What makes something historic? feat. City Beautiful in San Luis Obispo

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San Luis Obispo, or SLO for short, is a small city near and dear to my heart, not only because it's one of my hometowns, but because I've done so much work on the history here. After all, my dissertation has a chapter on it and my entire masters thesis is about the place. And it goes much deeper than that, for my father was a museum director here. You could say SLO's history is in my veins. So I've got a question to ask from all this: what makes something historic? It's it simply that it's old? Does it have a good story behind it? Is it important to promoting the area? Or is it something deeper? Well I'm here to argue that it's none of that.
Check out City Beautiful's video here: • How NIMBYs weaponize h...
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Bibliography
City of San Luis Obispo Citywide Historic Context Statement, November 2013, www.slocity.org/home/showpubl...
Myron Angel, History of San Luis Obispo County, California, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Oakland, Cal.: Thompson & West, 1883). archive.org/details/historyof...
Daniel Krieger, San Luis Obispo County: Looking Backward into the Middle Kingdom (Northridge, Cal.: Windsor Publications, 1988). amzn.to/42VF6qE
Mark Hall-Patton, Memories of the Land: Placenames of San Luis Obispo (Los Osos, Cal.: EZ Nature Books, 1994). amzn.to/3lVoI8J
Joseph Hall-Patton, “Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo,” California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, thesis, 2016. www.digitalcommons.calpoly.edu...
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Chapters
0:00 intro
2:08 brief history of SLO
7:44 historic districting
10:30 Myron Angel
12:00 things going well
14:15 historical issues
20:28 conclusion
22:30 thanks and outtakes

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@CynicalHistorian Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Please consider supporting the channel by buying merch: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian Or by donating to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian Click "read more" for corrections and bibliography. First, check out City Beautiful's video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcV-ZLxq1rjPmqM.html *[reserved for errata]* *Bibliography* _City of San Luis Obispo Citywide Historic Context Statement,_ November 2013, www.slocity.org/home/showpublisheddocument/4042/635497615471370000 Myron Angel, _History of San Luis Obispo County, California, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers_ (Oakland, Cal.: Thompson & West, 1883). archive.org/details/historyofsanluis00ange Daniel Krieger, _San Luis Obispo County: Looking Backward into the Middle Kingdom_ (Northridge, Cal.: Windsor Publications, 1988). amzn.to/42VF6qE Mark Hall-Patton, _Memories of the Land: Placenames of San Luis Obispo_ (Los Osos, Cal.: EZ Nature Books, 1994). amzn.to/3lVoI8J Joseph Hall-Patton, “Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo,” California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, thesis, 2016. www.digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1594/

@jacobdalland1390 Жыл бұрын

I think it would be a good idea to make a video about how American cities have been platted. My history professor has had some interest in that topic, and we've noticed that many cities have streets parallel and perpendicular to streams and railroads. But then as cities expand, the new streets often become aligned to the cardinal directions. Why is that?

@CynicalHistorian Жыл бұрын

@@jacobdalland1390 In SLO's case, the stream dictated the original town's streets, as they radiated out from the mission. The Southern Pacific Railroad and oil companies oriented their buildings on cardinal directions, so everything from there went cardinal directions. Every town is different

@Sgtklark Жыл бұрын

I always loved SLO. My National Guard unit was stationed at Camp San Luis Obispo, so I got to know the town and some of the people. It's not too big, not too small. Wonderful weather.

@jackmambawitsin Жыл бұрын

Glad I'm a subscriber to your channel. Your Father is always a pleasure to see. Haven't watched pawn stars in years. Your Father added a much needed touch of class and real knowledge to the show.

@themadgi Жыл бұрын

Kudos on your PhD. I've learned a lot about US history thx to you mate. Long live the Kat !

@DesiGalCrochet Жыл бұрын

Hey! New subscriber here. 10 year former resident of SLO. 4 of those years unfortunately were spent in a tent on the creek. The one thing about slo that people need to understand is that it is a town for those that have already made their millions. If you are not already a millionaire it is too expensive for you. But it is so beautiful that it took me 4 years to realize I needed to move on.

@CynicalHistorian Жыл бұрын

That sucks. It didn't used to be so expensive to live there. Housing prices are a 21st century problem and poor students can get by. I know firsthand, though I very nearly had to move back with my parents and was in some serious debt before finding a job after graduating. My rent was $750/mo in 2014-15 and $800 2016-17

@DesiGalCrochet Жыл бұрын

@@CynicalHistorian When I finally left SLO 2 years ago It was because I could not find a single rentable space that I could afford while getting the maximum disability payment from SSI of over $1,000 a month. Even if I was willing to spend that entire check on rent I could not find anything. Once I realize that I had to leave or I was going to forever be homeless regardless of whether I had a job or a check coming every month. Unbelievable. When I first moved there 11 years ago I found a two-bedroom house for $1,100 a month. The rents have skyrocketed!

