TheDailyWoo - 981 (3/9/15) Forgotten LA Subway Entrance

0:04 welcome everyone Adam the woo here

0:04 coming to you from Los Angeles right

0:07 here at the crossroads of Glendale

0:09 Boulevard and Second Street at the

0:12 threshold if you can see that sign if

0:15 this video uploads in HD historic

0:19 Filipino Town directly across from this

0:22 fantastic thing which in the future I

0:25 actually need to come back and either do

0:26 a vlog or a main Channel video from this

0:30 Place Bob Baker marionette

0:34 theater it's my second channel daily

0:36 blog channel it's the daily woo it is

0:39 not the daily marionette woo we will

0:41 save that for a future Endeavor but I do

0:44 want to point out where it says Glendale

0:47 Boulevard you'll see that it says

0:49 Glendale BL coming from a southern boy

0:53 like me a Florida boy if you will in

0:55 Florida street signs always say

0:58 Boulevard spelled with a

1:01 blv d which is very interesting they

1:03 have left the VD off here in California

1:07 and they have shortened Boulevard to BL

1:10 why do you think that is it's very very

1:13 unusual the topic of this Vlog is a

1:15 little history a little Los Angeles

1:17 history that began in

1:21 1925 right on this spot right here where

1:25 condominium Apartment Homes are now

1:28 located I'm talking about the original

1:31 LA Los Angeles to you and I the original

1:36 subway system and here's a little hint a

1:39 little throwback Belmont station

1:43 Apartment Homes why would this be called

1:46 Belmont quote station in quote and why

1:50 would they have this trolley car subway

1:55 car looking thing on there when there is

1:59 no station anywhere in the circumference

2:03 of the

2:04 circuline area I don't know what I was

2:07 trying to say there but there is nothing

2:09 in the

2:10 circumference of our peripheral vision

2:14 that has anything to do with a subway

2:17 station car so that is the mission today

2:22 right here at

2:24 1304 West 2 Street you can actually see

2:29 the sign right there and you can

2:30 actually see a security guard inside of

2:33 there in fact I went inside to try to

2:35 dig up a little history and there

2:37 actually are some photos some frame

2:39 photos on the wall of the history of

2:42 this whole area and that original LA Los

2:46 Angeles subway system called TCA station

2:50 and it just so happens that we are on

2:52 the corner of TCA Street and in the

2:56 background you can actually see downtown

2:58 Los Angeles but all that is left of TCA

3:01 station is this TCA street sign and this

3:06 right here and unbeknownst to the people

3:09 inhabiting this property the people

3:11 moving in going to the leasing Center

3:14 trying to get a place to live they

3:16 probably do not realize that Los Angeles

3:18 history Transportation history is right

3:22 under their noses at the end of this non

3:27 through Street not a through

3:31 street according to that sign it's not a

3:34 through Street see in Florida we just

3:36 have a sign that says dead end we spell

3:39 boulevard shorten it to

3:41 Blvd and instead of saying not a through

3:43 Street we just say dead in so they do

3:46 things differently on the west coast

3:49 property city of Los Angeles so back to

3:55 what happened inside with the security

3:56 guard I went inside I was looking at

3:59 some of the photos looking at some of

4:00 the relics of the original Los Angeles

4:03 subway system which started in 1925 in

4:06 1955 30 years on the 30-year anniversary

4:09 they sealed it up closed it off for good

4:12 and of course there is transport a lot

4:13 of public transportation in LA but that

4:16 original the 1925 original Subway is no

4:20 more only a distant memory so I thought

4:22 I would do some Columbo like snooping go

4:25 in the office ask the security guard if

4:27 she knew where it was on property there

4:30 are rumors online that they say that the

4:33 original entrance portal to the subway

4:38 is still in existence and the city has

4:40 actually redecorated it got rid of the

4:43 graffiti beautified it built a courtyard

4:46 around it so I asked the security guard

4:48 inside here she said it did not exist

