LOS ANGELES: OLDEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS, A true Old World compilation

many months ago when my channel was just fledgling and the videos while entertaining lacked a narrative i made a

video that was less than 15 minutes long about old world california

while that video was well received i knew i had to do a little bit more digging california

as vast and beautiful as one can imagine is full of history and thus historical architecture which we must examine to

have a full grasp of the area at that time that we would consider to be the old world

one of the most popular and thus interesting locations in all of california is los angeles the city of

angels in my previous video about cali we lacked the direction that i wanted to

have but in today’s video we are going to focus on a selection of nearly 200

old world images of los angeles california from before world war ii

these images are going to be hand selected by me as some of the most interesting rare and downright

unexplainable photographs of la with a focus on the pre-1900

era we will begin with a brief recap of the current narrative of the history of

california accompanied by some of the very earliest pictures of specifically

the los angeles area we will follow that with the narrative into more modern times and wrap up the

video focusing on the unique architecture and antiquitech around los angeles in the late 18th and early 1900s

[Music] los angeles was originally inhabited by

the tongva and chumash tribes respectively these indigenous groups occupied the california coast for at

least 11 000 years from at least 7000 bc sites like milling stone horizon show

evidence that these native groups had intricate systems of survival and trade including the use of many different

seeds they use these for survival for food but also to create variously

colored art and dyes the name chumash itself actually means bead maker

now here’s where it gets really interesting the native peoples of california the tongva and the shumash had a great

period of growth from roughly 9 50 a.d until 1300

which was called the mid-evil warm period this brought greater resources to

california with an increase in temperature so basically there were better weather conditions for crop

growth interestingly before this medieval warm period many historians believe the

chumash were visited by the polynesians sometime around 600 to 800 a.d this

polynesian excursion to the new world would pre-date christopher columbus’s

arrival by nearly 800 years vast similarities between the native

groups of california and the polynesians exist from not only language but we also have

more concrete items including the sewn plank canoe a design upon european

settlers arrival to america that was only found in one area and that was

california however this sewn plank canoe design was used specifically by the

polynesians before this time and it had not been seen anywhere that the polynesians had not visited which leads

the historians to make the assumption that ancient california tribes and ancient polynesian tribes had a

connection to one another so at this point the narrative is

alluding to california and more specifically to the area of los angeles

being claimed by the spanish empire in 1542 by a man named juan

rodriguez cabrillo while he is on an excursion north from previous new

spanish forts however at the same time in the narrative we do reach an

interesting hole while spain lays claim to california and los angeles in 1542

it takes over 220 years for spanish missionaries to officially

reach the land of los angeles and begin to set up shop so to speak

in august of 1769 the narrative says gaspar de

portola and juan crespi reached los angeles for the first time

in september of 1781 the narrative goes on to say a group of 44 settlers known

as los pobledores founded the pueblo which they called el pueblo nuestra

senora la rena de los angeles aka the town of our lady the queen of angels

by 1820 the town was still relatively small with only 650 residents two-thirds

of these residents were of a mixed ethnicity with large portions being parts indigenous spanish and african so

while this narrative really only talks about los angeles being this area we do have new spain achieving its

independence from spain in 1821 thus creating the free land of mexico which

includes los angeles and california los angeles at this time was part of the

alta california region of mexico and thus los angeles became out to

california’s capital while under mexican rule according to the narrative los angeles

continued to grow and flourish at this time while still maintaining its agricultural background

now the narrative then skips ahead one more time and we jump to the end of

the mexican american war and the signing of the treaty of cajuega on january 13

1847 and this is when the united states officially took control of california

and the los angeles area roughly 30 years later the first major

railroad arrives to los angeles from new orleans and this is the south pacific line

more railroads quickly follow suit and in 1892 petroleum is discovered in large

quantities beneath the city of los angeles from here a population and industrial

boom occurs and by the year 1900 the population of los angeles is over 102 000 people up

over 100 000 people in less than 80 years the massive scale building projects

which followed made sure los angeles would stay at the forefront of american culture these projects include some of

the most intricate dams aqueducts and man-made water projects ever undertaken

up until that time these building projects also included leveling off the land which seems to

once have been consisting of many ancient mounds or at the very least

undisturbed hills one of these hills would later become the hollywood hills known first as

hollywood land in 1910 hollywood would officially merge into

the city of los angeles bringing with it 10 major motion picture studios

the olympic games were held in los angeles in 1932.

