The 70's when I was a teenager, Muholland Drive had no houses, just trees, hills, trails, creeks. At the top then, my mom took me to the Observation now don't see it. We lived a block up from Whiskey go go then, walked to school at Fairfax, we also lived in Santa Monica I went to Santa Monica High. Lived in north hollywood, west hollywood, encino and Santa Monice, things were safe back then.
I’m sure there was good reason for that. The best land for building on was already taken and determined by surveyors. I don’t think this area is meant to be built up with housing. I wouldn’t want to drive that at night, deal with it’s traffic and be a prisoner in my home because of traffic and they are, (or were before the CV). Although there’s so many expensive homes, the truth is that there’s a lot of workers in the Hollywood industry that have roommates at old ages and rent who really only got one more day of survival for it.
The eye opener for me is the widespread dilapidation of the streets with nonstop potholes and uneven pavement, rusted and bent guard rails, weeds and trash roadside. I would have thought that with the upscale homeowners in area that a local tax base would exist to pay for better than third world roads. The last couple minutes show new asphalt, but vast majority otherwise. And same for other videos I've watched of the area. I mostly travel and live in rural S.W. Georgia area, and none of roads are in such poor condition...of course traffic much less, but still. Anyway, video was informative and well done, thumbs up.
I travel these area roads a lot for going to UCLA. I would assume the roads are crappy because most of them are one laners. If they shut the roads down for fixing, it would be a large detour to get to a specific destinaion.
Only Aqua Verde looks pleasant. Other than that the road is full of ugly outdated electric posts and cables that ruin the view and way too may visible trash cans for my taste. I drove prettier roads in Northern Africa.
Is Beverly Park the gated community where Denzel Washington & Mark Wahlberg live? Also, I think the other housewife you were thinking of is Adrienne Maloof