4:52 she said it was nowhere on property as

4:55 far as she knew which I do not know if

4:58 she was telling me a f

5:00 to get me off the property or if she

5:02 honestly did not know I'm just going to

5:04 assume that she did not know maybe it's

5:06 her first day and the property that she

5:09 is guarding that she is securing and

5:11 getting paid to secure maybe she doesn't

5:15 realize that in the back of the property

5:18 of this condominium is the portal to

5:23 Lost Angeles

5:25 1925 history would you like me to show

5:28 it to you

5:30 of course you would that's why you're

5:31 watching this Vlog it is right over here

5:38 are you ready say it with me now

5:43 shun

5:52 sh right there ladies and

5:52 gentlemen

5:53 Hollywood

5:55 Boulevard is what is written on the side

5:59 of that Carriage taking people through

6:02 the original Los Angeles Subway and of

6:06 course over the years this has been

6:08 forgotten about and this condominium has

6:10 been built here there's some condominium

6:12 up there as well over on this side is

6:15 actually I believe a high school or a

6:16 college that has been built but here is

6:19 that courtyard that I was telling you

6:29 about now can I assume remember what we

6:29 talked talked about the other day about

6:30 assuming things maybe I shouldn't say

6:31 that word but can I imagine that this

6:35 right here is also part of the original

6:39 subway system right there what do you

6:43 think so obviously this over here is the

6:47 subway entrance and Los Angeles is known

6:50 definitely known for its graffiti all

6:53 around this neck of the woods people

6:54 have tagged up and graffiti their names

6:57 and who they are on the side of walls so

6:59 the city or this apartment complex has

7:01 actually cleaned it up and made it look

7:04 very nice and beautiful beautified it if

7:07 you will and people have actually walked

7:09 out of the back of the condominium and

7:10 they're actually about to play some sort

7:12 of sport they have rackets in their

7:14 hands so I'm not really sure what

7:15 they're doing I do not want to disturb

7:17 them but I wanted to show you this piece

7:20 of Los Angeles history right

7:36 that is really really freaking cool look

7:36 at

7:48 this look at the stairway here I'm

7:48 actually going to climb this stairway

7:50 and see if we can give you a bird's eye

7:51 view naturally birds fly a lot higher

7:54 than a Stairway would be but let's give

7:57 you a bird's eye a short bird eye view

8:01 of the top of where the subway station

8:05 dumped out into the subway look how

8:09 tagged up dirty this area is this is

8:12 what I was talking about the graffiti

8:13 people write their names everywhere they

8:15 carve their names in here and years ago

8:17 that is what that actually looked like

8:20 right down there so where we are

8:21 standing directly underneath us the

8:25 subway would have festooned itself

8:28 straight

8:29 through that little Hill mountainy

8:33 region very

8:42 awesome so pretty cool giving you the

8:42 coordinates I started at the end of the

8:43 Vlog feel free to come by here feel free

8:46 to check this out and if you guys can

8:48 actually coarse the security guard in

8:50 there to letting you in there I would

8:52 like to see some pictures of you in

8:55 front of the mural tag me on Instagram

8:57 Facebook or Twitter and I would like to

8:59 see a little more history from your end

9:01 if you're in the Los Angeles area if

9:03 you're not feel free to just do some

9:05 research online leave some comments down

9:07 below about the history of the original

9:10 Los Angeles

9:26 Subway we got a friend back there saying

9:26 hello we got a dog back there saying

9:28 hello hello to us in the Vlog I was

9:31 going to point out before the dog

9:32 started barking check out the concrete

9:35 and the Rocks here there's grass growing

9:37 through the

9:39 rocks that is a relic a fantastic kind

9:44 of abandoned or forgotten relic of Los

9:47 Angeles

10:03 very cool I'll see you guys tomorrow but

10:03 only if you subscribe goodbye

TheDailyWoo - 981 (3/9/15) Forgotten LA Subway Entrance

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