following the end of world war ii los angeles became one of the most rapidly

growing cities in the united states and for that matter the entire world quickly

incorporating the san fernando valley into its larger city limits

the 1960s brought the interstate highway system through la

which subsequently brought an end to the intricate electrified railway system of

los angeles which was once the largest in the entire world in 1969

the university of california became the birthplace of the internet as the first

arpanet web transmission was sent from ucla to stanford university

the list of accomplishments of los angeles goes on and on but for the remainder of this video i would like to

put some photographs to this narrative that i’ve just presented we’re going to go through and take a look at some of

the very oldest images of these architectural and antiquatech accomplishments of los angeles i’d like

to do this so we can put a better image to the current narrative that has been given

what we come to find are some amazing if not miraculous structures which seem to

fully integrate and elaborate how luxurious we were building in los

angeles at the time it’s old world construction at its finest of note here are the many buildings

which even in their earliest appearance seem to be unleveled or somewhat buried

on what appear to be earth mounds or raised sections of land

we are told they were simply built this way or the land was filled in afterwards

so we’re gonna take a look at some photographs and see if we can question that just a little bit

we’re also going to take a look at a few massive underground and water related

building projects which really seem to dwarf anything else i’ve seen around the united states during this time period

turn of the century late 1800s early 1900s how quickly california was built is just

miraculous so we’re going to take a few looks at some of the more interesting images related to the aqueducts and the

massive dam of los angeles as well overall this will just be a pretty stout

collection of amazing mostly museum quality photographs of los angeles

california that i believe many people have not had the opportunity to see before throughout this video we will

focus on all aspects of los angeles that caught my eye and i will try to hold nothing back from the imagination when i

dive into these photographs with that being said sit back strap on your

california sunglasses grab some california raisins and enjoy the old world photographs of los angeles

california i will chime back in on different photographs just to point out things that i found really

interesting but really as in many of these old world photograph series that i make these

images speak for themselves so feel free to mute the video play your own music and just take in all of these images

because in every single photograph there’s so many things that stand out and i’d love to hear what stands out to

you in the comments down below and right off the bat one of the first things that struck me are these amazing tunnels that

were being told were built in the 1800s and the 1900s in california and in los

angeles more specifically and they’re really interesting to me because they became points of interest even the

public at this time while they could have just been there to see it being built for some reason were drawn to

these areas as if they needed to see it as if it was something miraculous being done now i’m not saying it was

impossible but this certainly took a lot of craftsmanship and you can see that these areas were turned into like i said

points of interest to the point that different rides were incorporated much like what we see in state fairs and

things like that so interesting that these tunnels became points of interest like that and also with these tunnels

and with these hills and these mounds in california we have a lot of buildings that are built right into them so for

example on one side of this little hill you’ll see this large home three stories

from one side it looks very big but nothing spectacular yet from the other

side of this tunnel and the other side of this hill you can see that the house is actually built into the hill and from

the other side of this mound the house actually is five six stories and many of

their stories go right into the ground and they seem to go right into the construction of the tunnel so it’s just

a really intricate design especially thinking about the 1800s and what we were building with now we also have a

lot of representations of the spanish community and the mexican community in

california which i found really interesting just because you can see so much culture in the area at the time and

something that stood out to me no matter what part of the city of los angeles that we’re looking at is how old world

everything looks and when i say old world and we think of old world cities we always see these buildings that are

really brick and masonry which seem to stand out because you would think they would be building with wood we’re told

these settlers arrived and they cut down all the trees to make this area basically

inhabitable so now we don’t really have these wood buildings instead we have stone and

brick buildings and yet we have streets that are not paved and we have streets that are made out of mud and we have

streets that are really dirty and don’t seem to match the rest of the city around it so we see the same thing here

in california even though this is one of the later built according to the narrative cities that we look at in this

old world series of videos we still see the same thing here i found that really interesting

