@@larata9 true plus the millions they get from kickbacks from government contract projects. WTF do they care. Look at the change orders on a construction project. bilking the public (That voted for them) and getting money in their other pocket from those projects 10 million dollar project costs the public 100 million. People just dont know.
@@mastershredder2002 What on earth would make you write such a ridiculous comment? Lack of travel to other parts of the world? a feeble understanding of politics? An impoverished upbringing? Poor diet?
@jeesmith99 Entire STATE more like. And the surfing, skiing , diving, kayaking, hiking, biking and climbing utterly sucks, too. Top to bottom. Tell all your friends. Thanks
I remember an ad decades ago; Rice A Roni the San Francico treat. And when I was a kid a show would come on with Michael Douglas in it called The Streets Of San Francisco. RIP old days...
Compare to today the opening of The Doris Day Show when she's dancing around the happy streets of downtown San Fran. If they shot it today, she'd be dancing around turds, leaping over nodding junkies, and tripping over tent lines.
looks like it has been vacant for 20 years. But only a few years max. just totally in denial about the problem. Thank the mayor and Newsome for contributing to all these closures.
I really enjoyed your video of the city. Your right San Francisco is nothing like i remember it. I grew up in San Francisco . Mission street was out hang out. Back in the day. It was so much fun. Shopping and eating at the local resturants. What happened it is totally changed. I'm glad i left the city in 1996. Thats when the rent started to go way up high. Well the only thing left are the memories.
I was born and raised in the SF Bay Area. I left for Nevada 9 months ago and have no regrets. I tell people San Francisco is becoming Detroit with better views. It's sad to see that prediction coming more and more true, each time I go back there.
I live across the bay. I've been shopping now and then in San Francisco for 50 years, and believe me, the prices always have been higher in San Francisco .
Thx Metal for showing the world these things and most importantly for showing other Californians. Being from L.A. I used to travel to SF all the time in 00's. Back then you could walk freely in almost every district at any hour and the city was so amazing, L.A. for that matter as well. The height of Cali was from the 00's to 2012. So sad but we can get it back. More people need to wake up.
@chuckcantu8889 00’s - 12? My native working class South Bay had been getting utterly raped for DECADES by the turn of the Millennium. You missed the extinction of the workingman’s So Cal beach town by AT LEAST 25 years. Newsflash: it wasn’t a bunch of marginally employed hippie surf rats that drove a stake through the heart of the birthplace of ‘laid back’
While sky high rates of vagrancy and larceny are driving businesses and residents out of the city - the SF City Council spent their time passing a resolution demanding Israel to cease fire in Gaza. They then congratulated themselves by dancing to drum music. This actually happened.
Remember how between 2014 to 2018 it use to be fires on different business on mission between 22 thru 17th That was start on the high rent on businesses so they had no choice
There are officers. Not as many as before and those who remain have zero morale. Same as Oakland. The DA office won’t prosecute those arrested. Filthy commies run SF.
I think the Mayor of San Francisco and the Board of Supervisors should accompany you on your walks so that they can address each block with their ideas for improvements. I see Mayor London Breed at most photo opportunities, very happy to address the news cameras. Give her some more time for her efforts to get re-elected.
I last visited in 2018 attending Dreamforce and it was amazing. Fond memories of the Moscone center and meeting people and having a great time and eating so well at that giant mall. Such a shame
Dude, reminds me of MacArthur Park L.A. wow. The only thing missing is a mural of Edward James Olmos. LOL Mission used to be a lot cleaner. I wouldn't want to be there at night.
If San Franciscains keep voting democrat and there could be a tent in their future. Stop the insanity and vote for President Trump and MAGA Republicans and save yourselves and your city before it is to late. Democrat politics are killing every thing.
There are 6 restaurants, a coffee shop, and Walgreens open on the first few blocks of where you started at the Waterfront going up to First Street. There are also 4-5 restaurants open at the transit center plus a fitness center where you always see people through the windows. Hundreds and hundreds of people work in Salesforce Tower everyday. I work across the street. The transit center also has hundreds and upward of a thousand of people in there during commute hours in the morning and night. Up until recently I was in the transit center twice daily for many years. While many places have closed, you're not showing the places that are open that you walk right by and you're saying places have no one working there when they actually have lots of people working there. I work in that area five days a week and I see hundreds and upward of a thousand people a day, mainly Tues through Thurs. I've worked in that area for 10 years and while it is nothing like pre covid days, and tons of places closed down, you are slightly misleading people in this video and other videos. I appreciate your videos. I just think you should show everything going on and you should probably take some of them during commute hours.
