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I lived in Westwood and worked in Westwood Village back in the 90's. So nice to see the old neighborhood again. Lots of changes but some of the old places are still there. I love your channel keep up the good work.
I went to UCLA in the 1990's and not much seems to have changed - same buildings but with different stores, and plenty of mom and pop shops. Westwood is a typical college town in that most of the businesses depend on the 50,000 students for support. UCLA is so huge that it is a separate nation. That business is gone now that classes are conducted remotely. I hope they can recover soon.
I was happy you took notice of my comment suggestion and you filmed the open stores. I like when you move the camera in all directions to not miss what's there. When we walk our eyes wonder everywhere so this video feels even more realistic when you do it also with the "virtual eyes". :) This looks like a good place to live - beautiful,clean,quiet.
Love your videos, i have you on notification so i watch them straight away when you upload them and i still havent forgot when you filmed griffiths observatory when i asked you too, how could i forget that day :)
My backpacking trip to LA was amazing. Before I went I never been to a town were the sun shines in a different atmosphere off the ocean and the palm trees look amazing. I came from the gloomy Midwest and I took a bus ride from LAX to UCLA. That shit looked like a video game. That side smelt like like the ocean but downtown LA smelt like piss and was live and wild at night.
Some of the streets are familiar, but this ghost town is otherwise unlike the village I remember. It's a ghost town-no people, everything closed and out of business. And all for no good reason. Great technical quality for the video, by the way.
There's a very good reason Westwood looks like a ghost town. The reason is: COVID. Imagine what happens to a college town when the college you depend on literally shuts down for an undetermined amount of time. Movie theaters boarded up, restaurants gave up their leases,etc.
I'd been to Westwood twice when I used to live in SoCal the previous decade, much much livelier back then. It's interesting. No one says "it's dead" regarding say, Westwood, but quite a few are quick to point out "it's dead" on Wind Walk's Houston videos...just sayin'.
UCLA has a fantastic campus and reputation but Westwood while a nice neighborhood is too much of a big city feeling. Don’t really care for it. I lived there in the 90s.
Westwood Village not the busy hangout of the 90s and early 2000's and now with this covid19 excuse pretty much has become empty other than the homeless walking dead
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