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now something that i’ve noticed in a lot of these old world series when

we talk about the different buildings that were founded in these areas we always see

these larger buildings being founded as factories and things like that and while

we do have a lot of these factory buildings being founded in los angeles

one thing that stood out to me is even more of these very large and intricate

buildings that have these designs that sort of are reminiscent of the old world many of

these old world buildings are being designated as theaters so i found that to be really interesting especially when

we look at the history of los angeles and hollywood and that whole idea in general we sort of

have this push beginning even in the 1800s with the massive amount of

theaters that seem to have existed in los angeles at that time and these

theaters included outdoor and indoor theaters and some of the indoor theaters are rather large they have these really

awesome domes on top or other old antiquitech designs that are really neat

to look at and really reminiscent of the old world but even when we look at the outdoor theaters that existed in los

angeles one of them i believe was called the fishbowl which appears to be one of the most unique designs and definitely

has something atmospheric about it it certainly looks like the acoustics of the area were perfectly designed and it

seems like something out of the old world but i digress on that i just wanted to share

these images with you and just point out the fascinating fact at least to me that when we talk about hollywood

holly weird and we talk about los angeles and the area we think of for film and movies and celebrities it’s

interesting that many of the oldest buildings and largest old world buildings we see in the 1800s and the

early 1900s are being labeled as theaters because theater is a little

different than the common factory and other things that we see being thrown on

these different founded buildings so just another fun fact for you when we’re looking

now we’re going to get into what i consider to be the real meat and potatoes of this video and that is first

we’re going to look at the la coliseum now in my impression when i look at this

building it instantly screams the old world to me now initially i had thought

this was being built for the olympic games of 1932 but this actually predates

that pretty significantly they say that this was completed in 1921

and it was opened on december 21st of that year now

we’ve looked into the old world stadiums before in different videos and the whole idea that to build these stadiums the

first thing they did is make a massive earth mound or a massive earth circle

and interestingly then they would apply this romanesque architecture basically

cut into this mound and on the inside or the inner angle of the mound is where

they would lay all of these seats and all of this interesting design really

seems to stem from the old world but even further back than the old world looking into the native american culture

it seems to be where we get these designs from and i just wonder if the whole stadium idea really predates what

we are told now this stadium being one of the largest to ever exist in the

united states had a capacity of 101

574 people and it was designed by john and

don parkinson now another interesting fact is besides the amazing photographs

here which speak for themselves this colosseum in la is known as the grand

old lady and that’s another interesting fact when we talk about the old world it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about

mountain ranges that are old and have significance or castles and other buildings that are old and have

significance we refer to them as the old man the old this the old lady and it’s

just really interesting because right off the bat to a person who didn’t know

anything about the english language and you just introduced them to it and you told them this is known as the grand old

lady and you gave them a definition of those words it would imply that this building is significantly older than

what we are told why would you refer to a building that’s only 5 or 10 years old

as the grand old lady yet that’s what we’re being told was going on now

looking at the rest of the meat along with these potatoes we also have the

massive los angeles dam that was created and then eventually filled in with land

so what i mean by that is initially we are told that a giant

masonry built dam was constructed in los angeles and again the photographs speak

for themselves but this is intricate it screams from the old world although we

do have photographs that show the quote-unquote technology that was being used to build this dam we can see that

especially in this image here how large these concrete or

brick these stone blocks are these building blocks as i’ll refer to them simply are that built this damn they are

massive and they are humongous as far as tonnage goes as far

as weight so the idea that a small group of men this wasn’t the entire community

because at this point los angeles is already very developed we have a lot of

different jobs here so everybody could not just drop what they were doing to construct this dam yet we’re told this

dam built with masonry was constructed in a rather short amount of time when we

look at how large it is and how many people were working on it and it’s just really

interesting because before this dam is built the narrative says that

certain people had to secure the water flow into los angeles and they don’t

really explain what that means but it seems to imply from the wording that there was some sort of argument or

