LA is arguably the dumpiest looking big city in the US (Los Angeles: living, buses)

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by pwright1

Sorry but I did live here briefly in 83-84 so yes I do know what I'm talking about. Spent summers here too.
Downtown was a joke. Hollywood was laughable. Crime in every major category was worse back then. Pollution and air quality was worse. Even less greenspace.
983 homicides in the city in 1990. That's more than 3x more than any recent year. The city's not perfect but I'll take now any day

I agree with you. I worked in downtown L.A. around then and much of it was an absolute pit. No women walked alone to their cars after work. And many of us grew up in the L.A. suburbs with Third Stage smog alerts. The smog was so bad that former President Obama commented on it when he was a student at Occidental in 1979-80.

[Meowen]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

You are embellishing big time, about a time and place you know nothing about.

Lived in LA most of my life now, DTLA was office buildings that people worked in and went home. Yes, there was skid row, but it was just skid row it wasn't all over the city like it is now.

You couldn't be more wrong.

And anyone who lived here during that time and now, would tell you the same thing.

Hollywood was a cesspool...oh my.

There was a shooting less than two weeks ago at 5pm in the afternoon at the Hollywood Highland Complex.

Most of Hollywood now is a ghost town with homeless people and thugs roaming the streets, and that is during the daylight. Loaded with homeless camps and people s**tting and P**sing in the street.... I would call that a hellhole...JMO....LOL.

The only thing you're right about was the public transportation.

Most of Hollywood is a ghost town? where are you getting this information?

I live in Hollywood and its very busy with activity even during the pandemic.

According to the LA Times Hollywood is the 7th densest neighborhood in the city, and East Hollywood is the 3rd most dense. (out of 256 distinct neighborhoods) HARDLY what I'd consider a ghost town.

Population per square mile.
1 Koreatown 42,611
2 Westlake 38,214
3 East Hollywood 31,095
4 Pico-Union 25,352
5 Maywood 23,638
6 Harvard Heights 23,473
7 Hollywood 22,193

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by Meowen

Most of Hollywood is a ghost town? where are you getting this information?

I live in Hollywood and its very busy with activity even during the pandemic.

According to the LA Times Hollywood is the 7th densest neighborhood in the city, and East Hollywood is the 3rd most dense. (out of 256 distinct neighborhoods) HARDLY what I'd consider a ghost town.

Population per square mile.
1 Koreatown 42,611
2 Westlake 38,214
3 East Hollywood 31,095
4 Pico-Union 25,352
5 Maywood 23,638
6 Harvard Heights 23,473
7 Hollywood 22,193

Sunset, Hollywood Bl, SM Bl are absolutely dead on weekend nights right now.

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by pwright1

Sorry but I did live here briefly in 83-84 so yes I do know what I'm talking about. Spent summers here too.
Downtown was a joke. Hollywood was laughable. Crime in every major category was worse back then. Pollution and air quality was worse. Even less greenspace.
983 homicides in the city in 1990. That's more than 3x more than any recent year. The city's not perfect but I'll take now any day

Those are pretty bad baselines. LA in the early 90’s was about as bad as it gets. The current situation isn’t good and comparing it to the 80’s and 90’s LA doesn’t make current times any less bad.

[Meowen]

Originally Posted by JohnG72

Sunset, Hollywood Bl, SM Bl are absolutely dead on weekend nights right now.

This is due to the pandemic, no tourists, no dine in, no clubs open, no theatres.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Meowen

This is due to the pandemic, no tourists, no dine in, no clubs open, no theatres.

Exactly.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

New York...now there's a dumpy city. The dumpiest. Case closed.

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by Meowen

This is due to the pandemic, no tourists, no dine in, no clubs open, no theatres.

I don’t understand the point of your response. The poster I was responding to said Hollywood isn’t a ghost town right now and that it’s bustling with activity. That’s not true, it absolutely is.

[Grune D]

I was picking up chicken at my go to place yesterday West Hollywood and it was chaos

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by Meowen

Most of Hollywood is a ghost town? where are you getting this information?

I live in Hollywood and its very busy with activity even during the pandemic.

According to the LA Times Hollywood is the 7th densest neighborhood in the city, and East Hollywood is the 3rd most dense. (out of 256 distinct neighborhoods) HARDLY what I'd consider a ghost town.

Population per square mile.
1 Koreatown 42,611
2 Westlake 38,214
3 East Hollywood 31,095
4 Pico-Union 25,352
5 Maywood 23,638
6 Harvard Heights 23,473
7 Hollywood 22,193

I am not talking about people who live there.

I live in the Los Feliz area, I just talk a walk up Vermont heading towards Franklin, real eye opener, half the stores are closed for good.


If you drive down Hollywood Blvd it is pretty empty compared to the way it was. The shooting which took place last week at Hollywood/Highland that left a security guard wounded, isn't going to help encourage tourists.

They shouldn't be here anyway, there really isn't anything to see or do that tourists would normally do.But

But Hollywood is very empty these days.