Building the Metropolis | Lost LA | Season 2, Episode 3 | KCET

Wood, iron, steel, concrete -- these are the materials that gave form to Los Angeles and shaped its identity in the national imagination. This episode also questions the cultural legacy and environmental costs of the city's relentless growth.

00:00 - 01:02 Introduction
01:02 - 08:12 Redwood
08:12 - 17:10 Iron Sprawl
17:10 - 24:35 Concrete Fantasy
24:35 - 24:51 Conclusion
24:51 - 25:32 Credits

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[MrMacDog]

Those early 1900 pics of the Hollywood area intersections absolutely blow my mind. Cannot imagine it ever being all farmland

[flexman]

Whenever we go to Oxnard, CA, I always imagine the farmlands of Ventura County as how 1800 Los Angeles used to look like.

[Rctm]

Coming from Philadelphia, this is fascinating. The history of the West coast is so different from the East.

[raulespinoza]

I grew up in L.A. El Sereno North East L.A. i remember in the 70's my mother and father was worried about the 710 Freeway getting extended over our neighborhood. The residents have been fighting to keep the freeways out of el sereno for decades now. My father was offered a settlement for our 1930's home and declined and so did 90% of the residents. Still till this day, they are trying to extend the 710 long beach freeway through El Sereno/Alhambra to connect to Pasadena but with no success.

[cmichaelhaugh]

I’ve lived in SOCAL off and on since I was 13 in 1958. This series is a fascinating lesson in history and trek down memory lane.

[greengardengreen]

How sad the logging of the beautiful red woods 😢😢🌲🌱🌿

[hgr]

As a young man from the San Fernando valley, still loved taking the street car into Hollyweird. Pretty funny, it looked like the modern busses of the day (1960's) but rode on rails. Then, during the mid 60's or so, I actually drove my first car into Hollyweird and saw them paving over the rails....bygones of different time.

[NoCurrMadison]

I can still see some of the trolley rails on Santa Monica Blvd by Wilcox Ave. kinda cool

[MadStyle]

Wow, great eye opening episode on the history of the Freeways.

[geesuh]

Thank you for sharing these educational videos. Proud Angelino living on the other side of the world.

[jackmorrison]

Yes, even this easterner knew the Pacific Electric was essentially a real estate development scheme. Build it and we can sell lots along the line. Moving people in mass numbers as in the big cities of the east was only a secondary consideration. When they got to the part about problems on the line and the lack of private money (the driver was drunk, cars interfered with the streetcars), I was tempted to add: and Harold Lloyd was hanging from a trolley pole :).

[ShakespeareCafe]

That redwood range map is impressive as hell 4:40 Long Live the Redwood They don’t call them Sequoia sempervirens for nothing!

[famousbowl]

7:30 EUCALYPTUS TREES ARE NOTORIOUS FOR THIS! ALSO A CALIFORNIA TREE I BELIEVE.. THEY ALSO SMELL GOOOD!

[BamBam_PDX]

My great grandfather opened the first lumber planing mill in Los Angeles.

[ChanceExplore]

I enjoyed this! I love learning about this cities history!!

[MelindaAugustina]

Such an important series and deeply insightful and exposing of so many poor growth decisions. It could have been so beautiful.

[williamhiles]

This is cool. KCET showed up on my feed today. I used to watch this channel and other UHF stations in the area when I was a teenager. Live far away now, but I subscribed. Once in a while you can go home, in small parts.
LedHed Steven 🎶 🎸 🎹 🎸 🎶

[donniezawadski]

I live in the old Ribolli Family Home of the San Antonio Winery, across is the 5 fwy. It s horrible brake dust everyday.

[ifigureditout]

"I am rich, I am powerful... I use Redwoods" sounds like a quote straight out of Redwood to bad be we cut down all those trees building a city, hope the people can appreciate we live in a time of endless possibilities

[RADIUMGLASS]

The Moran/Murphy families of Detroit owned over 1 million acres of California Redwood forests and still have interests in them till this day.