another event that predated access to this water now the other major water

project that i want to look at is the los angeles aqueduct and what i found

very interesting is with the aqueduct were literally shown photographs of

maybe 20 to 30 horses and 5 to 10 different men and these are said to be

photographs of the work site as this aqueduct is being created and once you

see the completed aqueduct and you compare it to the photographs we are given of the construction it doesn’t

make a lot of sense and i know there are others in the old world research

community that have made arguments that these photographs were only

photographic opportunities basically they were commissioned and that they were only taken at opportune times so

basically when everyone had already gone home for the day is when they would send

in the photographer and take these images and if you want to believe that

that’s well and dandy but we’re talking about los angeles and these projects are

happening in the late 1800s and the aqueduct the early 1900s so at this

point photography is advanced enough and there are enough people out there with

enough different jobs that whether it’s a news reporter or simply a man with a

camera who wants to take a photograph maybe it’s another worker who’s there we do have on-site photographs of this

aqueduct being built and the manpower that seems to be

used while this aqueduct is being created doesn’t seem to fit the large

almost massive implausible scale that this project was so i’m gonna present

these images with you just to show you how intricate this job was and if you

can find images that show me a hundred men on the job working to make

this happen i would love to see those but realistically all we are presented

with are horses and wagons and a handful of men with simple hand tools and we’re

told they are the ones who completed this aqueduct now we do have a few

interesting images like this of a man actually riding his car on top of the

exposed aqueduct but realistically there’s just a lot of different parts

here and not a lot of tools being shown or a lot of manpower being shown to

complete the job so we’re just going to look at a couple more photographs being

said to be construction of this aqueduct and then i want to focus on the images

here at the end of this sort of collage because while i made mention multiple times of

the lack of manpower what you will find is that the completed aqueduct was a

celebration of really large proportions what i came to find is that the opening

day and the opening ceremony really attracted the entire city of los angeles

so that’s another interesting dichotomy not saying that it sort of points in one direction or

another with this narrative but to show us photographs of a basically nearly

completed aqueduct and then show us five or six workers and a bunch of horses and

then at the same time you say but when it was finished and then you show us 20

000 people gathered around the aqueducts just to see them it sort of creates

this dichotomy that i at least thought was worth mentioning so take a look at some of these photographs you can see

what sort of celebration it was when this aqueduct was finally completed and just compare that to the photographs of

the men at work and it sort of seems like they’re from two completely different times

another building that caught my eye was the los angeles city hall while this is

a more modern building and not exactly from the old world or pre-1900 as they

say it was completed in 1928 it was really interesting to me and reminiscent of a lot of the buildings

that we consider to be old world and another thing i found interesting about it is while there are a few old world

images or images from before world war ii of this building one of the most

interesting that i found was one of the top of this building of this la city hall apparently fully illuminated and

while the photograph itself looks to be altered a little bit it did really remind me sort of batman and the sort of

bat signal idea and just really interesting images to me a really awesome building no matter what era it’s

from and i just wanted to share it with you

so one of the most interesting things to me is that with all the rich and luxurious lifestyles that were being

lived by the residents of los angeles one thing that they desired was

beachfront so that’s where we get to the beaches of santa monica and how santa

monica basically became part of the greater los angeles area santa monica is

the coastline that is closest to los angeles and it became a desirable

area of retreat for those rich inhabitants of la now santa monica

according to this narrative was incorporated as a town in 1886

but interestingly you would think that it would be a very small or undeveloped

area at the time but much to the contrary we can actually find a lot of

very advanced things seeming to be happening on the beach of santa monica in the

1880s including the arcadia bath house and this is a massive hotel that at one

point in the 1880s actually had a roller coaster type of ride that would connect

it to the surrounding area and you would think oh roller coaster maybe something

like a trolley or an electric tramway or something like that but this is actually

much like a precursor to a real roller coaster equipped with dips and swerves

and things of that nature so i had really never seen anything like this especially

in the 1880s especially being to connect from one area to another this

wasn’t so much a ride as it was a way of transportation and yet it had an element