@spiffy72985 Riiight An entire ‘race’ of working class human beings were cleansed from the city’s population these past 30 years. Thank goodness no white sheet rockers, booksellers, teachers, printers, builders, dry cleaners or hardware store proprietors were harmed in the bloodbath.
I’m curious to know what happened to all of the service employees that worked at these closed businesses. What are they doing for work, do they live in The City? Certainly there are not enough businesses to employ all of those people.
This is criminal to whoever had done this to SF, I hope God raise a very good talented lawyer/judge to check this situation how this all started and can bring all these people who responsible on destroying this city to jail.
Follow. JLR Investigates. He's in independent investigator and recently he's been covering where the Cartels are dropping to get into CA. It takes a bit to get used to JLR but keep following, you'll live this guy. Insanely hard worker, goes 7 days a week. Border Control loves him.
I have to disagree Leo, as someone who used the Transbay Terminal a lot back in the mid 1980's and then the 1996 - 2003 period, that thing was horribly outdated and just grungy as hell. I'm sure the planners didn't foresee the death of the downtown. 3 o clock, that place should be humming with activity.
SF used to be the cool place where all the young tech people wanted to live. It is turning into a dump of boarded-up businesses and homeless people living on the streets.
SF is the best example on how to miss manage money, property and create bubble society with pie in the sky projects. To that I will add, SF now has a new story it never had before. And it is a dark comedy. But, it wouldn't be SF without a twisted sense of humor. My opinion, SF will revive.
What's astonishing is this is just the beginning of the collapse..Much worse is coming in my opinion. As much as I appreciate what you are doing, I hope you are planning to get out of there!
@@ruthnolan13 That is so sad to me Ruth. Everyone talks Shlt about California but I am not one of them. It's sad to me because I know most are good people and many are suffering. You still are people and my fellow country men and women!!
From the wiki "Wealth Inequality in the US:" CBO Chart, U.S. Holdings of Family Wealth 1989 to 2013. The top 10% of families held 76% of the wealth in 2013, while the bottom 50% of families held 1%. Inequality increased from 1989 to 2013" So it appears the top 10% can easily afford to just buy up all the Real Estate they want, with virtually no competition from the bottom 50%
If so, they better have (literally) Billions of dollars. And, create a campaign to instill confidence in people to reinvest. If not, they will use to old methods that got SF into the fix that it is in. And they will cry, "What happened? Why didn't it work.?" I have my own ideas about how to pull SF out of the dump that it is in. But, it will not be the aggressive/aggression that developers used in the attempt to 'Gentrify' the city. All I can say, I'll try it and see.
HORRIBLE JUST HORRIBLE WHAT MY EYES ARE SEEING. IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED TURN IN TO TRASH. PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR PUBLIC PROPERTY. WRITEING AND DRAWING ON THE WALLS. IT MAKES ME SICK TO SEE WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE HAVE DONE TO MY BELOVED S.F.
I was in SF last in 2019. Mission street was full of shops and restaurants. I used to visit friends there and the occasional business convention. There was plenty of homeless then, but nothing that bothered me too much, as I've lived in bad neighborhoods most of my life. I won't go to SF for any reason now. Looks like an absolute hell hole.
You can thank free money for building it up in the first place, only kids would beilive the bs. Have you seen Houston or all the other crime ridden red states? Or wait that doesn't fit the Faux News report
Me too - hoping for a 25 percent population decline statewide, actually. And the return of the $7 sub sandwich. Don't feel you have to confine your exodus to SF either, folks. Ojai? Encinitas? SLO? Chico? Placerville? ALL utter hellscapes. Tell your friends. Don't let the door hit ya in the ass, carpetbaggers.
I was born and raised in SF and I am so glad I am taking all my money out of the city and state. Soon the people of SF will reelect the same people that they been voting for, for 30 plus years. No change or progress will come.
I'm sincerely happy for you that you've decided to make a move. I wish you all the best. Crazy times but I'm certain California will soon be unrecognizable. Undocumented illegals are going to continue to pour in. You will never regret your decision.