@guitarfan01 Жыл бұрын

@@DesiGalCrochet the conversion of formerly rented spaces to AirB&B's by landlords has absolutely devastated the rental market, *especially* in scenic tourism destinations. The digital manipulation of rental prices and rise of massive interstate rental corporations has made things bad for the renter as well.

@DesiGalCrochet Жыл бұрын

@@guitarfan01 Strangely enough I now see both sides of that issue. I ended up becoming a live-in host assistant in charge of 5 Airbnb houses in Fremont. I've met so many people that are transitionally living in Airbnbs while they search for permanent housing. Private equity firm landlords are charging higher and higher rents and routinely running credit checks and requiring potential renters to make 3xs the rent or some other astronomical amount, which filters out so many. And I know the proliferation of short-term rentals has cut deep into the available rental units in most cities. I would be morally conflicted in this job If not for the fact that The owner of my properties is actually helping the problem. We're slowly switching from Airbnb rentals to long-term rentals. And the way he does it works much better for people. When someone reserves for a full month he drops the price to no more than the average long-term rental price in the area. And if, after a few months, they express interest in staying longer he'll move them to a month by month lease If I give the okay. Without requiring a security deposit or running a credit check. It's actually a pretty cool system if you think about it. I'm in the houses everyday interacting with the guests so after a few months I have a pretty good read on what type of tenant they would be. And they've reliably paid through Airbnb for several months so he knows they're able to pay the rent. And that's supposed to be why landlords run credit checks or have salary requirements for tenants (even though a lot of them use it to weed out low income or black and brown people). When I started in September we had five long-term tenants in 30 rooms. Now half of our rooms are on long-term leases. And the tenants are happy because where else do you get daily maid service and weekly fresh linens and fully furnished houses with Wi-Fi and all utilities included? All for the regular going rate of an unfurnished room that doesn't include my friendly face and magic toilet paper rolls never place themselves everyday. Honestly any short-term rental owner that is watching AirbnBust unfold and is not considering doing it this way is going to end up in bankruptcy. And then finally those units will be back on the long-term rental market. So I guess it works out either way. 🤣

@mida8261 8 ай бұрын

Definitely the case nowadays. Before, it only took being at the right place at the right time to be able to make it in SLO. Literally every family member I have that owns a home in SLO County wouldn't be living there if they didn't buy their home in the '80s or during the 2008 recession. I got screwed over that one unfortunately, but happy for them for being able to make it.

@PakBallandSami Жыл бұрын

the tpic of history is very interesting, it is my favourite subject, so i think kinda relevant to the topic at hand “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.’ -Percy Shelley,

@BcroG11 Жыл бұрын

I hope this collaboration with City Beautiful marks your entrance to the urbanist community and the fight against car-dependency.

@gamepopper101 Жыл бұрын

10:45 One of the few times where the host being upstaged by their dad is wonderful.

@elizabethdavis1696 Жыл бұрын

Please do a video on relocating historic buildings

@elitn6160 Жыл бұрын

Dude no way he’s your dad!!!!!!! That’s so dope!! I remember him from pawn stars!

@FuzzyKittenBoots Жыл бұрын

I'm getting more and more of these crossover episodes from all my favorite KZfaqr and I love it so much! And PapaCypher was the perfect choice for the narrater, such a nice voice.

@souptime8635 Жыл бұрын

Now that's a collab I did not expect!

@losthart5577 Жыл бұрын

I've been a subscriber for a while with your channel. All I got to say is brother you are just cool as a mofo. You have opened history to me. Your topics are just Phenomenal, I love them. So keep cool, do you, and please keep pumping out these historical topics that we all love. Thank you

@tomthedespoiler Жыл бұрын

Papa Cypher has by far the most credible hat and beard combo of any historian I've ever seen on KZfaq. Much applause.

@TheKitchenSpirit Жыл бұрын

Born and raised in the Santa Barbra and slo area. The history speckling that area is amazing, from the missions, to the local area. Big shout out to frog and peach, a bar that used to be a wells Fargo stop. It's super cool. Great content

@fuckboi_killa 11 ай бұрын

I currently live in SLO. I'm from NorCal but my grandfather was born in SLO. While I miss where I grew up I don't miss the triple digit weather. It's rarely over 80° and its beautiful

@Lacerated1DJ3 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for thos look into San Luis Obispo. I have lived here since the 80s and really enjoy learning more about it. Keep Being Awesome!

