I'm honestly upset that they painted over it. I feel like it should've been repurposed into half apartments and half historical stuff. The sign DEFINITELY shouldn't have been painted over.

update: the postmates ads sides changed to “💙” and “dtla”

I hope they do get fined for painting over it 😡. If they intended to put posters up, they could have just put them over the sign not destroyed it. It's only ever about money 🤬. Thank you Peet for keeping us all up to date with it . Oh & for all the excellent videos ☺️ xx

They shouldn’t changed history, they shouldn’t have painted over that sign. I’m glad you keep us updated about that hotel…🙂👍

They changed history to make the wall say “Hot Chicken”!🤣🤣🤣

Me and my husband passed by the Cecil hotel yesterday and that’s what my husband pointed out to me, he said hey look they took down the Cecil hotel sign, and I also felt a bit angry!

This sign isn’t just a hotel sign, it’s a legacy made by you Peet.

You can't remove/lock emergency exits... they're meant to be exits! At least the sign survived to the day cameras and the net. We have a record of it :)

Pete thank you so much. My son is 26...struggles with many things..ADHD..Autism..depression...and now being told bi-bolar..(not sure about that last one!)...I will ck into the website you suggested He lives at home..can't motivate..major social anxiety..but soooooo smart and funny and creative!! I just want so much to help him unlock all that wonderfulness inside of him. You gave me some hope. Thank you!!

If they’re asking you for footage of things that they don’t have camera coverage of, can you work out a deal with them? In exchange for your videos, they allow you access to the building? It seems to me that would be beneficial to both of you. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

I agree with you 1000% it's really rediculous that's happening. To bad. Unfortunately, hate to say it, but for the kind of people they're renting to, it's probably a lot of overdosing going on. Sad. Congratulations on your book. That's great!!! Always great to see your videos Pete!!

They are being fined for more than 4 million dollars for the sign alone. From what I have gathered in my own searches is that, they are not getting away with it, but they are trying to do as they please to make money yes. He bought the place for like 30 mil. And spent over 100 mil in renovations alone in 2017. The extent of the historical damages need to be recorded, documented and brought to court to get the final verdict. But they haven’t even started with the case, because “they can’t get in to asses the damages. Private property right? Just like everything else they need warrants and permission to go inside. I’m sure if the people make more noise about this the process can move faster. I don’t think they should be able to do such things with historical buildings. I think if renovations are in order then a historian and official one, should be hired and sent in to review what they want to change BEFORE they change anything. But sadly… this is why we got. I wonder if anyone will protest against this change. It goes against ALL historical laws set to preserve our history. Enough of our history has not only been destroyed but a lot goes untold. But yeah, that’s where they are at now. Honestly….. can’t we sue the owner for making such changes? If enough people do so…. Maybe we can get the changes made to bring it back to its historical stature. No money would be rewarded, but I think the hotel should belong to a museum. That way people can always go see it. The extra rooms can be used as viewing areas for the guests, like different scary haunting themes to go on each floor. Telling you through stories about other haunting places out in the world. I think that would be really cool.

Unbelievable!! That sign was iconic!! Unless they think removing the landmark will magically make people forget that it’s the Cecil

In regards to Elisa Lam: looking at the footage from the elevator , it seems to me as if she is playing a game of “hide and seek” with her being known to be friendly and open to meet new people it would not be such a strange idea that she made a “friend” in the hotel who was not so friendly and knew his/her way around the hotel.we are all looking at the footage of Elisa… but have they looked at other roaming people on the cameras that day/night. Surly there must be more then just this!

You're so awesome and I just love how much you care about The Cecil and life in general! Love your videos so much!!

This isn’t the first time LA County has used a historical landmark that’s known to be haunted, and turned it into low income housing. There’s low income housing at the old Metro Hospital, in Norwalk, I lived there for 11 years. Had many similar issues, no security cameras, high increase of emergency vehicles, dangerous windows, windows without screens etc. If Peet, or maybe someone else has more questions, I’m willing to talk, but I probably don’t want my face shown on camera.

