with cities & places throughout the world now going through a nervous breakdown, the question is how will that affect towns running the gamut from NYC to Atlanta, from Paris to seattle, from tokyo to Los angeles? At least over the next 10 yrs.
With everyone cooped up in their houses & apts, there's more time to kill. however, I admit I still skipped through major parts of this video....but it's still worth seeing to get a sense of where things were in the past, where they may be in the future. Assuming today's pandemic isn't near fatal for various cities, including dtLA.
The film starts off wrongly edited (dealey plaza, dallas, huh?), but it's a reminder of how far down dtla was over 17 yrs ago compared with today...or at least before Feb 2020. Covid-19 is a major fly in the ointment.
I believe the video dates back to around 2003.
the part that stands out to me is around 36:00. that's when Ira yellin is featured. He'd have been thrilled to see dtla in 2019, less so today as a coronavirus ghost town.
When talking about not being around to see a better dtla, I don't think he realized at the time just how short his time really would be...he died the yr before disney hall opened. but in today's dtla, a lot of his biggest hopes have come to life, in spite of too much homelessness, graffiti, businesses still favoring other areas to operate out of, covid-19.
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