of fun that was incorporated into it and you can also find that on the santa

monica pier which is another area that i found very interesting because we can

see some of the earliest renditions of this culture that we’ve looked at previously

the whole idea of these rides these advanced mechanisms being unveiled at

these different peers and these different state fairs and things along those lines well that same story holds

true when we look at los angeles and the santa monica boardwalk because we can

see that they had their own pier and this pier had its own intricately

designed rides or inventions that included roller coasters and ferris

wheels and things of that nature so i just found this whole area to be really interesting because we’re told it was

only incorporated in the 1880s but at the same time or

at the time of its incorporation it was already so well developed to have some

of the earliest renditions of roller coasters as well as other antiquatech rides so just another fun fact about la

that i thought was meaningful to share with you

here’s another image that i found that was really unexplainable to me and this is 50 000 people said to be gathered in

one location in los angeles on easter sunday in the 1920s and i can’t really

explain what they are gathered for or what they came to see but to imagine all of these people not being with their

families or bringing their families to one specific area of la

um on easter sunday it’s just really interesting and i say that because like

i mentioned earlier in the video at the turn of the century in the year 1900

the population of la los angeles was a little over 100 000 people now at the

same time we’re being told by the 1920s they could have easter sunday gatherings

in the middle of open land basically in the middle of nowhere that had 50 000 people and at the same time another

example is the la coliseum we were able to put over 100 000 people in the

coliseum at a given time in the 1920s when in the year 1900 there was only a

hundred thousand people in the whole entire city of los angeles so that just

shows how exponential the growth of this city really was and i’m just gonna leave

it there whether you believe these are old world founded buildings and things

that were maybe of a different narrative than the one

i’ve presented or the current narrative or if you think that this is all

proof of the rapid growth and the rapid construction and the magnificent

architecture and the magnificent minds that went into developing and arranging and

constructing these things either way i think it is easy to say

that these images are remarkable and to me at least many of them were

breathtaking and left me sort of in awe when i viewed them so i’m just really

happy to be able to present them with you and for the remainder of the video we’re just going to take a look at a

handful more unique buildings and images photographs of old world los angeles so anything in

this video that stuck out to you let me know down below and if you’re from l.a i would love to hear from you so please

let me know down in the comments below and if there’s anything in this video that you felt like i’ve missed i

definitely want to hear about that too i’ve never been to la and it’s a dream of mine i hope to one day be able to

have enough money to freely travel to california because los angeles would be one of the first places i would go and i

would see all of these sites why they are still around you know uh the la

coliseum for example is somewhere that i would definitely go right when i arrived because

to me and my own personal belief these have much more history than what i’ve

presented to you in this video and i do not know the exact true nature and all

the full details of the construction of many of these buildings but i would love

to go see them in person because you sort of have a feeling with these buildings and with this architecture and

when you see something that’s from the old world you can identify it so i would love to have that feeling in person and

see these buildings in person so i hope that i was able to present la in a

positive light to show you all of these awesome images i was able to find i

dived in real deep as deep as i could go i went into some museums went into some other

places to find all of these unique images and hopefully i presented a good

video to you so if you enjoyed it hit the thumbs up let me know your thoughts and your comments down below

let’s keep it positive let’s keep the light with us let’s share our ideas with one another and let’s try and enlighten

one another to new things we might not have noticed before so in conclusion thank you so much for

being here los angeles is simply amazing the city of angels i can’t wait to see it one day

and i thank you so much for viewing my video i will talk to you very soon on the next one jared boosters out

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los angeles is simply beautiful this land is breathtaking it’s so

interesting to me to look at this vast difference from when los angeles was mainly farmland and agricultural

area to when it grew into the massive city that we know today this all

happened in a very short amount of time in 80 years the population increased

over a hundred thousand people and we have all of these old world buildings that we can

according to the narrative thank this 80 000 for so i just want to share these images with

you and see what you have to say and hear your comments down below maybe find out some new information i hadn’t

presented in this video and we will talk more on the very next video i will see you very soon

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