Can we start a petition for pete to just straight up own the hotel? 😂 here are my reasons. 1.) he’s the only one that cares about its history 2.) hes already chief of surveillance 😂

They should never have painted over the sign. As for the emergency exit to the roof.. they need to leave it incase of fire in the lower levels..but they should make it harder for suicides to occur.

It's good you are documenting all this!

Got nothing but Love for you and the Fam Pete💯💯💚💚💚

Ah yes. Let's mess around (paint over sign) with a potentially haunted building with a bad history. That'll go well.

Imagine how beautiful that hotel would be if they restored it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Peet, your very inspiring and your videos are amazing!! You deserve all the subscribers and likes 👍 💖

I was SO disappointed!! Removing it was erasing a part of history & it looks like absolute garbage now. I’m sure they get paid by the companies who’s ads they’ve slapped up there. That’s most likely why they did it. So gross

Can you please make long KZfaq videos, like this, I miss them. You're such a fantastic story teller!

Holy freaking moly. Just noticed you recently passed 6-million subscribers. Gracious, man, that's fantastic! Good for you!

If you’re ever looking to do longer videos more often on here, I have to say you have a skill for editing and telling a story while informing your audience in a condensed fashion. High quality vid 👍

Hello ! Peet always so exited to see you dude, and Hear the news that happend to the hotel. It´s insane what thay hade done to the sign.!

We love this type of content! Please make more of it!!!

What a great video Pete. ☺ Congratulations on your book. Yay.

Thanks for the update! One of the most haunted places in America! You're a Genius!👌 Great theories and ideas!🥰 I'd never move into that building!😬😳 and I'm a Paranormal researcher/investigator!😬

I enjoy the videos, very creative! A suggestion learned in college TV broadcasting is when doing various backgrounds (video or otherwise) with you in the foreground, use yellow light(s) up & behind you with a broadcast blue or green screen. The colors will reflect on your head & shoulders making you partially or tottaly disappear. A yellow overhead casting a highlight on your head & shoulders. This will cancels the reflected blue or green light from the backdrop preventing you from fading in/out of you. Avoid wearing clothes that have those 2 colors or those areas will disappear revealing the image. Those 2 colors are specific for chroma keys, matts, etc. They're usually not used in fabrics used in clothing manufacturing. Keep up the great work. There is more info online & youtube. God bless!

Thank you for covering this story of the Cecil Hotel.

please tell me it wasn't painted, just put a label over it 😢 if this happened in a smaller town with a historic building/home, there would be fine upon fine 🤦🏼‍♀️

Hi Peet! Love all of your vids! Watching from lil ol New Zealand. You are so adorable and I just LOVVVVEEEEE your mom. She amazing. You all are. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Just found your channel. And this videos are interesting af bro. Good shit !!

Wow Peet.. that was great add of your book 🤣🤣 100% Your style.. never seen that before😄🤭❤️

Thank you for making these videos!! I would love to investigate the Cecil !!

I live all the way in Detroit by Eloise & when I learned about skid row over a decade ago & learned about the housing crisis in California my first and only thought was why aren't they utilizing the hotel to help the homeless. We have homeless people in Detroit but we have too many vacant homes whole neighborhoods-vacant the majority are legally unlivable but people stay where they need to stay and no one owns these vacant houses. So it's nothing as severe as it is in LA. It breaks my ❤️

In case you guys don’t know who Elisa Lam is,she was visiting the Cecil hotel. She was in the elevator clicking random buttons,which no one knows why. It’s almost as someone was chasing her,but she has bipolar something (I don’t know the name I’m sorry) And she didn’t take her medications. So I’m pretty sure she was hallucinating. Now this part is interesting. Some people from the hotel started complaining about the water being weird color,and funny taste. So the employees went to check it out. They opened the lid,and found Elisa Lam dead in the tank. Now since she was hallucinating,she probably thought to “hide” in the water tanks,to get away from the “chasing person” Now I’m sorry this is very long,but I tried my best to explain 😂

I found your channel due to the Cecil videos. It is sad when any historical building changes etc. It's interesting why so much negative energy is around that hotel. It does make sense why it's haunted to be honest. It has a lot of issues but it's an interesting place for sure.