@BongDonky all cities were great in 70s, 80s, 90s now every state and it's politics have turned them to sh*tholes and the leaders don't care about anything but lining their pockets😢 the good ole days are memories 😬
It will. SF has always been a boom and bust town. Read a history book. The techies ruined it for everyone when it was great then left after they made it impossible for anyone to afford it. I’m glad they’re leaving. Now, the people can rebuild a city for the people. And once it’s hot again the vulture yuppies will return to pillage again. It happened during the gold rush too. Its a cycle.
Yawn. Some of us have been here long enough to remember a Market Street FILLED with empty high rises during Feinstein's first term. HUNDREDS of teenaged punk rock squatters filtering through the old Hamm's vats down on Bryant St. - daily. My (universally) marginally employed friends and I - circa 1979 - would've laughed in your face if you had climbed out of your Delorean fresh from 2004 with some Emerald City tale to tell. Everybody loves to tell themselves that THEY ALONE are living in that pivotal cultural moment. The tipping point. Me? I was too young for the the days of the Barbary Coast, Allen Ginsberg reading at Gallery Six, Miles at the Blackhawk, QMS at the Fillmore, the Acid Tests... So I'm not qualified to render a verdict on any of that. But apart from those? Nobody who's passed through on my watch has proven themselves as any sort of Nostradamus about the long term fate of this town.
@@maverickbull1909 Spot on👍 Much as I would like to believe all these hysterical comments herald the return of the $5 Sandwich at the Submarine Center in West Portal, $5 Bogart triple features at the Parkside Theatre, X at the Mabuhay Gardens and my $500/mo. 3 bdrm flat in Cole Valley... After 45 years in this town I know better than to arrogantly believe that I lived through THE pivotal era of SF history. And I say this as a person who saw The Clash play their first gig in the city at Temple Beautiful - not 3 months after Jonestown. And like Moscone/Milk and Jonestown and AIDS and October '89 - Anybody that tells you that they know what's waiting around the next corner in this town is selling something they found out in a pasture somewhere.
@alexcasey8325 Newsom? Apparently you were living in a cave the previous 35 years - while Venture Capital was running The City’s working class out of town on a rail to Stockton, Modesto and Lodi. Sorry if it offends you that those people don’t feel any burning desire to drive a 200 mile round trip every day to keep the lights on in their former dry cleaner, bookshop, hardware store or cafe in the neighborhoods from which they and their children were exiled. Enjoy that $20 avocado toast, though!
I'm a native San Franciscan born and raised here back in the 1980s I use to buy my burritos from El Faro during my lunch break, also the Walgreen's store on 16th and Mission was at that location for many years and I grew up a few blocks away, and as for me I didn't vote for none of these city politicians who are in office!
Me too - apart from the native bit - since I washed ashore here in '79 from LA as a 17 year old. I rented an entire 3 bdrm unfinished basement flat as a darkroom space a few doors down from Busy Bee Market - for $200/month. Haunted the 500, the Albion and the Dovre - back when there were still framed 8 x 10" photos of Bobby Sands and the nine other Maze hunger strikers behind the bar. If you've been here that long, then - like me - you were here to watch two generations of working class neighborhoods get completely gutted of every sheet rocker, painter, printer, bookseller, teacher, bartender, furniture refinisher and mom and pop drycleaner. And see them run out of town on a rail by Big Tech. So... were you thinking that what the children and grandchildren of those people - who were once the bedrock of the Mission and North Beach and Miraloma Park and Vis Valley and the Outer Sunset - REALLY need is a steady stream of Republican leadership that would REALLY free the hands of guys like Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg? Because - hey, we didn't quite manage to ENTIRELY hand them the keys to the place over the last 30 years? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
All part of The Great Reset. Event 201 & John Hopkins University was preparing for it in October 2019. CV19 was spreading in the US in the summer of 2019. Spain found CV19 in their stored frozen sewer water in March 2019.
@@stayfree870 long before 2019. 9/11 was the impetus for the new century as a test to see how far things could be pushed. certain "stuff" was carried unknowingly by tourists to Italy, New York, LA, and other locations during late 2019. we haven't seen anything yet! wait until the election come up. wait until groceries double in price again, wait until your dollar disappears! hehehe....😃
I used to sell real estate in Contra Costa County. When I had a good month, I would treat myself to a stay at the Clift Hotel, one block off Union Square. I would shop all the wonderful stores, Neiman's, Saks, I Magnin, Gumps and wonderful places to eat lunch. It was clean, elegant, safe and a pleasure to shop. It was the most delightful mini vacation.
Leo, nobody believes me when I tell them what you show us in your videos. But I've seen it with my own eyes, through yours. Thank you for showing us the truth. Please be safe!!!!
