The town doesn't make the people, the people make the town. From Hemet's inception until around 2005, it was a wonderful town. The wrong people started to flood in, and now the city is bombed out. Look at the people, there's the reason.

[@jr2904]

Lots of people moved out to Temecula too. Just like people left California, and are leaving. If you love your home you should fight for it, but I understand that it's tough.