Heyyy, I absolutely loved watching this, I loved hearing about the history of the hotel, I do think it's kinda dumb for them to remove the old sign, since it is part of the hotels history.

I swear one of these days if you end up in a video pulling the mask off someone, and they say I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for that meddlesome kid, I won't at all be surprised 😅

Great research on this Peet. Informative and well edited video.

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Maybe it’s a American Horror Story type of thing, really cool love the information you provided and the way you present it can’t get any smoother than that.

Big fan dude!Have been watching you for 1 year!!Big fan and 86th comment! Yay!

Peet you had 45k when I first subbed wtf you're and nearly 6 1/2 million.. Well done, you deserve it ❤️

How dare they!!! Thankyou for telling us, pete

WOW! I know they said they were trying to improve the place but seems Los Angelas has been knocking down every historic landmark they can in the name of progress! The doughnut you see in Ironman was moved to save it! But a lot of iconic places have been knocked down - this is why when I hear that they made one a registered historic place, I ask "Yeah how long will that last?" This is sad but not at all surprising! What I hope they do is if it is low income, that the company does keep up the building!

Sometimes the emergency responders will talk to you about what's happening. It would be worth checking what fire houes is near and talk to the fire fighters them selves

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I love watching your videos Peet, history videos,funny videos or my fav the family videos.🥰

It will depend on the historical landmark rules for this. Even improving the building when it's a historical building, it has things that get into historical preservation... which gets complicated.

You have the most beautiful family. Much love from Dayton, Tennessee…… I so wanted to visit that motel 🙄🙄🙄🙄 I never get what I want lol

Loved the updates ❤️ Thanks

Hi Pete. I'm new to your channel. I'm from Ireland so I only knew about Cecil Hotel 🏨 from the number of murderers that have been there and of course the Lam case, however I never knew it was located in Skid Row. It's amazing the place has not been burned down by notorious gangs or just left to fall apart. Goes to show you there's more to Skid Row than what you hear. The locals were probably afraid of the hotel

Peet I know this has particularly hurt your heart. This is so sad I'm sorry. They can't take down what's really lurking inside though.

its funny how u stuck so many drones in there 😂

Not to point out the obvious, but blocking off the emergency exits would be highly illegal. If they could build like plexiglass around the exterior ladders to stop people from "falling", that could be a solution, but as the building has been registered as historic, there are many regulations to what they can or cannot change, and changing the exterior is most probably a big no-no.

Congratulations Peet, on your publishing your book and honestly my opinion it’s better to be remolding our city we really need it plus they didn’t Diminished the building Cecil Hotel, so it’s still their it would be very expensive too close it up for business I think 🤔 it looks better new look different outlook! Were I live at they remodeled the outside of the liquor store it’s very uplifting when I pass by there especially in this times we are living in we need a different outlook.. 📚 🥰💙

Congratulations on getting 6 million subs! 👏👏👏👏🥳🥳🎉

5 million dollar fine but also they must return the sign to its original state. Well that is if it was in the UK. Not sure about over there. Then they would have Surveyors come out and inspect the rest ( at their cost ) to see what else they fudged up. Costs could rack up quick for them if that is the case.