@mava1559 Жыл бұрын

Cyp! Living in Clark County with roots in New Mexico and SLO you are one my favorite KZfaqrs. Tulare County also has interesting history

@tomhalla426 Жыл бұрын

Maybe calling the statue of the boy and the bear “lunch” was an in-joke. The person from UC Berkeley may have assumed no one would check.

@SanFranFan30 Жыл бұрын

What manages to STICK around is what we CHEWs to make important.

@Murphio25 Жыл бұрын

As a resident of San Miguel its neat to hear about a place so close and mirrors a part of our own history. The shpiel about what makes something historical is also very cool.

@theculturedjinni Жыл бұрын

Always good with new history vids from you!

@nicolechampeau8432 Жыл бұрын

I love it when cipher talks about my home town!

@TheOtherPath1 3 ай бұрын

Love visiting SLO. Did not know about some of its history until this video. Awesome job! 10:52 Great moment. Thanks for making.

@curbstompe 11 ай бұрын

so damn glad i investigated the channel when i heard SLO mentioned in your video on neoliberalism. i have sought out media history on this area before-this video is far beyond the quality i expected to find, and not to mention by accident. cheers from Los Osos!

@BradyPostma Жыл бұрын

No matter how old you get, your dad will always treat you like his son.

@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын

Another great video on history's malleability and outright falsification. Kudos to SLO for depriving the fast food joints of drive ins. Plymouth, and Nantucket MA forced them to give up the plastic exteriors in order to open there. Unfortunately a whole row of old building in Back Bay, Boston, were allowed to be torn down, but their replacements were required to to have fake antique facades. As the French say, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Keep up the good work of making real history accessible to the masses.

@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын

@@elaineburnett5230 Well it's usually shortened to "plus ça change!" even in English as "the more things change... with a rising or falling intonation. You did well to remember it!

@brandonsisola7874 Жыл бұрын

Cal Poly alum here, absolutely love the town. Hope you're enjoying the Edna wine!

@eldraenpharr8222 5 ай бұрын

One of my favorite places on Earth

@girldaddividendinvestor Жыл бұрын

Great collab!!

@skpjoecoursegold366 Жыл бұрын

bubblegum alley, I have 2 pieces there if it hasn't been cleaned since 1997. I heard recently that Placerville, aka "Hangtown", no longer want to be known as "Hangtown".

@CynicalHistorian Жыл бұрын

Hasn't been cleaned since 1992, but rain takes its toll. I've got something like 30 pieces there, with two from this filming LOL (messed up the first take)

@user-oe1yy9cv4i Жыл бұрын

loved this video well done !

@fuckboi_killa 11 ай бұрын

I am blessed to be able to live in SLO. It's the best place to live in the best state

@markfitzurka9995 9 ай бұрын

I just stumbled into your channel but I think I know your Dad. I am part of ECV. my dad is a XNGB for the Squeebob chapter. If that means anything to you than it does confirm it. If you don’t know anything about what I am talking about then I don’t know your Dad after all. I did love how you used the ally in Slo with all the chewing gum on the walls. You only made a joke about it but if you didn’t know where you were at you would’ve not understood the joke. Anyhow I have enjoyed your history of California and will give the rest of your channel a follow. I am happy to have randomly stumbled across your videos they are well done. Have a great weekend and keep up the great content

@markfitzurka9995 9 ай бұрын

Did not get to the point where you give the the explanation of bubble gum ally.

@844SteamFan Жыл бұрын

11:19 Didn’t expect to see a P32-8BHW, hope to see one someday though they are probably going to be on their way out soon.

@Milverton68 6 ай бұрын

Great video. Your Dad's beard and hat rock!

@cedricjoshuapayne Ай бұрын

Nice video, I enjoyed it.

@PaulGrcia Жыл бұрын

I was born in SLO! Still live in the county. ❤

@SuperMathewson Жыл бұрын

I was born in SLO too!

@SuperMathewson Жыл бұрын

Were you born in General Hospital off Johnson?

@sethheppner7138 11 ай бұрын

I contributed to the new Jewish History exhibit in that museum while I was at Cal Poly getting my Bachelors in History. I miss that area immensely

@davidmannelli7117 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@CynicalHistorian 2 ай бұрын

And thank you!