Well people said the same thing about Detroit and it has comeback incrementally although it has take four decades. Many parts are still devastated though. You can never tell I guess.
If you vote for the Democratic Party. Newsom and his gang you get this and worst to come. If you vote for the Republican Party you will get smart business people who will turn this around. Can be done easily with the right laws and right attitude.
@@ChrisCarlin-is8wv I guess it's that tunnel blindness. Like our human brains doesn't want to work hard and consider other elements that influence economics. If you need evidence for a downturn and an upswing, look at what was depicted in the murals at Coit Tower AND consider that was a time when conservative Catholicism ruled the city. This dude, @METAL Leo, I don't know his motive, but it's seems pretty damn convenient to profit off a hot topic rn (just sayin') I live two blocks from the official TL boundary. It is generally safe as a male, but then again, growing up in rough areas, I ain't no Baby Back B......
Maybe enforcing laws is the kindest thing we can do for those making poor choices. The threat of a loss of personal agency might be enough to keep some from going down a dark path.
The Old San Francisco Mint at 5th and Mission was opened for business in 1874. It was the only financial institution that survived the Great San Francisco Earthquake & Fire of 1906. Not sure it will be able to survive the devastation currently devouring this once great city.
Whats great about this is when Gavin runs for president, whether it is this year or in 4 years, he cannot deny what he did to this once beautiful city.
It turns out when you ban building more homes in your city for half a century, businesses have a hard time staying open. SF needs to vote out all those politicians who put up all that red tape. It's dooming the city.
That looks like the 16th/Mission B.A.R.T. Station entrance, just to think what was spent on *world class* transit in S.F. (California as a whole) the promise for transit corridors was economic growth, vitality, vibrancy… I know SF well - they blame the tech bros for this and everything else they don’t like.
When I used to walk these streets in the 80's & 90's every place was open and there were so many people on the sidewalks you could barely have place to walk.
I mean "everything in ...... Is closed" almost literally true. Not sure why people cannot accept the fact who they voted for spectacularly failed. Mind boggling.
For about 5 years, many years ago, I used to work right at 1st and Mission-all of those businesses I used to frequent and patron are all gone and vaporized. It’s amazing and heartening to see that the mightly little Patrick & Co. is still operating. One of the best stationary and writing implement stores in the city. Crazy disappearing times we are living in.
The usual suspects aren't interesting in writing implements. They don't know how to write and they don't care. Probably the only reason Patrick & Co. is still open. It has no thug appeal.
Consider the idea that anything that makes you not want to go outside (mass crime, disease, homelessness) is good for a business like Amazon, Doordash, or Uber. Just a thought
San Francisco was never able to recover after the pandemic and most tech workers moved out of San Francisco because it was too expensive to live there. Also a lot of tech companies didn’t require thier employees to come back to the office
And guess what? 95% of the people who used to live in S.F. have moved en masse (along with people from L.A.- those who can afford it) to the So Cal desert - Palm Springs, Joshua Tree - where I live, and it is insanely crowded out here now, housing prices skyrocketing, and getting more so by the day. Trouble is, they are turning this into a city.
Same with Phoenix AZ, it’s so vibrant, tons of packed restaurants and shops, it’s amazing how the liberals in CA just don’t give a sh*t what happens to their cities
I used to live in San Rafael and liked to take long walks though San Fransisco. I loved the salt air, tall buildings, the hustle of the streets. Sad to see it gone.
Café “La Boheme…” Central American Refugee Program… such a beloved and distant life of young days. I used to sing at many places there. Ohhhhhh, we grow old and the word leaves us behind. This *hurts.*
is anyone in SF surprised by this? obviously stores will move out when shoplifting merchandise under 950 dollars in value is only considered a misdemeanor. and if there are no stores, other businesses like restaurants and cafes are likely to move out too due to decreased traffic in the area and probably falling victim to theft themselves. I feel bad for any SF residents who didn’t vote for these laws but i have no sympathy for any SF residents who did and I pray that they stay right where they are in SF to live in the hell they have created.
It is so valuable of you to document this. Thank you. Sorta sad to see the elaborately outfitted Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's bar closed ... oh well... i haven't been to the city since Covid, anyway.
Thank you for a very informational video as I grew up in The Bay Area for over 35 years and I used to bartend in San Francisco. This truly breaks my heart how the People running the State of California have turned San Francisco into a 3rd world country!!!
