I met him in the Larchmont neighborhood of LA (he lived nearby at the time, before moving to Palm Springs). He was always hungry for a story and immediately wanted to know what I did for a living (LA DWP, but he had already done a segment on our Power Plant One). A genuine curiosity about all things related to California history

Homely?? Are you calling him ugly? Thats a very odd use of that word.

@@JuliaLong-lp1on “homey”

@K W May Huell Howser Rest In Peace. He passed several years ago 😭😭😭

@Justin Thompson If it wasn't for the automobile industry, the Pacific Electric trolleys or trains would still be running today.

@@Hotters9060 When I grew up in the 50s I remember there were electric trolleys on Alameda if I remember correctly.

@@MountainFisher I wonder if that is the same Alameda where the freight trains run today underground?? Pacific Electric railway even went to Orange County, Riverside, and parts of the valley too.

Do you remember San Francisco's double decker freeways prior to their 1989 earthquake?

The busses are still electric trolly busses and they have international cable and street cars

Pretty sure it still plays on all PBS channels.

😂

Jay walking 🚶‍♀️is Legal now 😂

This tunnel also comes out in the movie “Colors”...... it’s one of the gangs hangout....

Yes it's an apartment building now

when I was looking for a car years ago, I went to check one out that was being sold by a guy who lived in those apartments. I got to see the inside of it a little with my parent's and he mentioned it was the former Pacific electric railway building and how Huell Howser and others had done documentaries about it. Sadly the basement wasn't accessible for obvious reasons! Coles French Dip is there too and they have tried to maintain some of the old look and paid homage to the old street car lines with the artwork on the walls too.

Hi Hebrew Loc, do you know of anyway to get down there at all?

@@stepdev1 The Belmont Tunnel Entrance has 2010ish generic cookie cutter apartments over it. They totally destroyed history.

@@DT-sb9sv The Tartarian Empire built it. Intelligent giants.

The giants built all the glorious structures.

They make it up as they go along.

hoodadvertisement xjew4ux I was thinking that too

The tunnel was blocked in the 1970s when the Bonaventure hotel built their basement in it.

Probably a lot of asbestos which would need abatement. Plus as the above comment says, the Bonaventure's subsurface structure would interfere.

@@junkboxxxxxx Los Angeles at the time made a very big mistake by dismantling their original Pacific Electric Trolley trains and instead depending on the automobile and the freeways for transport. Thanks to the company named General Motors for this.

@@junkboxxxxxx General Motors bought the street cars and at the same time destroyed them but also the citizens of Los Angeles are the ones to blame for the demise of the Pacific Electric red cars and the Los Angeles Railway Yellow cars. The citizens of Los Angeles depended too much on driving their own cars and this is why the trolleys are no longer running anymore and now we have the worst traffic in the United States.

That video was filmed on Santa Fe off of 7th st. It has been built over now it's totally unrecognizable now.

Let’s go lmk if you get the 411 on that

@@ZK-cl7sb I want to get into the tunnel too. How is it possible to get into this old Pacific Electric tunnel???

No the city of LA and non natives love destroying anything old in LA

@@Greeneyedghost2020 Los Angeles made huge mistake by getting rid of their original rail cars operated by Pacific Electric from the early 1900's. After the last street car ran in Los Angeles in 1963, traffic, pollution, and congestion started and because of that, Metro decided to build the now modern Blue Line light rail system that runs from Downtown to Long Beach which opened in 1990 and the Red Line heavy rail subway which opened in 1993 that runs from Downtown to North Hollywood. These new trains that we have today now exist because of traffic and congestion.

Nope we did not reuse these tunnels. We have the Blue Line running from Downtown LA and Long Beach (soon to run from Azusa to Long Beach), Red Line North Hollywood - Downtown LA, Purple Line (Soon to West LA) Wilshire/Western to Downtown LA, Expo Line Santa Monica - Downtown LA (soon to East LA), Green Line Norwalk to Redondo Beach (soon to have connection to LAX), Gold Line Azusa - East LA (soon to be split into extensions of the Blue and Expo Lines)(Future Extension past Azusa to Claremont) and finally the soon to be finished Crenshaw Line from the Expo Line to LAX.

We didn't

1985

Look at the very end of the video, 1994. Which surprises me since I thought it was later. But 1994 is in the credits at the end.

And it even looks like it! Seeing the old MTA buss pass by earlier in the video brought back nostalgia

@@jessegordian2498 since 2013 KCET continue to air the episodes of visiting with Huell Howser via reruns

My thoughts exactly, much more appealing then an ugly drop ceiling.

@@westabsupplyebay4093 These greedy rich bastards are always ruining everything. I can't stand people like that. Seriously. They really get on my nerves.

1994

@@juanm.huertasr.601 tnx awesome vid

1994

1961.

They tapped, or otherwise excavated, those tunnels way back in the mid 1920's. Imagine Los Angeles back in the roaring '20's. Hot dang!

It was either the 90 s or early to mid 2000's.

@@luisbeltran937 Oh, _taped_ ...the video itself. That would be 1994. It says so at the end - 27:03 - copyrighted 1994.

@@this_boy-gent_is_a_roy-den2660 👍yea i figure .

My friend Michael rented a Flat on Spring St. In 1991 1000 sq ft. for $500.00. The building had Punk Rockers and Artists, The Owner told us, You won't recognize DTLA in 20 years, We are bringing investors from all over the World. Yeah! was He right, I think this is why rents are so high.

Hell No... The Bonaventure Hotel at 5th & Figueroa, Also Sided by Flower St to the Eastside of the Hotel Killed Off the Tunnel with its Deep Foundation, when it was Constructed Between 1975 & it's Opening in January 77 in Time for the Super Bowl at the Rose Bowl Between the Raiders & Vikings, then Another Hi-Rise East of the Bonaventure that was Constructed in 1982 Also Killed the Tunnel with its Deep Foundation! The Direct Route Of the Tunnel Would Operate from the Glendale Side to About 4th & Figueroa Today! But it Couldn't Be Salvaged, so when a Developer Built Condos or Housing at the Mouth of the Glendale Opening, the Developer Sealed Up the Tunnel to Keep Out the Riff-Raff. Metro is Building the Regional Connector that will Extend the Blue, Expo, & Gold Line from 7th & Metro to Little Tokyo, & the Portion of the Line that Runs Under Flower St. was Tunneled within the Path of the Old P.E. Tunnel & Way Deep Under 2nd St. & Way Deep Under the Metro Red & Purple Line Tunnel. Under 2nd St. & The Regional Connector is Suppose to Open in 2022, it was to Be Open this Year, but Due to Cost Overruns & Hidden Utility Boxes & Pipes that Were Not Listed in the City Blueprints & Labor Shortages, Etc, it was Delayed from Opening this Year to 2020, & then 2021, Now... 2022.

@@waynewright2886 These bastards destroyed that original subway. Rich people get on my nerves.

For example, on the glass bottom boat at Catalina, he's ask people what they thought they were going to see. Later he'd ask what they were seeing, then he'd asked what they had seen. He kept repeating prople's answers. Great subject matter, but there have been hosts on similar shows who were not creepy bumpkins.

Well, Gaw- Lee Sarge 🪖😅

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