@accent1666 Жыл бұрын

PapaCypher sounds like an awesome dad

@samwill7259 Жыл бұрын

If it makes a nerdy guy SUPER excited but to you it just look like an old wall Historic

@dennyzanchi3810 8 ай бұрын

I'm from Italy... And I expected something completely different when I opened this video 😂 Anyway, I liked it and I I'll watch some other else

@SSVjoker Жыл бұрын

As a Spaniard, the miss naming section was painful 😂 You do good work trying to correct it

@TheLowstef Жыл бұрын

The Beard of Knowledge and The Little Beard of Knowledge 😉 Silly jokes aside, my own city has a multi-millennia history (one of the oldest continually inhabited in Europe, older than Rome) and we have a lot of issues with historical buildings and places. Mostly with modern "investors" just looking to tear them down and build ugly-ass new "modern" office buildings and shopping malls. And with incompetent (and corrupt) local government failing to protect (and preserve, and maintain) actually undeniably historical things.

@natejones8508 Жыл бұрын

love your work!! @20:09 this shit had me rolling

@FUNeRaLPyR3 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap I’m from Santa Barbra county . Amazing

@Apocalythpe Жыл бұрын

Cat bloopers are the best! Lol

@besacciaesteban Жыл бұрын

I feel that historicity is like being cool at school. It's not a defined state but more like a general vibe of the masses.

@reef755 Жыл бұрын

I love local history

@goattnder Жыл бұрын

Are you sitting at Wolff Vineyards? I'm almost positive that's the place.

@CynicalHistorian Жыл бұрын

Yep

@dennile_7355 Жыл бұрын

I am a simple man, i see a new Cypher video, i watch it, i check the discord. rinse an repeat

@b1646717 Жыл бұрын

Hey Pop!

@donkeypoo99 9 ай бұрын

Is your dad the expert from Pawn Stars?

@logicbomb5511 4 күн бұрын

Oh shoot who knew he was from SLO!!! Ya Should do that whole mission trail California area bear republic stuff!

@tonifakerman9639 Жыл бұрын

Dude your dad was the best part of pawn stars

@OFFICIALDJFLASHBACK 7 ай бұрын

You mentioned Paso Robles and how people mispronounce things on purpose. My favorite is Higuera. I work in radio, so you can believe the eyeroll whenever people who weren't local mispronounced it, but in reality they were pronouncing it correctly.

@kcryrine5056 Жыл бұрын

i live in and love slo but the gum alley is so icky to me i avoid walking by it at all costs 😅 great vid tho

@HebaruSan Жыл бұрын

But the bear's looking at the fish. Maybe the fish was "lunch"?

@torunit4620 Жыл бұрын

What manages to stick around is what we chew

@misterhuman6469 Жыл бұрын

Have you ever thought about making a video(s) debunking or discussing the less insane conspiracy theories? I think some theories like some of the JFK assassination theories are believed by a good amount of rational people that would listen to evidence and reasoning. Things like the “magic bullet” in the Kennedy assassination are important to confront if you want to dismantle a conspiracy theory, and showing how exactly one is wrong is better than saying that believers cannot be reasoned with.

@wrightmf Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I attended Calpoly SLO 1981 to 1985, I never saw how Poly Royal would get out of hand as they seemd mild (but then I was an engineering major so missed all the "Animal House" adventures. I see you are growing a beard, is this because you now have a PhD you need to look more professorial?

@CynicalHistorian Жыл бұрын

Nah. I grow it out during the winter

@aUnhealthybreakfast Жыл бұрын

Your dad is on pawn stars?

@Samsam2000100 Жыл бұрын

“San Luis Obispo is so beautiful” 1:51 homeless guys walks right through 😂😂😂

@ecardona70 5 ай бұрын

WEIRD AL MENTIONED

@jimmyyu2184 Жыл бұрын

As a Star Trek (historian, in a way....) Why are you holding a Tribble??

@CynicalHistorian Жыл бұрын

How else am I gonna stop them from multiplying?

@jimmyyu2184 Жыл бұрын

@@CynicalHistorian LOL. Great, great, answer. I hope you are watching/enjoying Picard Season 3.

@TeethToothman 8 ай бұрын

🫀🌑🫀

@randnorm Жыл бұрын

comment for the algorithm.

@nashtrojan 2 ай бұрын

The cynical papa has an excellent beard 4/5 stars

@JenniferinIllinois Жыл бұрын

Dang, that older dude with the white beard interrupting you. HOW RUDE! 🤣🤣🤣

@weezerwookie 11 ай бұрын

King Kong ain't got shit on King Richard

@Diggnuts Жыл бұрын

From a European archaeological point of view, I see history as something that is a chain. A single ring is as good as no ring as there is no context surrounding it. Luckily it is very rare that artefacts and events are rarely in isolation, therefore everything is potentially history within the proper narrative.