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💕good video, peet. Continue on your road on getting the giant gold play button

there was a hotel within the hotel?? 🤪 and there are tenants renting too on the lower floors? sheesh.... oh and remember that fire recently Pete, you said some girl's car blew up.... da fuq how did that happen huh? 👀 sounds like the spirits aren't happy with the changes and they are expanding their boundaries beyond the walls of the hotel. 👀

I can't believe they took it off!!!!!

smh 🤦🏽‍♀️ that was a piece of history regardless of how grim it is

Still can't believe they took the old sign off for chicken and now that add is gone lol thx for the info peet

Hey there want to say love your videos on the Cecile hotel yes I sooo agree that really sucks that they covered up the Cecile sign !!! It is historic. I myself has been wanting to go see it in person and May give you a wave hello 🤗

Them not closing exits and removing ladders probably as to do with fire code to be honest- each room has to have 2 ways out in the event of a fire or other emergency

This could easily become a Netflix show, literally just you talking and showing us short clips of random places

I am part of the crew rehabing the inside. During covid, your all night live streamz, i was there daily. Btw,glad yu got yur drone back. Btw, i have numbers, doorknobs,etc.

"Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot. " Shocking willful destruction of a historical landmark, so sad.

I thought that buildings weren’t allowed to have windows that could open (aside from emergency exits) above a certain height That makes since right?

Like 1k! Awesome! Thanks for sharing this Peet

That was the greatest book promo I’ve ever seen

You shouldn't go to the Hinsdale House in New York and investigate. Not only is the house haunted but there are things in the woods that surround the old farmhouse, Cryptids . I love watching your videos with you and your mom. You two have a awesome relationship. That Tic Toc with you and your sister ,Dora, that was hysterical 🤣.

I believe that it's the city's screw up. The city had the original Cecil Hotel sign in their records that was repainted in 1940's, not the more current one. I don't know how or if the city can reverse their error.

Ghost sticks sounds more right then the actual name

I absolutely love your hoodie 😍😍

That hoodie is Sick, I love it!

I to write books but always afraid to send in and try to get published anywho love your vids and love love your shorts with your mom 😍 much love from Chicago keep it up kid

Omg ❤️❤️❤️ the ending n you obviously 😂

I swear my dream is to meet you just once!!!! I know I'm a nobody so it will never happen and I don't have the money to come see or meet you but maybe one day!!! Peace and much love to you and your family. I watch you everyday! I always watch through and watch every ad all the way through haha I can't do much but at least I can do that 😊 tell your mom I said hi! I swear the mom we all wish we had!!!! Especially me I grew up in foster care so the first video I saw of y'all I was addicted lol YOU.ARE.AMAZING!

I love your videos and the one that you teach your brothers class

They shouldn't left it alone, repainted the original.

The mike just chillin there

Peet you are my family's favorite KZfaqr and you have made me know that even though I'm different it's ok I've also liked every video almost :D

The emergency exit solutions you suggested may fall under the same laws you mentioned about historical landmarks and keeping them how they are. That being said, I have seen some clever work arounds in some historic districts, one of which being wardrobes and book shelves mounted to the windows so you can't fit by or jump. The emergency exits though I don't believe you can do anything really about, because A it is an emergency entrance and exit that needs access. And B to basically add a blockade of some kind to where the water pumps are you need some kind of papers and release like they got for the signs out front. And with all the outrage of the signs being redone with ads the housing for skid row may be a little uneasy with giving them the rights build on more.

They should make all the windows "safety windows" where they don't open more than 6 inches.

Great video young man!

Love this but would have liked to see more of your book too! Haha

Idea for the “shops”: Hotel Cecil themed escape rooms.

Also wtf this hotel is so creepy stuff has happened and still is?!? also i love when you talk about this ur voice is soothing

Hi Peet, Thank you for the update ! Please say hi to your Mum for me, from OZ. Take Care ..... 🇦🇺

Please keep us updated, I’m aways watching from the 🇬🇧 Very interesting

So im watching an old episode of Deal or No Deal and your mom is on here 😳😳 Also shes scolding Magic Johnson on here. Shes so adorable. I love your mom

Ooo a book, that's so exciting! Where will it be released? Amazon, website perhaps? x

Terrific video! Ya, I agree with sell memorabilia of the old hotel and put it towards bettering the homeless people who are trying to better themselves. ✌

Living in CA, miles away from Cecil, but OH DEAR GOD THIS IS SCARY AS HEKK